Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
BEAUTIFUL CHIN ESE GIRL BECOMES
THE BRIDE OF A NEWSPAPER MAN

eral thousand dollars as gift to the
parents for the loss of such a price
less jewel as beautiful daughter, the
wedding date was set.
But the fire broke in on the plans of
the young couple and Captain Oyang
came to Los Angeles where he again
began negotiations for his wedding.
So few weeks ago, the happy groom
went north to Fresno and there for the
first time in the Chinese service he
met the woman who was to be his wife
and giving several banquets in her
honor, took her from her parents and
brought her to Los Angeles.
Last night before taking his bride
to his home, as the final step of the
ceremony, Captain Oyang gave two
feasts for her friends.
An American bride may think 1t
hard that she go through the ordeal
of being gazed upon by the many at
a church wedding but If she could
only see her little Chinese sister once
during a wedding ceremony she would
take more kindly to the American
system.
In the first place the bride gets
she has banquet of her own it is in
her home where few of her girl
friends are invited.
Ordeal for Bride
The first virtue of a Chinese bride
is modesty, therefore she must not
allow her face to be seen at the we'd
ding feast, her greatest beauty is her
complexion and Chinese bride may
have any defect of feature and yet
be excused If her coloring Is of deli
cate lemon and her lips rosy red. And
Judging from complexion Mrs. Oyang
/. atti
monial market for she Is of the ideal
type of Chinese beauty.
Last night the banquet hall was
filled with men, incidentally only the
grooms friends attend the wedding
banquet and the bride is the only wo-
man present
The little bride left carriage before
the door of the banquet hall. She was
clad in gorgeous robes of finest silk,
covered with jewels and jade and her
feet were slippered i'm fine silk sandals.
She held a small fan before her face
and her servant who was with her and
one bridesmaid fairly carried her up
stairs that she might retain her mod
esty and keep her face covered.
Her appearance i'm the banquet hall
was greeted with shouts. She was led
to the first fifteen tables where a dozen
men joked with her, gave her riddles
to solve, complimented her upon her
beauty, which she held reserved from
them, asked her what her name would
be after her marriage, a sacred secret
which only the husband ever knows
and finally ended by drinking her
health and showering gifts of money
upon her attendants. Whereat the
pretty little bride. kowtowed by bob
bing up and down every few moments
and passed on to the next table. The
Jokes became more pointed as the cere-
mony progressed until the banquet hall
was filled with screaming and laugh
ter, and a glance through the meshes
of the fan might have led person to
believe that the bride was embarrassed
had not the twinkle of fun i'm her half
closed eyes told she also was enjoy
ing the ceremony.
Shows Her Beauty
ON to the last table tripped the pretty
miss and there she was complimented
by the Chinese poet singing her
pra '~es. At last one Chinese wit re-
ma. Sed that II she were beautiful she
would show her face but that there
could be only one conclusion when