New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-04-25
Would Like to be in a Minnesota
Blizzard Again.
Civilization Makes Slow Progress
Among the Natives.

read what she has to say ofconditions
as they exist there.
Things are as they are in this coun-
try and will not be changed here in the
Philippines for quite a few years to
come. The Filipinos will ever remain
Filipinos and their progress upward
to our mode of living may take more
than a month or two yet. They are a
race distinct from ours and do not
have the American spirit in them by
any means. They still prefer to eat
with their fingers, chew their dirty
betel nuts, and live the style they have
been used. to for hundreds of years.
The men have adopted American
clothes, but the women have not
changed. They look pretty in the
native style, especially if dressed up
for an evening party, and are bedecked
with jewels. But every one who has
seen them dressed in the American
clothes, say these clothes cheaper them
and their handsomeness is gone.
Christmas has come and gone, and
we are now having the coolest weather
of the year. It is so cool that, we can
be comfortable with thin layer of
clothing and I can move about all day
without fatigue. In warm weather
that is impossible. It is absolutely
necessary to lie down during the heat
of the day, and as for clothing we
could save lots of laundry if we did
not try to follow our ideas of civiliza-
ton. M
have sometimes no time to think
of anything outside of my school work.
Then / have the care of the house.
Our cook does not know very much
and the boys are not very clean. To-
day Saturday sailed in and had
regular house cleaning. We have to
be SO much more careful now on ac-
count Of the cholera being around, but
SO far we have not worried yet. We
are careful with our food, and Ameri-
cans are not SO easily affected as
natives. There have been as many
as 1000 deaths in the island since last
October from cholera but nearly all of
them are natives. The doctors UNDER
stand the disease better and now cure
about forty per cent of all cases.
A native doctor here, a very good
friend Of Mr.. Anderson's lives just a
half a block from our house, and is
quite an expert in handling cases.. so
we feel quite safe. Not until two weeks
ago has the scourge come SO close to
US as it is now, it is not general cpl
demic. There are only individual
cases here and there. We have medi-
cine in the house ready for use.
Mr.. Anderson is head over heels in
work for the new building they are
going to have for the beginning of
school next June. He is collecting
$500, all by private subscriptions and
has now about $4,000 promised. Heis
on the go nearly all the time. Ralph
Yates is located not far from here but
| have not seen him, but as he knows
| where I am expect that he will call
most any day.
Some of the girls in my school are
fine players on the violin and flute and
the cornet. They have a band orga-
nized and play for entertainments
have violin playing in my school
every day. One of my girls teaches
nae to play the violin.
One of the chief vices of the Filipi-
nos is cocktig citing. Every day and
every minute of the day you can see
dozens of strong able bodied men old
and young walking along the street
| with their pet boosters undertheir arms,
stroking it and occasionally when
| meeting another rooster nurse they
will stop, put down the roosters and
have trial fight. Sometimes half a
dozen of these men will squat in a
circle on the street, with their roosters
before them, comparing their merits
and good qualities. They take such
careful pains in cleaning them, clean
ing their toes and feeding them, thai
/ few mothers can befound taking better
care of their little black offspring
Kite flying is also a favorite amuse
ment, and every male member of the
brown race from two, years up to era,
haired men, enjoy holding the string
of a kite, and watch it float in the air
With regard to cockfg hting, they NEE
Sundays in the cock pit, and gamble
the same as in horse racing Then th,
roosters have little sharp knives at
tached to their spurs and it is said th,
fight does not last very vel, till On,
or the other is taken from the field
Having received its death wound.
The people are clamoring for . HON,
legis lature, but really the people ar
not ready for self government and Is,