Show JAPS IMPORT THEIR BRIDES orientals in hawaii send all the way to the flowery kingdom for them kauai hawaii no more orientals of the laboring class are coming to hawaii and a good many of our white citizens who cultivate sugar estates are sorry that the faithful chinese are barred under the law said W P harcourt a sugar planter of the island of raual one of the Il wallan group they are our best workers and before the exclusion policy was applied we could count on a certain regular influx of brawny mongolians to toll in the cane fields the chinese now in hawaii have been there tor for many years and most of them are getting to be old men not many of the chinese have wives but in former days not a few of them became the husbands of the native ka 5 cypes of japanese dancing girls naka women it was a good cross was this halfbreed halt breed progeny and so likewise the offspring of the japanese ard native women in recent tim times es however the japs have been in the habit of sending back to their own land tor for wives in most cases I 1 think the self elected bridegrooms get their parents bacr in the flowery kingdom to pick out wives for them the matter Is finally arranged through the japanese consul the man in the case putting up money for tho the passage of his intended spouse the hour that she lands must also be the wedding hour for the authorities will not allow the fair ones to remain un less claimed and formally mated ic cording to some civil or religious cere mony that both parties consider bind hind ing every now and then a airel sa message comes to my plantation which tells one of my young japanese hired men that he may expect on the arrival of ohp next ship at honolulu the g girl ra who has been picked out as his wife I 1 do not think that in many cases the principals have ever laid eyes es on each other on the receipt of the message the man gets bermis slon to go to claim his wife and pret ty soon the pair are domesticated on the estate and my understanding Is they get on as happily as it if they had known each other from infancy and been wedded in the conventional way of the caucasians not long ago a ship from kokoha ma arrived with forty or fifty so callad picture brides every one of them had bad been chosen through photo graphs forwarded toi foi warded to hawaii some time in advance of the arrival of the nals occasionally there Is a pathetic case as when not long ago a very pretty young japanese maid was forced to take the next ship le ic turning to her old home inspection showed that she had trachoma and the rigid rule that ordered her deportation could not be waived baltimore american |