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Woman's Home Journal

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Woman's Home Journal

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Official Publication of the National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines

Issue Date

Volume XVII (Issue no. 14) November 30, 1946

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National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines

Language

English

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Women's periodicals.

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Place of publication

Manila

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Jbo ihe Saturday Evening News! Jhis 9a Jhe Spatial Qaaus The EVENING NEWS Which Comes Out Every Saturday Afternoon There are two important reasons why provincial readers find the SATURDAY EVENING NEWS the best newspaper for their money— It Has A Fourteen-Page News Section Which Gives Them I he Latest Developments Along The Local And Foreign News Fronts and It Contains A Thirty-Two Page Magazine Section Which Features Four Pages Of Colored Comics, Fascinating Feature Articles, Interesting Short Stories, Fashion Trends, And Pictures and More Pictures. STUDENTS, BUSINESS MEN, FARMERS, PROFESSION­ ALS, AND HOUSEWIVES ARE SUBSCRIBING DAILY TO THE SATURDAY EDITION OF THE “EVENING NEWS.” Far the relatively small amount of P9.00 you can receive the SATURDAY EVENING NEWS for one year, fifty-two issues in all, anywhere in the Philippines. SUBSCRIBE NOW! Clip this coupon and mail it together with the necessary remittance. The Circulation Department EVENING NEWS, INC. RAMON ROCES BLDG. 1055 Soler, Manila Gentlemen: Please send the SATURDAY EVENING NEWS to ........................................................................... of .................... -...................... for the period of payment of which is hereby enclosed in the amount of .............................................................................. as per (money order, cashier’s check, or cash by registered mail) ............................................................. effective immediately. NAME ADDRESS Subscription Rates: 1 Year...........P9.00 Six Months.......... . P4.80 Three Months...........P2.50 (Subscription Rates for the United States, Hawaii, and other countries double these rates.) NOVEMBER 30. 1946 WOMAN’S Home Journal (Official Organ of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) Board of Editors Trinidad Femandez-Legarda Paz Policarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. Benavides Managing Editor Minerva G. Laudico Associate Editor Paciencia Torre-Guzman Advertising Manager F. A. Fuentecilla Vol. XVII, No. 14 November 30, 1946 Content s THIS MONTH’S ISSUE ON OUR COVER this fortnight is Mrs. Car­ men Aguinaldo-Melencio who needs no in­ troduction. Her husband, Consul General Jose Melencio for New York has left for his assign­ ment abroad with Neny, their younger daugh­ ter, to keep him company before Mrs. Melen­ cio and Amor who is still finishing her law studies in U.P. can manage to join up. in the meantime there is much to do here for Mrs. Melencio what with her social welfare work taking up practically all of her time. The War Veterans, to mention her chief preoccupation now, seem to tie her very much to grinding of­ fice duties. Bustling about thus from noon till night should handicap this vital woman in more ways than one. But no. Consider that one hilarious night in Malacaiian when the party decided to have the “Lanceros” by all means, and everybody, as you can imagine, was dress­ ed to kill except Mameng Melencio who was in a white sports dress which she had worn to office all day. This “catastrophe”, far from spoiling her poise, made her the gayest, ablest Lanceros-participant that evening. NEWS OF OUR Federation representatives now at their tasks in America come pour­ ing everyday. The write-up of Mrs. Ramos by Bessie Hackett with the press release boxed in the same page, also Friends in America (page 27) will give you an inkling of how very smooth­ ly things are going for our women ambassa­ dors abroad. The latest cables, for instance, mention Mrs. Legarda as heading a committee sponsoring a cultural symphony concert in New York. Miss Mercedes Evangelista is now the recipient of a scholarship from the New Hamp­ shire Federation of Women’s Clubs. The scho­ larship will (Continued on page 25) Silhouettes This Month's Issue 3 A Song, A Flower And A Sigh . . Estrella Alfon Rivera 4-5 Only A Million ....... . Yay Agustin i. . 6 The Child And His'Language Dr. Antonio Isidro 7 Once With A Right Hand Manuel A. Viray 8-9 The Watch ......................... 10 Frederick Howard Your Slip Is Showing ................ Anatolio Litonjua 11 Women and Reconstruction Conrado V. Pedroche 12-B New Approach to Home Ownership 1 3 Political Leadership for Women 14 Mrs. Ramos In Washington Bessie Hackett 15 To Define A Hero Mar'io P. Chanco 16-17 Worn To State Functions (Fashions) 18-19 Household Notes 20 Tips to Teenagers 21 Recipes 22-23 Clubwomen’s Bulletin Board 26 Friends in America 27 From Brother to a Star C. M. Vega 29 Field Observation Solita N. Bautista 29 30 Letters to the Journal 31 The “Woman’s Home Journal” is edited and published by the Women’s Publishers, Inc., at 1055 Soler, Ramon Roces Bldg., Manila. Philippines. Telephone: 8-64-23. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office on July 10, 1946. Subscription Rates: 1 year (24 issues) P6.00; 6 months (12 issues) P3.00; 2 years (48 issues) Pl 1.00. For foreign countries double these rates THE PEACE OF A WORLD CAN HANG ON radio came the old songs. The songs we sang when we were young. Bing Crosby, you know. He is of the old and young. We all know him. the memories. And the tears and I FOUND a picture, one day, among the clothes I was sorting in my aparador. We had been through a fire, you know. As so many others have. And the clothes I had managed to save out of it were the clothes I would not have worn any more, but when the fire came, there they were, there was no time to reach the clothes more presentable and more deserving of salvation, because they were hanging upstairs, and the stairs had already caught fire. And you know how it is, how you get a sudden quick thought of well, this will be better to wear than nothing.- But I had acquir­ ed more clothes, you know, and 1 was sorting my bureau so I could give some clothes away, and as is A WEDDING PICTURE — WHO KNOWS? one that goes: the peace of the morning befriend thee, and the of them, light of the sunset, and the hap­ piness of the sky. I found that phrase once when I was young, and it seemed to me a lot of things bothered me, including religion. I found this phrase in a religious book, and it has always touched a soft noise is no noise, so they me, in that although it seems such always try to be as loud as they a happy saying, it always leaves can. They jump on me and they me so sad. chatter at me, and somehow, in that and the rest of the things That was what came into my there are to j forget about the g.ve ou.nC a«av, a..u a. now. We looked so young, picture. usual with women who are house- There 1 was, wearing a sad look­ cleaning, deciding to keep them smile—the photographer had anyway for remaking just as soon caught me probably with a twitas I had decided to discard them, chy nose, and there was my hus­ band, wearing a frown. He al............ ” ways frowns when you take a pic­ ture of him, I never can get to know why. In troop my children, the two Maybe to troop en­ visages for you an army, a host of children, not just two. But you should know my two, like to wear the big bakyas of the older people, and they delight in the clatter and the clump, and to them I wondered band heard. I and he had laid had laid forehead, and lying thus, looking up at the ceiling. I turn­ ed the radio down a little more, so that the song seemed even whispered. Sometimes, you un­ derstand, I pretend an indifference toward the old songs, saying they are sentimental, they are trite.- But actually, when I am alone with myself, I think I must admit I love them. I was courted with them. I got married on them, you know. The sentimental songs, the ones that say I’ll be loving you always, and tears for souvenirs, the ones that croon: rock me to sleep in my old mother’s arms. whether my huslooked over at him, his book aside, one arm athwart his was We associate them so much with the things we did when we were young. Reminiscing about those days, when the crowd you are re­ membering with is the cynical crowd, the ones who pretend to be amused and scornful of the things that are silly and make for no percentage except romance, I am inclined to be cynical myself, and wonder in tones of Did I ever do that ? But here you know, with the children asleep, and the house seemed to gently snore and heave with slumber, and my husband there with his arm heavy on his forehead, it was nice to remember. The days when you were young, indeed, when the dew was on the rose, and laughter was enjoyment, not mask. Somehow, I meant to _________ ... „ talk to him, to my husband lying feel especially were too many people in the there, to ask him to talk to me, you, felicitious, and I broach the sub- world, including yourself, and if to ask him if he were listening to else ject of a picture taken, but al- for only a while you " -- - plan on " ’ ____ ; we never seem to get around to it. I put the picture away, finally, time when you making a note to remember where 1W/TJY husband was also awake, look back at it, and remember the go I could show it to my husband reading a book over which Then somehow, a perverse occasion when it was taken, and iater. he kept snorting. Then over the to be silent possessed me. you wonder how the photographer top of the faded tapestries of mecould have ever thought that you mory, like a super-imposation, looked like that. came the parades, the crowded pageants of my today’s hours and minutes. The unromantic sem­ blance of the daily working hours, the unimaginative line-up of the minutes of life. Well, there was this picture. It was taken of my husband and me when we had just gotten mar­ ried. It was a little picture, rathBut that evening, after every­ one had gone to sleep, I was listening to the radio, you know, liking that time of the evening when it would almost be midnight. Liking that time because now at last there was a little breather For a long time I looked, at from the closeness of the humanier yellow now, and rather ridicu- the picture. There are times now ties. You know the feeling you lous looking. You know how it is, when I get a new dress, you know, get sometimes, as though there when you are very young, and the or perhaps we photographer rather scares and you wear a smirk, or wear a frown. And when you see though we it you think it is good enough, es­ pecially if it flatters you a little, but there comes taken, but al- fOr only a while you could be the same songs I was listening to, it, somehow alone, you would love it so much, and if for him, there were any that 1W/J7Y husbai J.TJL reading memories to match those were in my mind. wish On Well, then, there was this pic­ ture. And somehow it seemed to me that I could hear that phrase in my mind again, you know the By Estrella Alton Rivera PAGE 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL I thought of that picture, you know, back there in my aparador, thought of it with a positive ache helped along by the softly intoned music. There was a mirror on the wall and I studied myself in it, with the light on my head, but the light did not reach too well into the shadows, and it seemed to me there were the blue of sleepless­ ness on lids, and on my mouth hung the droop of many tired years. I began to feel a resentment, and I wished that I could find somehow, some release out of this, this state that was somehow be­ tween peace ad restlessness. And because the music seemed to dis­ turb me, I petulantly turned, and with a quick hand, switched the radio off. There were other days after that. There were other nights. The radio made a habit of singing those deeply sentimental songs. But where they had aroused sen­ timentalism, that had been re­ placed by a resentment. One night, we went to a show. You know how these movies are. It is the nearest to old-world ma­ gic we can find in our modem lives, and that is why sometimes I object to them. Especially after bending over a hot stove, it is not very much fun to look at a show where the heroine cooks every­ thing wih a flick of her fingers. The story was not very much. But there was a scene you know where the heroine and 'the hero sail on a lake in a boat, and they pass under some heavy foliaged trees. For a while, a short, but prolonged on the screen, while, they stop under those trees. They do not kiss. They do not even hold hands. But they look at each other, you know, as though all earth and all of heaven were com­ passed in the glance. It is just another of the Holly­ wood hokum and stuff. But somehow it was happily done, you know how they do these things. And when the picture whs over, and we were going home, the scene lingered. at a time after all that sentimen­ tal little turmoil I had been hav­ ing, and it seemed to be the top of the pile, the very straw. We were silent. All the way home, even as I held my husband’s arm, I noticed this silence between us. I liked the silence. It was a heavy rather antagonistic silence. I know that I liked to have a quar­ rel, or some scene, or any op­ portunity to have a real emotional break. One in which I could shed my tears, and spout out a few of the words, a little of the resent­ ment in me. But all through the way we were silent. And when we reached home, we repaired to our room as though there was nothing any­ more, not on this world, in this day, in this room, anything to talk about. And as I was putting my dress inside my hanger, there was an UNDERSTAND, it was not perhaps any extraordinary scene. It was just that it came opportunity to look at the picture had not quite succeeded in the at- You understand ? My husband was also awake, reading a book. Then over the radio came the old songs, the songs we sang when we were young. again. As I looked at it, once more, studying it in the light that seem­ ed to give it every breath and movement, I felt all the resent­ ment in me for all the ordinari­ ness of life, for the betrayal of all that is romantic to the plain­ ness of the plebian. You see, I kept looking at my face only, in the picture, and as I know it looks in mirrors. I have aged, I said to myself, I have grown old. And so I turned to my husband to fling the accusations of be­ trayal at him. And so you know, such a strange thing happened. I happened to see, for the first time, I think, although I had been looking at the picture rather closely, for the first time I looked at his face too. In the picture. The frown, the beetled brows that tempted smile. And when I turned to look at my husband, I saw also his face, his now face, his today face. And I recalled like a fleet glance the look he had as he had listened to the radio’s music. The arm flung on the forehead. And the silence as we had come out of the show. The silence, yes. I did not say anything. I gave him the picture, and watched his face as he looked. And because a fear had grown in my heart, I asked him a question. I said, weren’t we silly? Weren’t we silly-looking when we were young ? I wanted, you know to hear his voice. But he didn’t answer. He looked at his picture, and even as I had, he looked in the mirror. And then he smiled at me, and gave me back the pasteboard rec­ tangle, and he said, Let us have this framed. NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 5 THIS IS ONE BIG PILE OF MONEY WHICH MAY NOT EVEN BUY A CHUPA OF RICE FOR EVERT WAR VETERAN. ONLY A MILLION To a cochero a million pesos is enough money for any­ thing, but by the time balitang