Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-06-23

he pours the kerosene in and through
| them, saturating them. Then he mount
them, setting bare foot upon each
and literally skates back and fortl
along the ards of the worm eater
| floor. As an amusement to the actor il
the scene it Is as good as roller skating
As an entertainment 10 the uninitiatet
spectator it is equal to the performanc,
of trained monkey.
The kerosene skating ended, tn.
masculine housemaid takes ridiculous
wisp of feather duster and slathers j
around over your furniture and thai
ends it. Your house is clean. The
broken mopboard and molding around
your room are so dusty and soiled thai
it makes you sick to look at them. but
no matter. The work is finished. There
is not bolt or lock in order in the
house most likely. Mending them is one
of the things that will be completed
"manana. 1t is pronounced man-ya-
ma, accent on the ''ya, and it means
tomorrow, Everything requiring exer
tion, from government reform tc
cleaning window, is going to be done
next day. This is the land of mananas.
Oh, fair land of tomorrowsl May
your coming tomorrow be thoroughly
American onel Then we shall see how
you will bloom out.
After o'clock in the afternoon the
Spanish ladies and gentlemen now left
here are seen at their best. The Luneta,
long, crescent road winding around a
central music stand, is the fashionable
driveway of Manila. When the band
begins to play. Spanish ladies and gen.
tlemen appear in their carriages, The
heat of the climate renders cleanliness
of skin and clothing necessary to COM
fort, and in this respect both natives
and Spaniards are irreproachable The
ladies are pleasant sight, driving
along the Luneta in their spotless white
robes, their pretty heads bare, their
pretty eyes sparkling with animation.
When at the going down of the sun the
tropical night suddenly pitches down
upon the earth. they drive home, some
of them to dwelling houses, in which
many prosperous and neat American
would hesitate TO stable his horses
The dooryards and grounds about the
houses in Manila are without doubt the
dirtiest | ever saw. In many of the
houses the first and simplest laws of
sanitation are defied. The lady of the
house lives up stairs and leaves every
thing to the half heather Tagalo serv-
ants. Apparently she never looks at the
grounds outside The waste paper,
garbage and rubbish of years is simply
thrown out of the windows. AT times
it is swept up into heaps in stray cor
ners and there allowed TO stay.
The lawns about the houses might be
made thing of beauty. They are
grown over with weeds and filled with
broken crockery and old cans. thought
it must be the result of the war, this
universal neglect and slovenliness,
mentioned it one day to an American
soldier. and he replied:
"Well, you ought to have just seen
the sights when our army first got in
here. The filth is nothing now to what
it was then. With this appalling
statement we quit the unpleasant
theme. The sanitary conditions of Daw-
son, in the heart of the Klondike, are
better than those of Manila.
When Magellan, the first white man
to set foot in the Philippine Islands,
landed in 1921, he found the natives
plowing up the soil with an outlandish
quadruped called carabao. In Eng
lish it is the water buffalo, so called
because at uncertain intervals it is
seized with a wild desire to rush into
the water and lie down, and at such
times all Tagalodom conld not stop it.
If it had a CARLOAD of little black
babies behind it, into the water and
under they would go too.
Well, to this day the carabao is the
beast of burden in town and country
in the Philippines. In all Manila and
the region roundabout the cnly truck
or express wagon is a clumsy carabao
cart driven by little Tagale or a
Chinaman. The Spaniards, who boast
grandiosely of their Christian civiliza-
tion in these islands. have actually TAX
en- so little interest in the natives that
they have not replaced the carabao even
with oxen, whose flesh is good for food,
saying nothing of the milk the COWS
would have given. Picture to your
self in the States town of 800, 900
inhabitants in which all the hauling