Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-06-15

Toxic, June 15-In HOMO, {
hum district just outside o.
Tokio, there lived the half-cas
laughter Of Boston man, who
kfter years of practical destitu-
hon, at last is earning enough
teaching English to HOMO police
hen. Raised from babyhood in
be home of German and edu-
SAted in the home of an English
Missionary in Toxic, her train
Ibg was complete. She mas been
arried twice to Japanese, how
6Eer, and the last marriage re-
Hblted in exiling her from for
Ngn friends, the writer being the
Nrst foreigner she has seen in fiji
Ben year when he located her hut
ID the heart of the slum district.
"A During these years she has
,een almost penniless, and only
tnce she received employment
Eom the police a few weeks ago
'as she known just where mon
b would come from the next day
D buy food for herself and her
pung daughter.
Mary Susie Rose, or Mary
an," as her policemen pupils call
er, was born in the South Sea
Hands, on one of the Pelew
roup, just east of the Philippines
to the meagre know
|dge of her birth, a storm ragged
b the Pacific for days nearly
lfty years ago, and when the
Hand folk awoke one morning to
lnd the sea calm the remains of
b American trading boat were
bund scattered along the shore.
b this wreckage was a man,
| HON the natives carried to a
learby hut. There young girl,l
|aughter of one of the minor
hieftains of the tribe, nursed him
|ack to life. The man was said to
lave been Henry Savannah Sea-
Rave, a sailor, whose home was
Boston.
Castaway Watches for Ship
For weeks the castaway watch
ID the horizon from morning un-
h night for signs of a boat, but
shen none came, like other ship
grecked men, he gave himself up
b his fate, set up blacksmith
hop on the island and finally
narried' the girl who nursed him,
h the summer Of 1877 he died of
ever, and a short time after, on
November 6, his daughter-the
voman of the Toxic slum-was
)orn.
When the child was two years
I'D her mother died from grief
'ver the fathers death. A short
line later a German by the name
u Rose visited the island and
Then he left took Mary Susie
With him to his home on the south
'rnmost of the BONN Islands,
where he gave her his name ana
'aised her as his own child.
Five years later Archdeacon
Ronald Shaw, of the Mission of
he Church of England in Toxic,
ound the little girl and brought
Ter to Toxic, where she was car
ID for as member of his family
md was educated at st. Margar-
ITS school. When ten years old
The spent a few months at her
lone, and it was not until then
hat she learned of her parents
md the circumstances that caus-
ID the marriage of her father and
mother. At the age Of sixteen
word from the BONN island home
II the expected death Of her
ldopted father caused the girl to
cave Toxic school to go to his
bedside. There she nursed him
'ack to life, but the German had
married. again during her alb
Sf anu HIS WlAC AlAaAAJ SUI
'eeded in driving the girl away.
Then Rose CONSULTED japanese
riends and arranged a marriage
WITH prosperous Japanese mer-
'nant. For a while their married
lie was pleasant. but the husband
ook to riotous living, and when
heir son, the only child. was elev-
n years old he left her.
Adopted Father Dies
Meantime her adopted father
iAd died, and she got nothing
rom his estate circumstances soon
iecessttated the arrangement of
mother marriage with a japanese
Z 1905, soon after the birth of
they moved to Toxic,
'ut intense hatred for foreigners
lsid by the man prevented his
'lle from communicating with
,er foreign friends. Accordingly
Aey were never informed Of her
s'urn. The woman gave up both