Romance of Chekiang Girl and a Soldier Changhsing, Dee, 10, Engaged fifty years ago, Chen Mina and Miss Nich, were married only recently, being now 6B and 01 years old, respectively. Shortly after their engagement, Chen had a quarrel with his father and ran away' from' his native town of Changhsing in north Chekiang, to work his own way in the world. "ie enlisted as a soldier and gradually rose until now he is. high officer in the Kiangsi Army, Be-Vieving him dead, the gists family. repeatedly urged her to get married fo another man, but she insisted. keeping her promise so long as her fiance's death was not confirmed.
Recently, Chen returned to his native town for a visit, He found that the lapse of fifty years had wrought a number of changes, His parents were dead, and only a fow relatives and friends remained, who. hardly could recognize him, The long years, however, had not changed the mind of his fiancee, now an aged woman. Living alone in a Ullle cottage, her parents having died, she had eked out an existence by weaving and ing for her lover's return, The two are "now happily married—Central News,
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