cochero finishes with asking how and speculating where the money went, every committee member’s name will be mud that another million won’t clear. The law, classifying who is entitled tb a share of the million is so loose—perhaps “all inclusive” is the term needed—that it would take a billion to make a showing let alone do any­ body much good. There has been uncharitable comment that the congressmen merely made a fine political gesture as emp­ ty as political promises are assumed to be. However, where would the congressmen get more than a million? Like har­ assed housewives, they count their pennies because a bread­ winning nation is still out of a job. What funds there are will spread but thinly. And no funds in the country will spread more thinly than those appropriated under Republic Act No. 1 for the “relief and rehabilitation of indigent war victims including the wi­ dows and orphans of members of the Usaffe, Volunteer Guards, Bolo Battalions, Guerrillas and similar organiza­ tions.” The widows alone, “included” cept tnat everywhere we turn, among the thousands of indigent there they are. The recent Ft. war victims, number in the thou- Santiago Memorial Fund of P103,sands themselves. Who knows 000 barely benefited 500 widows, how many widows we have? Ex-.. It relieved the 500, without rehaYay Agustin is shown at extreme left. In her well-known style she presents the ‘‘Million-peso Hot Potato” for the lay­ man’s appraisal. By Yay Agustin bilitating them; and* thousands upon thousands of other widows, knowing only that they are wid-' owed but not always sure where their husbands died, struggle along unaided. I If the Veterans’ Administration' moved a little faster, it could cut local misery by half but it is a ponderous machinery straddling an ocean and accomplishing its good in its own wagy and in its own goo^ time. Over here we clamor, “What good is the hay when the horse is dead?” but in Washington, D.C., the pension mill grinds slowly and exceeding­ ly fine. For those embittered at the moment, this factual story may give comfort: One of the VA’s officers brought a long search to its successful conclusion just before the war by paying the accrued pension, totalling thou­ sands, to a woman found in an interior barrio in the Cagayan Valley. Her husband was killed in the Revolution, fighting on the American side. She knew nothing of pensions, filed no claim, lived on unattached and in the very simple barrio manner. But the VA found her and paid her what was due her, which through 40 years accumulation had become a sizeable fortune. However impa­ tient we may be, it is to be ad­ mitted that the VA, hidebound with rules, snowed in with papers, limited by the primary action of other agencies, nevertheless does all that it is permitted to the best of its ability. Even if it takes 40 years. Meanwhile, as the VA plods along scrutinizing every case with a Sherlock Holmes microscope, there is this million-dollar Hot Potato that a newly appointed ‘ disbursement committee would .gladly drop tomorrow if it could. • It is a walang salamat job, all >censure and no praise to follow. ir.For every 10 people helped, a hundred will be passed by. Divide a million bucks by a million peo­ ple, then stretch one single peso as far as it will go... The most that the committee can do is to give priority to the neediest cases. In the storm of disappointment, they will have this little conso­ lation: unable to help all, at least they helped those in direst straits until the money gave out. At the first committee meeting held at Malacanan on September 16th, I showed up bright and early sparkling with ideas. So did Father Cipriano Arcilia, cha­ plain at the 1st General Hospital. He envisioned veterans’ hospitals throughout the Philippines so that the disabled could be nearer their homes and the hospitals more ac­ cessories to out patients. And I was sure we could drop the Hot Potato into the competent, organ­ ized hands of such established welfare agencies as the Bureau of Public Welfare, the Catholic Women’s League, the YWTCA and the YMCA; it seemed simplest and quickest to make allotments to every organization with specific veterans’ projects already initiated. The allotment would give each project a boost and such organ­ izations would continue on their own initiative to carry the pro­ jects along long after the allot­ ment were spent. The Rehabili­ tation and Relief committee would (Continued on page 24) PAGE fi WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL The CHILD AndHis LANGUAGE By Or. Antonio Isidro fpHE MOTHER, because of the primacy and constancy of *■’ her contact with the growing child, has a profound in­ fluence in its future attitude and personality. Recent re­ searches in the field of psychology have revealed the import­ ance of early childhood. If is now generally known that the personality or misconduct of an individual has its origin and roots in what we are prone to call the period of innocence. On account of this fact, it is well to consider some aspects of THE LANGUAGE THAT A CHILD USES IS NOT INHERENTLY HIS. TO MOTHERS AND TEACHERS REVOLVES THE TASK OF SHAPING A GROWING CHILD’S LANGUAGE. existence. At his’ birth, the matter of imitation. What a child or hild is already possessed of the or how a child will speak is, in a physical apparatus for oral speech large measure, conditioned by his ______________________ ___ ____ ___________________________ —his mouth, tongue, larynx, lips, human development which might affect favorably or unfa- vocal chords, etc. All of them are vorably the child’s later life.___________________________apparatus ready to be used at the proper stages of development. One of the important characteristics of the human being What language he will speak will is his language. While physically man may sometimes be in- depend upon the environment in - ■ ■ which he is going to be reared. rr" "s normally a Filipino child will speak the Filipino language, a Chinese will learn Chinese, a German will use German, and an American child will acquire the English language. A Filipino child how to speak born in America will learn to —English or Spanish, assuming speak English like an American; that the learning of the native and an American child reared in language Pangasinan among Pangasinan course in the child’s contact with children will learn to speak Pan- his playmates in the neighborhood, gasinan. This fact projects the Others may choose to teach the Continued on page 34) ferior to other animals, his power of articulate speech raises him above the category of the lower animals. Because of s this faculty, we have gradually gained control over our en­ vironment and made tremendous progress in arts and sciences —in civilization itself. The development of language starts from the very moment the child is born. He announces his coming with violent cries. Some interpret his cries biblically as ex­ pressing his grief upon his arrival vill in the valley of tears; others con­ sider them as the more reflex act, indicating a gush of air rushing outside; and others take them to mean as the first sign of language that will equip him in the struggle fact that language learning is a brothers and sisters—in fact his • home and community. In the Philippines because of the nature of our language prob­ lems and our cultural development, the child has several possibilities in language learning. The parents may teach him to speak in the ver­ nacular. To the great majority of us it is the most natural and the easiest. Some, especially the edu­ cated parents, may teach the child foreign language vill take its natural This may be just another happy gathering of children where in they sing, dance and recite poems, but to one interested in their growth this is an important, event in the child’s language development. NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 7 said. Omul With G RIGHT that.” best. shouted. "You’re shouting,” she cried. "You’re raising a scandal. I didn’t want you to touch me. But you forced yourself upon me and coer­ ced me. Two months and you’re still jobless. What do you want ne to do? Kill myself?” "Please don’t speak like 'God knows I’ve tried my "Desecrating God,” she Suddenly she raised her arm, her right palm opened. > Strangely enough, though the movement of the forthcoming slap was materially rapid, his eyes seemed to see it with a slow mo­ tion and he could feel in that bloodless hand, the ashen color of her despair, the recent week in the hills where they heard the rumble of friendly and antagonis­ tic guns in hot argument, the ex­ ultation of their first day and first hidden moon and first burning kiss, the seeming wedding of their pulsing arteries and hands, their first laughter when Magdalena, their first born arrived, the swift steps of the short and squat in­ vaders on the night of January 2nd in the first year of war, the enforced long periods of long talks up to midnight to exile ennui, the shifting unreality of searching parties looking for a suspected member of the underground in the sleepy town where they had eva­ cuated, the rising prices of fresh carabao milk, the friendly games HE WAS standing close to her, a dark cloud on his brow. Their words fell in a flux of grow­ ing intensity neither one could help. . His words slowly cut into her like thin knife screams, cutting the flesh of her rationale. She berat­ ed him with an overmastering pas­ sion, her lips frenzied with tumb­ ling syllables of anger. “You’ve a nerve coming home like this. And I, four months gone with child.” She put her arms on her waist akimbo. But he felt, tired, terribly and incred­ ibly tired and he drew his lips in an acute line of silence, trying hard to control whatever he want­ ed to say. “Why don’t you speak? I know your ways. Coming home and at the door you greet me with your slow shakes of head, telling me wordlessly you’ve not found a job. I know it now, you understand, I know it. You don’t try hard enough.” Still he remained moveless in the ramparts of his silence. “Not speaking, whetting my cu­ riosity with this gesture of impli­ cations. You should be in pictures. Act like Leopoldo Salcedo. Artista.” Her lips curled in sar­ casm. He turned on his heel, walked across the room and looked out of the window, indifferent to the heavy flow of city traffic in the spasmodic spurts of morning. She pulled him by the arm. "Why don’t you answer me? You were responsible for the child I’m carrying now. The child you curse me with.” of three and sevens with besmear­ ed American cards, the flickering light of oil lamps in the small hut by the shallow, silent river, riving the brown eternal hills. He remembered that bright, sullen December morning when he had accompanied his Uncle. Simeon and his cousins Maria, Miriam and Marta and how they were crowded atop the bundles of personal belongings in the bursting truck and how they were met by a very good friend of his Uncle and how PAGE 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL they were lodged in the street leading to the lake town and how he had shuttled between the evacuation center and the city, trying to hold on to his job until he got his three months’ advance pay from the government office and he re­ membered the time he nearly got killed when invading planes flew over Quezon city and bombs burst around him whilr he lay in a muddy gutter foi that was the same day — twi­ light — when they were invit­ ed by Maria’s friend Trinidad to a tea party which in reality was not a tea party for there were cakes and cookies with butter and tea and coffee and when he saw Trinidad, straight and slim with her curly hair and fair face and lovely curve of neck, he just stood stock still and lost his voice and Tri­ nidad herself looked at him with a half-curious and half-inteTested look and when the guests were separated in several clumps, he had sat down besid* her and he said that his cousin Maria should have introduced him to her before this and he could feel a hard lump in his throat and the tumultous flow of his blood and he had banter­ ed with her and after that he had made it a point to see her every afternoon when he came back from the city and after a week asked his cousins to inBy Manuel A. Viray A STINGING SLAP ADMINISTERED ONCE WITH A RIGHT HAND COULD— BUT DIDN’T-^SPELL FINIS' TO A MAR­ RIED LIFE THAT HADN’T QUITE BEGUN vite her and her family for a picnic in the river shore and they had lain there in the morn.ing, quietly and deeply con­ scious of the tightening cords that were slowly binding “this love of ours.” He remembered this now as he noted with fear the flashing ire of her dark eyes. Trining said: “De­ secrating God. I know your type. You never give a hoot to the children.” And one twilight when even the sleepy town they had eva­ cuated to was hardly ever bo­ thered by the enemy because the town mayor had pledged to them that the people were lawabiding and that he would be responsible for his countrymen for any atrocities committed, he had taken Trining to the river’s edge J in one of those soft moonlight nights and in the shadows made by the coconut trees, standing like sentinels, they had kissed and she had clung to him with a tension and she did not complain that he nearly bruised her lips nor that his exploring tongue was like a snake as he had expected and it was in that night she asked him never to leave her and for weeks torn between the dilemma of going to the hills and joining the resistance movement and staying with her, she had carried a ghost of a smile until finally they agreed to get married and return to the city. Now he shouted at her: “I told you I tried my best. Can I help it if jobs are still scarce. I’ll go to I’hibsec tomorrow and get a job with the Army.” “Promises,” she said. “Promises and promises. That is what you’ve been telling me ever since we got married. Where has it gotten us ? Tell me, tell me?” In love begins responsibility. It was this overmastering pas­ sion that led to the rutted road winding through city areas into the hospital where he had taken her on that midnight when the country was under the shadow of the invaders and all the shiny, sleek cars were in ene­ my possession and calesas ne­ ver ventured except during day time and if they did it was be­ cause they carried Japanese soldiers and so, that night, he had to call for a weather-beaten tricycle and in the early morn­ ing as he waited in the ante­ room of the now miserable hospital he could just imagine how she labored hard and long and when finally he was called by the nurse to look at his baby he saw how she took af­ ter Trining’s father with The wrinkled skin and he had kiss­ ed Trining tenderly on the forehead with a silent prayer on his lips his heart exultant and proud and they had laugh­ ed together and when he regis­ tered their first born, Trining had agreed to call her Mag­ dalena. Then Magdalena came in. The resemblance between mother and child was very remarkable and he noticed that his child only was like her grandfather in so far as her noble forehead was noble. But the forehead was smeared with streaks of mud. He remembered the streaks of mud that was in his child’s cheeks as they walked through the hills while the Battle of Manila was raging and they were fleeing the fatal implica­ tions of the Shimbu Line and they walked on steadily from early morning up to noon, dodg­ ing the cruel thorns of still wet trees, fearing the sudden appearance of Japanese pa­ trols from the tall, sharp talabib grass while over their heads shells traced lines of hot' argument and it was only •when they reached Novaliches that they breathed a sigh of relief because a lumbering U. S. Army truck had taken them right into the fringes of Que­ zon City and when they saw their house it was all charred and in ruins, the.pillars twist­ ed like suffering skeletons and they had stayed the first night with a neighbor of theirs — Aling Tiburcia, the healer — and after that he and hils child foraged for fuel and every cold dawn he