Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1913-09-05

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
ed under Me house to cook the unpublished" rice,
with possibly bit of cheap fish, for supper. The
pot is often watched by a and woman, wien
ed before their time squatting on their heels,
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The wom-
an is apt to be holding, always tenderly, the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children
The man with no less fondles docile but
spurred game cock Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivaIing the cockpit with its ruinous idle
ness and betting. The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to thy hurt of the family and its earnings.
Many Of them now learning embroidery. They
do it well and find it more interesting than
cock fights OF cards or craps.
Al visitor is lucky who comes upon of the
tidier cottages and espies a youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso cumming sort Of
guitar for the benefit of nut-brown maid at
the window above the stills. She has delicate
features and bright eyes and long and strikingly
graceful neck, and mass of smooth, glossy, jet
black hair hangs below her waist over her gay
balloon-sleeved bodice and folded panueo, or ker-
chief One waits, half expecting to see chorus
emerge from the fiowery background and break
into dance or song But alack! such romantic
illusions are and feeting. The reality that
stays is homely and hard and sometimes tragic.
Manila is beautiful for situation. The bay to
the west is blue the Mediterranean and the
splendor of the sunsets is beyond telling. Some
water Then of sudden there appear as If just
created the scalloped hills of the distant coast
beyond the long low peninsula of Cavite for
merly, and still to some extent, used as 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
che vast bay. Close beside it the lovely noun
tain of Maribeles suggests an earthly paradise
but in fact 1t is the unfrendly abode of the Ne
gritos, race resembling the pigmies OF Africa
Beyond on other shores and on other islands
OF the vast Philippine archipelago are other races
unclaimed untamed unchristian Among them
most dreaded by foreigners and natives are the
fanatical, treacherous, fierce Mohammedan Moros
As we 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 fairest it is not too much to say,
made by any western people in any eastern col
ony. But 1t 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
fmmitigable demands to meet. There is need of
more American missionaries wise, consecfated
tactful. There are such men and women already
at work in the provinces-teachers doctors. in
structors in manual industry and in farming
uplift workers, who at the same time evange-
lists. And there those who give themselves
wholly to preaching and to pastoral work OF all
this service 1t would be- JOY to tell II space
allowed But we owe far larger ministry to
bodies and minds. and above all to souls that
consciously uneonsciously are feeling after God
II haply they may find him.