The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-06-29

ing In front IN puttins III ene
small sticks o md the inclosing
..unnsr,, the ri ,h rests single
big pot or ket ki'cneh Nns.
were sin stove eacn coutso anu
tbair cost beir cents apiece. 1t
was simple keep half a dozen |
snare ranges o the bread closet.
AMI sneakln no Manila cook
aver made his but always went
across the sire little. ttehua anu
bought from tn an what was neeo
ed for the houI he quality Of bread
being upcertai1 as in general favor
With the forei hts, and was 10 be
found nm ever every meal. Ice
was cheap and and for the small
ann NJ 81 ne the wagon would
leave a pigce ten pounds at your
gate every dan week.
Good seryan hila get eight to ten
Mexican dollar bnth, or four or five
in American head boy got So,
was married. hildren, and bought
all his own fod this modest stipend.
and / don't tn ole from me, though
he may have for somebody else
now and then sure, ne pssoush'
advances nm n to bury a sister or
brother AS he Id IT was not until ne
asked me tn burying the same
member of hi vice that l sd" tne
necessity of ng his family ant
checking off 81 were defunct'
Although sd are cheap IL is hee
essary to haH OF tneni' 81 'h"'
certain given hall be awake whei
wanted. IL is easier to get up fror
ona,s chair Hell on the center tabl
and let a had to fetch you a boo
from the ms la than it Is to ste
across the + III yourself. In fact.
nave even knI young foreigner, who's
heard was ngier than schoolboy
to take with i barber to keep his fat
nlean shavenkg some provincial tri
Ones washIll in Manila is absurd
chean and fo month as many cloths
can he throvB the family hampers
one cares to hTwo full suits of CLOTH
a day for tt1iays, makes an item
No MEAN dinNhs. and yet the laundr
MN t,,rps ,8h week with his bask
mi and naE satisfied with his 7
,,,,raration A. too. he washes we
ana althougfen YOU see him standi
knee deen He river whanging yo
trousers froIr his shoulder down on
n fiat stone Rear for the same and b'
tons nothinkr appears to su11er.
though he III a small bonfire In Dri
flatron, thpks Ike "a.ia,n aa,, "
blazing as H-the result 10 y,
ana scorcbesots are conspicuous o
by their abst
One more hiar institution in the n
ippines is tlHgulation bed. And TO
newly arriv,Aayeler it's peculiar rig
constructionA,e it command good d
OF interest, Dot respect. II 10 " !.
poster wlthAe posts eStehuihs
enough to sbrt light roof. from WI
caves hang Bous folos Vi oAe"p 49,
bed frame Strung tishus ~
regular chsbottom cane anu the
other fittinEare a piece OF straw L
ting spreadter the cane, n,,ing
surroundinghll oil mosqui'o ~ ~,
drops downtom the rooi az"
in under thhatting. How to get mo
of these cos is the first question
presents its TO the new arrival anu
to do with urself after you have gov "
the second II took me half an hou
make I'D mmnd as to the proper iiio'
entrance ven I was, for the first
alone with Philippine bed, ana ! coa
make ont vether you got in through
roof or thebottom or the sides.
finally pulng away the netting
the hard cae bottom about as SOFT a
teak floor, md looked in vain ior pi al
sheets andmattresses. In fact' III 81
as II | hadgot into an unfurhisheu II
and the nee I thought about II me
I STAYED awake. At last l cut my wa
of the peculiar arrangement, dressed
spent the night in long cane chalr
ferring not to experiment iuItnel -,
the sleeping machine until iouhd ou
Z worked. ATf> Z, ~
Later on I joined the Fanks of tho.
think none is so comfortable 70
weather as hard Manila bed, with
ing but it's pillows and its piece OF
mating, and for nights after leavil
islands l failed to appreciate the ret
soft mattresses and woven springs
fact, such Is the change of life all
after sailing away from Luzon, tn
days and weeks one longs for the p,
conditions that make life easy in Its
tal.-Joseph Earle Stevens in New