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.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. ,
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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
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. houses here in the United States.
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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 - ,
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