The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-28

much; that its priests and bishops
were renegades from the old church.
who did not have the confidence Of the
natives or of Americans.
The same Protestant preacher told
me that the number of natives who
had joined the Protestant churches
was about seven or eight thousand,
and suppose he made the number as
large as he could consistently The
same man estimated the number OF
Catholic natives at six or seven mil
lions, so that Professionalism seems to
be making little Roadway A citizen
who said he was a Presbyterian, told
me that when a native was converted
from Catholicism to Professionalism
he was injured and not benefited
Seven-tenths of the men in the Phil
ippines wear white duck clothing A
man buys a dozen of these suits, pay
ing from four to seven dollars a suit.
and sometimes changes three times
a day. There are places in Manila
where the two-piece white suits are
washed for six cents, and often heard
gentlemen discussing the different
Chinese laundries and their prices
The officers in the army and navy
wear the white suits almost univer-
sally, with brass buttons and shoulder
straps L see no reason why the
men at home should not wear these
white suits during July and August:
I intend to. in future. Why should
all the cool, clean, summer things be
mOnopolized by the women?
The Filipinos are said to be inferior
to our American negroes. Experience
in Liberia shows that when the negro
race is left to itself it retrogrades-
Would the Filipinos do any better II
left to themselves The little progress
made in the Philippines has cost the
Americans and Spanish an immense
amount of money.
AguinaIdo. lately a big Filipino
chief. is now a farmer. and is seldom
! heard of. He is looked upon as an
adventurer, and not as patriot
Messrs. Bishop, Wall and Hills have
been so kind to me during my stay
/ in Manila that I am thinking of print
ing a card of thanks and adopting a
set of resolutions in order that ] may
reach their Kansas understanding
Mr.. Hills is a Presbyterian minister
and visited his parents in Atchfson
several months last summer In adj
ditiOn to being minister, he seems
! to be a sort of Social Embassa dor
and mingles q great deal with the
/ American residents. He knows nearly
/ everybody and seems to perfectly &c
4 his position. I think E L. Hills
/ knows that his son is human. but I
used to Wake out to the soldiers or
/ phans' home to watch Mrs Hills
worship her son. / intended going
to hear him preach. in order that 7
might tell his mother Of his great au-
dience and of his eloquence and logic
but callers prevented. / did. however
so out to his house to dinner NIffr
is fifty cents a quart in Manila. btf
Mrs. Hillis-WhO is still Il BRIDE
managed to find some for me The
meal was the first they had eaten IS
their new home, and there was u1sffa
display of wedding presents. IA
nome you have no doubt noted how
/ a hostess talks to her guests in hes
society voice, and keeps one eve ~
/ the girl I have often been su74.ae.5
by this sort of thing at home hs7s IS
was still more amusing TO note a-a
adroit manner i'm which Mrs rff5iis
talked TO us, in society tones. s~F
managed the two Filipino bows ,-5fF
whispers. frowns, glanees. and ~
shaking or nodding her head
A great pest in the PhiIipnines Sc +5-
Wnlle ant. which bOres into wood er7-
niture and ruins it. Mrs Hills sF1o-,-..-
us cabinets that had been eaten m, 49, -
cept the Narnish- In order to $50 -
floors they are scrubbed ~. r,,5,, ...5
every day with kerosene.
w ME at the Hillises I heard or
MIS- sargent who had two les.
cows she Drought over twelve 80
dlisllia Seo 70 save two out Of the aogs-S
me COWS mere eat bamboo snro1-fs,
si5is oiet Kills them Had L re-
lleitS0 IN Manila another dar-
would certainly have annaa-e,5
mrs Sargent's and asked fo.r ~
of bread and milk. ooWi
AAtef dinner we all went ar,~s- 3D..
80 eet 20 cas- on two LeavanxsorfT, ~,
- e. siie evening WAS altoaetha~
ny -, ~ lNe most thoroughly enioy-sT.s
have spent during my vacsti 49, q DE
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