Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1911 — Bride’s Feet Cause Sensation [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Bride’s Feet Cause Sensation

ST. LOUIS. —Miss Young Oy became the bride of Yeong Wing Jow at the city hall. Attaches of the marriage license office say that, though she is a Chinese, Miss Oy was one of the most attractive young women, who ever went there. Dainty and graceful of carriage, she was a vision of coy loveliness as she stood at the desk, blushing and screening her- face from the view Of the curious by drawing about the soft folds of the Chinese silk automobile veil which she wore in lieu of a picture hat. Her long gray traveling coat was tailor-made and up to the minute in style and finish, and her gown, also in American style, was of blue silk. From beneath the hem of her skirt peeped the tiniest of feet, not bound and deformed like those of many Chinese women, but perfect in outline and shod in American shoes. Clerks at the marriage license office say her feet are the smallest they ever saw—her shoe, according to their expert estimate, being not larger than No. 13, children’s size. Yeong Wing Jow, also clad in American style, wore a tailor-made dark sack suit, patent leather shoes and a a fedora hat. Both gave their address as 931 Clarendon avenue, where the bride-

groom has a laundry. He explained that two of Miss Oy’s cousins are his partners in business, and that she has been living (here under the chaperonage of her male relatives since she came to St. Louis from San Francisco a year ago. Miss Oy and Yeong Wing Jow were born and reared in San Francisco. In St. Louis they have both been members of the First Christian church Sunday school. Both signed the license application in Chinese characters, and then touched the pen while the clerk wrote the names in English. They were married in the anteroom of the license office by Justice Krueger. The bride speaks little English. “But I shall teach her pretty soon,” said the happy husband. So far as records show this is the first time a Chinese couple was ever married in St, Louis.