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Show iBB.BiBBBBBBBBBBflBBBBBrj i. V I rAMlLY TiF.5 OF THE FILIPINO& A FILIPINO FAMILY. Tho women do the business of tho Philippines. Tbcr are. In ftct tha working and tho moneymsk ng part of the population. They have, If an-thine an-thine more brains than the mm and they aro far better financier!. No matter If the Ft Ip no be rl:h o-poor, o-poor, It la his wife who carries the pocket book and keeps the acc.unt'. She doca the buying for tho fair I y, and If the to have a sten she dtoi the selling In the markets of the I'h'llpplne a lands nearly all of the Hal's are iojt by women, They sell most, vege a"jlii and fruits. They aiso havo booths !n which they sell sbojs, c'otha en I all kinds of merchandse. Mtny of t en take their goods from their hit set to tho market every morn'ng and br n them back at night. Iltu mss wti them Is largely a matter of bargaining but tho foreigner Is Inde-d a rend it he gets the better of the trade In iujh cases. There Is one street In Manila which i is largely given up to natlvo woTrn I vho sell dreia goods. They lure II tl stores net more than sl f o' sjui o These are walled with eaiei 10 lining lin-ing the anrst of plna. Just and o'.her native clotha. A counter icparres the woman from tho atrett She has Just 1 room enough In the store for n t a 7 j0amim"n i u Abu. to i r -'rrftnirwO''Ht' i' her as she sits and d ala w.th her cus tomers. There are women ptdlert everywhere every-where In the Philippine Islands. You see them sitting on the corners of tho streets selling tobacco, fruit, vege-I vege-I tables and notions. Many of Item peddle the betel uut nnd aoir.o have rice wrapped up In banana leave and ' cakca of varjous kinds. They do tho washing of the country, coun-try, carrying tho clothes to tto streams nrd pounding the dirt out by ;: slapping tho wet garments on the stones. They do nil their wrshlnr, n cold water, using cocoanut oil to loos en the dlrL They Iron tho clothes with flat Iron boxes, which hive coat I Inside of them to keep trem hot, novo heating tho Irons on stoves as wo do. Many of the women aro tjllore'sat and dressmakers. Thpy do beauM.ul embroidery, and are excellent seams-tresres. seams-tresres. They usually alt on fie ground when they sew and whero tie havo sewing machlnei they siuit down on the ground and run t em sewing machines of tho l'h I pp nes are hsnd machlnea which havo ni tiblo connected with them. The aver- iuiiz. VsBBsBNsWPlBkaBNKtj1. A SFAV"il LADY. rto sewing machine costs (25 In tt'-m, tt'-m, or about half that amount I J go d if Americana establlih factories In tho Philippines they will havo t ra y upon tho women to do tho work, Tho men are lazy and rnnnot bs gotten tJ work for moro (ban A few daya at ono time. There nro now In tho nelghtorhol of 20.000 employes In tho tobacco factories fac-tories of Manila, and the g'eat majority ma-jority of these aro women They era expert at making cigars nnd c'garett's and do their work moro rapidly and skilfully than tho men It Is tho same In the cotton factiry, and, la fnrL everywhere. The women do n vast amount of tho form work. They aid In planting the rlco nnd In harvesting harvest-ing IL You eco them everywhere In tho fields, threshing, thresh-ing, planting and harvesting, and you seldom pass a country coun-try houso without finding ono or two women at work hauling rlco for tho dally meal Courtship nnd marriage Is carried on hero In much tho same way ns It Is In tho Rpanlsh coun-trles.save coun-trles.save that there Is morn fretitojo ' nmriicuptennaii'y' aft an early age. Ac-j Ac-j cording to an order lived by tho military mili-tary governor of tho Philippines, last December, De-cember, boja may marry as soon as they reach tho ago of fourteen, and girls may bo married mar-ried at twelve. American people, who nlbblo nt tho brown cones ot Hdam cheeso may be Interested to know that tho genuine article cf which, by tho way, little cornea to An-erlca An-erlca Is mndo In llroeck, Holland, a town of 2,700 people, nnd reputed to bs the cleanest town In the world. |
