United labor bulletin., 1913-09-06

unglazed windows and tiny gypsy fires are light
ed under the house TO cook the unpublished" rice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 care fondes 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 are now learning embroidery. They
do IL well and find II even more interesting than
cock fights or cards or craps.
A visitor is lucky who comes upon one of the
tidier cottages and espes youth with scarlet
trousers and bare bronze torso tumming sort OF
guitar for the benefit OF n nutbrown maid al
the window above the stilts. 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
balloonslee bodice and folded panuelo. or ker
chief. One waits, half expecting TO see a chorus
emerge from the nowery background and break
into dance song. But, alack, such romantic
illusions rare and heetng. 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 a sudden there appear as II just
beyond the long low peninsula of Cavite. for
merly. and sti to some extent used 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 1t the lovely noun
tain of Maribeles suggests an earthly paradise.
but in fact it is the unfriendly abode of the Ne
gritos. a race resembling the pigmies of Africa.
Beyond on other shores and other islands
OF the vast Philippine archipelago are other races
unclaimed. untamed. unchrstian. Among them.
most dreaded by foreigners and natives, the
fanatical. treacherous.. fierce Mohammedan Moros.
As we look at the work in Manila and through
out the Philippines during the last ten years
feel that America has made here its finest mark
tho finest and fairest II 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 II the material benefits be-
slowed were immeasurably greater Altruism
has still Its most potent part to play. its most
immitigabe demands to meet There is need of
more American missionaries. wise. consecrated.
tactful There are such men and women already
at work In the provinces-teachers. doctors. In
structors In manual industry and In farming
upift workers. who at the same time evange-
lists. And there are those who give themselves
wholly to preaching and to pastoral work. or all
this service 1t would be Joy to tell II space
allowed But we owe a far larger ministry to
bodies and minds. and above all to souls that
consciously or unconsciously feeling after God
II haply they may md him.