Gregorin Manton's story is that of many others, It seems that intermarringes between Asiatics seldom go well. Many a Chinese immigrant in Siam, Java and the Philippines marries a native woman fand things would go on smoothly fas. long as the husband does not return to China, bringing his wife over with him. In very few me Stances are. these foreign wives treated kindly by their husbands? relatives, who are invariably highly Gisuppointed to have "foreigners in the family." Acting on the Chinese maxim-—or rather, exaggerating it to the training point,—that it ix the wife's duty to work for her husband and his relatives, the Chinese mothers-inclw go out of the way to harass their foreign dave! ters-in-law, and dire woe befalls those whose husbands die!
Tt is said that, so long as he does not return to China, the Chinese husband is an admirable one. He treats his wife kindly, doesn't squander his earnings, and should here be any children, he will have them educated. But a8 soon a8 he returns to his country, he reverts to old: influences ead' prejudice allows himself to be quided by the demands of his parents and the needs of his relatives,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.