| Show life h the philippines in the philipp ne inlands no white man drinks raw water that is unless he courts cholera or dysentery when ever possible he boils it or distill it erab the latter in manila is a large distilling plant carried on by the government tor the use of its civil employed emp loyes the natives are by no means as caretti and most of them drink the water nature provides it and attempt to avert cholera by prayers and charms the native lives principally upon rice and fish with a 1 atle fru t and vegetables this low diet is by no means satisfactory to the europeans and americans in the islands which do not produce at present the I 1 ands of food which they demand conse quent ly the table of the amer can is supplied mostly with frozen meat li rought from australia or the states and with canned vegetables ege tables and fruits fresh milk except from bao Is practically unknown in the islands there be ng ocly half a dozen milan cows in banila and the feces sity is supplied by condensed milk and canned cream the islands produce very few tru ts which are palatable to americans since the spanish times the prices of most commodities and the wages of most 1 ands of labor have doubled and trebled not only in manila but in most parts of the philippines and rents especially in man la have soar ed skyward houses which five years ago were rented for twenty five pesos a month now cost two or three times as many dollars A group of houses recently built of mpa containing four rooms each were rented long before the r completion at the rate of 36 gold per month the annual rent of the housa amounting to more than twice the cost of the structure geographical magazine |
