The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-12-09
|ORIENTALS
In EXILE
FOR Sins
Coming Of White People
Into Their Valley Awes
Secluded Settlement

MEN lr~uM w nIcf u one OF inc
only two white women who have
ever visited the Valley OF the Lost
Tribo In China. where exfl~d China
men do pcnanee for the sins OF their
ancestors. She has just returned TO
America with her mother.
With her father. q. ID. Wrder, q
Congregational missionary. and Miss
Isabel Ingram. a student at weiies-
ley college. Miss Wilder made the
"Trip by train. donkey and on foot.
over the San Pc mountains OF China.
INTO a settlement that Il 80 secluded
that few Cinnamon know OF Its To-
cation
ANCESTORS ExII.ED
800 YEARS AGO 9.
Tho coming Of white people into
this territory awrd. II not fright
ened the lost from the world
villages and u was with consider
able difficulty that Miss Wilder sue
eceded In learning the history OF the
Lost Tribe.
Three hundred years ago. In the
time Of the Ming dynasty as Miss
Wilder told n TO n Star reporter. "a
tribe Of Chinese rebciied against the
Manchus. Many OF them. instead OF
being killed. were allowed to live In
the mountains on three conditions;
THAT they would always stay In
The mountains.
That they would never marry out
side Of one tribe.
-Tha, they would pay tribute 10
ne Nnnchus.
TT was believed that re trfne
would die out But instead. they
cultivated the bard and have grown
-rrom three to 20 villages.
WORLD HAS
STOOD STILL
TO this Lost Trfbe. ne world
has stood sim. The people wear the
bright c0iors Of their ancestors and
their clothes ard modes Of hair
dressing arc queer and different
Every custom and tradition prac-
diced by the Chinese Of 900 years ago
IN observed by the inhabitants Of the
Hidden Valley.
Both the men ard she women
are made OF bamboo poles and a
ness people. The women of the
Lost Tribe DO not bind their feet
and they are larger than those OF
other Chinese women
Tho homes OF the Lost Tribe
arena ado OF bamboo poles and a
thick felt and are called mongrei
pao. They look like tents and can
he taken down or put mp In short
notice. often q whole village win
mack up and move to another sec
ton of the valley when grazing
ground has grown bad
Miss wilder says the young iris
IN the Lost Valley were very much
Interested In the wearing apparel or
The white girls. Two OF these girls
IN particular, though they werc dress
zen route TO Oberiin. o. where the
from Pekin9. were envious OF the
American-made clothing.
TRIP FROM PEKING
TAKES NINE DAYS
The trip from Picking To the
Hidden Valley ard back took nine
days
Miss wilder IN 10 years old and
was born In Tung Chou. China. IL
miles from Pcking. She and Miss
pelnos Grant. student at Wellesley
college, whose father is head OF the
bureau Of printing and engraving for
the Chinese government at Peking.
were the first girls to graduate from
The first American high school m
Northern China This high school,
located In Tung Chou. was built an
1915 and has about 45 scholars this
year. mostly Americans.
Miss wilder and her mother are
en- route 10 Oberiin. O.. while the
former viii attend Oberlin college.
Rev. Wilder ls In cNna- Sixteen of
the daughters 10 years have been
spent In China She speaks the chi
nese language fluently and says she
il sanxious to get back to the
Orient