had to join the file before the artesian well in the neighborhood be­ cause the city’s watermains were being put into shape and they reached into their measly savings of rusty coins. “You know how much money I’ve left,” she said. “Only two pesos. Do you think that’s enough ? “What shall we eat the day af­ ter tomorrow? Will you tell me that ?” The slow motion of her arm burst into a stinging slap and he could feel the intensity of her anger as he had never felt it be­ fore. Before she could slap him for a second time, he rushed out, slammed the door violently and clattered down the steps, her words pursuing him. He walked hard and fast, his steps eating the city dust and pavements. He was nearly ran over by a careening carretela which swerved from a big Arantruck, but he was not even con­ scious of it. Two blocks. Three blocks. Under the harsh morn­ ing light, he walked like som# somnambulist, knowing not whi­ ther he was going. Beads of perspiration appeared on his fore­ head. His swinging legs re­ sponded to the urgency of his es­ cape and it was only when he came to that area past Quezon Boulevard and seeing very few people about that he felt very tir­ ed. His gait slackened and he turned right. Unknown to him, Trining'had followed him. He picked his way on the sida of the wide street, skirting the foul smell of the garbage can and the hopeful vendors of coco­ nuts, sugar, and dried fish. He turned right and crossed the Boul­ evard. She was afraid he would glance back but he never did. Then she saw him enter the church. There was only a scat­ tering of people, kneeling in the church and after genuflecting, he chose the bench nearest the altar and prayed. In that moment she saw him in agony, lines of hope replacing the lines of despair on his face. His hands were clasped together and from his soundless, moving lips she tried to decipher what he was trying to say. It was a moment sacred to him. This was a phase he had never showed her... a phase of his life that she knew she could not touch. But she could not come near him and much as she want­ ed to kneel there beside him, she could feel the tightening cords of shame in her heart. Slowly she turned away, a feeling of guilt cutting her like a keen, sharp blade. She could feel the lingering pain in her hand, the right hand she had hit him with once. A sudden warmth pervaded her breast and an exultancy seemed to greet her as she imagined how he could land a job today, if not to­ day, tomorrow. She walked on home resolutely. NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 9 Jha OJaich By Frederick Howard 7THEN she came home he was TV standing in their bedroom, turning the watch this way and that, examining it under the light in that typically cool and care­ ful way which she knew so well. She kissed him lightly on the pheek. “So you bought a new one?” He nodded, held the watch up by its gilt chain, then laid it in her hand. “They said it wasn’t worth repairing the other. You do break things easily, don’t you?” His smile softened the re­ proach. She inspected the watch. It was too big—a dull thing with a round, stupid face. It had a busy, vulgar way of ticking. She had wanted one of those delicate platinum-cased watches; one that would have been a slender' jewel on her wrist. Why was it that he never had enough imagination to undenstand what she wanted? “It’s nice,” she said. “Thank you.” She laid it on the table be- sode was like all others—tender­ side her bed. ly, madly, laughably like. them That night-she was convinced all. It began, of course, because All love affairs are comedies . . . This episode was like all others—tenderly, madly, laughably like them all. that the ticking of the new watch disturbed her. Through the clou­ dy hours, while he slept beside her, the watch slyly marked and mocked at the boredom of life. It happened that the measuring of time was now beginning to have a new importance for her. When a woman starts to fall in love with the Other Man in this overformalized world, a watch be­ comes a necessity. All love affairs are comedies in which Time plays the malicious part of commentator. This epiIT’S A WISE HUSBAND WHO NOTICES THAT THE TIMETABLE OF A WOMAN’S LIFE CHANGES THE MINUTE THE OTHER MAN ENTERSheld the watch up by its gilt chain, then laid it in her hand. neither the Woman nor the Other Man was entirely honest. They met in a wartime way which made the Other Man appear to be a hero. At first this mis­ understanding embarrassed him. Then he became flattered by the implications of the mistake and accepted the heroic role. It is not merely the privilege but also the obligation of a hero to make love when a beautiful woman becomes interested in him. The Other Man made love to the Woman with in­ creasing ardor, and with increas­ ing belief in his own sincerity. For her part, she was now im­ pelled to adopt the role of hero­ ine. To his mannerism of adven­ turous romance, she began to re­ spond with the manner of high tragedy, with little hints of unhap­ piness nobly and sweetly borne. They were really two simple and charming persons. They were not aware of being in the grip of a hoary marital tradition when they confessed to each other that their marriage partners did not under­ stand them. Naturally, it was for some weeks a gay affair—a midsum­ mer madness. They talked and sighed, met in absurdly secretive places, teased each other, were loftily “sensible” through long afternoons, kissed and parted when Time (the sniggering intrud­ er!) poked out his watch-face to remind them of real life. Yes, the new watch had its uses. It brought the Woman home, flushed, beautiful and safe. Her husband was away a great deal, but neighbors must not observe any change in her daily timetable. But sometimes she forgot to wear the watch. Once, when she was very late returning, she found her husband had come home unexpectedly. Her heart beat faster then, for this had been a day of special loveliness; of the most tender traffic in illusions. She knew there must be a happi­ ness in her eyes for all the world jto see. All the Husband said was, “You left your watch at home. Don’t you like it?” The difficulty with these affairs is that they will not remain fresh and gay. Like the green leaves of spring that march so obsti­ nately into patterns of richer col­ or, and on to the russet of au­ tumnal death, the prettiest illu­ sions of the human heart insist on being taken seriously. From this, the Woman and the Other Man could not escape. Their talks became more urgent, their sighs more eloquent. From being in love with the idea of (Continued on page 24) PAGE 10 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL SUGGESTION FOR A NEW HOBBY: HUNTING FOR PRINTERS’ ERRORS. IT’S SOUL-SATISFY­ ING. TRY IT. Your Slip Is Showing By Anatolio Litonjua iA(NE of the richest sources of unconscious humor1 today is v-7 not Bob Hope or Joe Miller or the hubba-hubba shows as you would think. The printed page offers to the casual reader an infinite treasure of wit and humor all the more effective because it is indeliberate and. by its very nature, effortless. Such humor as is found in typographical errors sometimes is downright obscene to be reproduced. How those imps of the composing room creep into the most carefully read copy nobody could say. As the wag would quip, there’s many a slip ‘twixt the copy and the printed sheet.’ Typographical boners have, since the invention of the printing press, caused many an editorial grey hair. Thcfe’s the classic story of Henry L. Mencken, the enterprising former editor of the American Mercury, who offered several thousand dollars to anyone who could prove to be a perfect proof-reader. As far as we know, nobody to this day has called the bet. To the newspaper and magazine extracted from the Manila press of reader who finds devilish glee in today. The present limited faciliferreting out typographical blun- ties that go into newspaper proders, there are untold riches to be duction in addition to sheer care­ lessness on the part of some proof- the time.” readers have made the local press Then there was the straight a heaven for hunters of printer’s news item of the activities of errors. women guerrillas during the Oc­ cupation. “Many Filipino women An assiduous aficionado of the succumbed during the in­ sport ourself, we treasure a good terim between Pearl Harbor and a number of choice boners just as year ag0 this month>” the reporothers collect matches and rare tef wrote- Added he, "Mosft pro­ stamps. There was that which ap- m^nent loving women guetrfllas peared sometime ago in Vicente is Yay Austin, of the pre-war del Fierro’s column in the Star ®erald> now Mrs- Marking AgusReporter. The pundit of Zambales ^'n‘ was raving in his usual splutter­ ing way on the freedom of the Society items do not escape press or the rare pleasures of typographical garbling resulting in gormandizing—we can’t recall just facetious puns and double entennow—and one of his statements dres. Choice samples: , “Miss as it appeared in his column fol- J.................. W.................. Joiner lows: was married to Capt. D.................. “We can shat often, if that is M. Miller of the Army of the what you want and we can speak (Continued on page 28) NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 11 U/vmcn (bid ifleainAfJijujdion WHILE THE MEN ARE BUSY BLUE­ PRINTING THE NEW CITIES, IT SHOULD BE INCUMBENT UPON OUR WOMEN. TO BRING UP OUR NEW CITIZENS WHO SHALL INHABIT THESE CITIES. By C. K Pedroche bery, evasion, thievery, and mur­ der—while the police goes chasing its shadow in the dark. This, indeed, is a sick world and the picture is discouraging, to say the least. There are some who be­ lieve that this is merely a passing era, a transition period brought about as an inevitable consequence of the war and that it should be allowed, in the absence of practical palliatives, to spend itself and run its due course. But, I am afraid, we must insist that we should do something about it before it total­ ly undermines the foundation of the national character. We can­ not build a new and better city upon a foundation which is slowly but insidiously being run through with spiritual rot and moral de­ cay. This attitude of indifference is regrettable. There are people we know who would rather sleep it off, as it were, in the hope that they /^YNE of the most significant social estimates of this generation, !V to quote a morning daily editorial, is President Royas’ address before the U.P. Alumni gathering held recently at the Manila Hotel. The President enumerated the manifold symp­ toms of decay in our society, indicating diagnosis and, like a good doctor, outlining long-range recdm'mendations fotr treat­ ment and tfccovery. He saw the world as it is today—pretty sic^ and grievously ailing—and* drew up a picture of it in words that are realistic and vivid. But much more than mere word-description, much more than mere oHatory, he impressed us with his knowledge of social causes when he said: Clear away the debris of destruc­ tion: build again the rubble into stones; raise new buildings in place of the old—'the tragic effects of war will still be here. These effects are much deeper than the heaps of ruins in cities, the rusting machinery in our factories and mills. We face the truth that the dry rot of enemy occupation has eaten deep into our moral fiber. might some day wake up and find things normal again. We have hopes, too, of things straightening themselves in their appointed course, but at the same time we believe that the world is in bad need of immediate treatment. There is no doubt that man’s in­ telligence will ultimately solve the world’s problems of peace and re­ construction but also we believe that we should not allow these ills to spread out and imperil the whole nation unnecessarily. In the meantime, then, what to do? As we said a while back, we should place our weapons of de­ fense and control in the hands of our women. While our planners and builders are busy blueprinting the new cities, it should be in­ cumbent upon our women to bring up the new citizens who shall be worthy to inhabit those cities. While our leaders are busy shaping No amount of reconstruction and planning will do us any good if we do not fight this decadence from the roots. And the weapons with which we should fight it should be laid in the hands of our wo­ men who, because of their peculiar position as shapers of character and moulders of happy homes, can help us a great deal during this period of national convalescence. Indeed, this matter of virtue which, as the President said, had little immediate survival value un­ der the Japanese rule, has been outmoded. Little of it remains with our people now and we have come to accept the “easy advan­ tage” of ill-gotten wealth. Im­ patient for immediate personal re­ habilitation, we see no reason why we should wait. Sometimes, since we may not all be in a position to benefit from the comparative safe­ ty of bribery, not all of us being in government offices, we go out of our way to force fortune to smile upon us: we have sufficient arms to do this with—if fortune does not come of her own free will we might as well go after her with carbines and revolvers! The result, what though the means be perilous, is often quite a haul. Did it cost the lives of two or three human beings ? What is that to me? Life is dirt'cheap. A news item in one or two dailies, maybe the picture of the corpse in the papers—and then every­ thing is forgotten. In the mean­ time you are sitting pretty on your booty and to hell with your morals and conscience. We do not even seem to know what conscience and morals are. Or maybe we really know but at the same time we know, too, that these are minor imps which might just as well go jump into the river or, if they so choose, go straight to hell. And the soul? What about the soul ? When a man is hungry and he has no place to sleep in, no home to return to after the day’s weariness, no mother’s breast to rest one’s aching head upon, such a shadowy thing as the soul is of minor importance. For one must eat and there is no way out of the puzzle except through such age-old expedients as graft, looting, stick-ups, corruption, bri­ national convalescence. PAGE 12 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL the political and economic destiny of our Republic, our women should busy themselves with the task of moral reconstruction. The home is not merely a shel­ ter—should not serve merely to house the body, but should ac­ tually be a training school for virtue, good citizenship, and hap­ py living. And our women should be the moral leaders and tutors of this unhappy generation; This is an unhappy generation indeed—unless we do something about our children. Look about you and you will see that people have become callous to violence and destruction. We have fortified our hearts with a thick encrusta­ tion of superb defeatism. Our youths are inclined to look upon morality and virtue with superior contempt. The war, of course, has brought all these but it is not too late to strengthen the home front from which, naturally, we should wage the battle—the counter-offensive, as it were, against the new enemy. Let us see now how our women can help in this tremendous task. First, let us realize that a home is never too small for a woman to be able to make of it a center of living, a good and happy living. There are two definite centers to a home of quiet which is the liv­ ing room. From both of these centers a woman can begin her work of reconstruction. A woman knows that if she is a good cook she will never have trouble with NEW APPROACH TO HOME OWNERSHIP FOOD FOR THOUGHT TO OUR LEGISLATORS Col. Lawrence Westbrook, writ­ ing in Collier’s on post war housing, disclosed that while 85 per cent of the American people prefer owning homes to renting them yet census proves that 56.4 per cent live in rented homes. This fact strikes us as even truer with us here in Manila. Who, for instance, loves to throw away