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Evening star., 1924-07-06

From window Of this train, when
not too smoking, we could see entire
scenario of Java going by. Rice
fields everywheres, just like Japan.
but not so intelligent. Did you ever
see a rice sproutng amidst Nature,
Mr.. Editor? Those fields is called
Rice Patties and are manufactured
as following:
Take gals rice. Put on the side
of a hill. Add a barnyard & stir
gently. Add water. Permit it to SIM
mer at 80 deg. Fahrenheit for
months. you got rice. by golly.
Because those oriental persons pre-
fers to make everything more difficult
than possible Hon. Javanese builds
those rice patties up & down side
mountains. When you see 200 rice
patties full of water & all hooked to-
gether on slippery hill you believe
that the Incum Tax are not such
hard problem compared with that.
did you ever see tapioca grow
ing outside of a. pudding? Be truth
full with me, if possible. You know
you never did. Tapioca are a very
measles looking bush & those white
little round foods comes out of roots
resembling face-powder.
'Umpossible" dictate Cousin Nog1
when hearing this. IF tapioca are
born in that flour candition how do
he ever get to he a bullet?-
Il are too hot to enquire" This
from me. "Nextly you will be ask
ing how spigetti get to be like a
worm. And with such a question who
knows what?"
At that junction long come Hon.
Conductor gathering tickets in his
apron covered with daffydils.
"Buitenzorg." he holla strangularly.
Continued on Seventh Page)
Evening star., 1924-07-06

THE buildings are mostly of two
stories, the old ones of concrete
and the new ones of wood on a con-
crete foundation. They are large.
Many of them have forty to sixty
rooms, and one or two thousand
children in a single building is by no
means uncommon. The buildings are
very artistic, and are constructed
after plans suited to the climate. A
common type surrounds a hollow
square with wide galleries or porches
along each story, and looking down
upon a school yard bordered with
flowers and wonderful plants of the
tropics.
Entering the buildings, you first
notice the floors. They are of
Filipino mahogany, smooth dark
wood that shines like a piece of fine
furniture. If you will imagine your
children walking over the tops of
grand pianos, you will have one of
the conditions of the schools Of
Manila. The halls are wide and high,
and they are floored with red tiles as
smooth and clean as those of your
bathroom. Each tile is about the
size of the ordinary primary geog-
raphy, and it fits smooth and close.
The walls of many of the halls have
wainscoting of mahogany reaching
to the height of your head, and the
woodwork above that, including the
ceiling, has a coat of white lead.
These halls and every room of the
building have, Notwithstanding the
blazing hot sun of the tropics, a
light that is as mellow as that of a
cathedral but fully as bright as mid
day at home when the sun is not
shining. 1t is made by filtering the
| sun through transparent pearl shells
about as thick as your thumb nail.
| These shells are fitted into lattice
| work of dark red mahogany, and
| there are thousands of them in each
| building. l figured the number in a
| graded school as / went through
today. The building had 500 win
dows. each as large as the ordinary
| school window at home, and each
window had 225 of these shells, taken
| from the shores of Manila Bay.
| multiplying oUV Oy SSo makes l3o,UUU,
which is the actual number of the
| pearl squares in that one building,
| not including the lights at the ends
| of the halls. This gives also an idea
of the size of the structure. The
number of pupils was almost two
| thousand. The building, with the
| land, cost ALMOST $15o.0oo. 1t had
| thirty-six classrooms, kitchen. 4
| carpenter shop, some school Offices
and library.
| X y \
T HAVE been surprised at the clean
illness Of the buildings and all
their surroundings. The floors are
| like those of Dutch kitchen after
| it has been scrubbed. and the super
| intendent Of the schools defied me to
| md dust anywhere. l never take a
dare. so I put my hand on the little
shelf over the blackboard and rubbed
1t about. It came or clean. ! then
Evening star., 1924-07-06

