Delaware City press. (Delaware City, Del.) 1913-19??, 1913-09-05

Apgss sad windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
E4iGei ne house to cook the 'lApolished" rice
with possibly bit of cheap fish, for supper the
pot is often watched by man and woman, wien
ed before their time. squatting on their heels
each smoking the perpetual cigarette. The wom-
is apt to be holding, always tenderly, the
smallest of half dozen nearly naked children
The man with no less fondles a docile but
spurred game cock. Fields for manly sport are
slowly rivaling the cockpit with its ruinous idle
ness 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 are learning embroidery. They
do it we'll and find it even more interesting than
cock fights cards or craps
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 a 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
baoon.sleeved bodice and folded panuelo or ker-
chief. Cne waits, half expecting to see chorus
emerge from the fowery background and break
into dance or song But alack such romantic
Illusions are rare and fleeting 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 IL lust
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 verit-
able armed Titan to guard the narrow entrance of
the vast bay Close beside it 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 on other islands
of the vast Philippine archipelago other races
unclaimed, untamed, unchristan. 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 II has not done enough. Nor would it
have done enough II the material benefits be-
slowed we're mmeasurably greater. Altruism
has still its most potent part to play, its most
immitigable demands to meet There is need of
more American missionaries, WISE consecrated
tactful. There are such 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 it would be joy to tell IL space
allowed. But owe a far larger ministry to
bodies and minds, and above all to souls that
consciously unconsciousy are feeling after God
IL haply they may find him.