Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-03-04
THINKS THE JAP THE IDEAL MAN.

The unfortunate experience of the
daughter of the San Francisco Episco-
pal clergyman who married Jap only
to find after a short honeymoon that
her dreams were destined to be rude
ly shattered, that the Japanese view
of woman was far different from the
American view, that the chiyalrous
devotion of the average American to
the woman of his choice, at least dur
ing the early stages of matrimony
was unknown to the yellow-skinned
citizen of the Island Kingdom, . seems
to have been lost on another Ameri-
can woman who, it is announced, has
been married to a Japanese preacher
of the Presbyterian faith.
The parties to this latest interna-
tional marriage are Rev. Joseph Ken
iehl Inazawa and Miss Kate Alice
Goodman. the latter of Los Angeles.
The Jap is pastor of a Japanese
church at that point. Miss Goodman
was trained for a missionary. The
two met and a love affair sprang up.
Before the wedding, probably in
view of the bitter feeling that grew
up out of the unfortunate ending of
the former marriage of a similar char
acter, the bride left for publication a
statement in which she said:
"In the choice of a husband I Ger
tainly have not been unduly precipi-
tous. For nine years I have made
an extensive study of the japanese in
Chicago and New York, and later in
California. Few American women not
living in Japan have had such oppor-
tunities for extended and thorough ac-
quaintance with diplomats, students
editors, teachers, business men, home
seekers, agriculturalists and Christian
PREACHERS and missionaries.
During the past twelve months
have studied the question of inter
racial marriage as thoroughly as my
time and resources would permit.
have given to the subject the most
continuous, cOnsecrated, serious and
honest thought of my life [ have
considered the subject from the view
point of biology, anthrOpology, sociol-
ogy, psychology and theology; have
argued inductively and deductiveiv:.
have asked the advice of friends and
read everything I could procure on
the subject, and my mature convic-
tion is that this marriage is both
absolutely right and wise.
Mr. InazaWa's experience has been
in some respects even broader than
nine, as his life has been divided on
both sides of the Pacific and his con-
victiOn is quite as strong as mine that
this union is the will of the Lord
whom we serve and whose we are
We each can say with Luther: Here
l stand, so help me God; I can do
no other
The glory Of Japan is her yamato
demashii, or the spirit which chooses
the best always. whenever and wher-
ever it may be found. It tends to the
finest discrimination and the noblest
eclecticism. We needs must love the
highest when we see it, TennysOn's
Guineyere says to King Arthur: and
because so many of Japan's clever
sons do this, her high average of Gull
ture and devotion has been posi-
BILE"
1t is sincerely to be hoped, for the
happiness of the American woman in
the case, that her studies of the
Japs from the standpoint of biology.
anthropology sociology, psychology
and theology" will not prove to have
been another case of "knowledgeI
comes but wisdom fingers" But it |
is to be feared another woman is des-
tined to a sad awakening, and that
she will discover that the East is
still far from the West and that God
in His divine wisdom never intended
them to draw closer together