Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-11-26
From Manila.
ONE SIDE.


Nobody talks snow and snow storms
at Manila.
Overcoats and Arctic overshoes will
not be worn this winter on the Philip
pines.
Fur wraps and muffs are back num-
bers In the fashion magazine OF the |
fall aud winter
| Church societies dealing In ice cream |
would have a genuine Kiondike while |
American soldiers occupy the city.
Ice cold lemonade would make Amer
lean soldiers line up and touch elbows
to the right as quickly as bugle call
for battle.
No sleigh bells are offered for sale,
and no bob sleds are being taken to the
country.
The daily papers and bulletin boards
present no advertisements for ice-cut-
: ters this season.
The railroad company will build no
new snow fences and snow sheds this
winter.
Nobody is advertising for winter coal
and kiudliug wood before the new
year.
The snow shoveler has no occupation
. in the Philippines.
a Buffalo robes are as invaluable at
e Manila "a linen busters at Blackfoot
/. on the 22nd OF February.
G Snow shoes are as worthless here as
9 q bicycle TO an Indian squaw.
:, Skating is az much an unknown &C
!. complishment here as tanning monkeys
e is to the average Idaho rancher.
y A soldier say the world is an average
u While 1t is hot here 1t is cold some
p where else. What is known here Ii
'e not known In another part of the bal
- terrestrial, and what Is being done here
is not done in another place.
!, THE OTHER SIDE.
In Cotton trousers are the fashionabl,
N dress OF the average laboring man o
sc the Philippines, simply trousers moth
d. ing more.
he Boys entering their teens dress II
short shirts aud s.ippers. They are all
q. Housekeeping natives never ,worr,
nr about freezing canned goods. The
ng never have the goods.
d. Boiling clothes wash day is as foreig
," to the laundryman's s thoughts as chang
OF ing clothes is TO Bannock Indian. To
- much trouble.
=. Women prefer loose waists, Gu
. decollette and short skirts, no stocking
- and heelless slippers to tailor-mad
~ suits, never fading stockings and hig
ot bootees.
NO Weist, the popular jacket, cloak an
aa cape drummer of Chicago, would b
Tvs forced to eat rice with chop sticks wer
Ia he doing business in the Philippines.
in A Philippine boy might grow to
,as as old as Methuselah and would neve
have the pleasure OF "hooking on"
om the streets of Manila
,n- Snowballing would be as strange an
lily novel here as surf bathing the yes
'ed around would be to Blackfoot boy.
ne But with all these differences peop
me eat, sleep, live and die here as In oth'
.ar parts OF the world The Language"
me CRYING babies and the Language"
no. laughing adults is the same here as
the states of America. Dogs bark he
'ne as Indian dogs bark on reservation
ere only they bark longer and make Il
ieo the nights more hideous.
her
of The sun shines hotter in the Phil
pines than it does in Idaho, but its ra
are as merciful to the Idahoan as to t
SEQ, Filipinos. The moon and stars shi
,es- here but not as brightly as in our
18th away home, and the stars do not twini
900. so laughingly as they do to the dwellt
oon on the plains of Idaho.
as The Philippines would be dearer Il
pre- lover OF the tropics and tropical clim'
for than Idaho, but rs for me, give me
is- bright blue skies, the boundless ran
and plains, the sparkling water OF
An ~ mountain brooks, the pure bracing
i'm mosphere and the freedom. of thoug
linn word and action inspired by the brt
His expanse of the great west and you n
ii of nave all the isianos oi tue orien' i"s'
by the waves OF the calm and rag
seas.
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