three hundred pesos a month for two rooms with facilities? Faci­ lities here should be enclosed firm­ ly with quotation marks. We know, we’ve tried them. What help is there for people who can set aside three hundred pesos a month so that pinching thus they can at least own a roof tree come millenium? Actually nobody can seem to answer this question for Manila residents at least. In States the WagnerEllender Bill has been introduced in the Senate. Lower income peo­ ple may now avail themselves of home-ownership on easier terms. The size of down payment is whittled down by increasing the length of period in which the mortgage may be paid off. Then there’s the Mutual Home Ownership Plan which works this way: “An individual or a group puts up the capital for the purchase of land and the construction of se­ veral hundred homes. The large-scale operation lowers build­ ing costs, and eliminates big sales commissions and speculators’ pro­ fits. This gives more housing per dollar. A family subscribes to an amount of stock equal to the value of the property occupied, and pays for it at so much a month. In ad­ dition to amortizing the indebted­ ness for the stock, the payments pile up reserves for maintenance and repairs and for losses oc­ casioned by vacancies. After the stock is all paid for, the occupant pays only his share of taxes, in­ surance ahd operational expenses. “In the average rented home, maintenance, repair and vacancies cost the landlord approximately 30 percent of the money he receives in rent. Government audits prove conclusively that mutual home ownership reduces these costs by at least one half, and the saving is credited to the residents. Fur­ thermore, everything over and above the money required for ac­ tual operation of the project is in­ vested in readily convertible se­ curities, and interest is also added to reserve funds for ultimate dis­ tribution to each family. “A resident—and this is the ba­ sic principle of mutual home ownership—never acquires title in fee simple. What he has is the right of perpetual occupancy as long as he keeps up his monthly payments. Anything else would lose the benefit of the system, for with an individual in full control of his property, the community could not enforce high standards. Lack of uniform maintenance, for example, or sale to undesirable tenants might well result in neighborhood blight. Residents may have a voice in management from the first but the man or group that put up the original capital has the final word until the protection of the investment is as­ sured. - Then the community as­ sumes complete control, subject to payment of the remaining debt, and operates through a board of directors and various committees. “The relationship between the corporation and the occupants, in fact, is much like that between a mutual insurance company and its policy holders. Just as policy ac­ quires a cash surrender or paid-up insurance value, so does the stock build up equities. If circumstances force a family to pull out after the first year, it will receive the cash, value of its equity, plus its balance in the reserve.” her husband and her children. Too________ ________ __________________________________________________________________________ often children and husbands stray away from home because of bad vironment, the world will naturally wholesome recreation and other rest. They can either just sit and food. If a woman knows how to look unkjnd and cruel. We .see in outlets for the physical energies of rest and not talk at all or relate cook well and gives her children tkese children, frustrated and growing children, they would na- stories and incidents of the day to the right kind of diet she need brought up in unhappiness, the turally seek other kind of games one another. The father and mohave no worries about their so- beginnings of crimes and of social which slums can easily offer: they ther being tired can listen to the cial behavior. delinquencies. By our lack of play gangsters with wooden Dis- happy babble of children’s voices It is not, however, only the foresight and our indifference to tols. and feel happy in their hearts for kind of food that must be cooked the cleanliness of the home we un- And they play with superb real- having given this joy to their and served. It is in the way it wittingly sow the seeds of discon- ism. .. and they grow up well- children—and to themselves, is cooked—from the point of view tent and discontent is the begin- seasoned in the ways of criminals And the children, by nature exuof sanitation and cleanliness, that ning of evil. and peculiarly equipped with the berant—if well fed and scrubbed is—that determines in no small necessary background of cruel that js_wjn never tire of talking measure the behavior of children. A good housewife will be able and adverse environment. We abOut the day’s adventures If Have you ever stopped to consider to keep her kitchen clean. Not only little realize it but the beginning they had had a good meal and the importance of sanitation in her kitchen but the whole house of all this is the home and women tbejr digestion is normal they will the home? A woman is never too and yard. If all wives can do this owe it to society to keep the home )augh and sing and shout and run poor to consider the definite ad- the whole neighborhood will sure- safe for their children. around but rarely will they fight, vantages of cleanliness against ly be preserved from blight and Too ofl(?n pugnacjty and Hl ten1. filth. Sickness is the direct ef- ultimate decay. We shall then be The other and more important per ;n children are signs of bad feet of insanitation and sickness saving the entire < district from center of repose—the living room, digestion or other abnormalities, determines the future of children, turning into an unredeemable slum- From the kitchen the movement wkjck are directly traceable to bad An abnormal child is inclined to And we shall be saving our chil- is towards the dining room. From cooking and insanitation. The molook at the world from a distorted dren from the inescapable destiny the dining room, if it is a good ^ker may now gather her brood point of view and psychologists of slum children: crime and delin- meal, the children and the parents about her and tell them stories will tell you that the world is quency. Because, you see, slums should find a period of well-earned witk mora] lessons or stories to what we make it. To a child em- are breeding places not only of quiet in the living room. They niakp them laugh. Laughter is a bittered by constant sickness, by diseases but of crimes. There be- should sit around, specially of the sight of dirt and indecent en- ing no place in a slum district for evenings, in the living room and (Continued on page 25' NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 13 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP for WOMEN The First Lady pins the corsage donated by Mrs. Pura Villanueva Kalaw on the No. 1 barrister of the year, Miss Gregoria T. Cruz before a big crowd of women representing all fields of endeavor. “THE TIME HAS COME TO GIVE WOMEN. A FAIR CHANCE FOR POLITICAL LEADER­ SHIP.”—GREGORIA T. CRUZ i/'NNE lunch hour at Casa Curro witnessed an overwhelming VF gathering of women headed by the First Lady. Lawyers, doctors, educators, writers, social wor'kers, feminists, students, etc. all took time off to do honor to a member of their tribe, Attorney Gregoria T. Cruz whose Jhaving topped the recent bar examinations over some 250 examinees made celebrations in order. The women also took advantage of the occasion to dust the altar of women’s achievements, bringing out anew each piece of endeavor that made definite contribution to the march of times.. The No. 1 barrister of the year is not affected by the distinction she has earned for herself, for her sisters in the law profession, and for the women as a whole. In her speech she betrayed a bit of sensitiveness particularly on a point wherein a newspaper coldmnist had taken a dig at women lawyers by calling them “Hanggang Bar Lamang”. She also spoke on women in politics, in peace, etc. To record a forceful piece in all its charm, The Woman’s Home Joutnal here prints in full her viewpoint on a number of things: OJNE day a war widow ap- public speaking of any sort. So, 1 proached a lawyer to have a don’t you expect too much, power of attorney drawn. When As I look around, I could for a the instrument was handed her, moment believe that we were livshe noticed that it began: “Know ing in a manless world, a world all men by these presents”. The wherein that specie called “MAN” woman immediately raised an ob- does not exist. But such could jection and desired that the word not be the actual fact. No mat­ women be added. The lawyer ter what we, women, might do or replied, suppressing a chuckle, say, no matter where we might “Don’t you know, Madam, that go, never could we shut out men. Man embraces women?”. For men realize that they are part and parcel of a woman’s Let this audience be forwam- world> and they try to make the ed, therefore, forearmed that my mogt out of this> They are everyhaving made good in a written where> they have aiways someexamination does not mean that I thing to gay for or agajnst any can do as well in after-dinner feminine moVement. They have talks. Frankly, speech-making eyen e to the extent of label. is a little off my line. When I was in college, I tried to avoid (Continued on page 33) PAGE 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Mrs. Ramos In Washington By Bessie Hackett (Washington Post) Mrs. Angela Valdez-Ramos, wife of Minister-Counsellor Narciso Ramos, is now part and parcel of Washington life. T>EING welcomed by members of the Philippine Embassy staff _L> this week is a slender, dark-eyed woman with a gracious man­ ner and ready smile—Mrs. Narciso Ramos, wife of the recently ap­ pointed Minister Counsellor from the new republic. School teacher, politician, social worker, housewife and mother is the rather imposing career record of this pretty little woman from across the Pacific. Accompanied by her two daughters—Leticia, 16, and 11-year-old Gloria—Mrs. Ra­ mos arrived at National Airport Monday and, fresh from the ruins of Manila, is still slightly breath­ less over “such beauty and clean­ liness everywhere.” The former Angela Valdez came by her school teaching naturally. Her parents had been teachers in the Province of Ilocos Norte during the Spanish regime. With the American oc­ cupation of the islands at the turn of the century, they were among the first Filipino teach­ ers absorbed into the new sys­ tem of education. Fourth child in a family of eight, Angela had ideas of becom­ ing a lawyer. However, after sev­ eral years of preparatory law at University of the Philippines, she switched to education. It was during her student days that she began working with a group which became the nucleus of the YWCA in the Philippines. And it was then, too, that she met a young law studertt from Pangasinan Province also interested in “Y” activities—Narciso Ramos, whose studies were punctuated by trips to international student con­ ferences. A year after Angela’s gradua, tion in 1926, the couple mar­ ried and moved to Lingayen, where Mr. Ramos practiced law and his wife taught English in the high school and became active in woman’s clubs. In 1934 Mr. Ramos threw his hat into the political ring and was elected to represent his dis­ trict in the National Assembly. With reelection, the family moved to Manila and Mrs. Ramos became a university professor. During the war, with other Filipino women, she established a relief center near the war prisoner camp in Tarlac. She also learned to knit, using string and unraveling cro­ cheted doilies to refashion into socks and shirts for the children. Mr. Ramos, active in the underground, refused to occupy his seat in the Assembly under the puppet government and the family was subjected to fre­ quent investigation by the Jap­ anese. Several months before liberation, they fled the night­ mare of life in the capital and returned to Pan gasman. Through five consecutive terms 'Continued on page 28) NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 15 First Scenes . . . of the battle of Liberation YOU ARE A SOLDIER. You are in your foxhole, and there are lethal objects hit­ ting around your area. You feel afraid. Perhaps this is your bapt­ ism of fire or perhaps you have been through this before. It does not matter, because the fear is still there. You are afraid you may go out before you have fired a shot. You think your luck can hold out only so long. There is a burst of machine­ gun fire from the ridge to your left. Some of your com­ rades who are creeping toward it are hit; you hear someone cryout; you know more of them will be hit unless someone wipes out the nest. You sit, shivering be­ tween bursts, and then a force which you never thought existed sucks you out of your foxhole and out you go, dodging and grop­ ing along the cratered earth, tak­ ing advantage of every rise of earth and cover. You stop with­ in grenade distance of the em­ placement and you heave three grenades, one after the other. You hug the ground- and then curse yourself momentarily ’for having stuck your neck out. The grenades explode; the troops press on and you drag yourself after them. One more chapter in the strug­ gle. All in the day’s work. But no. Some field officer has been observing you and has put you down for a decoration. Days later, long after the deed has been performed, you are yanked from the lines, given a thorough scrubbing and set before a for­ midable array' of brass. A whitehaired old general with a chest­ ful of decorations calls your name. You manage to walk for­ ward somehow, and he pins some­ thing bright and metallic on your chest. You can’t see what it is because you observe something vitally interesting in some dis­ tant object. Your thoughts whirl, a haze gathers, things don’t make sense. * This is a true story, observed first-hand by the author during the liberation days in South Ma­ nila. TO DEFINE Until later... then, everybody crowds around and you start wondering whether all the things they are saying about you’aren’t true. Very humanly, your ego inflates and remains inflated un­ til you think of the performed deeds just as daring, only no one saw them do it. You think of the civilians who carried water to a thirsty soldier, of the Igorot mountaineers who trudged stolid­ ly through shellfire to bring am­ munition where it would do the most good. There are so many of them that finally you feel a trifle guilty and you sneak into your quarters and put away the medal. At night you try to sleep but a question keeps drumming into your head: How, then, to define a hero? Does the difference in wearing apparel and the fact that you do not pack a gun immediate­ ly set you apart as being incap­ able of the performance of a he­ roic deed? Are medals and cita­ tions only for the chosen children of Mars? Who decides whether this act merits more than that? Who crowns heroes? IN February, bleeding South Manila heard of only one haven from advancing American soldiers. People followed grimy fingers pointed to the Settlement House in Paco. Many came with their families, pushing previous­ ly deprecated pushcarts with what they had saved. Sometimes there were silent forms in these push­ carts. Others walked quietly, carrying in their arms bloody stumps of what had once breath­ ed and pulsed with life. Many also came alone. There were not many children left at the Settlement House those hectic pre-liberation days. Generous women of the Associa­ tion de Damas Filipinas had made the erection of the building pos­ sible, but none of them dreamed of the part it was later to- play with another silent actor. The women who had made the building possible had meant it to care for and house orphaned PAGE 16 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL ‘ He RO By Mario P. Chance waifs. They had planned it for