White Wives for Chinese Men
By Editor
Just now, when so many people, male and female, are out of employment, Satan is throwing out many snares to entrap the unwary. Young girls are always special objects of temptation, although, be it said to their praise, they are generally more discreet than the young men. But "marriage is honorable," hence there could not be a more alluring trap set for a poor girl out of employment. It is therefore not surprising that we read of schemes to procure white wives for Chinamen who are supposed to be well off in this world. The frequency of such alliances in Providence, R. I., having led to a suspicion that some decoying agency exists in that city, the San Francisco Chronicle gives the following timely warning:— "The Providence authorities should do their utmost to break up the agency that is supplying white wives for Chinese. Most of these girls enter upon matrimony with these Mongolian husbands with no idea of what such relations mean. Apparently they do not know that it means certain moral degradation and equally certain abandonment when the Chinese get ready to return to the mother country. Never yet has there been an instance of a Chinese husband taking his white wife back to China, for the old mothers of Mongolians do not take kindly to foreign daughters-in-law."