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Show Orientals in America Cling; to Old Custom The other evening In a stroll along the Bowery with u detective acquaint nnce we heard the strains of Chinese stringed Instruments and turned into Mott street In time to witness the ur-rlvnl ur-rlvnl of a bride for her wedding ceremony cere-mony ut the home of her merchant fiance, says u writer in the I'hll.idel phiu ledger. The bride, we were Informed In-formed by n dapper young Chinese, was a "sing song girl," whose wedding had been arranged by her father. The "sing-song girls" are those who have difficulty in finding n husband and whose fathers, for a monetary consideration, consid-eration, dispose of them to a Chinese seeking a wife. It is an ancient custom cus-tom In China and one that still holds good among many of the Chinese here. They may adopt American clothes und some-American practices, but mentally they continue ns true orientals. Sometimes Some-times the Chinese girl. Influenced by American ways, chooses her own husband hus-band and sometimes she runs away with a man belonging to another long than that of her father, thereby provoking pro-voking trouble between the rival societies. so-cieties. Usually the bride has nothing to say about her wedding and may not look upon her Intended until the night when the feast has been spread and the wedding music Is heard. |