Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-23
THE WOMEN OF MANILA.

HE WUMEN UT MANILA. MANY OF THEM ARE VERY HAND
 SOME AND INTELLIGENT.
 They Arc Experts at the Sewing Machine
 and In Making Toys-They Dress Prettily.
 but Do Not Lace-Many Superior Brass
 Bands in AIapila.
 studies in this part of the world is the native and the development of his racial features. Those who are given to the study of physiognomy are impressed at once with the intellectual superiority of the female native over the male. She shows it plainly in her face and manner, and when she speaks it is even more un- mistakably apparent. AS & rule the na- tive women are modest, industrious, anx- ious to acquire a knowledge of lan- guages, and make most excellent house servants. They are very expert with the needle and learn music with scarcely an effort; in fact the whole race is natu- rally musical, and there are probably more really excellent brass bands in Manila than in any other city of its size on the face of the earth. Nearly every district has its brass band, and each reg iment of soldiers has one that would do credit to any country. That attached to the artillery regiment received the first prize at the last Paris exposition, and several cities in the orient have bands of natives of the Philippines who fur cl, l.1 lcl
 EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
 Some years ago sewing machines were introduced here and the native women very soon learned to run them as easily as any white woman. Now no well regulated household is completely equipped without sewing machine and 1 a native woman to run 1t. An excellent 1 seamstress can be had for twenty cents a day, and nearly every European family has one the year round. Of course, they lose quite a number of days, as the church | feasts are numerous and they are most | devout in their religious duties; they | never work when there Is a chance to go to church, so that, taking 1t altogether, they probably are paid for less than two thirds of tho year.
 They live in their own homes-ittle nipa huts, with one or two rooms-and are in the houses of their employers from about 8 a. m. to 5:30 or p. ID. Large numbers of the native women work in 1 the tobacco factories and other manu. 1 featuring establishments about the city, while many of them occupy themselves at home, making toys, fancy articles and embroidery for the shops. Some of theil toys are very curious and give evidence | of wonderful .dexterity and delicacy oi
 touch, and are quite as valuable as curios as those of tho Chinese or Japanese. Full
 sets of dolls furniture, ships, houses, na tive canoes, carriages, etc., are repro
 duced in miniature with great expert
 ness and are sold at very low prices. STREETS FULL OF BEAUTIES.
 The natives are branch of the Malay
 race, and none arc much darker than {
 very dark brown. They have some O.
 the characteristics of the American In
 dian, among which are the high cheel | bones, which, however, are not as a rul,
 prominent in the female face. A nativ,
 belle has a bright, expressive face, sof
 black eyes full of animation, and
 mouth that would be beautiful but for
 suggestion of sensuality. Yet she i
 modest and drops her eyes bashfully 1,
 the presence of strangers, but has for he
 intimate friends a smile fascinating il
 the extreme. And there are many sucl
 faces among the natives; one can Sc
 them at almost any hour of the day ol
 the streets selling goods of various kinds returning to or from their places of em
 ployment or peeping coyly out of tn
 one window of nipa hut. These girl are never tall nor awkward, but thei forms are just as nature made them, fo they are not distorted and deformed b the fashionable dress appliances of civil ized life. They are ignorant of the way of the western world, are guileless an confding, and it is not strange, consider } ing the class of foreigners who usuall come to this far of place, that the Er rasian, or half cast element, is constantl growing. &
 What would be called Eurasians i ,, other parts of the east are called Mestize
 or Mestizas; that is, the offspring ( 3 white fathers and native mothers. = fair type of the Spanish Mestiza dres 3 which is peculiar to this class, consis, of long skirt of heavy silk and wal!
 and neckkerchief made of the fbers (
 the pineapple plant and embroidere
 with white silk linen or cotton. Tn
 costume is calculated to greatly enhane the attractiveness of the face and necl and therefore the Mestizas as class ha, !, Q reputation for beauty which they pro
 ably would not have if they wore Eur F pean attire. Some of the skirts are bea, g tifully painted and embroidered and co | fabulous sums, for there are many ve, l. wealthy people among the Mestizo clas
 who, although they could not be we d comed in the best society, form an ari
 tocracy of their own, which is very e: 5 clusive.-Manila Letter in St. Louis R public.
 F A Shrewd Advertiser.
 . Two men met on a down town corne One asked the other to accompany hi
 to lunch. The invitation was cordial o accepted They started along the stree