children against whom fate had already called two strikes. On the grassy lawns of the building, they hoped to nurse the orphans to some form of achievement that would help offset their handicaps. By late 1944, hunger had stilled many of the sprightly voices that had once rang across the Settle­ ment House cprridors. Those who remained were gradually wasting away. They no longer leaped and skipped about. They moped about their rooms listless­ ly. Getting up in the morning and going to bed at night was ef­ fort enough for them. Even the sight of motorized columns of Japanese streaming past the main road failed to awaken in them anything more than a listless apathy. A week before liberation, the children there grew accustomed to the noise of demolition charges and the orange color of the sky at night. "They were watching the death of a city but at the moment their thoughts must not have been concerned with any­ thing save a morsel of food to put into their hollow bellies. Yet, on February 9, they began crowding downstairs to escape from what suddenly loomed more frightening than hunger. Through­ out that day, American artillery began seeking out Japanese posi­ tions in the vicinity of the Set­ tlement House. Wait. In the vicinity of the Settlement House would be an un­ der-statement. For all around it there were Japanese emplace­ ments. The Paco railroad station, where two 37th Division men were later to win the Congres­ sional Medal of Honor, was bare­ ly a stone’s throw away. There was hardly a building around the Settlement House that did not contain some mili­ tary objective. Mortar emplace­ ments ringed it. On the west end, facing the main road, stood one cannon. Two blocks back, the Japanese had emplaced a 90-millimeter anti-aircraft gun which they used as a howitzer. Throw in about a dozen machine gun nests. Snipers in ceilings of de­ serted houses. Mines at every street corner and side road. And a bunch of slant-eyed fa­ natics determined to sell their lives as dearly as possible. But when 'all the damage and the shelling, the burning and the slaughter had abated, the Settle­ ment House stood apparently un­ scathed. Burned houses and the pungent smell of death rose around it. True, the second story had collapsed partly from the im­ pact of a brace of 105 millimeter shells; the roof upstairs was pep­ pered with holes and the iron sheets had been ripped off, un­ kindly, but conclusively. The building licked wounds in varying degrees, but not one of the oc­ cupants had been killed And now begins the story. That evening, the first refugees streamed in. .They trailed blood behind them and they sat stolidly while the doctor flashed his light against jagged wounds to probe fob guil­ ty pieces of steel. Many were too far gone for human aid. The doc­ tor looked at his young wife and said a few words. The rest mov­ ed aside to make way for new­ comers. Here was a woman with her left arm almost severed by a chunk of mortar shell. She look­ ed dumbly at the doctor as he pre­ pared to amputate but her cries of pain were perhaps more ima­ ginary than real. There was lit­ tle left to cut. Saturday, February 10. TIHE Americans came. They looked in dismay at the blood-spattered floors and the doc­ tor who kept going after death with a toothpick. They left a few­ medicines but they could not stay long. Snipers lurked around the area. “Go over to Pandacan,” one said. "Cross to the other, side. The Japs might start shelling here any time.” The doctor looked at his two young children, at his wife. He looked past them into the corri­ dor and into the crowded room, where the smell of death had sur­ reptitiously ' crept in w'hile his back was turned. More w’ere still to come. He looked at his child­ ren again, and he shook his head. “I’m sorry,” he said. “I have to stay.” But he accepted a cigarette, in­ haled deeply and went back to work. There were only three assist­ ants. His wife, was there, and there had come a young doctor and an interne. More came in the afternoon. The old men and wom­ en were especially pitiful sights. Here wras an invalid, once a hus­ ky man. Months ago a stroke had rendered him as impotent as a day old infant. His two daugh­ ters struggled with the chair he sat on. Yet he had no w'ounds on his body. From the • surrounding houses came more bloodied sou­ venirs as the caravan expanded till the halls would hold no more. Close by there was a large man­ sion. The people w’ho had once /Continued on -page 32) NOV EM REB 3'», (946 PAGE (< VERY MUCH PHOTOGRAPHED THESE DAYS IS MRS. DE LEON, THE FORMER LOURDES ADRIATICO, WHOSE PRESENCE AT STATE FUNCTIONS IS A MUST, HER HUSBAND BEING THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF MALACASAN. Deriving inspiration from the native anahaw leaf, the terno above is in beige embellished with gold sequins. Count exactly five besequined leaves for peplum, camisa and panuelo. Di­ rectly at right is a pink panuelo-less, its draped skirt rather, unorthodox but very successful especially as a topic of conversation. Next: the cur­ rent black favorite is worn by Mrs. de Leon at its simplest. That fabu­ lous glitter for the hips is about its only extravagance. The last terno at far right is a dream in pink and blue. The unusuai print is delicately traced in sequins for camisa wings and bodice. A corsage of self-print, cut-out and stiffened, makes back decor complete. —Photo by Bob’s PAGE 18 NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 19 WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT FROZEN MEAT PRESERVATION of meat and beef will keep longer than pork. other foods by freezing Rapid chilling after slaughtering, during the winter months has al- proper wrapping to prevent moisways been a common practice in ture losses, quick freezing and a rural communities. During recent unifortn low temperature in the years freezing plants with locker lockers are all important for good space for rent have made it pos- preservation of the meat. Thawsible for farmers to slaughter and ing and re-freezing are undesiruse frozen meat all year round, able, since this impairs the qualTown and city families have been ity of the meat and gives an op­ quick to see the economy of buy- portunity for increased bacterial ing quarters, halves or the live action. Meat should be cooked as animals, then freezing or storing soon as it has thawed. Meat may the meat in lockers until used, be thawed before cooking or the There an increasing number of cooking may be started while the these plants. meat is still frozen. Soaking the The length of time meat can be meat in water to hasten thawing held in lockers depends upon sev- impairs the flavor and should be eral factors, though in general avoided. Clams Collards Cress (garden) Dandelion greens Kale Milk (whole or skimmed; evapo­ rated, condensed, and dried) Molasses Mustard greens Orach Sesame seed Tcndergreeens Turnip tops Water cress GOOD SOURCES: Almonds Artichoke (globe or French) Beans .(common or kidney, dry or fresh, shelled; also snap or Maple syrup Okra Oysters Parsnips Romaine Rutabagas Soybeans (dry or as green veget­ ables) Soybean flour Sweet potato tops Turnips WE once gave the tip on making empty coffee jars, some thirty of them, grow vin (and occasionally flowers plucked from the garden) for the window sill. At a Senator’s home we saw the other day over a hundred cherry tin cans painted green, white, yellow, blue and red and planted with “tigre” the bay windows, thrown away these strinE) know. to decorate Nothing is days you Burdock (roots) Cabbage (headed, especially mO set your curls, wind loose A strands on two hairpins, but green) first dampen with water or colog­ ne. Brushing afterwards makes Carrots the curls more manageable and easy to fix. Celeriac A little ammonia added to clear XjL water cleans oil-painted walls beautifully. Celery Cheese (cottage) — Chickpeas (whole) PJ1HERE is one thing in the A house that can never seem Chicory (leaves) to stay neat: hubby’s ash tray. Put a little water just enough to Cottonseed flour cover bottom of ash tray. This way you can be sure the cigarette Crabs ashes stay where they should be. STATISTICS ON MINERALS YOU can’t ea^ calcium pills all your life, besides it doesn’t taste like food at all, that’s why you always call it “medicine” even if it is food. Following are foods which are excellent sources of calcium. They are listed alphabet­ ically, if they were placed in the order of importance, milk in its various forms (other than butter) would head the list of common foods, and green leafy vegetables would rate among the next best. EXCELLENT SOURCES Amaranth Brocoli Buttermilk Cabbage Chard Cheese (American, Cheddar Swiss) Cream Eggs Endive or escarole Figs (dry) Kohlrabi Leeks or Lettuce (head or leaf) Lobster LIGHTING in the kitchen is j very often taken for. grant­ ed. Resides the general ceiling fix­ ture that diffuses light in all di­ rections, you need additional light on work surfaces, including the sink and range. with soapy clean with damp cloth; dry. Clean glass and pottery bases the same way. Brush silk shades. PAGE in WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL MOVIES BEHAVIOR Teenagers must learn the potency of the word NO, ad­ vises Helen Wright who has made teenage behavior her special con­ cern. She suspects that it is at this stage when girls and boys, (girls mostly) find nothing to say no to. To develop the habit, make it tip-of-tongue to say no when you need most to say no, by practising it. “Alone in your room, say no to yourself with a definite downward inflection.” Teenagers may realize soon enough that at times when they Espahita Vidal, leading lady in Palaris Films' "Awit ni Polaris," has been signed up by M-G-M for a Spanish picture to be filmed in Mexico. Carmen Rosales (right), one of our top-notch movie actresses, together with Susana de Guzman, local play­ wright-directress. Carmen is cur­ rently appearing in "Kaaway ng Bayan." might be tempted to say maybe or yes or well — those are the times when they might have said no and be the better for it. “For instance, when someone asks you out and you have homework, when a guy asks for a stray kiss, when a gang is bent for a place you know is wrong — the times you feel no, say no. NO IS A GOOD WORD TO KNOW. It can do you a good service. Practise it. (And this holds not only to teenagers, we believe.) GOOD LOOKS SCHOOL GIRLS, tuck this on to the corner of your mirror: All work and no soap means clogged pores. The skin works harder during vacation time than at any other time of year, for you are more active physically and more of the body’s impurities are eliminated through the skin. So take advantage of being at home to give your face two or three soapy scrubs a day instead of just one. Vacation slack snows up at school. If the result of skin neg­ lect were apparent the next day or even the next week, you’d have none of it. But don’t wail next term about muddy skin and pim­ ples if you go to bed this summer without washing your face. Twenty minutes a day of sum­ mer care will save you frantic hours of getting your skin and hair back . into condition when school opens. Those twenty min­ utes will provide time for a daily bath as well as to wash your face twice, brush your teeth twice, use hand lotion twice, first pushing back the cuticle with a towel and cleaning under the nails with an orange stick. And finally, time to brush your hair a hundred strokers. Save up minutes for a utility and a shampoo once a week. A utility manicure includes shaping the nails, cleaning up the cuticle, removing stains from un­ der the nails and giving them a brisk buffing. Perhaps hair suf­ fers most from summer skimping. Protect it from too much sun, but do your shampoo during the day so your hair can dry naturally without artificial heat. During vacation there’s no excuse for those just-before-bedtime sham­ poos schoolgirls are wont to in­ dulge in.—Catherine Edwards SMALL FRY TRENDS V-notches set off the frilly lace yoke, and a dainty hemline. Puff the sleeves so, and imagine your little one skipping rope, lace and frills whirl­ ing gaily. FOUNDED SINCE 1933 AUTHORIZED BY THE GOVERNMENT DRESS­ MAKING MEN’S TAILORING EMBROID­ ERY HAIR SCIENCE BEAUTY CULTURE FREE FLOWER MAKING YGNACIA T. YAMZON Directress PACITA RUIZ Dean of Hair Science RICARDO VILLAREAL Master Cutter Enrollment Anytime School TYPEWRITING STENOGRAPHY BUSINESS ENGLISH BOOKKEEPING MAIN BLDG.: 634 ISABEL, SAMPALOC (IN FRONT OF U <.T.» ANNEX: 1089 R. HIDALGO Address ........................ (JOURNAL) NOVEMBER ;iO. 1946 PAGE 2! Crab (Alimango) Adobo 4 big female crabs 6 cloves garlic % cup water Salt, vinegar and pepper to suit the taste 1 cup lard Clean the crabs (alimango) very well, being careful to brush or scrub the shell very well. Re­ move the claws. Open, cut into halves and remove the coral (aligue). Place coral together in a cup. Season coral with the juice of 2 medium sized calamansi or one native lemon (dayap). Set aside until ready to use. Put the crabs in a frying pan or carajay. Add the minced gar­ lic, salt, pepper and vinegar to suit the taste. Add water. Boil from 10 to 15 minutes or until cooked. When cooked remove the broth; add the lard and fry for about 5 or 10 minutes. Add broth to coral mixture then add to the fried crabs. Let boil until sauce is thick and lard shows on top. In case lard is not enough add as de­ sired. Note: Native vinegar gives this recipe a better taste. Pickled Tulya 2 cups tulya meat 3 or 4 pieces pepper (sili labuyo) ’A cup shortening 1% teaspoons baking % cup sugar powder 1 egg, beaten ' % cup Libby’s Evap1% cups sifted cake orated Milk di­ flour luted with' 1A teaspoon salt Vi cup water 1 teaspoon vanilla Cream shortening and add sugar grad­ ually; cream light. Add egg, beat well. Sift dry ingredients together and add al­ ternately with diluted milk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Add vanilla. Place in 2 small greased layer pans, or one 8-inch square pan. Bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for approxi­ mately 20 to 30 minutes (time depends on size of pan). Cool. Ice with any type of frosting. % cup chopped onion leaves l]j cup sour vinegar Salt and pepper to suit the taste 1 jigger whiskey or gin Remove the tulya from the shells. Blanch the tulya meat. Mix vinegar, salt, whiskey or gin, on­ ion leaves and the pepper (cut into small pieces). Add this mix­ ture to the blanced tulya. Oysters may be used if desired. Stuffed Chicken Soup with Asparagus 1 big hen Vz kilo ground pork 1 cup porked sausage or 4 or 6 pieces oxford sausage % cup grated cheese % cup ground ham 1 cup chopped apulid 14 cup chopped green onion 1 can green asparagus (medium sized) 1 kilo meat bones for broth 1 cup chopped celery or % cup chopped kinchay 2 table spoonful white wine 4 eggs 4 table spoonful butter ’4 cup onion juice 3 table spoonful Perrin sauce Kill, dress and clean a big fat hen. Remove the bones, being careful not to cut the skins. Soak over night the boned chicken in this mixture: Juice of 3 California oranges Salt and pepper to suit the taste Juice of 1 big onion 4 table spoonful brandy 4 table spoonful Perrin Sauce % chopped kinchay Place chicken in the. frigidaire. If no frigidaire or ice box is avail­ able, soak early in the morning (about 7:00 o’clock) until after­ noon around 3:00 o’clock. While waiting for the time mix together the ground pork, sausage, ham. apulid, celery or kinchay, cheese, green onion, butter, onion juice, wine, perrin sauce, eggs and enough salt and pepper to suit the taste. Set aside and when ready stuff the chicken with this mix­ ture. Wrap stuffed chicken in clean cheese cloth and boil with meat bones. When cooked re­ move pan, unwrap and fry. Thick­ en soup with mashed potatoes or cornstarch. Add asparagus toge­ ther with juice. Slice stuffed chicken and add soup just before serving. Serve hot. Stuffed Fish 1 big sized fish (banbangin or apahap) 1 cup chopped boiled shrimps 1 cup chopped cooked ham 1 cup chopped apulid 1 cup