tribes. Even the Christian Filipinos
had sixteen different dialects, and
these were SO varied that the better
class man of Cebu or Negros could
hardly make himself understood. to
the man Of Luzon. The Moros have
dozen different dialects, and the Mo-
hammedans Of the Sulu Islands could
hardly understand the peoples OF the
same religion who live around Lake
Linao in Mindanao. 1t was the same
all over the islands! There was no
common language, and to the native
English was as puzzling as Sanskrit.
Today the many different peoples
of the archipelago have been given
one tongue from Borneo to Formosa.
This is the English language. Twen-
ty-six thousand teachers are now
using it In as many schoolrooma, and
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cellent softness over the driveway which
had been treated with asphaltomix,
which can be laid on by a child, the
young girl presented picture that
charmed the eye
She was wearing one OF the new Ber-
saglieri tailored suits. which combine
smartness with comfort and which have
the special advantage that they come in
all sizes and can be fitted not only to
a frame as slender as Lovely Louisa's 8,
but also on ladies Of fuller figure. A set
Of measurements and directions being
given with each suit we may be sure
that Louisa had such a set with her
when she alighted
CHE wore her suit under one of
the new Fascist hats which kill
at hundred yards and over pair of
tall tan boots which combine grace
with comfort by being designed by
an expert to fit easily on the instep
and to move in harmony with the
bones on the anthrax. Under her
suit aEain-far under-Louisa wore
one Of this years skinfit combinations
which was imported directly from
Lyons and without which no lady
should be. When we say that the girl
in alighting made a picture that
would have pleased the eye of a her
NIT or a lobster or an undergraduate.
we are not overstating it.
Alfred. who was wearing one Of
the new now-or-never tailored gray
suits over brown boots as he stepped
forth to meet the girl, felt that his
heart was no longer in his own keep
ing.
During the days which followed
the youthful Alfred became the con-
slant companion and in addition the
guide and mentor of the lovely girl.
Himself keen golfer, he had soon
initiated his beautiful cousin into the
mysteries of golf, and taught her to
appreciate a good elastic ball such
at the 1924 Smacko, Of which the out
er case is guaranteed never to chip
or crumble Under the same tute-
lage the mysteries of mah-jongg, an
excellent set of which has now been
Evening star., 1924-07-06
"IT WERE A Bow.CONsCRIPTOR."

another one still hotter around his
head to resemble a hat or bunyon.
When you see sc Malays approaching
toward you in this quaint dishguise
you think that all Greenitch Village
have gone out for a walk.
And now l shall commence with the
hard words, if convenient, Mr.. Editor
When leaving SIS Resolute we was
resolved to go to the very insides of
Java for observe famus temple
what were abandoned by Hon. Bud
dah about 1000 yrs of yore. Why he
move out are plain to see after going
there by Dutch-speaking RR. Name
of this temple are Boroboedoer, but 1
forbid you to pronounce it. Well, we
start off for that intense proper name
in a toy RR where all the brakemen
wear pink rosebuds on their skirts
& blue ones on their hats or turbines.
Well, this train splunge intelligently
through several nice jungles, deter
mined to get there. / gass, axcept, ii
have to stop at Djweendjowka for let
off passengers what wish change cars
for Djiliwong Junction. 1t could keep
on doing this forever. merely by
changing the spelling.
WHEN jungle get more jungly,
w Hon. Train go pretty good. but
he stop Zee very bump while whistling
with great superstition. One timid
lady from st. Louis holla, There are
a tiger on the track" But such were
not the cass. 1t were merely bow
conscriptor Il ft long eating some
body's goat what he got. This teach
US not to be nervous before it are
time to do so.
Evening star., 1924-07-06
Manila Ouranks Many Cities the United States in Everyday

