AOKI AND WIFE HAPPY IN THEIR RECONCILIATION
Japanese, American Spouse, Baby and Mrs. Emery on Way to Los Angeles After Spending Day in Oakland.
GIRL AND HER MOTHER VISIT SAN FRANCISCO
SAN FRANCISCO, Saturday, June 13. -- Reconciled and smiling, Gunjiro Aoki and his wife, who was Miss Helen Emery, arrived at the Oakland Mole this morning on the Reno express and left on the Owl in the afternoon for Los Angeles.
Mrs. Aoki smilingly acknowledged that matters had been adjusted amicably between her Japanese husband and herself, but she was discreetly ignorant as to their plans for the future.
"We shall not remain in San Francisco," she said; "we are just traveling. We certainly shall not stay in San Francisco."
Accompanying them were Mrs. Emery, Mrs. Aoki's mother, and their plump, happy, laughing little daughter, Frances Aoki, a Japanese baby quaintly Americanized.
When the train reached Oakland the Aoki party was the last to leave the Pullman. Aoki walked ahead, carrying the baby, and Mrs. Aoki and her mother, closely veiled, followed at a little distance. They entered the waiting room and let the boat depart without them.
Busy Selves With Baggage.
Mrs. Emery and Aoki busied themselves at once preparing their baggage and attempting to obtain a drawing room for the Owl without coming to this side of the bay. Mrs. Aoki sat and played with her tiny daughter.
Aoki has grown perceptibly thinner since he left here last year, and he has an anxious, haggard look. Mrs. Emery is likewise much more slender, her face is drawn and worn and her expression is one of acutest sorrow.
Mrs. Aoki, the slender, fair-haired girl who has aroused such interest by her defiance of things accepted, shows little sign of the trials of the past months, her face being more placid and stoical than that of her Oriental husband. But little excitement was occasioned by the Aokis, as the Japanese and his baby, so markedly of his race, separated themselves most of the time from the white women.
Women Go Shopping.
It was decided finally that Mrs. Emery and Mrs. Aoki should come to this side, but Aoki and the baby remained in Oakland. Mrs. Emery telephoned to friends here and made plans to join them in the morning. When they reached this city no one met them, and they went at once to the railroad offices in the Flood Building and purchased tickets for the south, after which they went on a tour of the shopping district before luncheon, returning to Oakland in the afternoon. Mrs. Emery is plainly the dominating influence of the party, making all arrangements and directing Aoki and his wife as to their movements and actions.
Aoki evinced the greatest tenderness for his baby, but beyond that there was little of conversation save of the most perfunctory and businesslike nature. When Mrs. Aoki was asked whether her husband would engage in business, she looked at him with a whimsically amused glace and said: "Really, I am sure I do not know."