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Dear father:
Before I finish this letter it will be time to
leave for Kimwha. Han moksa and I are taking the 3:50 train
this afternoon, and it is nearly two now. But I wanted to
get as much written as I could before leaving because it is
so much easier to write on the typewriter than by hand. My
handwriting seems to get harder and poorer all the time,
because I do so little of it. What writing I do is almost
always Korean and Chinese, and that is improving all the time.
J In my last letter I wrote about the wedding of
Han moksa* s son. They came back from Chemulpo "in.Tuesday.
All night the night before Mrs. Han stayed up and withlthe
help of a friend or two made different kinds of pastry for
the bride*s return. The reason there had to be a night of
work was that the things would hot be good after being set
aside manyfhours. %
Late in the morning of Tuesday the bride, her
mother and aunt, and Han Sang ChIk came in, bringing bowls
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of chestnut rice,   an enormous utensil  full of  candy   (a  solid
lump of Korean taffy);   and  they were  soon followed 'by men
carrying a  cabinet or two which  the bride's  father had bought
and bundles  of clothes and bedding.     The women were ushered
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into the inner room immediately.  First of ail Han molfsa and
his wife entered and knelt together opposite the new comers
and received the bride's bows, and then bowed to the mother
and aunt.  I took my turn with the bowing, and some of the
others who had come in did also.  Soon Korean spaghetti and
pastries came in and everyonefwho called that day to see the
bride was given a table.
The inne^ room was turned over to the new couple
and Han moksa came into my room and Mrs. Han went into the
daughters' room for the night.  They say it is custom for the
bride to stay quiet In her room#for three days before beginning
household duties, but the  began'sweeping and helping in the
kitchen the next day.  r"he family seems to like her very much.
She is very pleasant, but like all Korean women is silent before
men folks; so I cannot tell much about her.
k For"two for three days Han moksa and I went out to
Suchulli, and found it so restful we were loathe to return. We
Mrs. Han had to stay here until
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had our meals at Chung moksa
the bride can take over affairs. Most of our belongings have
been moved to Suchulli now. vesterday we
the night here.
came back, and spent
Today, according to cuutom, the bride was sent back
*o her family for a few days so she could see her parents and
give a report of the new home.  Araingilrs. Han with some friends
spent the nlgit last night making pastries to send with the bride
Just a. little while ago a taxi came and was loaded with a big
trav of pastries, a tray of unpreparel spaghetti, a tray of fruit
(apples, grapefruit, and bananas), several kinds of meat, and