Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-05-03
A FILIPINO MlLKMAN.

about showing them. But few stock
| ings are worn. | venture that the
Washington girls alone wear more
stockings than are used among the s.
900, 900 Of our Filipinos. Even the la
dies use them only at churches and
parties, and some OF the falrest and
SWEETEST Of the F'llipinos dance with
their hare feet thrust into sandals. II
In the whlrl OF the waltz the fair
dame, Cinderella like, happens to cast a
shoe, she dances on with one foot bare
until she comes near the lost shoe, when
she picks il up with an enhancing twist
OF the ankle without stopping the
dance.
The shoes worn by the Filipinos are
usually heelless The better class wo-
mans shoe Is bright colored velvet
embroidered with gold II Is often ella
borate and very expensive. In the stores
the shoes are hung up on poles rather
than laid away in boxes and the shoe
merchant hooks them down with long
stick for his customers.
The shoes of the lower classes are
half wood. Every market has its shoe
bazaar and the one in Ma
Mia consists Of low tables COW
cred with shoes The dealer who is in
yariably a woman squats on the table
with her goods about her and gossips as
she sells. All the shoes have wooden
s0les with uppers Of white or dark
leather. There is nothing to hold the
heel at the back, and II bobs up and
down as Its wearer clatters over the
streets. The shoes for children are
about the same as those for grown-ups
and the prices are correspondingly less.
A l0-year-old boy can be shod for 10
cents, and as he wears shoes only on
Sunday II is easy to keep him supplied.
THE STOVE STORES OF MANILA.
I wish could show you q Filipino
cooking stove. There are many stores
In Manila which sell kitchen furniture,
and which nevertheless have not 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 charcoal fire within.
The average stove II about II inches i'm
diameter and eight inches deep, and Il
can be bought foy % cents. The cook
Ing bowls are equally cheap, as | found
by asking stove merchant the prices.
As we talked persuaded him to lit uD
one OF his stoves and hold II out I'm tho
sun while | photographed 1t. He cid
80, bending over and reaching the stove
out toward me while pressed the but
ton.
II Is on such stoves that the meals OF |
the Fllipinos are cooked The natives
do not like our stoves, and one which |
was imported by the wife Of an army |
officer had to be thrown aside because |
the servant would not use Il.
separate stove IL used for every |
dish, some families having dozen go
Ing az every big dinner
The fuel is usually charcoal or little |
sticks Of wood such as we use for kin.
ding. The wood Is sold in bundles so |
small that an average l0-year-old how
could carry dozen Of them in his arms
NJ one time
SCENES ABOUT THE MARKETS.
spent much time about the markets
IN Manila, now and then eating nv
breakfast al market cook shop. There
are many little stands there where rice
Ilsh and other foods are offered for sale
Ia sold In small quantities
and cents win buy you what the FIJI.
lIno considers a good meal | remem.
Den one cook stand on the porch OF the
market house in Manila. The cook WAS
: plack-halred, broWn-sklnned woman
bare footed and bare headed Shs
'heWed vigorously AT a Quid Of betelnut
rs she worked, and her blood-colored
eelh ana gums shOne out when she
aughed she was cooking shrimp pat
les IN red clay basin OF boiling
'rease. She would mix some white
.piouls and rice -four together into
lough and Wrap II around a couple NJ
nCrlmps as big as your little finger
rms she would drop into the pan and
n u moment II would be cooked a llpht
lroWh ready 10 he ladled out with n
o''ahut clipper and served with men
'ei ana sauce hot 90 the customer. lust
'eSlue thls woman was another who
oiu chocolate squares wrapped IN in
.reen banana leaves. and beside her
.nl who peddled out yellow cocoanut
andy IN the same place | was offered
ausages about the size OF my little
niger for 2 cents apiece.
THEY HAVE GOOD FISH.
! am surprised that the books about
ne fllipinos make little mention OF tho
sh doubt whether there Is q country
u earth which Is 80 blessed In this
.ay Fish and rice form the chief diet
the people, and both are consumed In
asst Quantities The FISH are OF All
lzes. from little ones no bigger than a !
IN 70 some Weighing several hundred
ounds each. There are quantities Of
bite bait. bushels OF shrimps, oysters ,
nj crabs Of all sizes In every market {
ne fish peddlers and sellers are women. I
Though salt hsh are sometimes sold
y the Chinese. There is no danger Of /