Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-04-19
A TEACHERS TASTE

1t is everybody TO their notion And
eyerybody's notion Is not always the
same. for which good fortune be
nraised. We think the lady school
teachers OF Salt Lake and Utah Will
agree with us perfectly upon that point,
particularly when they see It's appli-
cation. What 1t has reference to Is thfss
A few days ago girl--an American
girl at that--22 years old, and a teach
ar In The public schools OF Los Angeles,
shocked her family and the whole COM
rnunity. by clipping to Albuquerque,
New Mexico. with Chinaman, 10
whom she was married by & Justice OF
the peace. Her name was Callie Felber
Stocks, and when she was asked BY
her outraged and Inundated parents
and embarrassed friends why she
had done such an awful thing, she re-
plied, with nonchalant toss of her
head as foilowss
s'1f [ had 10 choose would marry a
ChfnaInan rather than an American OF
today. Chinese husbands are almost
perfect. They are not so domin eering
as American men. and they don't
smoke chew OF SNehE-lHt NiANt Ia
atnal Vices OF American men, China
men are also mOral-somet thing that
can he said of few men IN this country.
~ am contented to make my hus-
bands people my people. ! had three
proposals by American men before
met Dr. Wong. and ] broke one en-
ragement to marry him. One of the
reasons / fen in love with a Chin anian
IS because they don't speak cross
words, and / hate cross words
II she had to choose she would mar
nv a Chin0man rather than an AmerI-
can. Except fos the hyrbld results
that will follow such a union we are
not sorry she selected the Chinaman.
Almost any sort or an American would
be 100 good for her, I'm view of her de-
PRAYED taste. Yet we would not adj
wise every girl TO marry men who
smoke, drink and swear, nor any girl.
10 far as that goes But there are many
Americans who do none ~ these
things, the declaration or tho young
and foolish woman to the contrary.
notwit hstanding She says she Is con-
tent to make her husbands people her
people and that she will be content TO
tDAiuW illlAlf AilAA lflaAllANlS Ls NlAehN a.
Sertaln silly Salt Lake girl said that
very thing "A llttle over twenty years
ago. Under an infatuatlon tor GER
tain slant-eyed Monaghan merchant OF
this city. she boarded the train for an
adjoining county to be welded. just
ns did this Los Angeles girl. only the
marriage WAS not so quickly performed
Oh account Of dlgnined officials firm
refusal. The former WAS compelled to
return home for a time, but finally
minister WAS found who accepted
liberal Zee and spoke the words that
made them husband and wife, Very
soon the girl discovered shat she had
put herself beyond the pale OF her pSo.
pie and friends, and that she was a
practical outeast from that time forth.
Bingularly enough even her husbands
people Stunned and despsed hor The
sequel was on the unhappiest kind. in
yolving desertlon. requirement of the
opium habit and death from laudanum,
To say more Ia not neadtul II
Ia an act Of mercy to LEI the curtain,
which fcll upon II, remain down for
good and an. The chances are a thou
Sand 70 one that there VIII be 1ust as
much SORROW and pathcs In the life OF
en'H latest Victim 70 Acknowledged