The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-06-18
0STRACIZED, SHE
IS BEATING BACK
Castaway American Girl
Earns Living Teaching
English to Japs

| JOhlO,-ln HOMO, Blum dis
| trict Just outside of Toxic, there
lived tho half-cast daughter OF a
Boston man, who. after years OF
practical desttution. at last Is earn.
ing enought money 20 buy food for
| herself by teaching English TO HOMO
| policemen, Raised from babyhood
| In the home OF German and edu-
| Gated In the home OF an English
| missionary In Toxic, her training
was complete, She has been mar
| ried twice TO Jap0nese, however, and
| the last marriage resulted In eNiliug
her from foreign friends. the writer
| beng the first foreigner she has
seen in Is years when he located
her hut in the heart of the slum dis
| trict.
During thrss years sine has been
| almost penniless and only since she
received employment from the po-
| lice a few weeks ago has she known
| Just where money would come from
the next day to buy food for herself
| and her young daughter. From
these years of hardship there re-
mains but ono consolation for her
| pride--the fact that she thinks ahe
| Is an American.
Mary Susie Rose. or "Mary-san."
as her policemen pupils call her waE
| born In the South Sea Islands, on
| one OF the polew group, Just east OF
| the Philippines. According 10 the
meager knowledge OF her birth. a
storm RACED on the Pacific for days
| nearly so years ago, and when the
| island folk awoke one morning to
| find the sea calm the remains Of an
| American trading boat were found
scattered along the shore. In thls
| wreckage was a man whom the ma
tives carried to a nearby hut. There
u young girl, daughter OF one OF
the chieftans of the tribe. nursed
him back 10 life. The man was
said to have been Henry Savannah
beagrave, a sailor, whose home was
in Boston.
| Castnwny Watches for Ships.
For weeks the castaway watched
the horizon from morning untn
night for signs of a boat, but when
none came, like other shipwrecked
men, he gave himself up to his fate.
set up u blacksmith shop on the
island and finally married. the girl
who had nurSed him, In the sum
mer OF 1877 he died OF fever. and a
short time after, on Move 8, his
daughter. the woman of the Toxic
slum, was born. 8
When the child was two years old
her mother died from grief over the
| fathers death. a short time later n
| German by the name of Rose visited
the island and when he left he took
Mary Susie with him to hits home
| on the southernmost of the Benin
Islands where he gave her his name
and raised her as his own child.
Five years later Archdeacon Rom
aid Shaw. OF the Missions OF the
Church of England In Toxic. found
the little girl and brought her to
| Toxic, where she was cared for as "A
member OF his family and was edu-
Gated at st. Margarets school.
when she was 10 years old she
spent II few months at her home.
and 1t was not until then that she
! learned of her parents and the cir
cumstances that caused the mar
riage of her father and mother. At
the age OF 16 word from the BONN
island home OF the expected death
OF her adopted father caused the
girl to leave Toxic school to go TO
his bedside. There she nursod him
back to life, but the German had
married again during her absence
and his wife finally succeeded in
driving the girl away
Then Rose consulted japanese
friends and arranged a marriage
with a prosperous japanese mer-
| chant, For while their married
life was pleasant, but the husband
took to riotous living, and when
their son. the only child, was IL
years old, he left her.
Adopted Father Dies.
Meantime her adopted father had
died, and as she got nothing from
re estate ,;SS au.s:aoSSs soon mecca
Stated the arrangement OF another
marriage with n Japanese. In 1906.
soon after the birth of a daughter.
they moved to Toxic, but intense
hatred for foreigners held by tho
man prevented his wife from COM
municating with her foreign friends.
Accordingly they were never in
formed OF her return. The woman
gave up both her friends and Chris
tian worship for the sake of her
husband. Finally he. too. left her.
The last 10 years have been trying
| ones, but the two children were
properly raised. what little they
could earn was not more than
enough TO live on. The son was
married several years ago, and since
that time starvation has stared
1 them in the face. Mary Susie was
sick, and the daughter, now f6
years old, was trying to care for her
and earn enough at glass factory
10 support them when a wealthy
japanese found them.
He provided funds to nurse the
woman back TO health and. when
she was well, secured for her the
position of teaching English to po-
| licemen OF the district. There she
earns enough now to barely buy
food. Hair Of her class meets for an
hour every other morning AZ the po-
lice station, where she is teaching
them to speak and write IN the Eng
lish language.
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