Show t J THE TIfE GOSPEL OP OF CIVILIZATION We Ye learn from the Philippines that our occupancy pancy of the islands is having an excellent effect on the conditions surrounding and influencing Women wo wo- men in that country A military man who has spent some oine time in the archipelago states that the native women are being favorably impressed by br the American Amer- Amer American ican can women who have made their homes in that disant distant dis dis- tant ant country Dress personal adornment and ancI manners manners man man- ners have all been subjected to an ameliorating in in- luence fluence During the last Jast twelve months especially great improvement ment has be been n made in all these re reo The Filipino women now insist on having more clothes and better than formerly with the fee fe- result of marked improvement in personal appearance The officer in question visited an in in- tenor village of Luzon a year and a half ago In the house louse in which he lodged he found a a. girl of ten or tWelve years who sucked with enjoyment big black cigars Several months later he visited the same family The girl had bad grown larger but was better dressed and better mannered You are not smoking smoke ing ng I see he said offering her his cigar case No lINo senor Well VeIl try one of these he lie said offering her his cigar case Xo No thank you senor replied the he girl girlin in fair English me inc no smoke now Amer- Amer cano women no smoke This external conformation tion ion to American womanly standards is we would fain believe a happy and certain indication of the he adoption of our types of womanly character and worth Our American an women are the products of American homes Every home in the land may be behe bethe bethe the he source whence the best influences may reach the uttermost ends of the earth Our American home life is now influencing the Filipinos Keep let us the he fountain head pure and not only the Philippine islands but every nation and clime however dark the he influence at present pervading pen them shall be influenced improved and uplifted by American wives wi mothers daughters sisters and sweethearts whose lives are reflections of the better brighter happier things in store for and within reach of all who love the truth in very word and deed |