Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1913-09-04
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unglazed " md tiny gypsy fires are light
a nnder Ii 10 cook the unpublished RICE
with nosai cheap fish, for supper Inc
not Is NJ Iby man and woman, wien
"a hofora e. suuatting on their heels,
oaoh srnori rpetual cigarette. The Wom-
-, q ont ~ olding always tenderly, the
gr,a1tost ~ dozen nearly naked children
The mon 1via less care fondes doclle Dut
snurrad eame k Fields for manly sport ar
slowly rivalina Ne cockpit with its ruinous iole-
ness and betting. The Filipino women nave a.
WAYS shared the passion for gambling Win .nen
men to the hurt OF the family and its earnings
MANY OF them are now learning embroidery" Iney
do 1t we'll and find 1t even more interesting than
cock fights or cards or craps
A visitor is lucky who comes upon one Oh Tue
tidier cottages and espies youth Win scaiios
trousers and bare bronze torso tumming sorI u
guitar for the benefit of nut-oroWn maui a.
the window above the stills. She has delicate
lectures and bright eyes and long and strikingy
graceful neck and mass Of smooth glossy, JET
black hair hangs below her waist over her gay
balloonsleeved bodice and folded panueio or ker
chief One waits half expecting to see chorus
emerge from the fowery background ana preah
into dance or song. But, alack! such romantic
illusions are rare and feeting. The realty That
stays is homely and hard and sometimes tragic
Manila is beautiful for situation The bay to
the west is as blue as the Mediterranean and the
splendor of the sunsets IL beyond telling. some
times nothing il to be seen but luminous sky and
water Then OF o sudden there appear as II just
created the scalloped hills of the distant coast
beyond the long low peninsula OF Cavite for
merly AMI still to some extent, used as naval
station The fortified island of Corregfdor SOFT
and dim on the horizon, stands In reality VERT
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance OF
the vast bay. Close beside 1t the lovely noun
tain of Maribeles suggests an earthly paradise
but in fact 1t Is the unfrendly abode OF the Ne
CRITICS a race resembling the pigmies OF AFRICA
Beyond on other shores and on other lsands
of the vast Philippine archipelago are other races
unclaimed untamed, unchristiar. Among tnem'
most dreaded by foreigners and natives, are the
fanatical. treacherous, fierce Mohammedan Moros
Az we look at the work In Manila and, through
ont the Philippines during the last ten years we
feel that America has made here Its finest marx
the finest and fairest It is not too much to say
made by any western people In any eastern col
ony But It has not done enough. Nor would II
have done enough II the material Dement'S be-
slowed were immeasurably greater. Altruism
has still it's most potent part to play, Its most
immitigable demands to meet. There Is need Oh
more American missionaries, wise, consecrateo'
tactful There are such men and women already
at work In the provinces-teacners, doctors' III
structors In manual industry and In FARMING
uplift workers who at the same time eVanse-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly to preaching and to pastoral WORK. vi ala
this service II would be a JOY to tell II space
allowed But we owe a far larger ministry 10
bodies and minds, and above all to SOUS tnat
consciously or unconsciously are feeling after God
II haply they may find him.