chopped celery 2 eggs (raw) 2 hard boiled eggs ecan ICE CREAM ’A cup coarsely chopped pecans 1 tablespoon butter 6 tablespoons sugar 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 tall can Libby’s Evaporated Milk 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin Scald milk. Soften gelatin in one table­ spoon cold water. Dissolve in hot milk. Cool. Place in freezing tray in automatic refrigerator, until it freezes around the edge. Meanwhile brown nuts in butter. Remove the milk to a chilled bowl and whip until stiff. Fold in sugar, vanilla and nuts. Return to freezing tray and freeze hard. Time for freezing—3 to 4 hours. Amount—Senes 6. Salt and pepper to suit the taste 2 table spoonful onion juice 1 table spoonful toyo Enough butter and calamansi juice for rubbing fish RECI Clean the fish thoroughly. Open fish and remove bones and spines being careful to keep flesh as much as possible intact. When ready rub flesh with butter, salt, pepper and calamansi juice. Mix together the chopped shrimps, ham, apulid, celery, toyo, onion juice and 2 eggs. Stuff the stomach of fish. Sew together opening and steam fish. When cooked place on a platter and gar­ nish with the 2 hard boiled eggs. Serve with the following sauce: 1 tablespoonful flour 1 can sweet peas (small) 1 small onion (chopped) ’/2 cup water Vs cup milk 2 tablespoonful grated cheese 6 tablespoonful salad oil or butter Salt to suit the taste Heat the oil or butter in a fry­ ing pan. Saute onion until gold­ en brown, add flour water and milk mixture. Cook until thick enough to pour two or three min­ utes longer. Add sweet peas and pour over the fish just before serving. Rolled Meat Loaf 1 kilo sirloin or tender-loin 6 pieces chorizo Bilbao 6 pieces oxford sausage 4 hard boiled eggs 8 pieces Chinese sausage la lb. bacon Pimientos morrones 4 sweet pickled cucumber Slice the meat for rolling. Cut the chorizo, oxford sausage, chiPAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PES of meat comes out and sauce has boiled thoroughly. Then re­ move fire and continue cooking over live charcoal until tender. When ready to serve remove string, slice and serve with sauce where cooked. TO MRS. CONCEPCION CALDERON-MARTELINO, OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS GOES THE CREDIT OF STARTING THIS SERIES OF NATIVE HOMEY FOODS. SHE SENT IN THE RE­ CIPES FOR THE CRAB ADOBO, THE PICKLED TULYA, THE CHICKEN SOUP AND THE ROLLED MEAT LOAF. WE TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE THE READ­ ERS TO SEND IN RECIPES OF NATIVE DISHES WHICH IS NOT ALWAYS COMMON KNOWLEDGE AS ONE MIGHT EXPECT. THE VEGETABLES COOKED IN COCONUT MILK, FOR INSTANCE, IS ALWAYS AN ENIGMA TO THE HOUSEWIFE WHO DIDN’T GROW UP TO COCONUT AND ITS HUNDRED AND ONE USES. THE KARI-KARI, A NATIVE FAVORITE IS NOT WRIT­ TEN IN ONE UNIFORM RECIPE. EACH COOK, IT SEEMS, HAS HIS OWN TRICKS. THIS ONE THAT FOL­ LOWS IS ONE OF THE TRIED AND TRUE WAYS OF COOKING KARI. seeds are removed. Add this co­ lored fat to the shank mixture. Lastly add the ground peanuts. PESA (DALAG) 1 fat dalag Ginger Raw rice Potatoes A few grains whole black pep­ per Toyo sauce Pork fat Garlic Rice water Cabbage Pechay No clear-cut measurements are given here, leaving this considera­ tion to the discretion of the cook, who can always size up the right quantity called for. For 1 fair­ sized dalag 1,3 cup raw rice is reasonable. And now for the me­ thod of preparation: Clean the fish well, scrub with salt to re; move slippery membrane. Cut in desired pieces. Soak in toyo. When preparing the rice for the day’s meal, save the water; this is your rice water. From this rice that is being washed to be boiled, set aside the amount you need for the Pesa. Put fat in the earthen pot produces more tangy results. We have tried the frying pan for sauteing purposes, later on trans­ ferring the concoction into a “caserola” to accommodate the soup and everything, with pleasant re­ sults. - nese sausage, bacon, hard boiled eggs, pimientos morrones and pickled cucumber lengthwise. Spread out meat and dust with salt and pepper. Arrange the oth­ er ingredients on the meat as de­ sired so that when cut it produces a nice effect. Roll meat then tie •» tablespoonscorn- orated Milk diSUrch luted with '/« cup sugar 1 cup water 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 beaten egg 1 cup Libby’s Evap- 1 teaspoon vaniUa Mix cornstarch, sugar, and salt together. Add diluted milk. Cook over hot water, stirring constantly until thick; cook 5 minutes longer. Remove from heat. Pour over beaten egg. Cook 2 minutes longer. Add vanilla. Pour into individual serving dishes. Chill. Top with a spoonful of 1 drained Libby’s Fruit Cocktail or other ' Libby's Fruit. Amount—Serves 4. • around with string to keep in place. Place the rolled meat in an earthen pot (paso) add water, about Ya cup, strips of bacon, 4 table spoonful tomato sauce, 4 ta­ ble spoonful perrin sauce, 1 bay leaf cut into pieces and two whole onion and salt to taste. Cover tight and cook over fire until juice KARI-KARI 7 cups broth 1 beef shank 2 large eggplants 1/3 cup roasted ground pea­ nuts 1/3 cup roasted whole pea­ nuts 2 cups sitao 3 tablespoons bagoong 1 banana heart 1-1/2 cups tripe 1/3 cup achuete Salt and pepper to taste Cut beef shank to desired pieces and boil in enough water till tender. (Boiling takes about 5 or 6 hours.) In a saucepan, saute garlic till light brown, add onions and cook for three minutes. Add the sitao cut in strips, the banana heart which has been sliced in 1/2-inch rounds, the whole peanuts, the eggplants, beef shank and tripe. Season with bagoong and cover five minutes. Add the broth from the beef shank and cook for half an hour more. In the meantime, place 3 table­ spoons lard in a saucepan and add the achuete seeds. Heat five minutes. Strain to be sure all WITH ITS DELI­ CIOUS HICKORY SMOKED BAKON FLAVOR! B/AKON-YEAST gives a new delicious tang ' to every meal. Try it on your salads, sandwiches, meats, fish, macaroni, spag­ hetti, eggs, vegetables—in your soups, grav­ ies, souffles and casseroles! For the first time, you will taste YEAST so appetizing, so cordial to the palate, so susprisingly refresh­ ing that will really LIKE yeast! Now available at your grocer's ATKINS. KROLL & CD.. ING. 224 AYALA BLDG- MANILA. PHILIPPINES NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 23 ONLY A MILLION (Continued from page 6) THE WATCH (Continued from page 10) thereby get more than their mo­ ney’s worth out of the original million for limited aid and inci­ dentally rid themselves of re­ sponsibility. But though the sum is limited, and the scope too broad, the pro­ visions for disbursement are strict. The One Million is strictly emer­ gency funds to be handed out to those in need of immediate aid; and though it disappears like a drop of rain into the desert, and once disbursed comes to an end, here and there it will do its li­ mited good. Almost P100,000 Holding on to his crutches for dear life, a war veteran hopes a miracle happens soon—not after 40 years. will go for overhead that could have been saved and applied di­ rectly as aid instead had it been possible to divide the million into allotments; but P900,000 goes directly into the hands of the desperately needy — or some of them, at least—and that is good enough. This is the exact budget outlin­ ed for Republic Act No. 1: For cash and/or outright material re­ lief (food, clothing, medical treat­ ments), P471,952; for work relief, P100,000; for loans to needy war widows and orphans pending the receipt of the benefits coming to them, P200.000; for transport­ ation of stranded and indigent persons to their respective home­ towns, P150,000. For inveetigation of needy cases, one supervi­ sor, 10 senior and 13 junior social workers will cost P40,000. Tra­ velling expenses will cost P20,000; that’s what the budget says; if it costs more, 24 social work­ ers will walk. For the office of the social workers, there will be allowed 24 desks and 48 chairs, P3,048. The incidental items of administration and communication are as follows: Freight, express and delivery charges, Pl,000; postal, telegraph, telephone, cable and radio service, P2,000; illumi­ nation and power service, Pl,000; supplies and materials, P10.000; repair of furniture and equipment, P500; other services (in case they forgot something), P500. The Act is a most sincere ef­ fort to reach out and help the forgotten. It is going to be hell on the committee members to stretch it everywhere, and they are going to be criticized and ac­ cused and they know it. Yet not one member, from the chairman, Mrs. Aurora Aragon Quezon, to Chaplain Arcilla withdrew from the committee. Mrs. Asuncion A. Perez, a seasoned welfare war­ horse if ever there was one, sat silent and wise through the first meeting; she has tackled tough jobs before; she never expects thanks and she doesn’t care a fig love, which is a state of grace, they had fallen in love with each other, which is a state of bewil­ derment. The Other Man grew insistent. He had to go away, and he urged the Woman to go with him. When they met now, the hours were a gray misery of argument and inwhat people think as long as her own conscience is clear. Dr. An­ tonio Villarama, secretary of health and public welfare, had his own battle to fight, holding his own against Mrs. Quezon who is nobody’s fool, certainly not Dr. Villarama’s. Dr. Guillermo Rustia, at one time the 5,000-mem- . bership of the National Eugenics Association, served as moderator —“We will leave that till later; we will do this now.” He had to be elsewhere, ♦ but he dared not leave lest he miss something. Mrs. Manuel Moran, as lovely as ever, and Mrs. Angel Tuason, who cancelled a regular appoint­ ment to be present, discussed de­ tails of each suggestion present­ ed, unaware of Dr. Rustia’s heavy disapproval which removed itself from them to me when Mrs. Ernesto Rufino and I dared agree on another point when we should all have been listening instead. (The trouble with professors like our old crony Dr. Rustia is that they get the habit of demanding strict attention until one can halrdly say, “I think so, too.” In fact, only professors are suppos­ ed to think.) Quietest of the com­ mittee was Mrs. V. Vda. de Si­ meon de Jesus, widow of the Ge­ neral. With a strict budget to follow, the one duty to which the com­ mittee is most sharply alert is that of watching for financial leaks down the line, the bane of all welfare administrators. Will the aid go to the right persons? It must. Does each receive enough, too much, too little? Care must be taken, judgment exercis­ ed meticulously. However thank­ less a job, it can still be done right. EDITOR’S NOTE: It was de­ cided subsequently not to give loans but to apply the sum on direct relief and work relief. decision. At last the choice was made. There was nothing joyful about it but only a dulled relief at having accepted the inevitable. The Woman told the Other Man she would go with him. After that, there remained to her a whole day in which to take leave of her home. The husband was away. It would have been intoler­ able if he had been here in these last days of exhausting decision, she thought. With a forced brisk­ ness. she moved through her house, packing her clothes, setting things in order. Tt was a sunny day, and the house seemed more cheerfully at­ tractive than it had been for many weeks. Insects droned in the bright flower beds, as the Wom­ an paused by her bedroom win­ dow, absently winding her watch and looking down upon that gar­ den. There was the toolshed whefe the Husband had worked so enthusiastically; the hammock un­ der the tree, where he liked to laze over the Sunday papers. She turned away and wandered rest­ lessly through the rooms. As the hours passed, a mood of confi­ dence returned. She wrote a note to leave for the Husband. She was surprised to find how it was to do this. At the end, she left the house in breathless haste. The last hours had sped faster than she had realized, and the watch told her that she would be late at the rendezvous. She was to meet' the Other Man in a cafe near the rail­ road at six o’clock. Her watch showed ten minutes past six when she arrived there. The Other Man was not there. This surprised her, for he had hitherto been most punctual. She ordered coffee, and sat down in a shaded corner of the cafe. She was conscious of excitement now. Her hands and knees trembled. She imagined the waitress re­ garded her curiously. Every time . she looked at her watch—and this was often—it seemed the girl no­ ticed and smiled to herself. And now the Woman began to > decide that it was anger which i made her tremble. The Other Man had kept her waiting forty minPAGE 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL utes—forty swift blows in the face of romance. He was a cow­ ard. That diffidence of his which she had thought so charming, was only cowardice. His thoughtful­ ness was only lack of decision. v He was old too; many years older than she was. Undoubted­ ly he was selfish and vain. And she... quite suddenly she knew that she did not want him to come now. She arose hurriedly and fled. She was calmer when she reached her home. Methodically she burned the note which she had written for the Husband. She un­ packed her clothes. She undress­ ed, put on a negligee. She sat by her window. The garden was caught in deep twilight, and the skies stooped in quiet gray. Only voice. “No dear. The usual time.” He was moving about the room. How well she knew those quiet movements; that reluctance to in­ trude upon “one of her moods.” “Hello!” He had paused. “There must be something wrong with your watch.” “Wrong?” “Yes. It is nearly an hour and a half fast. You must have over­ wound it or dropped it or some­ thing.” The woman did not answer. She stared into the darkening garden. “Did you hear me, dear ; I said your watch was fast, it is ticking away wildly. Perhaps they sold me a dud. Anyway, you never really liked it, did you dear?” She did not answer at once. A tear trickled down her nose. She dabbed at it with her handker­ chief and then turned to face her husband. She summoned up a slow smile. “Of course I like it,” she said. “It’s a wonderful" watch.” (From Cosmopolitan October, 1944) WOMEN AND RECONSTRUCTION i Continued front page 13) the ticking of her watch was loud. She unfastened it and flung it on the bed. She could feel no pain, but only the emptiness were pain had been. There was—and she almost faced it—a relief in being delivered from the fret of love. Her mind made one conscientious effort to dwell on despair and loss, but she could not accept the thought. There would have been some gran­ deur in making of this a moment of high tragedy. But she knew it was not so. Her heart told her that she was a mouse that had come back quickly from the threshold of danger to the safe walls of home. Judge AlmeidaLopez has al­ ways an under­ standing heart for juvenile de­ linquents. She typifies the role of women in moulding future citizens worthy to inhabit a big and greater city as envisioned by our planners for the country’s re­ habilitation and reconstruction. She heard her husband come in, and now for the first time there were tears in her eyes. She did not turn when-she heard him en­ ter the room behind her. tonic. This is the time, too, for “You are late / this evening, her to teach them to love God, aren’t you ?” she asked in a steady respect their elders, be good to A Social Year In Seven Months • For High School & Elementary Students from Dec. 2 to June 21, 1947. Enrollment in full swing at BOHOL JUNIOR COLLEGES 207 Zurbaran, Manila • Also for Second Semester in all colleges: Education, Commerce, Liberal ArtsEngineering, Industrial Chemistry. • Vocational Courses: Stenography, Typewriting, Bookkeep­ ing, Accounting, Dressmaking, Hair Science, Beauty Cul­ ture, Interior Decoration. PHILIPPINE SECRETARIAL SCHOOL Philippine School Of Dressmaking & Hair Science THIS MONTH'S ISSUE {Continued from page begin January, 1947. A NOTH EK glowing tribute to Mrs. Legarda regarding her participation in the international Assembly of Women is contained in this excerpt: “Mrs. Trinidad f ernandez-Legarda, president ox tne National federation of Wo­ men’s Club of the Philippines re­ ceived the longest applause of tne day when in a banoon-sleeved native costume of black muslin embroidered in white, she asked help for her people who suffered more destruction than Warsaw, she said.” THERE would be less heart­ ache and disappointments if one another. Her voice should never be raised in anger. It should be soft and kind and modulated to suit the quietness of the place and soothe the eagerness of the innocent faces upturned in wonder and belief. She can teach them the simple virtues of kindness, truth, and love. From this simple picture of quiet domesticity our children shall grow in stature as a people and our women can rightfully say that they have had a hand in the molding of the character of these new citizens who shall inhabit the new cities of the Republic. 