Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-08-24

SOUTH ENTRANCE PALACE OF LIBERAL
ARTS, WORLDS FAIR.
rote, who dimes ON dog meat. and
visitors are entertained by Yisayan
actors and actresses. Nothing Is LACK
ing to make the show complete.
The Administration building is rep
iica Of the government offices In Ma
Mia, while the Art and Education
building reproduces In miniature the
cathedral within the WALLED city, even
the meliowed tints OF age ,ing faith
fully rendered. A section Of the an
Eient but still serviceable town wall
has been reconstructed to serve the dou-
BILE purpose Of gateway to the show
and museum OF arms and war relics.
The other main edifices are types OF
Filipino homes, being built Of undress-
ed timber, bamboo and rattan, with
thatehed roofs and broad verandas.
Then there are the tribal villages
nesting under the trees, some of the
houses perched high up among the
boughs, others on piles above the wa
tiers of the Arrowhead lake, all OF them
actual dwellings fashioned of native
materials oy native workmanship and
Illustrating the manners, customs and
pursuits of their occupants. Here are
women weaving coarse cloth on q
rude hand loom. others making bas-
kets, others tending irrigated fleds OF
rice. One group OF men are In village
council, trying an offender according
to their tribal AVS; others are slowly
moving In a circular dance to~the thump
of tomtoms and the ciang of brass
gongs; others, again, are sualting iron
by the aid of primitive but most In
genious bellows, the constituent parts
Of which are a bamboo tube and an air
tight mop of feathers working therein
like the piston of syringe. And these
are but a few of an almost endless va.
riety of life pictures
The chronological problem ia a SOME
what complicated one; but, although
there are no fewer, than sixteen rae 81
represented among the village dyvellez =,
the scouts and the consfabulmy, each
race speaking its own dialect and fol-
lowing Its own customs. all may be
roughly classified into four groups
the true aboriginais or non-Madays, the
pagan Malays, the Christian Malays
and the Mohammedan Aalays.
The first are the dwarf Negritos, with
dark skins and woolly heads, wearers
of scanty raiment proficient in the use
of the bow and poisoned arrow. race
Of nomads and forest jewellers, pagans
pure and simple. They live In their
own stockaded village.
Next to them are the Igorrotes,
whose origin is traced back to the first
wave of Malay invasion. Here. again,
we have scanty clothing, amounting
almost to nudity, but copper colored
skins, long wavy tresses, pleasant Tea
tured faces and fine plS siques. evea
though the stature be small. Among
these pagan Malays are Ehe head hunt
ers and the dog eaters. They are saw
ages, yet have their code If laws and
knowledge of several primitive indus
tries.
TIE Christian Malsys. produced by
the second wave of invasion, are rep
resented by the Visayans, tall and
handsome race, dressing well. living In
pretty homes, skilled in weaving, dye
ing, basket making, hat making, wood
carving and other hansiscrafts. must
clans OF no mean merit. the enc group
of natives who came esrly ana thor
oughly under the influence OF the early
Spanish settlers.
Very different are the Moros. WHO
swept into the islands from the Malay
peninsula last OF ali. bringing with
them their Mohammedan religion also
q knowledge OF ggrRowxier acquired
Nth the Koran from the Arabs-fana-
tics like their teachers. pirates. sOOd-
thirsty. treacherous and vindictise TEL
lows, ever at war laruOig themselves
and with the whoie4eutside world. De
spite their ferocity they are cever
race, dress handsomely, have the;r'sui-
fans and their slaves and ure expert
seamen, while long continuai palAage
on the high seas has su1reunded than
with many of the RaxsIries and~conveA-
fences of western civilization.
The buildings Of Agriculture. Forest
~ and Fisheries show asl the varied
natural products. alss the extremely
primitive processes as ye in NIgue,
while in the Won, ans tsailding we are
TO a number Of nauve man
ufactures. including the bsSati ful TAB