Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1913-09-05

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are Hghe
ed under the house to cook the unpublished" rice,
with possibly bit of cheap fish, for supper. Inc
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 with less care fondes doc1e but
spurred game cock. Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivaIng the cockpit with its ruinous Idle
ness and betting. The Filipino women have al
ways shared the passion for gambling with their
men, to thu hurt of the family and its earnings.
Many of them now learning embroidery They
do it we'll and find it even more interesting than
cock fights OF cards or craps.
A visitor is lucky who comes upon one of the
tidier cottages and espies youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso cumming sort OF
guitar for the benefit of nutbrown maid at
the window above the stills. She has delicate
features and bright eyes and a long and strlkngly
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 fowery background and break
into dance or song But alacki such romantic
illusions are rare 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 seen but luminous sky and
water. Then of sudden there appear as II 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 naval
station. The fortified island of Corregidor, soft
and dim on the horizon, stands in reality verlt-
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance OF
the vast bay. Close beside ii 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 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 marx
the finest and farest 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 1t
have done enough If the material benefits be-
slowed were UNNECESSARILY greater. Altruism
has still its most potent part to play, its most
immitgable demands to meet There is need OF
more American missionaries, wise, consecrated,
tactful There such men and women already
at work In the provinces-teeoners. 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 IL would be joy to tell IL space
allowed. But we owe a far larger ministry to
bodies and minds, and above 81 to souls that
consciously or unconsciously feeling after God
If haply they may find him.