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...Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
...Self-Addressed Envelope. Crestfallen George Morgan returned to the U.S. But in a year he was back, pleading again for 0-Yuki's hand. Once more she refused, and once more George left Japan, leaving behind this time a self-addressed envelope in case O-Yuki should change her mind. Then, without notice, 0-Yuki's law student quit school to marry a rich man's daughter; O-Yuki promptly mailed the envelope. Within 20 days, which was very good time in 1903, George was at her side...
...bought O-Yuki from the teahouse for 40,000 yen (then $20,000), settled an allowance of 150 yen a month on her parents, and sailed off with his new bride to the U.S. "Friends of the family," reported the New York Times later, "said that [George's father] disapproved the union." Whatever the reason, the newlyweds cut short their visit to Newport, and after a brief spell in New York, divided their lives between Yokohama and Europe's capitals. Twelve years later, in 1915, George Morgan dropped dead in Seville, leaving his widow an estimated...
...Morgan spent most of the next 23 years on the Riviera. When she returned to her native Japan in 1938, the nationalist press greeted her return with scorn. "Mme. Yuki," one paper snorted, "the Japanese who doesn't speak Japanese." Last week, however, all Japan was mooning over the tale of the little geisha who years ago had first snubbed and then snared the rich American. 0-Yuki's story had run an unprecedented 260 installments in three newspapers. The text was supported by pictorial tearjerkers, such as George and O-Yuki sleeping on Japanese-style mats...
...Happy Ending. O-Yuki herself refused to read it. Silver-haired and unwrinkled at 66, she was living in retirement at Kyoto. She has steadfastly refused to see the book's author or to give him any information. But, outside of a few invented romantic incidents, 60-year-old Novelist Mikihiko Nagata is pretty confident of his accuracy. In any case, he says, 0-Yuki's is a truly beautiful love story "because, unlike Madame Butterfly, the ending is not tragic...