Show FILIPINO HOUSE An American Woman Who Considers It nS Simply a aNew Toy Joy 1 New York Tribune I Housekeeping Hou in the Philippines writes a Brooklyn woman unman tt to her Mr mother is simply a joy I have bave never lived so sowell II well eH or at In ail alt my life Ufe I have bay learned ft a started housekeeping but it cost before I got cot th throb the hang or of thin I first rid myself or of the I horde or of worThless Filipino servants wito 00 rob newcomer and end left and then installed in a 3 cook k at 1260 12 16 a month m manti j and anti the lire house hou runs itself There is not much work In a tropical household no stuffed furniture or carpets no lace or other oUter kind kine of curtaIns curtain but painted flexible screens attached to tire the tk windows ind ws Everything I is on one floor the is rattan bamboo o and th the kitch kitchen kitchen i ien en are simplicity itself The climate to Is although the sanitary I ar are 16 B Iy bad haL We are re an a all I 1 failing into Iato the lethargic condition which seems the chronic e rol O state x oft t he native I Itak tak tako long 1004 saps nape pit all aU the th afternoon At 7 i we dia tIlDe dine There is Ii not 1704 mum much call callIn callI In I log In the evening as tire the curfew Is still in force clearing cl the streets street at p m mTh Th TIle The evenings are perfect but we set get g t sleepy end ADd nd are usually U to in bed tty by 9 S oclo k Fn grow here her here in great abundance The bananas are aTe tIle the more mose delicious to be beI I found anywhere This fruit is a great boon to 0 the poor people supplying them with an exceedingly nutritious nutrition article of food at little cost Other f of the islands island are the t ate the cinnamon apple of ot the French colOnies the the mango mangu the pineapple the tamarind the orange the lemon the jack the jujube the the king kI of ot fruits according to the Chinese e the plum the the bread fruit and ana the papaw This test last fruit is I eaten like a lemon and is act as an efficacious digestive I When I see the India rubber rather trees twenty or more h In height h grow growing growIng ing in Sn the yards here their stiff brilliant green gr leaves lenvee glistening in the sun wn I laugh to think of f the tile little box plants plant we e used to top keep p In our at boise bome i the win tee ter because they y were the only growing thing that could yat stand at the united attack I of dust n neglect lect and aMi coal ga gas ga gasI t I Rice la Is the staple food of ot the Filipinos Filipino Sixty pounds of rice at 2 cents a pound is all the food a servant asks for Sweet I potatoes a II kind kiDd of yam am the ground nut and gourds gourd are pretty generally lly grown aa as well as occasionally peas potatoes and aDd andin aDdin andin in the higher regions even eeD wheat wheaL Be Bc Besides Beside sides side the cultivation of rice the are great and k keep ep cattle swine and vast s numbers U of poultry The latter i run around r under the houses which w stand standup standup up four lour or five feet teet from the ground and andare andare andare are latticed off oft with bamboo I never get et tired Ure watching the tM simple primitive methods of Filipino housekeep housekeeping tug Ins for tor their t r processes are carried on be before fere fore the eyes of all men The men them themselves selves do the large part of ot the hard work while the women worren perch OR on the tt I Ion steps that r lend lead into their houses and look on All the cooking cocking Is done iLine ne out of doors and usually on the ground Their little stoves of or red clay are hardly ae as a large a ath as th the iron pots we have at home One side aide to Is bit bent down like a primitive t 1 earth and lid tile Are firs to Is kept going by long t JD Jb ibee which wh th the men meR blow blot bI through tastes instead S d of using bellows On this tM funny little apology for tor fora fora a stove they rook cook their t ir rice tIce o chocolate stirring the latter tetter with frith carved sticks which they e twirl between be their palms to keep t the beverage frosa 8 sticking furI Often they do not DOt use Ulie rh the Ut t all but make a fire tire right on the ground between two toned stone Ro over which they set red earthen bowl bowls to in which they cook the men chop kindling they sit Mt down m on their heels just as a the Japanese do and in Sn fact l act t nearly aU all their work is done clone in this same fashion When their simple pie culinary rites rit are finished they gather around a nd their pot pet of ot rice and dip dipping dipping ping in slender brown fingers ft ra help themselves without the formality of knives hurts forks forlis tor or chopsticks chopstick Din Dinner Dinner ner concluded bud bands and dishes are ar In tie the shallow hallow tub which stands at every en ry door soap dishcloth and dish dieh dishtowel towel being all ali made of gogo PIO the bark tark of a species of vine 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