Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-27
CHURCH WORKER
BECOMES BRIDE
OF A JAPANESE
Couple Married in New
Mexico After Long
Courtship
SAYS SHE DID RIGHT
Young Woman Prominent
in Religious Circles.
Explains Motive
JAYS SHE DID RIGHT

u presenting an odd phase in that
~ its two principal actors, both Of
Los Angeles, claim it involves mo
sickly sentiment or emotional inn
pulse" eliminated yesterday In the
marriage at Laguna, N. M, of Rev.
Joseph Kenichi InaZawa, pastor of the
Japanese Presbyterian church at 92O
West Tenth street, to Miss Kate Alice
Goodman, we'll known and highly
educated white woman who for several
years has been active as a Christian
worker and instructor among the Jap
anese missions of Los Angeles, Chlca-
go and New York, but who until few
days ago has been for several months
a teacher in a Japanese school at Mon
eta.
Contrary to the custom in such mat
ters Mrs. Inazawa makes no pretense
that 1t was a case of love at first
sight" or that she was guided In ac-
cepting the Japanese as her husband
by any beedless affection. Neither
does she designate it "a marriage of
convenience" In a statement which
she wrote for The Herald, to be pub
lished after her marriage, she hints,
rather, that her marriage to the Or1en-
tai is due to a conviction, founded ON
years of careful deliberation and an
thropological research, that the Jap
anese make the best husbands. and
that they are more reliable and desira-
BILE than CaucaSians.
Rev. Inazawa, husband of the worn-
an, is we'll known in Los Angeles and
also in the east, where for twenty
wears he has been actively identified
with Japanese Presbyterian missions
and churches. He speaks good Eng
lish, is we'll versed in the Scriptures,
and although 40 years old appears
much younger.
Not Blinded by Love
His attachment for Miss Goodman.
with whom he left Los Angeles last
week to wed, began early in their ac-
uuaintance, when they were thrown
often together instructing Bible classes.
The young woman took fancy TO
him. but from her own admission she
did not allow her love to blind her.
In this case Cupid was sent scam
pering away until she could read and
investigate the advisability and prob
able consequences of such union:
and when at last she had convinced
herself that the Japanese make worthy
husbands, she consented to receive ms
attentions.
Hands across the sea-two hearts,
each of a different race-Were united
by a love the same in all peoples; Two
tongues, each born to a different Ian
guage, lisped their story in the same
old accents borne from the Garden OF
Eden down through the centuries.
It was the same old story, the same
old love- but it was founded, they IN
sist, on knowledge and understanding
it was a scientific result or many
kinds. of research.
THE woman hesitated. She had first
to convince herself that such union
could be felicitous; and, poring
through many volumes of statistics
and philosophy, until she had 1ounu
the ethics to confirm her hope-tne
theory to Justify her act1on-she deneu
the world, hastened with her Japanese
sweetheart to New Mexico and there
became the wife of Inazawa-the occi-
dent and the orient united. :.
Mrs. Inazawa is positive she VIII
not regret her step. Speaking OF her
husband, she refers to him as the one
person in whose lifework she is inter-
ested-the one among millions designed
by destiny to share her lot and AID
her in her religious duties.
"And I am happy" she said, Just be-
fore she left Los Angeles. Say for me
that I am happy. | don't care wnat
the world thinks. Joseph and are
happy. He will make me good nus
band"
Believing that to her friends, how
ever she owed ct least an explanation
Mrs. Inazawa, before her departure for
New Mexico wrote the following state
ment, to be published in The Herald;
Bride-Elect Makes Statement
'eWhen the marriage of two persons
in humble circumstances, lis given space
on the first page of a metropolitan daily
the only inference to be drawn is that
such marriage is regarded as sensa-
tional in character. When the hitherto
law abiding members of a community
leave the state in order to consummate
legal marriage q decent regard for
the opinions of mankind would seem to
warrant a word of explanation. The
following statement is therefore very
gladly submitted, to whomsoever 1t
may interest:
TT has been suggested to me that
this marriage may be regarded by
some as a piece of emotionalism unsup-
ported by the judgment. Such is very
far from being the truth. In fact
neither of us has any startling record
of rash acts committed in the past and
after 40 years of age character should
be somewhat settled, it would seem.
Neither have our occupations been such
as to encourage thoughtless actions.
"'Oh, thou that teachest another,
teachest thou not thyself%
For twenty-four years these words
have been ringing in my ears. AS a
student in normal school and college,
as a proofreader in the best and largest
printing houses in the country, as
translator and assistant editor on re-
form Journal as worker and teacher IN
well known institutional churches and
model Sunday schools, l have had
wide opportunities to observe without
asking / admit with regret my prac
tical ability is below the average, that
as a money maker am not a success;
but l think no competent authority will
deny me good taste In books and
friends. In the choice Of a husband I
certainly have not been unduly pre-
cipitous For nine years have mace
an intensive study of the Japanese IA
Chicago and New York, and later IN
California. Few American women not
living In Japan have had such oppor-
tunities for extending as thorough
acquaintance with diplomats, students,
editors, teachers and business men.
house workers, agricultuflists and
Christian preachers and missionaries.
During the past twelve months I
have been studying the question OF IN
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