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Show THE SERVANT PROBLEM IN MANILLA. MA-NILLA. Tho social life In .Manila Is quite as interesting as that of Washington, in my opinion, and the great thing Is that out there the servant problem almost solves itself. You can get Chinese, Japanese or Filipino servants, serv-ants, though tho first are getting i scarce on account of the exclusion laws Once In a while you get a Filipino that Is untrustworthy and you may havo to look out for thloves. While 1 was ta.kiug my siesta one afternoon a Filipino entered the house and actually stole my purse from under un-der my pillow This was about 3 0 clock, and of course In broad daylight. day-light. I had a revolver handy, and before ho could get out of tho room 1 awoke and pointed 5t at him while I telephones for the police A policeman police-man came and lifted the thief out of tho house by the hair. The Filipino got sixteen years In jail. One of the most attractive things about Manila is the Luneta in tho afternoon. aft-ernoon. The constabulary band plays and everybody who has a carriage drives out The American women there wear picture hats and low-necked low-necked frocks in the afternoons. The new hotel on the Lunota 4s almost finished fin-ished and tho buildings of tho Army and Navy and Elks clubs are completed, com-pleted, and they add to tho gayety. But tho most attractive thing about the life there Is tho ease with which good servans may be obtained. You can have eight there whore you would have to get along here with two, and you don't have to turn your hand to do a single thing. To the servants you havo to speak Spanish always, and the first thing one has to do on going to Manila Is to learn tho language. lan-guage. Yes, we play bridge in Manila. Sometimes we leave ono tablo at 10 o'clock In tho morning to go to another an-other game at another house and start again at 4 o'clock in the after-npon after-npon and play until dinner, and sometimes some-times spend the evening at it Then there is the polo every afternoon, and frequently we have teams from Hongkong Hong-kong or Singapore playing with the local club. But 1 was very much amused the other day at the remark of a woman I mot at a reception. "Aro you really from Manila?" she asked, "Why, how white you look!" Mrs. Frank P. Helms In au Interview in New York Sun. |