The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-12-08
Is Good i'm business and Practical
management and Il a Lender in
Many Ways. .
HER HUSBAND DEFERs TO HER
Is NOT PERSONALLY ATTRACTIVE
AND REMAINS IN BACKGROUND. !.
Americans Are Just Coming 90 Real
ire the Necessity Of Gaining
Her Good Will.

Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal
MANILA, Oct. 5.-The sooner A new-
conner can establish q native alliance to
help through his undertakings. the less
costly will be his mistakes; and he may
rely upon il that when he hires the man
Of the family. his interests. il faithfully
served at all. viii be guarded by the wom+
an. The average male Filipino never quite
knows his mind. and either talks around a
subject or asks delay 20 consider il. This
means that he wants time % consult SCI
nora, and by her dictum he abides. IL is the
way in almost everything. Woman rules
from the cradle mp. What the rising gener-
alton will be depends mainly upon the win
of the wives and mothers. Those who win
the hearts Of the people must get on theis
side the woman. Even government is MOB
exempt from this unwritten law O. the
islands.
Possibly because newcomers do not find
themselves attracted to the women. il has
taken some time TO understand the situar
ton. The few who have other endowment5
OF mind than those conferred by nature
constitute so small percentage as scarcely
TO be worth counting. 4 promoter OF 4
beauty contest would look far 10 ill his
lists here. But long before RizaIs widow
put a rifle to her shoulder in Cavite prov
ince. the influence OF women had worked
for Instruction. They had been the suffer-
ers from Spanish oppression, the victims %
friar lust. and their homes had been brok..
en-. Deportations had sent men away. ana
executions killed them; but the women who
had to stay behind. TO remain at home.
who could not escape the environment
n a -
were powerless 10 resist the indignities
piled upon them. had the worst Of IT, Whea
outbreak came, it found them ready ana
eager to do their part. If they could not
take the field, they could harbor their men.
could keep them posted about the enemy.
could maintain their families while the
men fought. could receive and hide contra
band goods. and they had stores always -
spare, so that no insurgent need be turned
hungry from a native house. Communities
disregarded their own comforts, that those
in the field might be kept TT for works.
Spain survived so short a time that this
experience did not fully ripen until il wsy
directed against American troops. In ths
guerilla operations TO which the natives
resorted. il proved Of infinite service. This
women took care of the guns. They scooped
ntAlVNE AWl HfA III AiN kAAfEf VI AWAkA0 -
the jungle. The pacific policy which FOR
babe return attack by the soldiers unless
they could find men with arms. played per-
fectly into native hands. FOR the man coulh
fire a gun and drop it. and become a guiiel
less amigo i'm an instant. while the woman
could get it out OF the way and go about
her household or other tasks as innocently
as if she had never thought Of anything
less exemplary.
READY TO MAKE FRIENDS.
All that is nearly over. and il may be that
persuasion by the women had scarcely less
to do with making an END TO IL than any
other factor. They are above all things
practical. II convinced that the grievances
that impelled revolt no longer existed. that
the present enemy had no designs upon the
social happiness Of the people. that house
holds would be protected. husbands PEP
mitted TO hold and express political opiA-
ions freely. and all the children given as
good a chance as the most favored in money
possessions. it would be quite like them TO
call off the fight. and the call would be
obeyed. That may well have happened. All
observations report that women are taking
the lead in exhibitions OF good will toward
Americans. High social station imposes
upon them. a. il by arrangement. attend
ance at public meetings, where they may
properly go. and they seek occasion 10 pre-
pare for American benefit receptions and
banquets and similar expressions Of social
oordiality. a disposition as kindly is shown
by those in humber walks. by the adorl,-
ment OF their houses and u themselves on
gala days. and by entering with the utmost
heartiness into every proceeding in which
sincere good will may be manifested. They
are going fully half way toward making
friends.
Nothing Of the kin would have been pot-
sible at the beginning Of the present year.
The impulse behind Il Is new and yig0rous.
The civil commission In its visits amoTig
the islands had marked illustration 81 this
tendency. One Of the most noticeable feA-
lures was that i'm places where faction feel
ing ran highest. the women turned out In
large number at public meetings. although
at receptions many present at such meet
ings absented themselves. This meant that
all wished TO signify good will toward tie
visitors. but that political differences alb
piled TO social relations as well. All far
tions were friendly 10 authority, and WISHED
TO appear. but no woman and no woman-s
man could think OF accepting hospitality an
the house Of one Of an opposing faction.
That is the way the rule OF woman works
in the Philippines. It's clear sincerity IN
drawing sharp the line OF faction may per
haps argue a similar quality OF feeling IN
the universal attitude Of friendlincss To-
ward Americans.
IL one looks for the woman wherever na-
tive business may prosper. search will rare-
ly be availing. She guides the management
of most OF the big plantations. and has a.
ways done so. When impulse prompts hhr
10 let the man handle the money. there Is
usually danger. Nearly every story OF hx
mortgages is traceable 90 that indulgence.
In a good year the average native planter
acts as IL ne had no doubt that every year
would be as profitable. SO he buys a box
OF jewelry for his wife. and before tae
glamor OF the gift has left her eyes. eS-
penditures and engagements have ABSORBED
so much Of the remaining returns that
planting for the ensuing crop cannot pro-
coed without advances. The soil is 50 lavish
in its favors that crops unhindered in their
growth yield enough 10 provide a surplus