The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-01
MRS. AGUINALDO.

How the Wife of the Fugitive Presi-
dent Looks and Acts.
The few Americans who have called
upon her in Gale San Jose have found
a goodlooking Filipino woman, of about
thirty years. clad in the graceful dress
of the islanders, and resembling thou
sands of her less prominent race sisters.
She Is better looking from the Filipino
standpoint than from ours; she Is
plump, pleasant faced, and. to her
country folks. distinctly attractive. She
will not talk Spanish with a foreigner;
II Is said she can speak this language.
but does not care to do so. To hold
converse with her it is necessary to en-
list the service of a Tagalog interpreter.
Today ia Sonora Presidente" has
the appearance of a woman who has
suffered. nor is the term of her unhap-
piness yet past. Her eyes. with their
expression of sadness and detection.
show her distress of mind. For this
there is due. cause. Her husband Is
probably a fugitive. hiding in the
mountains, and every day lessons his
chances of ultimate pardon at our
hands IL we capture him. He may be
ucdQs II he sun lives ne Is III QaDEeT
every minute of the day, wherever he
may be. / do not believe Mrs. Agui-
naldo herself knows where he is, nor
that she has heard from him since she
came to Manila. She is fully aware of
the dangers which surrounded him in
the Igorrote country when she left him
last Christmas. because IL was the un-
mistakable hostility of these same Igor
rotes that decided her to seek the pro-
lection of our lines. She lost her infant
daughter last November, and later her
three-year-old son died In Bacoor
The death of her son Is an established
fact, but for the present those who sur
round Mrs. Aguinaldo have deemed 1t
wise to withhold from her the confirm
alton of this news. She has heard that
Miguel died in Bacoor, but the asser-
lions of her friends to the contrary are
half convincing. so she broods on the
matter. wondering why the child Is not
brought from the country TO see her
In a couple of months the reason for
this present secrecy will have passed;
there will then have arrived a new
member Of the Aguinaldo family, and
the mothers attention will be diverted
from the children who have died
During the long weeks that Mrs.
Aguinaldo was under guard she could
receive no visitors; her mail was with
held, and only one member of her
household was allowed to go out to DO
the daily marketing. The provost mar
shall of Manila said to Mrs. AguinaIdo
that this was done In order to protect
her from annoyance or any possible un-
pleasant occurrence. But In spite OF
this precaution she never considered
such protection necessary; she has
many friends and relations I'm and
about Manila. and she has never been
apprehensive that they would annoy
her in any way.
Before the guards were removed from
their house the women were warned by
the provost marshal to be most careful
to observe strict neutrality i'm word
as well as in deed. They were partic-
ularly cautioned against talking with
correspondents of American newspa-
pers, and 1t was made plain to them
That their present liberty was depen-
dent upon a close observance of these
warnings. They are afraid the guards
may be sent back to thei. door any
day. and they are consequently most
careful to respect the provost marshal.s
admonitions at all times.
Il think you Americans are at times
very clumsy deceivers, said Mrs.
Aguinaldo lately. ct remember the
officer who accompanied as down from
Talubin to Vigan-after we lost our
horses we had to continue our tourney
carried In chairs by Igorrote porters.
whom We paid from our own pockets.
The first night after our horses disap-
peared this officer said he would write
letter to somebody somewhere and
see IL he could get them back.
Later he showed me the note. writ
ten on page Of his notebook, and
then sent 1t of by a native runner. The
next evening I saw him, again writing.
and soon he came around to show me
what he said was a note he had receiv-
ed In reply to his OF the night before.
and which explained that nothing had
been seen Of the missing animals. But
could see that the second note was in
the same handwriting and on similar
paper to the first; II was a clumsy piece
OF trickery that would not have de-
ceived a chiid."-Harper's Bazaar.