The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-07-11

famous pima cloth, having wide, short sleeves. This is worn loose, quite un- bound to the figure. Around 1t at the waist is girt a petticoat, called saya, made of silk, either striped or checked, but always of gay colors. Sometimes 1t is also of pima cloth, the quality of col bring frequently very beautiful and sometimes cheap and common. Out of doors another article of dress, tapi2 or shawl, is wrapped tightly around the Joins and waist above the saya, and generally it is black or dark blue with narrow white stripes. A profusion of bracelets and chains and earrings, all of beautifully worked gold or silver, usually contemplates the toilet Of Ia gal beauty, The more opulent possess valuable jewels, and are seen with necklaces and bracelets of diamonds and pearls.
 'The greatest manufacturing indus try in the Philippines is cigar making at Binando. The industry has been monopolized by the Spanish and severe penalties are imposed upon any one who encroaches upon the monopoly. It yields great revenues to the govern ment. Two brothers of General Wey- Ter were in the tobacco business at Bi- nando for 8 few years and they went back to Madrid to live like princes. Tobacco grows everywhere in the is- lands. On Samar some of the finest wrapper leaf tobacco in the world is grown. One field there covers seven thousand acres, At Binando nearly thirty-five thousand men, women and boys are employed in the cigar and to- bacco shops. Under one roof and on one floor are two thousand workers. Their pay averages about fifteen cents a day. They leave the shops at sun down in droves A good share of them go for a swim in Manila bay before go- ing home to eat. All the people in the Philippines love the water. Many times I have glanced along the water front at Binando at early evening and have seen hundreds, yes, thousands, of the tobacco factory employees, men and women, old and young, married and single, laughing shouting, plunging and rolling about in the surf with no more clothing than when they were born.
 q have never seen Manila man smoking in church. It's about the only place where he does not smoke. He smokes in the street cars, he smokes at the public dining table he smokes eve- rywhere. The presence of women IS not considered at all. When coffee is brought on the table the Spaniard ol Filipino lights his cigar or cigarette and begins to send up clouds of smoke never even thinks of saying to the la dies, By your leave for the custom ot the country is to smoke everywhere. Ii he is not smoking, his neighbor will of fer him a cigarette. The driver of your coach will smoke and very likely offer you a cheroot. At the opera the men will walk and smoke between the acts in the spaces behind the boxes and bal comics. You will see finely dressed seemingly well-bred men with ladies ir full evening dress entering the theatre and smoking as they go. In the priva- cy of their home men and women smoke from the same box of cigars or cigarettes. You never see a pipe ir Manila It is the country of the cigar and the cigarette. One of the odd SllLo lp tb oti diie,S iS tiiehN SNlIOlN'SN "a a balcony in front of an aristocratic residence, filled with fashlonably gowned Spanish women, the mother and her daughters and nieces, all smok- | ing cigarillos or small cigars.
 Some of the Spanish managers oi big cigar factories have plantations oi their own and options on the product oi other plantations famed for the quality of their leaf One cannot get a very ! pleasant impression from a visit to Q 1 cigar factory. In the large factories | the plumbing and sanitary arrange ments are unusually bad, and the | buildings are filled with bad odors which mingling with that of the tobac- co, have anything but a pleasant effect | Two or three hundred men will be al l work in poorly ventilated room that does not afford proper breathing space 1 for more than a hundred Neatness and cleanliness are not conspicuous | characteristics, either of the men al
 work rolling the cigars or of the hun. 1 dreds of girls and children stripping tho l tobacco. If one wants to enjoy a Ma. nila cigar after visiting one of the fac.
 tories he will have to obliterate tht
 memory of the visit from his mind 1 New York Sun.