The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1920-01-31
MAKE PROGRESS
IN PHILIPPINES
Woman Has Advanced In PROBES.
slonal and Industrial Life,
Says One Of Them
IS HUSBANDS REAL PARTNER
Shares with Him the Cares OF Bust
ness, Especially, in Its Financial
Aspeots-Many Take Up
Legal Profession.

New ofk-hile. jaime l'e NtNIh' I
wia OF one Of the representatives. OF
the Philippine Islands to the United
State has recently been visiting wom-
ems clubs In New York city, telling
what she has already told the women
Of washington. They have fine systems
Of education, she says. good schools.
and a high degree of economic useful
ness Nine. DE veyra wore, In giving
her talks, one OF the beautiful gowns
Of the Philippines n delicate pine
apple fabric. haRd.woven and hand
embroidered, shaped like gauzy-
winged butterfly.
"Thiass are made very easy for the
Filplns woman In many ways" she
said. "Ths professional opportunities
are rs gssd fer her as fer the Ken.
Wsmen are already members Of the
Philippine Bar association-someth
which Is isapsseible for the women OF
Great Rritain--they are In business
for themselves. and they are success
full practicing physicians. Laws made
for our women combine the best OF
| Spanish and American precedents.
Made Easy for Women.
Everything has been made much
| more simple fer us than for either the
! American or Spanish women. Married
women hold their property In several
ty. and they are guardians of their
own children. OF the property which
sccrues to q married couple, the wife
| rs half administrators, and these are
! vested rights which cannot be taken
| from her. II Is not unusual for the
mother OF family TO have not only
n household leadership. hut economic
! control. NJ. De Veyra. who Is Interested
Ia history. tells me that before the
Spanish came we had mntrlnrchal
! system, and this has made the Pilip-
pino women sefrcspectlng and val
liant.
"Of our 3,14l islands, only 400 are
inhabited, the principal ones being
Iu2cr, Mndanao and Nisayas; yet
even In rural little Barrios you VIII
find some sort Of woman leader. one
old woman who has had seventeen
children, thirteen having lived 70 grow
up, and who has many grandchildren
and greatgrandchildren still exercises
full sway over the family, and has the
last word to say IN all l!nancial Affairs.
The married children as well rs 9th
ers look IN 20 her. not only as moth
, cr but rs M adviser.
"Womca, WIEN tA,y marry, go INFO
partnerships with their husbands.
While the men handle the workers.
the women attend to the finances, act
as cashiers, pay the workers, and over.
see much Of the business. They have
equality with men in everything ex'
cept In voting, which the governor gen
erai has recommended In his messages
to the legislature. When 1t was frat
recommended the women had not
! made much Of an effort to gain the
vote, but this year appeals came from
, The provinces and w0men's clubs and
associations. In 1907 there were only
thirty womsn's clubs, but now there
are S07. A petition signed by 1S,OOt
. women was sent to the lawmakers
who granted Joint Legislative hear
ing on woman suffrage. Three Filipino
women spoke. Two Of them were prac
r tlcins lawyers, and the one who wa
said TO have made the best speech wa
Nine. Conception Calderon, widow o
the man who wrote the constitution
I Of Malloios.
Adept With Needle.
Nine. Calderon Is n successful bus
ness woman. owning nsh farm an
i m embroidery enterprise. This indus
. trial problem has not reached tn
Filipino women to any great e1ten
except through the cigar factories an
= In embroidery. There are. ] believe
ave big American embroidery firms
the Philippines, and one Of them
r Manila employs 1000 women. Dver!
+ thing In the underwear business, e.
cept the weaving OF cloth. Is done B
hand; the hemstltchlng AMI even d
'r seams are sewed by hand.
N "women who have children and cal
not 40 to the factories take the wor
'e home and are paid by the piece. i hay
ID heard OF one OF these workers, from
n woman who has nm embroidery bus
ness, who can make six chemises ds
at ~ cents cneHnse, every slt'
10 by hand. She has saved great de
OF money besides tnking care OF h
children.
OF "All of the pineapple cloth is mat
q by the women In their homes on han
q, made looms. made by an ordinary ca
~ penter. Comparatively little OF II
IL made nowadays, for II Is slow wOr
and the women cannot AFFORD TO do
Any one who wishes II must give
us special order, and 1t is expensive.
Ial 1--WE are interested In the Phil
"a pines In progressive legislation,
public health measures and d
Is nurseries, and the women have
T.. troduced proht-sharlng plan In b
-, bid and other prisons. They ha
introduced police matrons and ind
III trial teachers for the insane.
X .The woman's Club Of Man n :
member Of the Federation Of W N
w Clubs, u. 8. A., and now the wonl
are decorating their own clubs"