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v ' t -i . V - t 4 1 ( FVI7V ' ; .a. '"Star 'ft 'Weifhr!h eS ill ' A7A About m year ico there m la I'll .Journal an article in ' which It wu stated that American girls of a mar riageable tge were few and far be tween la the Philippine. a At that time It was said that at .leaat Ave taon aaad were needed to remedy the defl eiency. , It' appears, however, that Ave thonssad fa too . email an estimate. At least twice that' number are want ed, according to fhe writer of the following story. He speaka from ex perience, having; Jnst returned from m two years' trip la which he worked hJa way aronad the world. One year of this time waa spent In the Philip pines six months as n school teacher In the little lownvol Past, and the other el as reporter for the 'Manila J Times. In the spring a yonng man's fancy lightly tarns to thoughts of love. In the Philippines It is always spring. It qaite natnrally follows that the yonag' man out there In our annny tropic possessions is obsessed with each fancies the year round. Bat the word "lightly" does not apply to him, for her regards the mat ter as a serious proposition. , 'Mil "''( VW't ' -i ft A" Aft 4 H. ' 11 y- 1 ... BY GILMAN MONCURE PARKER. WANT a husband? Very yell all that you have to do is pack your trunk, -buy a steamship ticket, and go out to 'the Philippine islands. You'll get a husband, all right. In' fact, you'll be lucky rlt you don't get a dozen. t Probably you remember that part of the his tory of the United States which tells about the amorous young swains of Jamestown and how they raised an awful rumpus because there weren't enough marriageable damsels in that colony. They made such a fuss about it that the London company finally got hold of ninetv young women, told them what a grand and glorious place America was, and shipped them over to Jamestown. ' There, upon landing, they were met by the young men. Each grabbed .the first girl he could lay bia hands on and paid for her transportation expenses to the company. During the rest of the day the minister! of the colony, did a thriving business la the M I pronounce you man and wife " in dustry. iTtia t tutn xrnn ..-i- onn later, there arises practically the same condi tion of affairs in another American colony. However, the weeping need for brides in Jamestown waa nothing to the palpitating ne cessity for 'em in the Philippines. Throughout the length and breadth of that archipelago from the haunts of the head hunters of north ern Luzon to the realm of the sultan of Sulu in the south there are hundreds of earnest, hard working American youths going about and aying, " Owhytheheldidlevercomeouthere?" simply because they're unhappy and unmar ried. Single and Sorrowful Synonymous. Now, you never hear a married man talk like that that rs,ZTn "the Philippines. It's only with bachelors there that the terms sin gle and sorrowful are synonymous. Ask a double harnessed gentleman what he thinks regarding the islands, and hell answer that Utopia and the Elysian fields are but barren Saharas as compared to them.' Inquire of a ingle man, however, and he'll exhtust all the expletives in his vocabulary in condemning them to the bottommost dungeons of perdition. Tou can't really blame him. As a matter of fact, he doesn't mean all he says ; for, after leaving the Philippines for any considerable length of time, he becomes Imbued with an . almost overpowering desire to get back there again this being " the call of the orient " and all that sort of thing. The main trouble with him, while -there, is just downright loneliness. All that he wants is a mate to love, honor, and be bossed by. She obtained, the seventh heaven of the Moros has nothing on the Phil ippines. . Let's take, for example, the case of the aver age unmarried young man who goes out to the islands. On arriving In Manila ha otthar u. cures government position or annexe, him- JJSJT2f Q7JZ7 THE self to some commercial firm. Tf h h mv -' -rJxix.Jyi-XJAIUIELOR, capability at all he can obtain a monthly sal ary of at least 200 pesos, which in Christian money amounts to 100. In the event that he doesn't spend moat of his hpare time in chrick- inv flla uilnrv at fha flnacmll Via -1iaM ti- .Kin 'to save at least half of this amount per month, :' Da,!$ Program. for the cost of living in the Philippines is far But to continue with our young man. We'll leas than in the United States. Let', look into PWe; that he has obtained a government hi monthly running expenses for a moment: po8i,ion: with Btation ln Mani,a- ""y . Irr.. slry room ovarlooklna Msnllsb.y... .lv.o PK. hpn. is to "we at 7 o'clock every Vis (lnciucHn. i or ivn couri dinn.r). . 27 50 morning and report for woTk an hour, later. Muchicho (Filipino vslrt) 6.00 " ?' . . . . . Laundry (Ineladtna th washing of whit ane . From that time until 8 or .4 o'clock in the aft- kisMUaseetia 2.10 - ceptlng jan hour at noon for, luncheonl ; On open plaza fronting the bay,-and listens to the .K Total..... ..i.oo ' SatBrdays- toughout 'tlie; 'year'and;'ieyery lcontabulary band, which ita composed entirely ' '. These expenses, of course, apply only to weekday, during .several raontha of ih:,,,hot' of Filipinos, and .which, .by the way, is' a band Manila in the event that he is stationed at iwaaoni 'however,, be. worka -irom:8;ociock:'lit, well 'worth hearing. Following this he goes aome small town out in the bosque, which is the mprningintil 1 in the afternoop,' having home' for ' dinner, and" later in the evening Spanish for country, he will find his expenses, practfcolly half ot thn day to himself. r , ' V spends his time', at cither, his club, a dance, lo be about $10 A mpnth less. Why, out In 0 On; noittingW native fiesta, or if there the provincial towns, village.) and.barrio. you return home to be a play in townat Manila', one r b Zl Lt If. -JR. '""- I r ". a. M b .'i-V.j'ffi v ' i . kt.-Vi 4 M' 1.v, Jcrity of our dust collecting, poorly ventilated . houses here in the United States. ''. - VU A can ent a foil r or five room houeef the whlch i. CTistomaIn ma "A Vl ' i 1 auale walled,' nlpa roofed, and bamboo floored, trop(.y:ThWe eitb Manila! atrongly' appeals to-''V JO. 7 v . variety for only $10 a njojith. By, way of Manaaytor' a swira a , ' , : digression It may be said for these house, thai. - Joya ,"otie; otWr,fom of x'er i .'.--s--. : JL'.-1 " "K they are in many ways. more, sanitary and ' aential to good health, In 4beThilip - , . condudve tc continued good healt 4Xi a nii.nMiw. jf x.. 1 ' . ...1.1 ' f " ' ,7' .'.a.-. ' ft ' iS r - "YOtZWG J3ACIfLdE2f ; jot srsraLz: Ml" V. 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