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Show A CHINESE ROMANCE. THE STORY OF MRS. OINO LEE'S MARRIAQB. Aaven Yaara Ago a rrlandlaaa, llomataaa Utrman Ulrl, Rha Vfaddad an Ugly Chinaman and Now Cat: liar rood with Ihopallcaa. (8an Francisco Letter.) One of tho strangest life stories In alt the United States It being lived out In Chinatown. It Is the story of Mrs. Sing Lee. The story of Mrs. Sing Lee Is tho story of what fata brought to a young girl who ventured Into the big world alone, tnf It Is a story for fathers fath-ers and motheis, There are fathers and mothcra all the world over who lose the burden ot responsibility too readily, who willingly, selfishly, carelessly, care-lessly, let their nestlings fly too soon; and It may be that fate has mado Mrs, Sing Lee's llfo Into a weird poster-picture poster-picture for such at these Mrs. Sing Lee it German born and convent bred, She Is sweet voiced and gentlo mannered, man-nered, with something of the pensive prettlnest of the Marguerite type. Her skin It creamy whlto at tho cup of a calls lllty, her hair la Ilk pale amber, and her eyea are at blue at tho cornflower corn-flower loved by Kaiser Wllhclm'a fath- MH3. SING LEE AND CHILE, er. The husband of Mr-- Sing Leo It a Chinese sleek, fat, yellow-skinned, almond-eyed, cat-footed, dctcttable Just a common Chinese cook with blouso and queue, who rami 310 a week 53 weeka In the year over the taucepana In a boarding house. Seven yeara ago Mrs. Sing Leo bad nover seen a Chinese outstdo ot a plcturo- book. Seven yeara ago she waa Hedwlg Brossok, a rosy-cheeked, falr-halred Deutsche! maedchen fresh from a convent. con-vent. She had spent all her life from the time she was three till sho was 18 years old within consent walls, and tho waa Just come bomo to her father, a well-to-do brewer In the province of Pomeranla, and to her young stepmother. step-mother. "I always feet happy try heart so light I sing, I danco, I laugh all day long; I was llker-what you call It the butterfly or the humming bird," abo says of herself then, But the stepmother and tho daughter from the convent somehow didn't bit It of! well together, and the father, after the fashion of men, agreed with the stepmother. step-mother. Then Hedwlg Brossok, with no more knowledge of the world then the gentlo sisters who have forsworn It could teach ber, ran away to America Amer-ica And as the way waa so long and thcrs was peace In hit household her father let ber go And now Hedwlg Brossak, as Mrs. Sing Lee, lives "Chinee "Chi-nee fashion," In a chill cubby-hole on Waverly place, between Sacramento street and Clay, and when the day Is fair the watchet from her wlndowt the people ot her rare going back and forth on the cable cars, They never come her way and she never goes theirs. It Is a long way from a convent con-vent In Pomeranla 16 an alley In Chinatown. Chi-natown. "You would tike to know," said Iltdwlg Brossak, who Is Mrs. fling Lee, "why I married a Chinee. It was like this: I wss all alone In San Francisco no friends, nobody, I worked all day long, from early In the morning until lata at night, and I got so tired, and tfn I think, 'What will become of me? I see nothing else, Tbe Chinee I married came every night to where I worked and I waa In (he kitchen and SINO LEE. talked to htm Every time he came he brought tbe lady a bouquet, and I said to blm, 'Why don't you bring me a bouquet, tool' Then he brought two bouquets overy time. Once when I felt tired and lonely be eald to me be would take care of me, that I wouldn't netd to work any more "The white peqple make so much trouble. I am a Catholic. I beg on my knees that tbe priest will marry us. 'No I Nol'hecayi. Hut I bee and beg. and 1 cry and cry. 1 taught my husband to be a Catholic and the priest baptlitd htm, Then maybe It la because be-cause of tbe baby, or mayba to save my soul he married us; but he would not put the marrlago in the book. All the time since I wa: married' I havo lived In Chinatown, I cat Chinese food will, chopsticks, and my own kind H with knife and fork. Sometimes t BBJ wear Chinee clothes. My baby baa a BBJ Chinee name and a Christian name. BBJ Her Chinee name Is Ah Tooey; we call BB her thst most and she likes It beat. BBl Her Christian name Is Begins. Am I BBl sorry I married a Chinee? No. You BBl know why? I was a servant and t BBl could marry only the kind ot man n jBBI servant girl has a chance to Kcl-n BB msn who Is rough, and knows nothing, BBJ and drinks. So 1 married the Cbtnee. BBJ It he talks not nicely, If bis manners rflH aro not right, if he knowa not what I jBJ know, then I can excusu him, becaut MSI he Is from another country, whero HBw things are not like what they are with m us and wo go not among white peo- H plo who can notlco such things. So HH It Is better with me. I have my baby, My Chinee husband It good. Ho gam- H bles not, he works hard, and brings ma H all his money except what he must havo for car fare, and when a woman H Is alone In the world, away from bet H people and her friends, when she hat H nothing and will not do worse, theji H sho must not complain or be lorry H so I say It la well for me. To my H father I wrote that I married a Chi- H nee. They know not In my country what people In this country think ol H that, so he thinks 1 havo dona well. H I put on my nicest dress and ilrossedj HBV my baby so nent and pretty and hail H our pictures taken to send to my home, and they think from that It Is all right M to marry a Chinee. But am I happy? H Yes, I am happy. 1 have the fate that was sent mo. As my bed It mado so H must I lie on It," and the wall of d mis- HH erere rang In her voice. H |