The San Francisco call., 1904-07-04

Unhappy is the lot of the little-footed
women of China. On board the Korea
one of them waits to join husband
whom she has seen but once, and then
only for as long as it takes Justice
of the Peace to pronounce the couple
husband and wife. She is also the
widow of a man she never has seen.
Surely all the josses of i'll luck have
conspired against young Mrs. Chin
King Lung Chieu Yam (nee Wal Ho),
who is now is years old, little-footed
and marvelously beautiful from the
Oriental viewpoint
Two years ago Wal do that was
sobbed a good-by to the little goldfish
in her fathers little fishDond back in
China and looked for the last time at
the tea gardens on the terraced hills.
She was to be married. they told her,
to an honorable and handsome young
man who dwelt far across the weary
waste of waters.
She did not want to be married. She
wanted to stay in the gardens and play
with the goldfish. But her father told
her she must go.
In the company of a venerable and
honorable woman she set forth. The
land trip was long. 1t was such big
world. and she felt so lonely. Then they
boarded a steel monster that swan
upon the water like the ducks her
father owned.
A NOISY MONSTER.
The monster shrieked as it moved,
and she was very much frightened.
There was an awful extent of blue
water to cross, and her intellectual
powers being limited she fell to Won
dering how many millions of times more
water therevAEas in the world than in
her fathers duck pond.
They came 10 land at last through the
Golden Gate, and little Miss Wal Ho
was placed in the detention sheds.
There they told her that her pros
pective bridegroom, Chieu Yam, was
dead. By Chinese law she had already
been married to him. though she had
never seen him. Therefore she was
widow and they told her to weep.
She weDt copiouslv, because she was
very lonely and felt that she would
never see the goldfish again.
For a while she vas kept in the de-
tention sheds pending the granting of
permission to land blythe immigration
Commissioners at Washington. After
ward she was landed Professionally and
stayed at the Presbyterian Mission.
Mrs. Chen, the widowed mother of
her husband that would have been,
extolled the praises Of her daughter-in-
law.
RICH WOOER APPEARS.
Chin King Sung, a prosperous young
Chinese merchant, hearing that there
was a beauteous sixteen -year-old Wild
ow with little feet on the matrimonial
market, sought Mrs. Chen and sued for
the hand of her daughter-in-law, so
regarded from the Oriental point of
view.
Chin King Sung had money in sew
eral banks, consequently the dowager
Mrs. Chen told him to consider him
self married Little Wal Hos consent
was not asked. 1t T'"s none OF her
business whom she married.
So Wal Ho and Chin King Sung
were taken before Judge Daniels at the
City Hall and married "alle same
Mclean" Wal Ho didn't know what
1t all meant, only she was siirei that
she would never see her gold fish
again.
When H. H North of the Immigra-
ton Bureau heard of the marriage he
ordered the bride instantly sent back
to China Under the law she was not
legally landed and had no right TO
marry here.
So Mrs. Chin King Sung Chieu Yam
was returned to her fatherland- She
came back and now waits official per-
mission to join a husband for whom
she does not care copper cash.
And she sobs frequently and her al
mond eyes are sad because she will
never see her gold fish again. Hard is
the lot of a little-footed woman of
China.