Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-04

his bare skin This training of the feet
as an additional pair Of hands begins at
babyh BOD. Many Of the Filipino houses
have ladders for steps and the baby who
cannot hold on with its toes has many
falls.
shoes of the Philippines.
Speaking Of feet, those of the Filipinos
are small and well formed. TIL women
have high insteps and slender ankles, and
as a rule feel no delicacy about showing
them. But few stockings are worn. l
venture that the Washington girls alone
wear more stockings than are used among
the 5000, 900 of our Filipinos. Even the
ladies use them only at churches and par
ties, and some of the fairest and SWEETEST
Of the Filipinos dance with their bare feet
thrust into sandals. II in the whirl OF the
waltz the fair dame, Cinderella-like, hap
pens to cast a shoe, she dances on with
one foot ba.e until she comes near the
lost shoe. when she picks it up with an
enhancing twist Of the ankle without stop
ping the dance.
The shoes worn by the Fillpinos are
usually heelless. The better class woman's
shoe is a bright colored velvet embroidered
with gold, it is often elaborate and very ex-
DtlSlNts Al ~ w ~
up on poles rather than laid away in boxes
and the shoe merchant hooks them down
with a long stick for his customers.
The shoes If the lower classes are half
wood Every market has its shoe bazaar
and the one in Manila consists OF low
tables covered with shoes. The dealer, who
Is Invariably a woman, squats on the table,
with her goods about her and gossips as
she sells. All the shoes have wooden soles
with uppers OF white or dark leather. There
Is nothing to hold the heel at the back, and
il hobs up and down as its wearer clatters
over the streets. The shoes for children
are about the SAM as those for grown-ups
and the prices are correspondingly less. A
lO-year-old boy can be shod for 10 cents.
and as he wears shoes only on Sunday
it is easy to keep him supplied.
stove stores of Manila.
| wish | could show you a Filipino COOK
ing stove. There are many stores IN
Manila which sell kitchen furniture, ana
which nevertheless have not a bit OF iron
in them. The stoves and all the pots, pans
and kettles are made of red clay. They
are merely clay bowls with little KNOBS
on them TO hold up the pots on the char
coal fire within. The average stove Is
about fourteen inches in diameter and eight
lnGnth utNpt anu AN O ~ 80
cents. The cooking bowls are equally
cheap, as fourd oy asking a stove mer'
chant the prices. As we talked | per
suaded him to lift up one of his stoves
) and hold it out in the sun while l pho
tographed It. He did so. bending over anC
? reaching the stove out toward me while
pressed the button.
II Is on such stoves that the meals Of thu
I Filipinos are cooked. The natives do no
I like our stoves, and one which was imported
. by the wife Of an army officer had to b.
% thrown aside because the servant woult
y not use II.
5 A separate stove is used for every dish
e some families having a dozen going at ever
y big dinner.
4 TIT fuel Is usually charcoal or littl
d sticks OF wood. such as we use for kindline
g The wood is sold in bundles so small tina
g an average 1O-year-old boy could carry
a dozen OF them in his arms at one time.
10 scenes About the Markets.
v spent much time about the markets
- Manila, now and then eating my breakfa'
q at a market cook shop. There are man
Il little stands there where rice, fish and 9TH
is foods are offered for sale. Everything
y cold in small quantities, and 5 cents wi
buy you what the Filipino considers a goo
ID meal. l remember one cook stand on II
so porch OF the market house in Manila, II
lie cook was a black-haired, brown-skinr'
ed woman. bare footed and bare headed. 81
On chewed vigorously at a quid OF betelnut