Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-03
GIVES HIGH PRAISE
TO BEARDLESS BOYS
Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams
Impressed by Their Sol
dierIy Bearing.
GUARDIANS OF THE LAW
IN FAR AWAY PHILIPPINES
Observations Made by Woman Elk
plorer of the Worlds Many
Odd Corners.

Mrs Harriet chalmers Adams has just
returned from 4 hasty survey of the odd
corners OF the world. She saw white
rajahs and head hunters and tigers and
pythons and all the picturesque items
of life on the other side Of the globe.
And she was most impressed by an
American boy-just a, kid of twenty-five
or thereabouts-the sort of youngster
you can see on every corner.
He was an officer of the Philippine
consta bulary'' said Mrs. Adams. in
charge of district in Jolo occupied by
an unsubdued and piratical tribe Of
Moros We approached Bagsak by
boat'--note, that name sounds all right
and looks all right, but 1t isn't guar
anteed--"and as our steamer drew up
to the wharf we could hear the rifles
popping in the town. We knew that a
war had broken out.
Where Anything May Happen.
Anything may happen. and usually
does. in Moroland The inhabitants are
very handy with all sorts Of weapons.
and have no weak antipathy TO blood.
But the twenty-two-year-ol officer, in
command of his little squad. six or eight
saddle coiored constables, hoped cheer
lily to the pier and waved his handler
chief i'll farewell, and then said:
"H'rup'
So that the forlorn little bundle of
brown men, their narrow shoulders brac-
ing in imitation of the soldery swing of
the white man ahead trotted toward
that small hell which was boiling over in
groaned away from the pier Mrs.
Adams went to her tiny cabin to have
her cry. There didn't seem chance for
rat
alive, and the sacrifice seemed such a
useless one She met him later, though.
He had automatically bumped few
sulu heads together So they gave him
a feast, and. are likely waiting for the
chance to stick him in the back.
Just a Typical Officer.
After all. he was just a typical officer
Of constabulary, Mrs. Adams adds. These
youngsters-they range in age from
twenty-five to thirty-two-are doing that
sort of thing all the time, so that peace
has very largely fallen upon the Philip
pines. She found Igorotes wearing wild
cat skins about their shoulders working
out their road taxes. Thank the con-
stables for that irony. An almost
equally valuable Philippine asset is the
force OF medical. missionaries.
Salvation" says Mrs. Adams, fol
lows sanitation. The missionaries carry
Bible in one hand-but in the other
they have bottles of castor oil for the
interior and coal oil for the surface of
their brown friends
With her husband. F. P. Adams of
the Pan-American organization here in
Washington. Mrs. Adams has crossed
South America on muIeback, lived for
months where no white woman has
ever been seen, and had adventures
that would make a lifetimes talk for
the average sportman. On this years
trip she visited Rajah Brooke in
Borneo, the third white rajah Of his
line, and the only one left in the world.
He lives in regal state. unbothered by
telephones, in his province Of Sara
wax. 1t adds a picturesque modern
touch to learn that he married into
a tiourishing English biscuit business.
English Women Wonderful,
Those wonderful English women in
Borneo." said Mrs. Adams in admira-
ton. They are the finest frontier
women in the world. Where their tea
pot is is home. They were preparing
to go hundreds of miles by boat to the
races at Jesselton-the great event of
the year. Not one complained of con
ditions. They did exchange felicita-
ct h.