wedding-day-set-to-be

Updated: June 7, 2025

One of the officials or noblemen in Seoul had a daughter whom the go-between was preparing to marry off into a family of rank in another city. A few days before the wedding-day-set-to-be, some one came to the father of the bride and said: "Did you know that your prospective son-in-law has a hare-lip?"

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions