The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-06-14

the money. or the mother '-arrangss"
the daughter for term OF years as New
Workers lease a fat or a house IN Japan
there IS some sort OF a native marriage
ceremony and sometimes also in the
Philippines. but the young girl is often
Indifferent 10 such fornality. When the
term for which the native wife was asked
expires she returns TO the home OF her
ancestors and makes ready for her resl
wedding day. the day when she becomes
the wife OF a native.
There is never no deception In these
contracts. The girl understands perfectly
well that when the ship sails her lover.
husband or guardian call him what you
viii. must sail with II, and she is often
content to lose him.
Viewed from the moral standard OF the
Occident, this scheme OF lie is afro
cious. barbaric. vile The Oriental sees
nothing but good in it. In some other
respects the morals at Toxic are centuries
ahead OF New York. Don't storm; &C
cept the fact.
1t would be rare sight TO sea a score
of beauties bathing on Broadway. and
the crowd would count 1900. Just as
pretty women and just as good women
battle everywhere and anywhere in Japan
in the same pool with their lovers. their
brothers and the men from miles around.
In some sections OF the country girls
go naked and no harm befaIls them The
nakedness. the tea gardens. the temper
airy marriages, the filial devotion and 9TH
er things strange TO US are all common
10 Oriental Japan, 70 China. TO the Philip
pines. and he who objects is considered
narrow and alightened. They do not un-
derstand US any better in Toxic than We
understand the Japanese in New York.
Kissing. one OF the sacred Institutions.
IS regarded and described as dirty.
senseless and vulgar in the japanese
commentaries
= japanese gentleman would not think
OF touching his lady love with his hands.
1t would be undignifed. even rude
Here a kiss is a seal. a sign OF affec-
ton. Somebody sealed a will with kiss
the other day. and the court. approved
What applies 10 Japan TO a marked de-
gree applies TO the Filipinos and the
Philippines. chronological differentiation
Of the eighty tribes in the Philippines Is
impossible .'Mongrel' is the word for
most of them. Japanese. Chinese. Malay.
Negrito and all others common 20 the
Far East and tropics are there. Some
the best OF them some the worst OF
them. Taken en- masse the Filipinos are
in an abnormal mood. They are generally
engaged I'm efforts Ia adjust themselves
20 new and unfamiliar conditions. or they
are strongly striving 10 nullify these con
ditions One investigator in the country
Will stamp them a dirty lot because 81
needed sanitation. while another will ex-
plot their cleanliness because bathing
is sort OF religious dissipation with
them
Some travellers say there are coo Islands
in the archipelago; some say ZOO In
any event there are too many Of them.
Some are the size Of a rug. others as
big as New York state and New England
combined. The people are not industrious
despite their versatility. The Tagals and
the Visaynos are the best OF all the
classes.
The Filipino women are modest and
temperate in everything. They are truer
types than the women of England Or
America They are more honest, less
self-conscious, and surely less prudish.
The japanese have been active factors
in the Philippines since the sixteenth
century: hence the adoption OF japanese
customs