Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1879 — Marrying Chinamen. [ARTICLE]

Marrying Chinamen.

New York Herald: The absence of Chinese women in the East has compelled the male to intermarry with the whites. There are in New York at the present time nearly three hundred Chinamen who have white wives. They are mainiy Spanish and Irish women, the Mongolians preferring the latter on account of their skill in domestic labor. Few of them allow their wives to work. This is due to a spirit of gallantly which is visible even In the West. This intermarriage of races commenced about six years ago. Consequently a young ChinoCeltic generation is springing up,, the oldest of whom is about five years of age. As these children are becoming very numerous, they may become an important factor in strengthening the kindly relations between our citizen and Chinese immigrants. In a year or two some of them will be old enough to enter school. Not only have the Chinese married Spanish and Irish women, but at Nol 45 Mott street there lives a Chinaman who married a colored woman. The pair have three fine' looking children.