Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-26
TELLS ALL ABOUT
CHINESE BRIDAL
Donald CarrutherS Writes of
Manners and Customs in
Far-off Flowery Kingdom

China, has written a most interest
ing letter to his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. IS. Carruthers, of State
street telling all about big Chi
nese. wedding, the details of which
follow:
, oct. 9, 1918.
Ny Dear Mother and Father:
Next door TO where l am living
, there is a big Chinese wedding now
in progress and according TO the
Chinese custom they are carrying
the presents through the streets in
order that every one may see how
beautiful they are and how rich
the givers of the dowry really are.
a huge mat shed has been erected
and a Chinese orchestra has been
engaged to furnish the music which
will consist largely of beating a huge
drum to the accompanies of
changing cymbals which would even
make the Apostle Paul decidedly i'll
at ease. This said music will con-
tinue all night and tomorrow per-
haps. The bride will be carried into
the house In n small closed red
covered sedan chair and the groom
for the first time will have the op-
portunity of beholding her smiling
Yisage for the first time. The Chi
nese saying is that in foreign we'd
dings, We pour our water in hot
Uove) and it gradually gets cold.
but they pour their water in cold
and il gets hot. l don't believe this
latter statement for their happiness
seems many times 10 be, to us at
| least, delusion. l am told that the
| first few years of the married life
of the young bride are spent in ter
rihle misery-for she is the housSH
hold slave of the mother-in-law and
one can we'll imagine what that
means. After she has her first child
this relation of serfdom ceases but
still she is kept in the background
and referred to as the woman in
the home" To me it appears that
the greatest problem before this
nation at the present time is that
of making homes in the true sense
of the word. 1 believe fully in the
Christian solution OF the problem
where motherhood and all that
home embodies-are kept halloWed
by the remembrance of Him who
resorted to Bethany to enjoy the
homelife of His friends, Mary and
Martha. Someone has said that the
nation or people that holds woman
in an inferior position can never
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to be nothing to refute such a state
ment.
Mr.. Burgess has lent us his Victor
and several excellent records. 1t
is real sport to take your bath to the
tune of stirring operatic air of
an expressive violin selection. l am
sure that were 1 to be sent into the
| interior for period of years would
like to take a machine with me with
! a full supply OF records. 1t
gives one so much pleasure, wish
| there was some sort of machine
whereby the pictures of the famous
! art galleries could be put on a rec
I ord and sent around so that you
| could get the same joy of looking at
them one does in the galleries at
! home. I am trying to enjoy Chinese
painting as a substitute for the art
of the west. which l cannot see be-
cause, of my separation from 1t. l
am a bit surprised to find myself
really getting a whole lot OF enjoy
ment from Chinese painting. A few
DAYS ago / visited the Art Museum
| in the Forbidden City together with
my friend Shoemaker. 1916, who
| took the same course in art in
Princeton that did and We heartily
| enjoyed n lot of rhe pictures al
! though they are vastly different in
/ conception and execution than those
we are familiar with in the west. In
! this way one gets a new apprecia-
ton of the Orient and becomes more
contented with his present lot. a
/ foreign soldier once told me his
philosophy of life in the Orient. He
| tried to look away to the hills and
/ temples and not on the dust and
sordidness of the city streets. So
youp see I am trying to look off to
the hills and the green places with
pleasure withal."
With lots of love your son,
| DONALD WALLACE.
Miss Alice Straub is spending the
week with friends in Williamsport
Mrs. Walter W. Hubley. of Remove.
spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. J.
| P. Mccullough, 2041 North Second
street.
/ Ter and Miss Helen Aungst, and Mrs.
! Specie. all OF Penbrook. have return
ed after motor trip to Philadelphia.
Charles Pollock, Of the 5. a. I. c..
/ Gettysburg. spent Sunday with his
father Frank Pollock, of "a Prospect
Harold Eckert. OF Sylvan Terrace,
now stationed at Indianhead. Md.
spent the weekend at home.
| Edward Connor. of Philadelphia
| spent last night here with relatives,
| on his way from McAlisterville, Pa, to
/ Octoraro. Md.
Ralph Davis. of McAlisterville. Pa,
! is visiting relatives here.
Z. =. Clark, of Lehighton. Pa, was
1 in the city on business and spent the
weekend with his sister. Mrs. y. G.
| Hodgson. of col Boas street.
Miss Sarah Caton, OF this city, VIII
spend the Thanksgiving vacation at
Asbury Park. y. j.. and in Philadel-
| phia, as the guest OF MISS Zetna war
Miss Margaret Phillips. of 1888 Mar
ket street. has returned home after a
visit in williamsport. ,..
Miss Mary Meetch, MISS Harriett
have returned home after spending
/ the weekend with friends In Colds
OoyT Mrs Henry w. schurtz and daugh-
ters. Mary schurtz and Rena schurtz,
, of 1924 Liberty street, leave to-mor-
row to spend the weekend IN Mid
Miss Evelyn speakmsn. of 7O9 North
Seventeenth street, LETT to-day 10
spend the week in Philadelphia and
Mrs Enfield Walker, of Philadel-
nhia is visiting her sister, Miss Ellen
K. McCulIoch. at 1902 North Second
street.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Ramsay, of
Portland. Me-. are Thanksgiving
guests of their relatives. Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur d. Pollock. of State street
Miss Rose B. Mumma. Miss Mary
x Munnma, John Mumma and Fl.
Oberholtzer motored to Hanover for
the weekend.
Miss Annette Greene. of Boston.