The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-09
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1rT & n s AsQ do not bat 4 b5 myTS Of sa
around my head with pretty jade stones in the front
So after Inquire CT dear teacher write very franhy
curious position for Chinese girl to be wTiting even one
letter to man before marriage. yet write very many
Young barrow quickly mind. saying that
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he heard that This
on HAVING loose HIdfnS saPPmens Ind because ihey
choose becoming colors He had hesn told that Chinese
clothes SO, in long while, she might do well flow
and forks sT nd nn nspn a ETT9pSan a h9s ad ss Of
which she had doubtless learned herself to
superdns Gold wrote to her teacher, about this
time complaining Off such term can be used without
betrOthal puzzled greatly She said that if
man he Would know the necessities of her station; Yet
- 6 ne rSITiieS 10 be tod OF them c n f fi
S Sert as 10 sGsseyT GoSls marrage Gs9aly AMONG
four in advance that there time for prep
nothing do and nothing to do WITH could
ter s i9stsn6s s AND 5o ae , ' ie embroidered
trousers Sufficient for three years wearing-pe
70 be made after the bridegroom sent the silk Then
wheh must be mass Of embroidery The outer we'd
apron and the svergiIt brides crown all inaid with
bits of kinghsher feather like turquoise After the
red bridal dress to keep long she lived And this
superfne Gold said she hoped Mr.. Darrow would send
present you she sad hat the bride takes
front Of the door blocked with the contents of whole
SILK order that friends and negnbOTS
imagine she is marrying When sister Golden
FCreSe married her sent gifts covering sixty
feet of Golden Forest accepted sufficient
10 make into clothes 60 last three Then she
call ed rich and we'll married. When all the
items and she sent. along with the made-uD
clothing and bedding all the furniture for her bedroom
and reception in her husbands house she knew that
he her had done for her than he
had I know n,andarn's daughter who well
married. that she said her Il shall need nothing
for ten years Her father her thousand 6aels
&10 scatter the servants during the wedding
ceremonies. know that Mr.. Darrow will do well If he
will take advice from Chinese people 1t is not wrong TO
hope that he will make exhibition of generosity,
because 1t all back to him; not cash is
wasted"
The prospective bridegroom quite anxious
she that his wedding should be a proud and me
The caraVan-like procession OF coolies bearing
silks to her house only equaled by the impress
the wedding, bridal bed. her chairs.
tables, bathtubs of red lacquered wood, quilts.
porcelains. hot-water kettles, household china.
dresses, silken undergarments by the boXoad, and
all the rest with which bride furnishes two rooms
for herself in her husbands house and expects to
dress herself for years TO come.
Before the wedding took place she wrote to him
that there was about TO come period when he must
write expect 10 receive letters. She referred
her week OF lamentation She took 1t for granted
needed explanation this custom, but the
reader should understand it, form certain seaboard
to marriage. During her week of lamentaton the
bride walls for six days in the excess of her grief
the sundering of what have been the tenderest
of her girlhood over and over again, day after
Gay. she cries Alas going to leave my dear
mother" II going to leave my beloved brother