took my handkerchief and rubbed it
along from one end of the frame to
the other: it was as clean as when il
came from my pocket.
The teaching of embroidery and
other industries begins as soon as a
child enters a school, and some of the
beautiful pieces sold in the states are
the work of the pupils. The boys
learn to make hats and baskets.
There is a period of Industrial work
every day, and no girl can enter the
high school without having gone
through courses in embroidery, plain
sewing, clothes making and how to
manage a home, including the care of
infants. i am told that after passing
through the first few grades the girls
make their own clothes; l saw some
beautiful garments upon which they
were working as / went through.
In another room score of boys
with pen and ink were decorating and
lettering the diplomas Of their class
for the coming commencement.
The intelligence of the pupils Will
also compare in every classroom fa-
vorably with that of the American
school child. The boys and girls
seemed anxious to show what they
knew. and when a question was
asked their half bare arms went up
all over the room.
A LII of these children spoke Eng
u lish. and their songs in English
| were without Spanish or Filipino ac-
cent. When they sung the music was
good. for they have the souls of mu-
sicians.
/ wish l could show you the recess
period in these ninety-one schools.
1t occurs at the same hour through
out the city, when $4,000 children are
going through the exercises l shall
describe. At the exact minute in the
| central hall of each building a gong
beaten by a boy calls the children to
| order. The piano plays, and each
class forms in line and enters the
| halls. They march double file along
| the galleries keeping step, and then
go downstairs in the same order to
the Fairgrounds, which may cover an
| acre. The classes of the same grade,
boys anu girls, lace eaCn Otner from
| the opposite sides of the ground At
| signal from the teacher they en-
gage in competitive exercises, each
grade striving with others of the
same grade in certain play that de-
| velops the body and stimulates the
| ambition. Some of the fourth grade
boys and girls were running competi-
| tive races, every child doing it's best.
| In another part of the ground they
were playing leap frog and farther on
| ring around the rosy" or London
| bridge is falling down." singing the
words out in English. 1 cannot. de-
| scribe all the sports. The children
thought they were playing, and did
| not realize that they were going
| through set of athletics planned
especially for their physical and men,
tai development.
After ten minutes so spent the gong
sounded. and this part of the recess
was ended. For the rest of the time
the children did as they pleased,
many taking their lunch and the 9TH
ers engaging in one kind of play or
another. The luncheon Is cooked by
the older children, and it is sold at
| cost -
AcopynsAt. 1874. carpentsr's World rravs,N) J
Evening star., 1924-07-06

in it more than one million children
carry on all their school work. We
started this teaching of English with
something like 500 American teach
ers, and the native teachers had to
work hard to learn English fast
enough for their pupils. Some OF
them studied English at night and
taught what they learned the next
day. Now the American teachers are
less than half as many as they were
at the start, and the $4,000 Filipino
teachers have all graduated from nor
NAL schools. They all read and speak
English fairly well. There is hardly
a village in the islands that has not
a number of English speaking boys
and girls. and the younger generation
is growing up with English as its
thought-language and book-lan-
guaGA o
Evening star., 1924-07-06

the Filipinos themselves and every
cent comes out of the islands The
public school bill last year was more
than $1,000, 900. which is more than
81 head, or S. per family, including
every one in the archipelago from
Formosa to Borneo.
Now, compare the bill with those OF
some Of our states. These people are
annually spending more upon educa-
ton each year than Oregon. Mary
land, Kentucky or Georgia. They
spend six times as much as Delaware
and about twice as much as South
Carolina or Mississippi. those great
states of the south, and three times
as much as Vermont or New Hamp-
shire, the home of Simon-pure
Yankees. They spend one-tenth as
much as the state of New York. which
has about the same population, and
one-third as much as Texas, which
Is more than two and one-half times
as big and has oodles of public school
lands.
Moreover, these schools are run by
the Filipinos. The buildings number
in all seven or eight thousand, and OF
the almost $4,000 school teachers only
326 are Americans. These are the ng-
ures of October last year, when 25,4Sf
Filipino teachers, women and men,
were doing daily work in the schools.
Moreover all the teaching is in Eng
lish and the school work is all done
in that tongue. Think of 100000
Filipino children going through their
school work in English. day in and
day out, and you have one of the sur
prises Of the Philippines.
wonder if you realize what this
means. 1t is a wonderful work that
Uncle Sam has been doing in these is
lands, with the ardent cooperation
Of the people themselves. He has
put new life into the brains Of about
100000 people, and both wild men
and civilized are using their heads as
never before. When 1 visited the
Philippines in 1900 education was al
most unknown. The majority of the
people had no schooling whatever, 30
per cent were densely ignorant and
not one man in ten could read or
were, had been broken up by the war
and the troubles with the Spaniards,
and about the only teaching was that
of the friars, who were incuicating
the knowledge Of the middle ages.
HURING my stay some schools vera
- organised by the Army. ana an
ex-soldier put at the head of the bu-
reau of education. Then Uncle Sam
began to bring in the American
schoolma am and teach the children
in English. What job that was you
stay-at-home Americans will never
know. Only about per cent of the
population of the island could speak
Spanish; the people carried on their
work in eighty-seven different dia-
lects, and they we're divided into more
than forty ethnographic groups or
Evening star., 1924-07-06
ALFRED OF THE ADVERTISEMENTS
STEPHEN Romance in the Art and Heart Manner

