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Show PICTURE BRIDE8 OF M NIPPON REACH U. S. j H Japanese Girls Come Tagged and H Numbered to Meet Husbands , Chosen for Them j HH San Francisco, Jan. 4. Seventy HJ plcturo brides from Japan arrlvod HJ hero today on the liner Shlnyb Maru HH to moot husbands thoy havo novor H seen. Fifty moro arrlvod within tho mw weok on other steamships. HH Until tho husbands claim them tho H brides aro being housed on Angel Is- land, tho United States detention sta- mm In tho eyes of tho Japanoso law, jHH nnd so for tho purposes of tho lm- !! migration officers, tho brides ,havo ''H been married. Thoro havo an ox- ',Li change- of pictures, nn approval by 'si tho hoadB of tho two contracting families declaration of Intention In mm writing, boforo a Japanoso official. HH Tho brides como tagged and num- HH bored, are correctly dealt out to tho ;HH right husbands, and thon usually aro ' taken In hand by tho Japanese osso- pHJ elation, which escorts them to tho 9Am marrlago license bureau, after which IsVJI rt rollgloua ceremony Is performed, H sometimes by a Buddhist or Shinto Ms nrlost, somotlmos by a Christian clor- S gyman. 9U |
