The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-11-16
:. XII YUN'S LITTLE SISTER
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Ku Yum lived her little life in q largo
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wandering through the windows, which
opened on to a balcony bright with
Towering plants and bowls of Chinese
lilies.
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S''''ll DI''N n''H through the rails. 1t
was nearly always there, for ku Yum
liked well to watch the life in the
street BESIDES, Ku Yum was ON the
lookout for little sister There was
nothing i'm this world that Ku Yum
wanted $50 much IS little sister
Ku Yum had two small brothers to
play with and an old nurse to hook aft
or her She had an elder brother. TOO
but he lived down stairs with her fa-
Their ana the men who worked i'm her
fathers ci2ar factory He was II
years old and went to the Chinese gov
crnmcnt school SO that ku Yum had
almost as much respect for him as she
had for her parent.
One day Ku Yum said to her nurse.
81 wish had a little sister"
And her nurse replied: You have
better than a little sister. You have
brothers.
But | more badly want what is like
myself than what is better" persisted
Ku Yum.
| was about t O'clock in the after
noon Her father had taken her broth
erS to a hill where they could fly their
kites. and Ku Yum was alone with her
nurse. The old woman was stitching
rows of imitation pearls upon bright
colored velvet band that was to adorn
Ku Yum's head during the first days of
the coming New Year. The LITTLE Girl
sat on a stool learning how to en-
broidcr.
Tell me Il story Woo Ma" she
pleaded.
And Woo Ma, the nurse, told her
story of one who had attained to great
honorS because when lad of o he had
chcerfully cut piece of flesh out of his
arm to please his mother, who had eX-
pressed wish to see blood flow.
Ku Yum did not like that story and
insisted that a mistake had been made
in the telling and that it could not have
been the boys mother that had allowed
him to cut his fesh-that it must have
been his nurse.
ooh" exclaimed the old woman,
"what tongue the child has. Listen.
then. and will tell you what YOU will
like to hear" and she began:
Every year when the almond free
bursts into bloom the Queen of Mercy.
seated ON n Iilv throne wrans snirit
sword i'm n. cloth of yiolots and givos If
to a dove that flies with it into the
heavens
but how can little bird carry anv.
thing so heavy as sword?" asked I'm
Yum. examining weapon made of
Chinese cash strung together which
hung over a couch in corner of the
room. a charm to ward away evil spir.
its.
sara that 1t was spirit sword
replied the nurse rather GROSSLY. She
ana not IKE TO be Interrupted.
some one knocked ut the door II
was Tue tallor Wlle from across the
street ller hapy BOY VINO the DAY be-
lo'' nau coihP,e'ed 'h' hlooh' winch
means a''aiheu TO the age OF one
lm'I'''' ia", according 10 'S'a'llShed
Ni'il''S, CUSTOM, "''I S!l''N'a 'l'h for
tii, ''N' ,',i''- l'' result WAS Il violent
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