orders to any address, he had them
expressed to Louisa from all parts of
the country. These orders. which were
night. were filled under the direction
of a staff Of trained experts on whose
taste and discretion the customer may
place the utmost reliance. In short,
1t is of these orders that the well
known florist Mr.. ]. @. w. Mud Of
Washtabula- Wash, has said, in that
terse language which he uses. Let us
send them" In addition to the fiow-
ers Alfred also sent seeds, bulbs and
shoots. for which the charge is exact
ly the same and no greater.
The inevitable time drew near when
Alfred of The Ads felt that he must
know his fate and must hazard all
on an avowal of his love. For this,
however he had prepared himself He
had overcome the natural diffidence
Of youth by purchasing and perusing
a little manual called why Be Diff
dent. Self Confidence Acquired By a
New System of Treatment In two
Lessons at Fifty Cents Each" Alfred
in sending for this little book in
closed u. S. postage stamps. but IT is
important to notice that bills. ex-
press orders or any form of legal ten
der are preferably accepted for 1t.
NOR was lovely Louisa unpre-
pared. She, too, had studied a
little manual entitled What Young
Girl Ought to Know" and she
knew it.
The fateful moment came. kneel-
ing on one knee in front of Louisa
thing which he was enabled to do
without risk by wearing Never-Bag
trousers-Alfred declared his love in
few easy sentences selected from
colored the face Of tho lovely Louisa
was answer enough. Alfred rose to
his feet with an easy movement OF
his suspenders and clasped the girl
to his heart.
There is no need here to describe
the charming home wedding with
which the marriage of Alfred and
Louisa was celebrated at The Ads.
The good old place was cleaned and
redecorated from cellar to basement,
Alfred using for this purpose the
new Pneumo-Wheeze vacuum clean
er, which can be had on free trial
for ten days and which is guaranteed
to remove dust from every corn er
and crevice. 1t is of this cleaner that
Mr.. Y Q. Overhead, the we'll known
expert himself a T. Q. of Yale, had
said: They are the best cleaners
that l know"
The catering was placed in the
hands of a catering firm. The invi-
tations were printed and issued by
an invitation firm. The officiating
clergyman was engaged on a simple
basis of cost plus. Louisa looked
cha rming in a wedding gown which
could have been returned without
charge if not satisfactory. Alfred S
costume was guaranteed by the
maker himself. And as the happy
pair sank back luxuriously on the
seat of the landeau "a shock alb
sorber with every carr Alfred placed
his arm twice round Louisa's waist
and murmured, 1T pays to advertise.
Copyright. 1924
Evening star., 1924-07-06
T is now an open secret among
all those who have anything to
do with the making of the mAHa-

