Arizona republican., 1913-03-05
STUDENTS LISTEN ID
 FINE TRAvELOGUE
Instructor from University Tells High School of Her Experience in
 Philippines.

Mrs $ c. NeWsome. instructor in Greek at the University of Arizona, entertained the students Of the high school yesterday morning with a most interesting account of her experiences in the Philippines. Many able speak CTS have appeared before the assemb- ly this year but it is no disparage- ment to the others to say that Mrs NeWSOme was the most interesting Of all.
 Mrs. NeWsomc lived for d time in Lingayen on the China sea coast and her experience there and her obser- VatiOnS of the students of the pro- vince high school in which she taught from a most interesting story. The Orient. profoundly different as it is from the west, created a deep inn preSSiOn upon the traveller Lingayen preserves the day of the Spanish oc- cupation in all it's picturesque inter- est The upper class is composed mostly of people of mixed blood who WaXed rich through the profits of official positions during the Spanish regime and who have assumed the privileges of an aristocracy. The pure hl0oded FilipinOs form the lower class
 The people live in the second story Of their houses in order to get as far as possible from the spongey earth and even in the second story q heavy mould sometimes forms on clothing over night during the rainy season. in late summer and fall.
 The Filipinos are uniformly neat in their dress. The women wear soft gauzy fabrics, and strangely enough no dress is ever made without q train The men attire themselves in white suits of a military cut. The children | dress exactly like their mothers and fathers. They are very staid and sober young people and long trousers and train gowns on little tots of six seem not inappropriate to their quiet manners
 The ncatness of the Filipino stops rather abruptly with dress, and the houses on the islands are far from the Dutch standards of cleanliness. | Hard wood is very cheap and many of l the houses are fI0orcd entirely with 1 mahogany. Fighting cocks are the 1 favorite pets of the men, and the | finest ladies find pleasure in fondling pet pigs; and cock and pig often live l together on the mahogany floors of | q mansion. Men. women and child 1 Ten smoke, and the family cigar | which goes the rounds like the In- l dian peace pipe is an institution among the people of the lower class.
 Most of the inhabitants of the is l lands speak local and often very de- fective dialects, and only five per
 cent of the people use the Spanish | language The Filipinos prove them ! selves rather dcxterous than deep; ! they master the English language | with remarkable facility but they dc
 not handle heavier subjects with the ! same ease
 The patriots of the country are loyal to the American government
 but many demagogues are agitating the question of separation from tho ] United States. The Americans who
 have visited the islands are almost | unanimous in their opinion that the
 Philippines are not vet ready for self i government.
 These and many other interestine facts were given by the speaker anC
 in her closing words she presented
 the advantages offered the student
 by the State University. Mrs. New
 faculty of the university, would have
 recommended the institution by hel
 own pleasing and agreeable address il
 she had said no word as to the col
 lege itself