The Detroit times., 1911-01-03
ST0Rk FLIES ALL
WAY FROM CHINA
Wife of Attache of Chinese Legation
Had No Baby Things" and
Gray Nurse Simply Flew.
BY ROBERT WILSON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.-You must
imagine border of crooked bamboo
stalks around this story and matched
pagoda roofs tinted in under the type.
tor ii is the most foreign story you
ever heard, though it happened under
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES roof OF
the Chinese legation in Washington,
where lives a necessary adjunct TO the
story, the Hon. Henry Kumphy Chang,
an absurdly short young man bearing
The absurdly long title Of honorary
secretary to the envoy extraordinary
and minister parliamentary to the
United States of America.
When Plain Mr.. Henry Kumphy
Chang was designated and honorable,
and selected to be honorary secretary
to the envoy extraordinary-and-ev
so-many-other-titles to America, he
made of the son OF heaven, his i'm
perial majesty. ruler of the celectial
empire, a strange request. II Was
nothing less than that he be permit
tee 70 take with him to America The
siant-eyed girl who was his bride.
This WAS asking an extraordinary
thing, for Chinese girls and women
are not permitted to cross the sercfej
borders Of that pagan land. But ne
cause he was most promising young
mar, exceptional in virtues and men
tai attachments, his request was grant
ed. An that was how Madam Henry
Kumphy Chang happened to come TO
Washington.
Charmed BY Strange Scenes.
The grand society ladies OF Wash
irgton could scarcely think OF the lit
tie madam as wife at all. She
seemed to them a child who ought TO
be out In the blessed sunshine of the
celestial empire, chasing the red and
purple butterflies and gold humminG-
birds such as you see embroidered on
the fire screens In the Chinese bazaar.
Like child, she was charmed with
the strange new scenes or this
America. as though the whole country
were d toy set up for her own spe-
cia! pleasure.
One day-oh, weeks and weeks ago,
Il was-the fairies whispered some
thing into her little brown ear ana
she laughed "a pure ripple OF childish
delight. At first she told no one OF
her new joy--it was too sacred. For
the good fairies had taken pity on
her lonesomeness here in far away
land and had whispered promise to
send her little playmate that should
be her own forever and ever.
BY and by she told the Hon. Henry
Kumphy Chang. honorary secretary to
the very important And-so-forth, and
after that his inscrutible brown face
looked more mysterious than ever.
And sometimes when she was out
riding in her automobile, with her
blue and crimson silk kimono hidden
beneath the sky blue cloak edged with
brown fur that wrapped her from
throat 10 toe sometimes she would
smile happily and dreamily, and those
who saw her wondered. For then she
would be thinking OF the same stork
you see painted on the fire screens
with crooked bamboo trees and
thatch pagodo roofs-of the
strength and courage Of the bird that
could wing across SO many leagues
OF sea waste and leagues Of noun
tains and plain, the many leagues
from China 20 Washington. bearing its
precious burden
The little Chinese lady had half ex-
pected to be out on the stone porch
between her Biedermeyer trees to
welcome the stork 10 Sc him appear
as a speck on the west ern horizon. like
weary monoplane. But 1t didn't turn
ont that way
Nov , brought strange hush to-
the legation. with everybody from tn
silk.stockinged hunky at the door 20
the sculion boy in the kitchen gon
atiptoe.
There was the beat OF strong wings
and the stork had started on his long
fight back to the pagoda roofs The
first one to speak was the doctor.
"Humph'" he growled. where's the
child's clothcs?'
There weren't any.
The GRAY Nurse searched hign and
low. 40 baby wardrobe No baby
basket ~ all IL the little madam
heard SOM Is Of the search. she must
have wondered. for it never occurred
10 her but that her little PLAYMATE