The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-09-11

card after she left. Itore it up. He took
not affected by them. They are . part
Of Chinai own life, hs explained.
He was a member % the Reform club,
chinese social club and the Chimes
Board ~ Trade. He liked 10 discuss
business affairs and chinese and Amer
ican politics with his countrymen and &C.
caSionally enjoyed an evening away from
me: hat never needed I q worry over him
He hal his littlenes@es as well as his
biRneSHes For instance. he thought he
know better about what was good for my
health and other thingA plrely personal
than did myself. and n my ideas opposed
or did not tally with his he would very
vigorously denounce what hs called the
foOlishness of women II he admired
CeFtain drese ha would have me wear u
on every occasion po~sihla and did no.
sem 10 he able 60 underSt and hat u was
not ALWAYS n
Wear the dress with tho silver lines.
he said au'horit ively 10 me one dav.
1 was attired for going ont. hut not
as he wished To see me. | answered that
tho dress with the silver iines was not
s,iit able for a long and dusty drive on an
open car.
suitable or not I wish you to wear II.
All right. said | will wear IL but
will stay AZ home. ] stayed az home.
and so did he
-Sometimes he talked 81 returning 20
China The thought filled me with hor-
ror. heard the wives Of Chinese talk
about secondary wives. One afternoon
the cousin Of Iiu Kanghi. With whom ]
had once lived. came To see me and Sho wed
me a letter which she had received from
a little Chinese girl who had been born
and brought up in America until the age
81 10.
The last paragraph in the letter read
Emma and I are very sad and wish We
were hack in America kanghIs cousin
explained that the father 81 the little
girls, having no sons had taken 20 himself
another wife. and the new wife lived with
the little girls and their mother.
That was before my little boy was
born. That evening | told kanRhi that
he need never expect mo TO accompany
Very we'll. said he soothingly. We
will neither Of Va 60.
You SEE. / began. sobbing hysteri-
ically. | look upon you as belonging 20
me.
He wouldn't let me say more After
"A while be SAID In China. ~ - true. a man
may and occasionally does take second
airy wife, but that custom - custom not
only because SONS are denied 10 the first
wife but because the first wife In selected
by parents and guardians before a man
is hardly a man II a Chinese man mar
ries for love his life IL a filled cup and he
wants no secondary wife. not even for the
sake az a son Take. for example. me. your
great husband.
I sometimes commented upon his bow
ish ways and appearance. which was the
reason why when he was m high spirits
he would call himself my great hus-
band he was not bCyIsh always. l
have Aeen him when -houldering the
troubles ~ kinfolk. the quarrels Of his
clan and other responsibilities. acting and b
looking like a man ~ twice his years.
But for all these strange marriage Gus
toms ~ nv husbands people ] looked
upon them as far more moral IN their
lives than the ma Jority of Americans. !
expressed myself thus To- I.iu kanghl. and
he replied The American people think
higher II only more Of them lived up
to what they thought the Chinese would
not be 80 confused in trying 10 follow
their leadership
II ever man rejoiced over ths'birth
81 his child IL was I.iu kanghi The hoy
was born with a veil over his face A
prophet cried the old mulatto Jewe-s
who nurs"d me. prophet has come
INTO the world
She told thi- 20 his father when he
came To- look upon HIM and h" replied
a. he shipped over my middle finger = ring
sci with on" large i--arl. He - my son.
that - all | car" about
But ha was glad and there was feast
ing and rejoicing with ms Chinese friends
for over two weeks He came IN one
evening and found me weeping over my
poor httle hoy. ! shall never forget the
expression on his face
oh. shame said he softly. drawing
my head down TO his shoulder. what -
: here to weep about? The child - beau
tiful The feeling heart. the under
sta nding mind - his. He wil he n great
writer More than that, he will he proud
hat he 10 Of Chinese blood: he viii fear
nons and after him the name Of half
1 hine-e will no longer be OF contempt
-kanghi in his boyhood had attended
a school IN Hongkong There he had
learned English and made the acquaint-
ance Of several half Chinese half Eng
lish lads They were the brightest OF all
he told me hut they were low in the
-ves OF ia. Chinese. because they were
ashamed 70 their Chinese blood and
gnored Il
His theory therefore was that II his
own son Vas brought mp to he proud
instead of ashamed ~ his Chinese strain
he would become a great man Perhaps
he was right but he could not see as l. an
American woman. could the conflict before
or hov
-Nfter the little Kanghi had passed his
first month and ws had found good