The Carlisle independent., 1920-03-25
DAUGHTER OF i
 ACUINALDO IN
 U. s. CAPITAL.
She Meets Many Wives of Amer
 ican Statesmen and
 Makes a Hit. "

WAea General Emilio Aguinalde was leading the Filipino army against m American forces twenty years ago nc probably little dreamed that some day a daughter of his would visit the city of Washington and would be given great reception at the famous Con gressional Clubi And that the wives of 120 members of the American Con gress and two wives of members of the Presidents cabinet would call upon her to pay their respects
 But all this actually happened when Miss Carmen Aguinaldo, his nineteen year.old daughter, visited Washington recently. And those wives of the Am erican statesmen expressed themselves as both charmed and surprised at the refined, tactful. college educated young miss who greeted them.
 Miss Aguinaldo was simply delight full" was the expression of one con- gressmans wife "She was very mod est, yet she acted so natural and thor oughly at home that she captivated ev- erybody."
 On another occasion while in WaSh- ingIon Miss AguinaldO was given real ovation by Fiiipino-American audi. ence when she recited My Last Fare weli." poem of Dr. Jose Rizai. the FH- ipine martyr.
 Miss Aguinaido is a student at the University of Illinois. Urbana, III. While ia Washington she was the guest of Mrs. Jaime 0. deyeyra. wife st eas, sf the resident commissioners: from tho Philippines The Capitol buiidiag and the Congressional library appealed particularly to the young FiiiPLhA. while the beautiful sights; from the Washington monument thrill ed her with delight When asked how she Liked America. she smiled and aR- swerca:
 "It 6 wonderful country. dida't like wlater at first. but since have learned how to skate l am having fine, times All the Americans whom have met have been very good to me My friends In Urbana and my classmates la the university are just lovely, hut cannst help feeling homesick at times because I am missing my father My coming here was indeed a great sacrt- dce for him. for we are very close He is so good to me"
 Miss Aguinaldo is intensely patriotic. She does not conceal her resentment when she hears or reads of a misrepre- sentation of the Fiiipinos. Ut is un- fortunate" she once exclaimed in voice full of sadness, that my country and my people are hardly known, much less understood. by the people of Am erica"
 Politics is tabooed in any conversa- ton with this Filipino maid. She evades the topic by replying that she is too young to express opinions on things political "All I can say" she declares, lis that I share with my father in the desire for independence for my native land There is no ques- ton about our being able to govern ourselves"
 
 a genuine Filipina temperament'- that is, she does not believe in the oc- cidental custom of dates" between young men and women. She does not see anything wrong in it, she says, but it is such violent departure from the custom in the Philippines that she can not adopt it.
 "Yeu might laugh at me-" she said. "but I cannot go out with one single escort unchaperoned. I simply can't. I wiu go back to my country with the soul of Filipina."
 A newspaper in one of the large Ari- ericaA cities that Miss Aguinaldo visit ed expressed the opinion that she would nc doubt be greatly impressed by ths sight of street cars and some If the fine residences she would see, but the truth is the young lady was raised in Manila. where she has seen ap up. te-date street car system all her life