A MAIDEN TRIBUTE

NZ Truth, Issue 84, 26 January 1907, Page 5

A MAIDEN TRIBUTE

To Chinese Concupiscence/ A sad, sordid story of maiden triibute to Chinese concupiscence, the whole surroundings of which are a sorry commentary on the manner m which some parents rear their female children, comes from Newtown. One day last week a half-cast Chinaman, son of a Newtown Chinese storekeeper took as wife, for better or for worse, a mere slip of a girl barely 16 years of age. This halfbreed seems to have been forced to marry the girl,' and pressure seems to have been brought to bear to induce him to take the step, because m doing so he saved what "honor" the girl possessed, she being m child to him. Her marriage thus makes heir an honorable woman (!) In the refined language employed now-a-^iays to denote courtship, this half-caste alien had been "trotting the tart about" for sometime previously, and whiie doing so she fell "a victim to the yellow-skin's wiles, with the disagreeable— in the circumstances—result that she is now m the position of being about to become a 'mother. This half-caste' is apparently ashamed of the fact that hs is what he is, though his fullblooded father has plenty of money and is likely to leave him veil off when he KICKS THE BUCKET. Blood will always tell, and so do slant-eyes, and though the seducing half-caste is a flash, weil-dressed young man, has assumed a Scotch name, and mixes up with white-skin-npd youths, no power on garth canchpnse him from what he is. This pJrl can lay the blame, so it is said, of h°r downfall — and surely it is a | degradation to marry a Chinaman— •to reing' srnt by her parents to a 1 Chinese stove. She was seduced at an age forbidden by the law, and it Us due Derhaps to the parent's keep-

ing the knowledge of their daughter's condition a close secret that the Newtown police were unable to get at the true state of affairs, otherwise this flash young half-caste might now be serving a lengthy. term of imprisonment. When the girl's true condition was not to be disguised, it was too late for

ANY CRIMINAL ACTION to be taken. The police became acquainted of the half-breed's campers at a time outside the period prescribed by law wherein a prosecu tion could be initiated. There was then but one alternative, viz., that o£ frightening and forcing the alien to make the girl his wife. >^This the Chinaman did, with a very bad grace ; he did vioh know that as far as' a criminal prosecution was concerned, he was safe, probably if he had known he would have refused point blank to lead a blushing girl bride to the altar. The attitude of the seduced girl's father m the matter ig curious if not disgraceful. The feelings of parents -at the discovery, that their daughter is

PREGNANT TO A CHINAMAN can be very well imagined. Though! the harm has 'been done, if an attempt is made to hush the matter upi none ; surely would be harsh enough; to condemn, those parents who Sought to . screen, their daughter from the long, thin, bony linger of scandal., Of course the parents of this girl did their best to keep it dark until it leaked out, the child's sad position became known to all, and the father,, finding this but, instead of seeking legal advice or the consolation of some trustworthy friends, adopted! the strange proceedure of .visiting a neighboring hotel, and there, rendered talkative hy sundry pints of beer,, m a full bar of

..NONDESCRIPT BEER-BUMMERS and casual callers-in, he proclaimed his daughter's downfall. If he had expected sympathy this loving father! made a mistake. There were some genuine Chow-haters m the crowd y who had known of this girl's condition before and they promptly; went for the father and told him; what they thought of him-. Moreover his daughter's position was at-' tributed to his own parental irresponsibility m allowing her to frequent Chinese stores. That is the whole secret of this girl's debacle* and it ought to prove a lesson to other parents who see no harm Tvhateverin sending their daughters to thej Chinkey's shops.