The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-08

and agriculture and teachers training are
taught in the high schools, in proTln-
cial capitals, and the foundations are lar
Tor higher education abroad Al pres
ent there are about 200 FiliDinos IN the
United States completing their educduons
as government students OF at their own
expense, but an act has been passed To
establish the University Of the Philip
pines. Teachers are trained at the nor
NAL school I'm Manila and at institutes
for teachers held in Manila and at
Baguio during vacations.
Athletic sports are emphasized in the
Philippine schools, to the material bene-
fit of the students. The FilipinOs are
physically neglected as a race, and are
in need of instruction as to how to keep
well and grow strong. The sons OF
IgOrOte head hunters are making base
ball enthusiasts, and in many other parts
OF the Islands considerable interest IS
shown in outdoor games Nearly every
high school has one or more ball teams,
and the girls in several provinces are
playing basketball and tennis. The stu
dents field meet, held annually IN south
ern Luzon, is an important event Of the
year. Trophies are offered for baseball
prowess as well as for defamation and
scholastic records. This gathering Of the
people is made the occasion for the dis
play of modern farm machinery and
many sales are made.
The Filipinos are among the few people
Of the east who accord 10 woman the
high position she enjoys in the Cccldent.
IN social life the woman Is the equal
Of the man. She has equal, or greater,
influence in domestic affairs. In bust
nes2 matters her judgment is respected
and, like her sisters in Burma, the Phil
ippine woman engages in various KINDS
of mercantile business. There are many
small dealers and not a few commission
merchants among them. Many wealthy
Fflipinas manage their own business al
fairs with success This gives the Amer
leans an advantage I'm promoting sChooi
The H1l5ninD Girls turn readily TO
teaching, partly because II aIIOrqs Jnem
opportunities for continued study, and
because they are altogether acceptaDle
to the parents Of the school children
Tho native school marin is small,
slightly built some what demure but quite
independent In appearance. She IS
model Of neatness in her brightly cOlOred
skirt and always freshly laundered chem
isette and panuelo. presenting the appear
ance of a great Tuffle or collar of seven
tenth century style. She is stranger 10
stays and stockings, and her chlneias-
heelless slippers with wooden soles-seem
just ready to slip from her toes as she
walks with the shuffiing gait OF Japa-
nese girl. But she is able TO wear those
chinslas while Waiting, and she rarely
filings d shoe.
school are failures. Statistics recently
show that many of the young
men become United States government
students or attend universities at their
own expense y larger NUMBER hetOili-
clerks. civil servants, farmers or teachers
The girls who do not settle down as brides
become teachers, clerks, telephone girls
and accountants. Several nave recently
taken uD the study of law, but none has
vet been admitted to the bar. Others
have taken up medicine, and still others
are in hospitals as student assistants to
nurses.
The complaint of educators is that the
normal school is not entirely fulfilling its
purpose. because the graduates are so
often able to secure more remunerative
work as q result Of their training. These
results of education show why the Amer
lean resident in Manila finds that he must
give his servants evenings off that they
may attend night school, and why ones
barefooted "cocherO" Is a student at the
same institution, much to the disgust of
the 'flustrado." who sees no reason why
the common people should be educated
Observation-Disclosures in the Philippines
VITI-Adopting the English Language.
CALL &c. A. r, OPERATOR"