27 EscolLi Corner Nueva, Manila me beneficiaries of the Million­ peso fund had the knowledge and understanding that Yay Agustin has of the thankless job that now faces the newly appointed dis­ bursement committee. “For every ten people helped a hundred will be passed by,” says Yay who sets forth bright sparkling ideas on what to do with the Million Peso “Hot Potato”. ’ DR. ANTONIO ISIDRO was a fello.w-pedestrian in that fa­ mous Quiapo lane when he found himself “held up” for an article. Days later he made good his pro­ mise by sending in **The Child and His Language” (page 7). Dr. Isidro was formerly assistant Di­ rector of Private Education, is currently an instructor in U. P. A BIT of sideshow is Anatolio Litonjua’s contribution for this issue. That his oppus was not concocted at the spur of the moment is proved by his being prepared for the contingency of an illustration such as the one in his article. Those boners came in an envelope which came together with his piece. Sweetness and light clothe a subtle warning in “A Song, A Flower And A Sigh” (page 4) which only Estrella Alfon Rivera can weave with a deftness all her own. It is a prudent little piece. Conrado Pedroche, Mario P. Chanco, Manuel Viray, C. M. Ve­ ga all rallied this fortnight with their usual best. —P. T. G. Dr. Pastor Clemente y Geronimo DENTIST Ex-Inatrurlor College of Dentiatry, N. U. Room 214 Cairo Bld?. NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 25 Our bulletin board this time de Ubando. The Baguio woman’s will be filled up to a great ex- club is responsible for the pueritent with the officers of women’s culture center and the Baguio clubs which have been re-organ- Maternity House. Food producized or have a new set of tion and assistance to war wiofficers:— dows and orphans are other priGuinayangan, Quezon:—Concep- mary projects of the club. cion M. Salumbides, president; Lalio, Cagayan: Mrs. Catalina ApoIonia C. Arana, vice-president; A. Dupaya, president; Mrs. Luisa Felipa L. Marquez, secretary; A. Camacho, Vice president; Mrs. Victorina R. Garcia, assistant sec- Pilar A. Divain, Secretary; Mrs. cretary; Isabel T. Ramos, treas- Rosalia D. Rosales, assistant sec­ urer; Salome. C. Pujalte and An- retary; Mrs. Andrea I. Aguinaldo, cieta R. Molines, assistant treas- treasurer; Mrs. Cecilia D. Siriurers, board of directors: Elm- ban, assistant treasurer; direclia N. Salumbides, Angelita C. tors: Mrs. Reginalds Q. Sorita, Cambronero, Anicia G. Salumbi- Mrs. Corazon' Rosales, Mrs. Merdes, Ramona T. Ingles, Soledad L. cedes Siriban, Mrs. Dionisia F. Garcia, Teresa R. Tubaga, and Guzman, Mrs. Elisa C. Catral, and Natividad L. Espino. Mrs. Casimira S. Dupaya. Malvar, Batangas: Miss Rosa- Camalaningan, Cagayan: Torio L. Trinidad, president; Mrs. masa V. Tolentino, president; Ana S. Villapando, vice-president; Fiorentina Pasara, vice president; Miss Angelita Aranda, secretary; Arsenia Pagaduan, secretary; Miss Isabel Viaje, treasurer; Miss Adela Tuzon, treasurer; directors: Victoria Cantero, assistant treas- Mrs. Celestina N. Jurado, Mrs. urer; board of directors: Mrs. Felicidad Oandasan, Mrs. FlorenEncarnacion M. Ticzon, Mrs. Ana cia Aguirre, Mrs. Juana de la S. Villapando, Mrs. Felipa L. Le- Cruz, Mrs. Primitiva Cabadon, viste, Mrs. Encarnacion M. Lan- Mrs. Caridad Villaflor, Mrs. Frantin, Mrs. Consortia Paz, and Miss cisca Roa, Mrs. Francisca Torres, Rosario L. Trinidad. The club or- arid Mrs. Caridad Bejer. The ganized a cooperative store, main objective of the club at pre­ known as the Malvar Central Co- sent is to raise funds to establish operative Store to help the peo- the Puericulture Center. pie buy goods at a reasonable Sarrat, Ilocos Norte:—Mrs. Meprice. Most of the members of ]ecia a. Petel, president; Mrs. the cooperative are clubwomen. Guillerma P. Zabala, vice presBaguio, Mountain Province: ident; Miss Guillerma R'acela, sec­ Mrs. Florencia C. Cruz, president; retary; Mrs. Lourdes M. Agcaoili, Mrs. Virginia 0. de Guia, vice- assistant secretary; Miss Ana Papresident; Mrs. Rosal C. Rimando, culan, treasurer; Mrs. Mercedes secretary; Mrs. Eden A. Villa- J. Edralin, assistant treasure^; nueva, assistant secretary; Mrs. Mrs. Mercedes C. Pena, adviser; Dominga Gonzales, treasurer; board of directors: Mrs. FlorenMrs. Vitaliana Gorospe, Assistant cia R. Reyes, Mrs. Rufina G. Letreasurer; board of directors: gaspi, Mrs. Micaela Agcaoili, Mrs. Mrs. Anatolia Lopez, Mrs. Flo- Consuelo P. Onevedo, Mrs. Maria rentina Lamug, Mrs. Jose Flores, G. Racela, Mrs. Victoria P. de la Dr. Josefina Gorospe, Dr. Acena Cuesta, and Mrs. Tomasa L. Ri­ Bernards H. Ibanez, assistant secretary; Miss Librada Apiado, treasurer; Mrs. Bernarda H. Iba­ nez, assitant treasurer; board of directors: Mrs. Felicidad L. Bustria, Mrs. Sulpicia C. Ordonez. Mfs. Maria V. Rodriguez, Mrs„ Fidela C. Callanta, and Mrs. Silvera. The following is a brief report of the activities of the members: (1) Reorganization of the club after liberation (2) Helped the soldiers in the form of food, clothing, and immediate needs, (3) Distributed UNRRA goods, (4) Organized Junior Woman’s Club, (5) Planted national trees, (6) Helped organize the Pueri­ culture Center. Balaoan, La Union:—Mrs. Hipolita R. Wellborn, president; Mrs. Matilde Basconcillo, vicepresident; Mrs. Catalina A. Lo­ pez, secretary; Miss Socorro Lo­ pez, assistant secretary; Mrs. Ma­ ria G. Olivar, treasurer; Mrs. Cla­ ra C. Octaviano, assistant trea­ surer; board of directors: Miss Socorro Tadian, Miss Matilde Turalba, Mrs. Severa Ordinario, Mrs. Emeteria Ordinario, Mrs. Paula R. Call ado; and Mrs. Bue­ na P. Lopez, Santa Maria, Pangasinan:— Miss Mercedes C. Cerdenola, pres­ ident; Mrs. Leodegaria M. Supnet, vice-president; Mrs. Fulgencia P. Tangco, secretary; Mrs. vina M. Gutierrez. Soon after liberation the was activated and one of its first activities was to send the following delegates to request for relief goods from the PRRA: Miss Mercedes C. Cerde­ nola and Mrs. Felicidad L. Bustria. However, the request was not favorably acted on and they appealed to the provincial gover­ nor, who gave them a bale of UN­ RRA goods which were distribut­ ed to 138 members. Then the club re-organized the puericulture center, and raised Pl,079.05 from benefits and voluntary contribu­ tions. Loreto Woman’s Club, Manila: Mrs. Ana L. Molina, president; Mrs. Esperanza Paras, vice-pres­ ident; Miss Genoveva Lectura, secretary; Mrs. Angela Martin, treasurer; board of directors: Mrs. Arsenia Pereria, Miss Loli­ ta Francisco, Mrs. Vicenta L. Cruz, and Mrs. Victoria M. Lim­ pin. The club is sponsoring a well-organized nursery class, and has provided for a temporary playground for the children of the (Continued on page 28) TALK DELIVERED BY MRS. CONCEP­ CION FELIX-RODRIGUEZ, ADVISER OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS, TO THE MANILA CLUB WOMEN RECENTLY Mrs. Concepcion Felix.Rodriguez Permit me ro tell you in a few words the beginning, and what I consider some outstanding achieve­ ments of the Manila Woman’s Club. These, I hope and believe, will serve as a pattern and ins­ piration for our future activities. On March, 1912, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, distinguished pres­ ident of the U.S. General Fede­ ration of .Women’s Club visited Manila. At that early period, her object was the study of woman suffrage for the Filipino women. The outcome of her visit was the formation of a Society for the Ad­ vancement of Women. This was the forerunner of the present Woman’s Club of Manila, which was incorporated on June 9, 1913. That was more than 33 years PAGE 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL ago, and in that long span of time, our organization has under­ taken and accomplished many be­ nevolent works for our fellow women. Allow' me to recall to you what I believe the ten most outstanding accomplishments of our organization: First: the establishment of Day Nurseries for which the Philip­ pine Legislature appropriated the sum of P5,000.00. At these day nurseries working mothers left their infants to be fed, cared for while-they are at work. Second: the establishment of the Legal Aid to Indigent Women. This clinic was under the admin­ istration of Attorneys Natividad Almeda, now Judge Lopez of the Municipal Court and Felicidad Le­ gaspi. Third: the segregation of wo­ men prisoners from Bilibid prison and quartering them at the Cor­ rectional Institution at Mandaluyong. This action was made pos­ sible by Governor-General Davis who set aside P60.000 for that purpose. Fourth: the appointment of wo­ men to be members of such im­ portant boards as the Playground Committee, School Textbook and the Public Welfare Boards. Fifth: the Philippine Girl’s Training School at Mandaluyong. After the tragic fire on May 12, 1933 where 11 unfortunate girls were burned to death at the Training School for Wayward Girls, the need for a safe place of confinement for these unfor­ tunate girls was deemed impera­ tive. Sixth: the appointment of po­ licewomen primarily to protect women and girls. Seventh: the propagation and fostering of vegetable gardens, conservation of food and the sale of liberty bonds. At that time the first World War was reaching the United States and here in the Philippines we were actively help­ ing America prepare to win. Eighth: the visit to the Culion Leper Colony on January 1, 1915 at the invitation of the Secretary of Interior Winfred Dennison. That visit resulted in the improve­ ment of living conditions of the lepers. Our Club donated P300.00 to be spent for stage fittings for an open air theatre. Ninth: the beautification of the City of Manila and the erection of a Flower Market. It was our Club that first proposed in 1916 to construct a wide double high­ way from Luneta extend to Cavi­ te. Dr. Rebecca Parrish also THE National Federation of Women’s Clubs, (which in­ cludes all the affiliate clubs of the country) has several friends who are currently in America. We are sure that our readers whether a clubwoman or not will share with us our enjoyment of the news we receive about them. We shall endeavor to include in every issue something about them. We begin with Mrs. Legarda, our president who sailed on the S. S. President Madison to repre­ sent the Philippines in the Inter­ national Conference of Women in launched the proposition to make Manila the Fire Tree City. It was also suggested to eliminate dead end streets and convert them for vehicular traffic or make them into playgrounds for childftn. We also suggested the erection cf a modern band stand at the Luneta, which as everybody knows was completely lost during the battle for the liberation of Manila. Perhaps the greatest achieve­ ment of the Woman’s Club of Manila was the launching of the campaign for “Equal Suffrage”. In an open meeting in 1915, Mrs. L. L. Shuman petitioned for the establishment of a Committee to handle the extension of Women’s Club to the provinces. It was agreed to establish vegetable gar­ dens in the provinces and to es­ tablish Women’s Clubs to con­ serve and produce food. The gov­ ernment cooperated in the enter­ prise by giving an office in the Ayuntamiento fully equipped, and P2,000.00 for travelling expenses and purchase of plants,-seeds, etc. Many members travelled .(with­ out remuneration) to near and far places. The plan was very successful. Out of those Clubs emerged the NATIONAL FEDE­ RATION OF-WOMEN’S CLUBS of the Philippines, organized in 1921, and which on April 30, 1937, carried a special election on equal suffrage by a majority woman’s vote of 447.407. For this reason the Federation is credited with being the brain child of the Wo­ man’s Club of Manila. The mo­ ther club also donated P500, saved from its own headquarters fund for the purchase of a head­ quarters for the National Federa­ tion of Women’s Clubs. I hope that the short sketch I presented of the achievements of the Manila Woman’s Club will serve as an inspiration and guidance for a bigger and better Manila Woman’s Club. Friends In America New York. Since the liberation Mrs. Legarda has been working for the Symphony, the NFWC, the National Council of Women, and many others—without . a single minute of rest—until she was on the boat. She felt so rested even during her first days out, and so energetic that she im­ mediately started a travel-diary. We have our fingers crossed, hop­ ing the first part of this diary has not been lost in transit. To date we have not received it and neither has anyone seem to have seen it among the things she has sent, and she repeatedly told us that she was sending it. The Washington Star, one of the leading dailies of Washington, D.C. printed a glowing report of P10.00 HATCHING REPEATER PENCIL I T’S AN EVERSHARP I...THE PEN PREFERRED BY PILOTS 0Fv PAN-AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS! MAGIC FEED prevents ink flooding or leaking high in a plane ... so of course at ground level too! Ends pen messiness . - •> writes more words with less refilling! 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She reiterated her statement made the day be­ fore that American films and American literature have given (.Continued on page 31) NOVEMBER 30. 