The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-13

Filipinos, by the way, are the old fam
lies of the Philippine Islands. All the
people of Cavite and Manila, of Luzon
and the other prosperous places in the
Philippines pride themselves on being
old Fflipinos- But they are not rebels.
They look upon Aguinaldo and his
army as a low, IebelliOuS crowd, quite
like the rioting bands which have some
times in the history of the country
swept through our streets. The best
people are FilipinOS; but they bow to
the inevitable and now recognize the
authority of the Americans in the Phil
ippines.
The Filipfnos have lived in the islands
so many years that they do not-as we
do here-take the trouble to relate their
ancestry. They are as old as the Chi
nese nation, and back of that no one
cares to go. But in the course of so
many years living in the islands so near
to China and Japan, there have been
many intermarriages; so that the Phil
ippine women of to-day are partly Jap
anese. They are in color little darker
than the pure japanese, yet not as dark
the bushmen of the Philippines of
whom Aguinaldo's troops are mostly
composed. They are of varying shades
of HShtness, that you can picture
Admiral Dewey surrounded by half
dozen girls, all very pretty, and vary
ing in color from dark brown to
pale coffee.
The old Philippine families reject all
the newer Spanish families, and a Phil
ippine woman would think herself very
much lowered in station were she to
associate with the pure SpaniardS- This
is doubtless on account of prejudice;
but the FilipinoS say that it is a matter
of birth. The best families have the
almond eyes, slightly oblique-l1ke the
Japanese-the high cheek bones, and
the very engaging cast of countenance
peculiar to the japanese. ----
If Admiral Dewey had ''gir1' in the
Philippines you may be sure that she
had a silk dress; for silk is the cheapest
-;,,l hI1X in q c
is brought in great quantities from
China and Japan, and there is also
native fabric made from the pure silk
All the ladies in society wear silk
dresses all the time; and their under
clothing is of silk. An engaging feature
of their dress is its brilliancy, for they
are particularly fond of bright stripes
and gay plaids. Yet they dress in ex-
uuisite taste and many an American
has fallen in love with the skirts of a
Philippine woman.
The ladies of the Philippines drive a
great deal, and Admiral Dewey has
been often asked to take a seat in their
carriage. Instead of the horse they use
the buffalo; but there are many horses
in the Philippines and the weather
people drive them. The heavier work
is done by the buffaIoes, which take
the place of our oxen; and unless a
woman is very poor and countryfed
she will not drive a buffalo through
the streets of Manila
AFTERNOON DRIVES.
The ladies of Manila eat just as Eu-
ropeans do, only a little better. Fruit
is better and they have more of it, and
turkeys are raised in the Philippines
in great droves as we cannot hope to
have them here. A Philippine lady is
served with her cup of chocolate in her
bed at seven in the morning, and after
a leisurely toilette she breakfasts at
ten drinking chocolate again, for choco-
late is the principal drink there. 1t
grows plentifuIIy there and is the
cheapest and most nourishing drink of
the islands The ladies of Manila dine
about three O'Clock, which is a very
fashionable hour, for only the laboring