Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29

we have educated for the married state
and they are many; for my honorable
husband retained from among such as
he collected all the good looking ones as
prospective brides of we'll to do husbands
while the plain ones were sent to the mills,
none ever gave us so much trouble as
Chrysanthemum.
The worthy gentleman here present,
the Hon. Mr. Token Gombei, is the en-
ployer of my foster son, Ito Chobei.
The Hon Mr. Token Gombei is a
father to his employees. They go to him
with all their troubles, confident of find
ing him always ready to advise and to
assist them. Seeing that Ito was much
disturbed, he drew from him an account
of the mutual attachment existing be
tween him and Chrysanthemum and of
the difficulties in the way of making her
his wife. Token Gombei promised to
call on us to see if some arrangement
might not be made whereby the two
young people could be united in marriage
WHEN, however, he met Chrysanthe
v" num- he saw at once that she was
not the wife for Ito. A priceless jewel,
he said is out of place in the cabin of
workman This girl is transce ndentlv
beautiful, and her beauty like that of a
splendid gem, must have worthy setting.
Indeed, he was so much pleased with her
looks that he made a very liberal arrange
ment with US to have her educated and
reserved for his future wife, fully intend
ing when she had reached the proper age
to marry her.
This arrangement Chrysanthmum
undutifully and ungratefully refused to
recognize When Token Gombei heard
L
haste or violence. Let us take proper
poses. One does not cut down a cherry
tree in order to gather its blossoms. |
have he said, no desire to make an
outlaw of Ito. nor a disconnected and
disobedient wife of Chrysanthemum. On
the contrary, am willing that Ito shall
have an equal chance with myself to OBJ
tain her hand in marriage.
90 Every man in Japan, before he en-
tiers into the marriage state, must make
adequate provision for the support of his
wife and possible family. If Ito can do
this by the time Chrysanthemum is
ready to have her eyebrows shaved and
her teeth blackened before leaving Your
house for that of her husbands, she be-
longs to him. Now, from what | have
CHANGED to see in the work room, know
That W1le1 1lO receives Ills wages IIe
posts as much as he can spare in a GER
tain ginger jar which he keeps hidden
under quantity of rice straw in a large
vase standing in corner of my shop. If
at the time spoken of, three years from
this time, he can show that jar filled to
the brim with silver riyos, he can marry
the girl l will even double Ito's wages
so that he can have a better chance to
do this; but he must first go to the tenn
pie with me, and there place in the keep
ing of the priest a legal paper agreeing
under solemn oath to abandon all claim
to Chrysanthemum if at that time he
cannot show the jar filled to the brim
with silver as evidence that he posse sses
the means of supporting a wife and
family
Both Ito and Chrysanthemum agreed
to this The oath was registered, and
the paper given into the hands of the
priest.
THREE days ago the Jar, which had been
filled up and sealed sometime before,
was opened in the presence of all concerned
and found to contain nothing but rim, coins
of copper and lead,