The Occident and the Orient are strangely fused in the character of Mr. Quincey. His large family of six boys and four living daughters show the real and typical Chinese in family life by heredity, while on the other hand, he the nest Western ideas' of marriage and parental control of the future husband or wife. "Why should I ease the future helpmate of my child?" is his philosophy, "They will be having troubles of their own Jong after IT am gone, it is not just that I should add to the matrimonial difficulties by possibly insisting on the wrong mate for my child."
As a family of successful men and women, he points with pride to his capable sons and daughters—every son holding a responsible position with @ modern concern and the girls married to similarly situated men. Thomas, the eldest, president of a. modern bank in Shanghai; Charles,
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