Show Filipino Ladies Are Ae Lovely Lovely- I But Oh the Clothes They Wear S By W W. W H. H PORTERFIELD MANILA I P. P I I. I March 26 EA I ten tell you that the belles ot of Manila still wear their raven tresses down their shapely backs to the graceful waist line and beyond u can see for yourselves just how little twenty five years of the American brand or of civilization has done for these islands of ours True the Filipino filly smokes the but shedid that before I our fair debs ever dreamed of the habit I Older readers will recall the leg lego o mutton sleeves which our wives and mothers wore a generation Oi 01 more ago Well Ven to ladles ladies of the Philippines invented this particular r sartorial artoria design some tour four centuries i back about the time the great Magellan Ma- Ma I gellan discovered these Islands MODEST BUT COMFORTABLE I Irhe The rhe leg o 0 mutton sleeves of the I Filipino female costume is In fact I Ithe the most distinctive feature ot of her I wardrobe The Filipino lady is s modest but unlike the Chinese lady she doesn't carry the idea to ex- ex Anyway Any with an average temp temperature of 80 plus comfort Is quite as important as that brand of modesty requires ye- ye quires that the hum human hotly body be swathed like a mummy I But the Filipino damsel makes up p for this seeming intelligence in- in by wearing It a train To I see a group of lovely demoiselles trailing down the avenue wIth transparent sleeves and skirts which would drag the dust for three feet behind were the tall tail not looped up is Ig about about as great a strain on the artistic sens as one can well ImagIne S In short the female costume costume cos- cos tume is decidedly unattractivE This notwithstanding the generous as- as of colors with w she adorn herself herselt Like aU all the strictly brown races the Filipino lady is and while young but also like an all tropical peoples her beauty fades rather early The men however are the hand hand- s I s i t I tr t r 1 IJ 2 4 I i I v 4 s. s s p.- p. mi- mi I ie Mrs Carmen Melencio Aguinaldo's daughter and a typical specimen of Filipino feminine beauty set of half portion lads ever turned out Their skIn is as smooth lS as brown velvet and they are grace grace- |