Chapter I: Front Matter

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_Mrs. Spring Fragrance_

_Mrs. Spring
Fragrance_

_BY
SUI SIN FAR_
[EDITH EATON]

_CHICAGO_
_A. C. McCLURG & CO._
_1912_

COPYRIGHT, 1912
A. C. McCLURG & CO.

PUBLISHED, MAY, 1912
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE·PLIMPTON·PRESS
[W·D·O]
NORWOOD·MASS·U·S·A

CONTENTS

MRS. SPRING FRAGRANCE

MRS. SPRING FRAGRANCE 1

THE INFERIOR WOMAN 21

THE WISDOM OF THE NEW 47

“ITS WAVERING IMAGE” 85

THE GIFT OF LITTLE ME 95

THE STORY OF ONE WHITE WOMAN WHO MARRIED A CHINESE 111

HER CHINESE HUSBAND 132

THE AMERICANIZING OF PAU TSU 144

IN THE LAND OF THE FREE 161

THE CHINESE LILY 178

THE SMUGGLING OF TIE CO 184

THE GOD OF RESTORATION 193

THE THREE SOULS OF AH SO NAN 203

THE PRIZE CHINA BABY 214

LIN JOHN 220

TIAN SHAN’S KINDRED SPIRIT 224

THE SING SONG WOMAN 235

TALES OF CHINESE CHILDREN

THE SILVER LEAVES 242

THE PEACOCK LANTERN 246

CHILDREN OF PEACE 249

THE BANISHMENT OF MING AND MAI 265

THE STORY OF A LITTLE CHINESE SEABIRD 277

WHAT ABOUT THE CAT? 285

THE WILD MAN AND THE GENTLE BOY 288

THE GARMENTS OF THE FAIRIES 291

THE DREAMS THAT FAILED 294

GLAD YEN 296

THE DECEPTIVE MAT 297

THE HEART’S DESIRE 300

THE CANDY THAT IS NOT SWEET 303

THE INFERIOR MAN 308

THE MERRY BLIND-MAN 312

MISUNDERSTOOD 314

THE LITTLE FAT ONE 320

A CHINESE BOY-GIRL 323

PAT AND PAN 333

THE CROCODILE PAGODA 344

_ACKNOWLEDGMENT_

_I have to thank the Editors of The Independent, Out West, Hampton’s, The Century, Delineator, Ladies’ Home Journal, Designer, New Idea, Short Stories, Traveler, Good Housekeeping, Housekeeper, Gentlewoman, New York Evening Post, Holland’s, Little Folks, American Motherhood, New England, Youth’s Companion, Montreal Witness, Children’s, Overland, Sunset, and Westerner magazines, who were kind enough to care for my children when I sent them out into the world, for permitting the dear ones to return to me to be grouped together within this volume._

_SUI SIN FAR_

_Mrs. Spring Fragrance_