A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

American Pupils and Filipino Pupils Contrasted--The Filipinos' Belief That They Are Highly Developed Musicians--Their Morbid Sensitiveness to Criticism--Explanation of Their Des...

American and Tagalog Invaders of Visaya Compared--Doubt As to the Aptitude of Filipinos for Self-Government--Their Civilization Not Achieved by Themselves But Inherited from Spa...

Aristocracy and "Caciquism" in the Philippines--Poverty of the Filipino Poor--Happiness in Spite of Poverty--Virtual Slavery of the Rustics--Their Loyalty to Their Employers--Wa...

Our First Election of a Governor--More Feeling in Our Next Election--We Organize a Self-Governing Society in the School--Improvement in Parliamentary Procedure--The Boys Imitate...

School closed in March, and Miss C---- and I decided to spend our vacation in Manila. We were to leave Capiz on the small army transport _Indianapolis_ and go to Iloilo, thence...

The Pasig River, With Its Swarm of House-boats--Through Manila into the Walled City--Our First Meal--A Walk and a Drive in Manila--The Admirable Policemen--We Superintend the Pr...

Autumn Weather--Winter Weather--A Christmas Tree for Filipino Children--A Christmas Eve Ball--Early Mass on Christmas--Visitors--Attitude of the Filipino to Religion--His Ideas...

After Resting in a Saloon I Arrive at My Lodging--I Attend an Evening Party--Filipino Babies--I Take Temporary Charge of the Boys' School--How the Opening of the Girls' School W...

I Am Appointed to a School at Capiz, on Panay Island--We Anchor at the Lovely Harbor of Romblon--The Beauty of the Night Trip to Iloilo--We Halt There for a Few Days--Examples S...

A Surprise Party of Bolo-Men--Forty_ _Insurrectos_ _Arrive in Our Neighborhood--Anecdotes of Encounters with Insurgents--Anxiety Because of Treachery of the Natives--A False Ala...

At the period of my advent in Capiz there were but two other American women there, wives of military men. Later our numbers were increased by the wives of several civilian emplo...

Children's Games--How Moonlight Nights Are Enjoyed--The Popularity of Baseball Among the Filipinos--My Domestics Play the Game--The Difficulty of Putting Out Fires--Need of Wate...

My first impressions of Honolulu were disappointing. I had been, in my childhood, a fascinated peruser of Mark Twain's "Roughing It," and his picture of Honolulu--or rather my p...

Filipino Brides, Their Weddings and Wedding Suppers--River Trip to a Rural Wedding--Our Late Arrival Delays the Ceremony Until Next Morning--The Ball--We Tramp Across the Fields...

How Typhoons Assert Themselves--Our First Typhoon--Six Weeks' Mail Brought by the _General Blanco_--Her Narrow Escape From Wreck:--A Weird Journey on a Still Smaller Steamer--An...

Word of an Abandoned Gold Mine near Manila--I Arise Before Three A.M. and Find the Town Asleep--Our Trip down the River--Scenery and Sights by the Way--Three Buffaloes Are Broug...

Manners and Social Condition of Filipino Girls--Sentimental Boy Lovers--Love-making by Proxy--How Courtship is Usually Performed--Premature Adolescence of Filipino Youth--The _B...

On a hot July day the army transport _Buford_ lay at the Folsom Dock, San Francisco, the Stars and Stripes drooping from her stern, her Blue Peter and a cloud of smoke announcin...

Dancing, Cock-fighting, Gambling, Theatricals--Sunday in the Philippines--Lukewarmness of Protestant Christians in the Philippines--How a Priest Led Astray the Baptist Missionar...

Filipinos are punctilious about many things concerning which we have passed the extremely punctilious stage. Some of their strictest observances are in the matters of sickness a...

Voyaging over the Tropical Seas--We Touch at Guam, or Guahan, One of the Ladrone Islands--Our First Sight of the Philippines--Manila, "A Mass of Towers, Domes, and White-painted...

When we were a week out from San Francisco and were eight hundred or a thousand miles north of the Hawaiian Islands, the _Buford_ stopped one evening just at sunset, and for at...