GIRL, Osaka, Apr. 2h.
Miyoshi Sotoumi, a." 4l-year-6ld carpenter, hax long wanted to take unto himscif'a wile. Last wack he found the woman he sought local jail, where she was serving term for' theft. A" police inspect was the best man.
The story of how the 30-year-old woman became a prison inmate has been featured by newspapers tnroush= out Japan.
Her name, said the papers, was Chie Takahashi, When 23 years old she obtained a position as a maid in Kyoto family but was. discharged for ugliness, Told she stood a botter chance of employment as a man, the woman out her hair, donned a man's attire, and became a jack of all trades, Afler seven years as a house boy. a "newspaper vendor and a. manual Jabourer, Miss Takahash! began to yearn for companionship and hit on the idea of committing an offence that would keep her in prison. for long months, during which she could again become a woman. She stole ¥.20, was quickly caught and sentenced. Somehow, the tale of "her woos came to the' attention of a reporter, who made of it a touching story.' From this report the lonely carpenter immediately decided that Miss Takahashi was the girl of dreams. "He went to the police and wushed the inspector to arrange 9 marriage—Domel,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.