T is now an open secret among
all those who have anything to
do with the making of the maga-
zines that the advertising pages
have come to be more interesting
than the rest of the text
The situation is one which threat
ems our literature, and 1 think the
time has come when our story writers
must create new interest by bor-
rowing something from the advertis-
ing pages. The new type of romance
should have all the glowing idealiza-
ton of the advertisement and should
initiate also that exactness in regard
to costumes. materials and prices in
which the advertisements excel. 1
would suggest a new type Of story
to run after the following fashion:
The earliest recollections of Alfred
El1icott whose life forms the subject
of this chronicle. were Of his family
home in New England on the back
of the Stickemupabit, a stream noted
today for its attraction to tourists,
being within easy motor ride from
both New York and Boston and
Squedunk railways. whose admirable
dining car service makes access to
the district and egress from it a sus-
tanned pleasure and which welcomes
any complaint from it's patrons in
regard to the incivility of it's en-
ployes.
HERE Alfred passed his boyhood
The house in which he lived was
a typical colonial mansion, known in
the nelghborhood as the Ads: 1t was
built in the colonial style (see book
lett with a tall portico and wide slop-
ing roofs shingled everywhere with
the new lay-easy shingles, the princi
pal advantage in which is represent
ed by reducing labor cost two men
being able easily to lay three squares
t30110 feeD in one morning. In fact,
these are the shingles of which MT
P. Q. Woodhead (see insert) the we'll
known builder of Potsdam. n. H,
has said. in his impressive way
C'They reduce costD.
Here Alfred spent a solitary boy
hood. his time spent largely in rev.
erie and daydreams. When not able
to sleep naturally he found that
grains of Sleep-Tight. inhaled up
his nose, brought on delightful
slumber from which he awoke com
pletely refreshed at so cents a packet.
1t was when Alfred had reached the
age of.nineteen years that Lovely Louisa.
a distant relative. came to live at the
Ads. The girl had been left an orphan
by the death of parents who had not
known that ten minutes exercise on the
Prakto system done on the floor of their
bedroom would have preserved the lives
of both of them. She had been rendered
penniless by the folly of a guardian who
had never understood that investment Is
now science that can be learned in
seven lessons postpaid by applying at
once
Penniless as she was Lovely Louisa
on her arrival at the Ads made an in
stant impression on the young and sus-
ceptible heart of Alfred When she
aighted from a motor car, the tires of
which were guaranteed to carry her
10000 miles. and which rolled with ex-
Evening star., 1924-07-06
THE OTHERS SIDE OF PARADISE'
La6 hoo1B BouT els Of Lapain the
TO Editor The Sunday Star. who
do not need go Java in August
forget his coffee hot.
Dearest Sir

| for get his coffee hot.
Dearest Sir
DjokdjakartA
Buitenzorg.
Boroboedoer
Mr.. Editor. put your thumb strong
ly on those names & hold your eye
| brows stifny while 1 tell you about
Java, an Island what me & Nogi just
finish the passover Of If convenient.
do not weaken. for you are going to
meet several harder nouns than that
| before walking " block in this heat
ed jungle.
But before l start forward in Java
l wish say one or 2 things about
| geography. In all this intellectual
| trip around world we find some
strange simularities wherever we
| blow into. American emotion pic
| lures everywheres. attempting to
| teach Hollywood to poor heathens. In
Cairo we observe Hon. Rescue Ar
| buckle in scenario by Hon. Irv Cob
| with American jokes by Mohammed.
| In Rangoon. right around cor from
! barefoot Buddhists & bang-gong
prayer Of Shwe Dagon Pagoda we see
| sign Don Quickshot of Texas
| American Thrills" In Java we meet
Hon. Dorothy Gish in jumping photo
play of title "Het Spool van Kiper."
although l do not think it sound like
that in California climate.
X X
A LSO another resemblance between
all lands I dishcover up to dates
| Everywhere we come, whittier it be
| Madeira, Naples. Darjeeling, Colombo.
| Handy or Singapore there were
band in Hotel to play Yeswegotno
Bananas This are a outrag. be-
| cause 1 could observe this delicious
| fruits hunging from the Eve Of
houses while they played. II they
had played Yes We Got No Following
Articles:
Soap
Ventilation
Timetables
| Ice Water
then maybe there would be some
common senselessness to such a sing
| song. But why they keep harping &
| huting away on subjeck of No Ban
| ing axept imaginary bannanna-line
| pulled tightly around place where the
| World looks the fattest
| While speaking Of Equator. Mr..
| Editor | wish say we have went over
it Zee this week without a puncture.
| In climate it are about " as hot as
Chicago in June, but only II as
| thirsty. First time we arrive to Equa-
tor Hon. Neptune jump aboard with
| several comickle sailors to. throw
PASSENGERS into sea & make them
welcome This game were hoolingly
funny until . ruff sailors (mistake)
| poke me into wet tank for slight
| souse. This are carrying a joke into
| the beyond. l are fond Of humor. but
| l do not care for hoarseplay.
But now l shall return to Java.
] Djokdjakarta.
| Buitenzorg.
| Boroboedoer.
Mr.. Editor, / hoped YOU have not
moved your thumb since I informed
| YOU