Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1913-09-04

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
ed under the house to cook the unpublished" rice.
with possibly bit of cheap fish, f9r supper. The
pot is often watcaed by a and woman, wien
ed before their time, squatting their heels,
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The WON
an is apt to be holding, always tenderly, the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children
The with less fondles a docile but
spurred game cock Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivaling the cockpit with its ruinous idle
and betting. The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to the hurt of the family and its earnings.
Many of them now learning embroidery. They
do it well and find 1t more interesting than
cock fights cards or craps
A visitor is lucky who comes upon of the
tidier cottages and espies youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso cumming sort OF
guitar for the benefit of a nutbrown maid at
the window above the stills She has delicate
features and bright eyes and a long and strikngly
graceful neck, and mass of smooth, glossy, jet
black hair hangs below her waist over her gay
balloon-sleeved bodice and folded panueO, or keT-
chief One waits, half expecting to see a chorus
emerge from the foWery background and break
into dance song. But, alacki such romantic
illusions and feeting. The reality 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 is beyond telling. Some
times nothing is to be but luminous sky and
water. Then of a sudden there appear as II Just
created the scalloped hills OF the distant coast
beyond the long low peninsula of Cavite, for
mery, and still to some extent, used a naval
station. The fortified island OF Corregidor 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 earthly paradise,
but in fact it is the unfriendly abode OF the Ne
gritos, race resembling the pigmies Of Africa.
Beyond other shores and other islands
of the vast Philippine archipelago other races
unclaimed, untamed, unchristian Among them,
most dreaded by foreigners and natives, are the
fanatcal, treacherous, fierce Mohammedan Moros.
As look at the work in Manila and through
out the Philippines during the last ten years we
feel that America has made here its finest mark
the finest and farest 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 it
have done enough if the material benefits be-
slowed were UNNECESSARILY greater. Altruism
has still its most potent part to play, its most
immiugable demands to meet. There Is need of
more American missionaries, wise, consecrated,
tactful There are such and women already
work in the provinces-teachers doctors, in
structors in manual industry and In farming
uplift workers. who are at the same time eVange-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly 20 preaching and to pastoral work. OF all
this service It would be joy to tell IL space
allowed. But we owe far larger ministry to
bodies and minds, and above all to souls that
consciously unconsciously are feeling after God
if haply they may find him.