The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-29

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an ellipse-and about feet long, the
loads being carried in baskets one at
each end They trOt along with a
curious little swinging trot, that
Cinnamon, women, children and all
take in this country when they are car
rying anything. The Filipenas look
more like ordinary white people than
do Cinnamon, or laps, or Negroes, OF
any dark race | ever saw. Their noses
are somewhat fiat between the eyes and
they have wide nOStrilS. The men all
wear their shirts outside their trouS-
erS-that's to keep cool. Few wear any
shoes, in fact nearly the whole people,
women and all, go barefoot. The men
wear usually a straw hat, white
blouse. or coat, or shirt, and trousers
that come a little way below the knees
and they look clean. The Cinnamon
dress about the same way, only they
wear their own dish-shaped hats and
get things made up in a style peculiar
ly Chinese. So here's your ordinary
Filipino man. None of them seem to
wear boards. They are quite an intel
ligent people, they. have pleasant
sounding language, made zip in part
of their old tongue and Chinese and
Spanish, nearly all talk Spanish, that is
those around here. They have their
own books. When General Merritt is
sued a proclamation the other Gay, he
put it in three languages, Spanish, FIJI
ipenO and English. he might have adj
ded Chinese, Dutch and three Or four
others and caught numbers of s.: Their
people. They work at all sorts of trades,
are watchmakcrs, jewelers., machinis:s,
etc, as we'll as farmers. They are a
bright people and if they had not been
kept down for 800 years by the Spanish
would have done as much, almost, in
the way of progress as the Japanese.
But the Spanish will tax them to -lealh,
deprive them of schools and do every
thing they can to prevent their pro-
gress, fearing they will uprise and win
their freedom. How blessed is it to
live in a free country
PETITE LITTLE WOMEN.
The women of the Filipenos. They
are petite little things, most of them,
round and plump. They wear cleaner
clothes than any people l ever saw.
They are always washing They take
baths every day. When we were down
in camp they would battle right before
the soldiers and now you can go down
to the waters edge and see them here
and there taking their daily ablution.
Don't get shocked, they don't battle
just exactly as we do. They keep some
Of their clothes on. They take a big
piece of cloth ami pin it around their
bodies close up under their arms, ard
then they pour water on each others
heads and shoulders, and on the cloth
and then they go in their houses and
finish their baths. They bring Soiled
clothing out to the waters edge and dip
it in the water and then beat it with a
stick and put it in a bowl and rub it
with soap and beat it some more. And
their fiat irons are like tailors, they
have fire in them. They wash very well
though. None of them seem to have
stoves. They cook over little fires, their
rice or fish, or pork or whatever simple
meal they have
The women all have dark eyes. and
some have very beautiful eyes, and
skin like a SIS gold piece. They are
cheerful and go along the streets
laughing and chattering in their must
cal language. In the morning troops
of them pass my window-old women,
younger ones and little girls-trotting
along with loads Of fruit and vege-
tables going to market, and these
loads are on their heads. They carry
everything on their heads and the re-
suit is they are the straightest people
ever saw, men and women alike
splendid chests. They carry things on
their heads so much that when they
very peculiar but graceful style with
the head straight, but still, and sway
ing the middle parts Of their bodies
in great shape. The women wear, as
outer clothing, a kind of loose waist,
made of gauzy stuff, low neck and
flowing sleeves; below that they have a
skirt and over the skirt a square piece
of dark cloth, tucked the top of the
skirt whirled all around once, and
n q N Of f1aa ~Iv i,.f
again. The legs are generally visible
at the knees. They WSav no stock
ings, and generally no shoes-if they
latter, they are of wood. with 4 little
piece of cloth to put the toes in No
hats or bonnets. Hart Well. | should
say so. Black hair, which they seem
to take the best care in the world Of
it shines and shines, and is done up in
the neatest possible style. Sometimes
it is left hanging, though like a girl /
saw yesterday, whose hair reached ac-
tually to her heels.
THEY ALL SMOKE.
And now I am going to tell you the
fact that will astonish you beyond any
thing have told you. The women and
girls all smoke cigarettes and cigars.
Every woman who goes by my window,
almost without exception, and little
girls, no larger than Ret, or even that
little runaway, Pove, go by smoking a
cigarette, and occasionally a cigar. A
couple of young girls just stopped out
on the street-one to get a light from
the others cigarette. This is a great
tobacco country-cigars and cigarettes
are wonderfully cheap
I do not know when l shall go home.
We see no signs of it yet, and yet it
cannot last long, surely. How would
Christmas do?
Outside are hundred Cinnamon.
along a lot of beds we cap
tured from the Spanish, taking them
over to the hospital.
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