The sea coast echo., 1909-09-11

Aidhco LiS living III SduuDIiuS AOuSSS.
When the young woman-scarceiy
more than a girl in looks-passed
along the dimly lighted street, near
the headquarters of the free lance"
missionary, not one person except the
woman and perhaps the policeman
who are used TO such types, would
have believed the girl to have been
of the type. She was modest, dressed
exceedingly will, but quietly, and when
| looked at her | believed her to be a
sishtser ahead of her party.
| approached the girl and called her
by name, ana she smiled pleasantly.
Her eyes were large and brown, and
with quality that was Madonna-like
in its sweetness. Her hands were
slender and white; her voice soft, and
she used the most discriminating Eng
lish
Chinatown Like a Wrath EnguIfs
Me-"
Eyes, perhaps it is queer that I am
here. | know I ought to get out OF
it," she told me. But the question
is, How? l have tried time and time
again at the big department stores to
get work. and have tried to get other
positions, but like wrath this China
town life engulfs me. I sometimes
wonder If | carry the smell of the
quarter in my clothes about with me-"
she added, plaintively, sadly.
You see, | am what they call a
good white girl among the Chinese"
she added. Il live with just this one
man and he treats me with great re-
spect. He doesn't give me any money,
but he pays for my food and laundry.
| have been here only seven months
now and l had all my clothes when l
came, SO he hasn't had to buy any
clothes yet. | think he would if |
asked him, but l am 4 funny sort, /
suppose.
Il don't like to ask him for things.
You know the Chinese are not affec-
tionate and demonstrative like white
men, but they are kind enough to us.
They are jealous, though, and so /
keep my trunk at girl friends, be-
cause some day l may went to get
away-if | get job-and l don't want
my man to interfere, for he might be
jealous and not let me 60"
Husband Took Her First to China
town.
The girl said she had been married
very young to dentist who first took
her into Chinatown. Il was so young
and innocent that | didn't know there
was such a thing as opium and my
husband first tried to make me take
some with him. | didn't know until
afterwards that he had the habit. Well,
in that way l got to know a good many
Cinnamon in Boston, where we lived,
and one man whom l met there
through my husband-he did dentist
work for him-told me if / ever came
to New York to let him know and
he would show me around.
81 had trouble with my husband,
and came down here with a friend who
was going to exhibit some of her thor
oughbred dogs in the Bench Show.
Well, | went to Chinatown to see the
man, and | never went back. l am
here still. I sometimes wonder if 1t is
l. My family think l am dead; II
was the only thing for me to do; they
are highly respected in Boston, and
gave me an education in the Boston
Conservatory of Music and in the
schools there that any girl would be
fortunate to have. But here l am, just
the white woman of a Chink-huh-
it's rather droll, isn't it?" the poor
creature added, with a break in her
voice as she choked back her memories
of the other days.
In a Chinese den, where Captain
Calvin escorted me, there were three
Chinese men stretched with their
pipes on a long bunk, while white
woman combed her hair in the narrow
space between the bunk and the op-
posite wall
She declared that she had just come
up from Philadelphia to be married to
the boss of the establishment. Il am
to be married next week. she said.
in a dull, monotonous voice, as she
went about her toilet.
There are but few women remaining
in the quarter since Captain Galvin's
raid By the first of July every one
of these filthy quarters will be cleaned
of the dregs of this white womankind-
81 don't suppose they will be re-
formed" commented the young Cap
tain. who has done such heroic work
in the district, "but what do maintain
is that they will have to get into clean
er, better-aired, lighter quarters, and
will have better health at least. These
vile ratholes are not fit for these Chin
ese, let alone white people.
missionary Need Not Worry About
Chinaman's Hereafter.
When the missionary was asked If
he believed that the Chinese could be
Christianized, she added:
why try to Christianize people
whose religion is as moral as ours?
Let a Chinaman live up to his faith,
and / don't think a white missionary
need worry about his hereafter
New York Evening Journal.
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