Omaha daily bee., 1909-06-21
HIGH LIFE CHINESE WEDDING
Imposing Function In Smart Circles
of Chinatown in San
FrancIsco.

Orange blossoms and white satin entrain
for the bride; black frock coat and bur-
nished shoes for the groom; showers OF
rice and a Baptist clergyman for the
couple, and Choa Min, former instructor
Of the Chinese school, and Miss Rose
Fcng, daughter of Fong Get, the photo
grapher of Stockton and Clay streets,
were married May 20, at the new Yut
Tong hotel, s41 Clay street, San Francisco.
The wedding was quite as freshly Ameri-
can as was the unprecedented buggy ride
which the couple took some weeks ago and
which caused such a hubbub in conven-
tional Chinatown that Picking heard the
roar, and a Chinese newspaper initiated
Town Topics and printed the story with
subtle insinuations instead of names.
Some INSCRIPTIONS enemies of the Chi
nese consul and the Chinese school took
advantage of the marriage to placard the
Chinese walls with mendacious
on the entire affair and with violent at
tacks on the consul general; but that did
not detract from the splendor of the event
nor the happiness Of the young couple.
It was a wedding which Carlyle might,
had he not lived too soon, or the wedding
been so late, have immortalized in a sar-
tor Resartus. For there was much In the
clothes of the wedding party to stimulat
sociological thought. For while part of
the wedding couple was attired a la the
Ladies Home Journal, others would have
satisfied Confucius. The gay little brides.
maids wore the pantaloons and light
blouses of Canton.
There was a brief delay tina was not
calculated upon. The groom had most
poned getting his marriage license until
the afternoon, and then found that the
county clerks office was closed. So bs
mad to speed around the city until he
could arouse a deputy county clerk and
secure the precious paper. In the mean
time the bride, with her maidens. sat IN
her tower on high at the Canton hotel.
which her father conducts at Stockton and
Sacramento streets.
About 4;SO an ambassador from the groom
arrived at the bower and proclaimed tho
good news-the license was secured I'm
mediately there was a flutter about the
corner, Children Who had been playing
aimlessly in the street lined up near the
carriage which vas to convey the bride 10
the wedding parlor. A saucy Chinese youth
restlessly fingered a bowl Of Canton rice.
a Chinese dowager in black blouse and
with the gold and jade decorations of the
OLD regime crossed the sidewalk, making
way for the new order.
Then the bride came. on the arm OF her
brother, Gong Quong, a youth with a good
American tailor. She was CARRIED In white
A flimsy veil was over her head. She car
ried a monster shower bouquet of pink
roses and maidenhair ferns. Her train came
behind. 1t was carried in state by the two
maids of honor in their lavender panta-
looms and marceled hair. The maids OF
honor carried carnations.
Tn bride entered a carriage in solitary
grandeur, and her brother and the girls
with the MARCHED hair took a second hack
From a window of the hotel building
women leaned out in their oriental way
and chartered Cantonese congratulations.
The children OF the neighborhood crowded
around the BRIDES carriage, and Miss Fong
zealously blew them kisses of delight.
The carriages drove to the new Yut Tong