Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-17

market shows signs of betel juice on her
teeth and her lips, and we are told that
The custom is common among the lower
classes throughout Luzon. The habit may
come from the Malays, who entered the
island centuries ago and internarried with
the aborigines. forming the race of Filipi-
nos as We know them Among the Malays
about Singapore and in farther India every
one chews the betel, the Burmese having
a saying that ANY dog can have white
teeth, but only those who are able to af-
ford the betei nut can have beautiful black
ones"
Prices of Food.
Here Is woman selling eggs, and fur
Their on is a man with chickens and ducks
On asking the prices we are told they have
doubled and trebled since the Americans
came. We find that chickens range in
value from 80 cents to s.. 20 each, and that
eggs are % cents per dozen. All the prices
are given in silver, and they must be di-
Elded by two to reduce them to gold Ra-~
nanas cost 10 cents silver per dozen; cocoa-
nuts are . cents apiece and beef is s0:cents
per pound In parts of Luzon the finest
KIND of cattle can be raised 1 am told
there are vast regions covered with pasture
IN the northern part of the island, and that
our horses which are there in charge of
the soldiers grow fat upon It, Still beef
costs more than twice as much in this Ma
Mia market as it does in Washington CITY
ana pork sells for 40 cents. Mexican.
1hey Are Pork Eaters,
Pork is the chief meat of the people
Every family out in the country has its
pigs. They are the scavengers, the yul-
lures, the buzzards of the country, In
some of the camps the soldiers have
been forbidden to eat native pork, and no
soldier who has any respect for his stom-
ach would think of disobeying this rule
me natives, however, use this meat in all
sorts OF ways. favorite method of cook
ing ing II pc beiag roasting pig whole on spit
over the hre. The spit is pole, which is
thrust iengthwfse through the pig the ami
MAJ peing turned round and round in order
that it may be evenly cooked
A curious part of the market Is that in
which many Chinese sell vegetables. The
Chlnos, as the Chinese are called are the
cnlet vegetable gardeners Of Manila They
also sell most of the vegetables in the
markets, many of them importing cabbag es
ana potatoes from Hong Kong Cabbapes
are sold in whole heads, halves or quarters
70 oruer; Ihey are exceedingly high. a fine
heda Drsnging as much as 30 cents in sill
yer. Potatoes are worth cents pound:
young onions, cents a bundle and non,
pers cents a dozen. Egg plants sell for
> cents dozen, tomatoes for 107ceuts and
sweet potatoes bring cents a pound
lhere Is no paper used for Wrappine I'm
Things in the market and no string, al
though this is a land of rope. Now and
then the purchases are put in a banana
leai or more often into baskets or in trays
such things as are tied are bound up with
wisps of grass or a thin strip of bamboo.
All heaVy loads are carried home on the
head. ga "
Queer Market Scenes,
What noise there is all about us as we
go through the market. Women and mon
are yelling and screening at one another
their offers to buy and refusafs to sell
They protest and protest until the MIR.
chase is made, when they stop and. like
bat Ipyjt1
The crowd is a strange one one which Won
VIII not see outside of the Philippine
ISLANDS, There are men and women wear
ing all sorts of hats. Women with hats Of
straw as big as umbrellas and hundreds
OF women with no hats at all. There are
scores of girls with. their long, black hair
ifying loose in the breeze. In most cases
1t is thick and glossy and It often reaches
to below. their waists. There are men, wo-
men and children in slippers crowds in their
bare feet, and hundreds trotting about upon
clogs. There are Chinese in curious cos
tunes, from the half-naked cooIie to the
rich merchant in silk
What kaleidoscope of colors rattles its
changes before our eyes. There are reds
blacks and browns. pinkS, greens and vel
lows moving in and out through the white,
which is the most common dress of the peo-
pie. What a lot OF queer women there are
and what queer. things they are doing
mere comes one with a cigar in her mouth.
and there IS. another who is chewing the
betel. There are women eating at the cook
STANDS. women bearing great burdens on
their heads. women peddIing, women buy
ing, women selling, women with babies
astride of their hips, old women souattinp
and smoking. young women going along
hand in hand, women everywhere
A Middle-Class Filipino Home.
During my walks through Manila have
entered many of the homes Of the common
people that might tell You how they live.
They are satisfied with living, and unless
they materially change they win never be-
great consumers of American goods There
What Do the Children Drink?