1946 PAGE 27 YOUR SLIP IS SHOWING (Continued from page 11) United.” “Miss A........... S............... leum Who Died Due To Red Tape and Mr. G.................. L.................. At Hospital were recently married at the Sto. The Philippine Army News Tomas chapel in Manila. The Digest is not above committing a couple spent a short honeymoon prize boner or two weekly. Said at Tagaytay, then returned to the the Digest: “From Manila, last city where they.” Friday, President-elect Roxas sent A movie column in the Evening a litter to President Truman News had this: “Ex-child actress thanking him profoundly for the Shirley Temple’s latest measure- Rankin bill.” ments: height, 5 feet, 2 inches; Did they possibly mean “litter weight, 101 pounds; waist, 24; of pigs”? bust, 32; nips 35; neck, 12 %; There are boners which could and wrist, 6. Authority for this is not be classified in the pure realm RKO’s wardrobe mistress." Little of typographical errors since they Miss Marker is certainly growing appeared in the original copy or up but what are nips? press release. Malaprops and A. H. Lacson of the Liberty faulty prepositions are frequently News is another columnist done the bane of newspaper writers and wrong by those imps that spring press relations oficers. up unexpected from the printed page. In one of those periodic An ever-alert deskman at the railleries on his good friend, Con- Times spotted the following ribald gressman Jose Topacio Nueno, piece in a mimeographed press reLacson set forth with a left-hand- lease from the Manila police ed compliment of Nueno whose department: “...the woman was “anties have convulsed even his raped with the point of a gun.” most sedate colleagues’, in the As- “He suffered several black sembly.” eyes,” said an unedited story of a Anties in his panties, arsenic ? labor riot. The restrictions of the headline 0. P. G. of the Manila Courier, sometimes lend unintentional writing the sidelights on the in­ twists to a perfect headline. Con- dependence day ceremonies, obsider, for instance, the following served: two-decker in a front page of the “Generally, the public did not Manila Times: mind neither the heat nor the Roxas To Honor rain. But particularly, the fair McNutt, Good sex complained of the prickly One of the headline boners ap- heat that melt their makeup, and peared in the Manila Post some- of the rain that washed it.” time ago. Sprawling across two The precise meaning of “prick­ columns was the following head- ly heat” must have been lost in line; tlie harried reportorial mind. R'ites Held Today For Petro- Carlos Moran Sison,. an other­ Complexion! You, too, can merit that compliment by the use of CREMA BELLA AURORA The failthful use of this marvellous Cream will work wonders in bringing to your skin a lovely, clear trans­ parency. It gives to your skin what the artist calls “depth” — a lovely, natural bloom. Simply use CREMA BELLA AURORA regularly each night after clean­ sing—leaving it on the skin all night to do its work while you sleepAT THE BETTER STORES BOTICA BOIE I I i Sole Importers 95 Escolta wise impeccable young man, wrote tage. It is a United Press dis­ in his column that “A week ago, patch published in an afternoon our mother dropped us in the of- daily relating to the apprehension fice at eight o’clock in the mom- by the Tokyo police of the abing. . . ” ductor of the 11-year-old daughter You mean the stork dropped you of a Japanese millionaire. in, Carlos? “The abductor,” the news item Then there was the press re- soberly announced, “is Yoshio lease written by the henchman of Higuchi, 22, former convict. He apolitical mogul—you know one of was apprehended in a village in those men who hang around news- Central Japan. The hide-out of paper offices to wheedle publicity Luis Taruc, Huk su-.” for their bosses. He submitted a When the editor comes upon lengthy literary gem which men- such blunders that spoil an othertioned among other things the wise perfect edition, he’d need a “trepidation and concupiscence of deadpan (please, proof-reader, the governor which incensed the deadpan, initial letter is d not b, ire of his rival.” and don’t forget the first a) and The most heady wine in our col- a calm disposition to keep him out lection, however, is of recent vin- of the nuthouse. MRS. RAMOS IN WASHINGTON (Continued from page 15) in th? Assembly, Mr. Ramos’ groups refused to acept her restanchest campaigner has been signation. his fragile-looking wife, who con- “They think I can continue to sistently took the stump in her help them over here,” she .smiles, husband’s behalf, sandwiching po- “and perhaps I can.” litical speeches between English classes at Far Eastern University. -------------------------------------------Both Mr. and Mrs. Ramos cam- THE CU B WOMAN’S* 1 paigned in the recent presidential BULLETIN' BOARD elections, dividing their district in (Continued from page 26) two, each taking half.-------------------------------------------the Washington hom£ of a Fili­ pino friend, but are in search of a more permanent location. The two girls are excited over every­ thing and the radio particularly intrigues them. ‘“It keeps us laughing with the queerest ad­ vertisements,” they explain. Letty is enrolled as a senior in Central High and Gloria is a sixth grade student. Their 18-year-old brother, Fidel, is at West Point. “He is one of the first stu­ dents sent here by the repub­ lic,” says his mother proudly. “He was an engineering student and topped the competitive ex­ amination which made him eli­ gible to an appointment.” When she left the Philippines Mrs. Ramos was second vice pres­ ident of the Pangasinan Federa­ tion of Women’s Clubs, a board member of the National Federa­ tion of Women’s Clubs and vice president of the YWCA. All Although this is youthful Mrs. Ramos’ first trip to the United neighborhood. States, it isn’t the first time she Morong, Rizal:—Mrs. Amparo has traveled. In 1937 she accorn- de Francisco, president; Mrs. Elpanied her husband to an inter- pidia Raymundo, vice-president; national YMCA conference in My- Mrs. Gregoria F. Patag, secret­ sore, India, and last year was one ary, Miss Mercedes San Juan, asof four delegates invited to at- sistant secretary; Mrs. Emilia tend a YWCA gathering in Aus- Mateo, treasurer; Mrs. Estelita tralia. Atendido, assistant treasurer; The Ramoses at present occupy board of directors: Mrs. Ambrocia Alegre, Mrs. Eugenia Bonifa­ cio, Miss Mercedes San Juan, Mrs. Damiana Francisco, Mrs. So­ fia Bautista, and Miss Ines Fran­ cisco. Angadan, Isabela: — Through the request of the club president, Mrs. Asmeralda C. Mari, the Philippine War Relief gave a box of medicine to the club. The use of this medicine was instru­ mental in saving the lives of about 200 women and 600 chil­ dren suffering from pneumonia and dysentery. Panganiban, Camarines Norte: The Jonapa Woman’s Club of this town celebrated the third anniver­ sary of the late Mrs. Maria AdeaEvia, the founder and former president of the club. She also founded the Labo Woman’s Club. The late Mrs. Evia was very ac­ tive in the campaign for woman suffrage, and was one of the first woman councilors elected. PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL From Brother To A Star By C. M. Veg a WE are the brown brothers of the earth: brothers of the whites and the black, brothers of all mortals and immortals— we are members in the Brotherhood of Men. You cannot mistake us, for the earth is our color... We are proud purely of the brown earth ] as we are proud 1 of our race! i You will know us— by the smell of armpits and our dreams between a twilight and a leaf; 1 from the fields and the Escolta and the plains— you will know us! Brown men, women and children with brown sinews and poetry tuned to labor and song and God: you will know us! You will know us: in the ricefields, in sun and rain, in Congress and barong-barongs... We are your relatives who broke soil and sprinkled blood and tears for water in Mindanao and Corregidor, i in the mountain fastnesses and Bataan that^e stature of men and Democracy ma/ touch a star! We are your brown brothers from Mactan to Tirad Pass, from Capas to San Francisco; brown brothers who licked the dust and death in the shadow of the heartless barbarian! We are the brown brothers of the earth: brothers of the whites and the black, brothers of all mortals and immortals— | possessed also of feelings • and passions and joys • and hopes and faiths I and dreams and tears | as are other members • in the Brotherhood of Men! FROM A CLUB WOMAN FIELD OBSERVATION By Solita N. Bautista FBOM our Club Women’s back­ yard there are plenty of sur­ prises. Long before the Food Campaign started their backyards have been always filled with fruits and vegetables. Besides their va­ ried projects of Nursery, Illiterate Classes, Diet Kitchen, Needlecraft, Sewing, etc., the club women en­ gaged in planting. From my conversation with these women I found out that they are best informed on the proper time of planting vegetables, whether native or introduced, in order to obtain products of high quality. I have learned that when the climate is strictly tropical, plant growth under normal condi­ tion is active throughout. Our vegetables, though, seem to be ac­ tive all the year round. Neverthe­ less, vegetables like other plants which grow to a greater or less extent during any part of the year, thrive better in some months than in others. Hence production is largely influenced by climatic changes which are either detri­ mental to plant growth or cause the plant to attain excessive growth with corresponding lowyield. Cowpeas—the highest yield can be obtained by November. (Continued on page 33) Christmas Cards HERE AGAIN . . 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T H E unpredictable dash of shocking contrast finds expres­ sion in this dress \ in the form of vivid chevron stripes for the whole of righ shoulderEMBROIDERY is every coutourier’s delight, but how to use it with telling effect is another story. In the dress above, decoletage becomes a virtue wheen set off by em­ broidery that straddles should­ ers and what passes for sleeves*. Embrqjdery for the hemline in this case is a ne­ cessary adjunct to the simple draped skirt. Note the bas­ que bodice and the nipped-in waist. AtLast! A deodorant cream that really ' prevents perspiration odors _ and keeps the arm-pits soft, and smooth. Amolin Cream is delicate in texture...pleasant in fragrance... without medi» cinal odor. Amolin deodorant Distributors BOTICA BO1E 95 Escolta LEFT: THIS frontal attack on the dressy side of dressing comes in gay plaid buttoned on to the basic dress with two giant square buttons. Youibasic attire for this may be black or white or any plain color that echoes the plaid. RIGHT: GAY December nights provide cool alibis for trim little suits> like tjiis. Wear vivid, con-1 Irasting epaulets for should­ ers and equally vivid buttons. Keep the three-quarter sleeves, they are a “must” for this scheme at least. PAGE 30 WOMAN'S HOME JOVRNAI Dear Editor: Your magazine is wonderful. I think you are particularly wise in devoting a few pages to fashion, since they will always be of in­ terest to women. But I miss one thing in these pages,1 — fashion sketches. Why not include them as a regular feature of your ma­ gazine? So many times, our wo­ men are at loss when it comes to ideas for their clothes, — and that goes even for our modistes. I am sure your readers will great­ ly appreciate the help they can devine from your magazine thru FRIENDS IN AMERICA (.Continued from page 27) false impressions of the country.” The Washington Star reported growing interest in the Philip­ pines and in Filipino women among Washington clubwomen. Was­ hington women are anxious to cooperate with the General Fede­ ration of Women’s Clubs in its efforts to help the Philippine Fe­ deration to rebuild its Manila clubhouse destroyed during the war. From Miss Mercedes Evangelilta who is another delegate to the Assembly in New York, we hear more news about Mrs. Legarda and herself. In California the two were guests of the Alta Mina Woman’s Clubs at San Leandro, and the San Francisco Federation of Women’s Clubs. This Federa­ tion has decided to include among such sketches. ' —Salvacion S. Lim Legaspi, Albay Dear Editor: I am sending my congratula­ tions to you for your magazine. It was a blessing in disguise the moment I got hold of one! It help­ ed me a lot and built up my mo­ rale during my convalescing days. The magazine is highly entertain­ ing—and I can see that it will be­ come a favorite among our wo­ men, both young and old. I enjoyfed it so much so M.hat I was its principal projects, assistance to the NFWC. After the Assem­ bly in New York, Miss Evangelis­ ta is going back to the West Coast to organize the women clubs among the Filipinos. The American Women’s Clubs are agreeable to the organization of a Federation of Women’s Clubs in the United States to be affiliated to the NFWC. Mercedes stayed with Mrs. C. T. Alfafara, a prominent woman leader who helped a great deal in collecting the clothes that the Philippine War Relief distributed. Mrs. Malva who was in Marrila "not long ago is also a leader, spe­ cially among the farmers. She in­ vited Mercedes to her lovely home in Salinas. Another Filipino who is giving valuable aid specially in inspired ro write a poem: “Of Brave Men and Gentle Women", which together with another one. 1 hope you will kindly consider to include among the many con­ tributions for your magazine. —Fely It. Maliksi 708 R. Hidalgo Manila Dear Editor: Your magazine is one of the best magazines in the Philippines today. By its name, it may be im­ plied that only women should read it. But I found* out it is not only for women. It is also for men. I don’t know if others would see making the proper contacts is Mr. Pete Gamatero. Both Mrs. Legarda and Merce­ des spoke to various groups. At the time Mercedes wrote she has just received an invitation from the women of Stockton and Long Beach to address them, and as­ suring her of their desire to raise funds for the NFWC. She was also interviewed over the radio. Mercedes visited Petring de Joya, daughter of our NFWC trea-1’ surer, who was taken ill on her trip and has been confined in a hospital ever since. Petring is on the road to recovery, and is grate­ ful to Mrs. Alfafara who helped to get a blood donor for her. And now we come to Maria Te­ resa hnd Tony Escoda, Jr., chil­ dren of our beloved Mrs. Escoda. They are in America also to con­ tinue their studies. This is made possible by the Escoda Memorial Fund, contributed to chiefly by army and civilian people who were grateful for help they re­ ceived from the Escodas while in Philippine prison camps, and by friends of these men. Tony, as they call him now, al­ though he is still Sonny to us who knew him in his infancy, is stay­ ing in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, in the home of Mr. Charles E. Grif­ fith, the vice president of the Silver Burdett company, textbook publishers of New York. Mr. Griffith js at present in Manila, where he counts with numerous friends having first come in 1923, then in 192G, 1929, 1931, and 1940. He was responsible for the col­ lecting and publishing of the Progressive Music Series Book which is widely used in the ele­ mentary schools here. Tony is enrolled in the Glen Ridge High School, and has won everyone he meets. Two days after his arrival he took out a card from the public library, and came home with a pile of books. it like 1 do. What with your Sep­ tember number containing the question on liberalizing the di­ vorce law. Congressman Floro Crisologo w a s super-superb (wonder if there is such a word as super-superb?) on his side of this divorce law question. It should not be WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL. It should have another name. With its pre­ sent name, only women or girls and a few men or boys would be curious to open it. I mean—well, T am only SUGGESTING. —Anacleto M. Aguihon Sgt., MPC, P.A. The principal of the High School assigned to him the recital of the allegiance to the flag and the night before, he came to Mrs. Griffith and wondered if it was proper for him to have accepted that assignment. Tony said, “I love the American flag, but I am now a citizen of an independent country, and I wonder if it is proper for me to recite the allegi­ ance to the American flag.” Maria Teresa (more commonly known as Baby or Bing) is en­ rolled in Barnard College and stays in the Barnard dormitory. Last month she was guest at a radio program in New York and was interviewed by Walter Kier­ man. Miss Elvira Llanes is staying at the International House in New York City—and is enrolled in the New Yjrk School of Social Serv­ ice. 25,000 Pairs 8 Sears Ladies SHOES SANDALS PSSOup^ P3.85up Why Pay More? For the price of one pair you buy elsewhere you can have 3 pairs of different styles and co­ lors one to match each dress when you buy at FLEUR DE PARIS DEPT. STORE CENTRAL HOTEL BLDG. Ground Floor NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 31 lived there were laid out on theTO DEFINE A HERO (Continued from page 17) ground floor, no longer able to object to the hordes that came rushing in from all sides. Child­ ren staggered around the milling throng, crying for their fallen pa­ rents. Mothers pushed blindly forward, calling for lost members. There were a few who had crept from beneath piles of dead to stumble, crawl, half-walk into the house. Now weak from hunger and loss of blood they were pow­ erless to stop the hordes that trampled upon them. The looters were there. They spread rumors about how the Jap­ anese would shell the area and _ watched the people blunder about the pitiful multitude that called in terror. Meanwhile they calm­ ly stopped over piles of precious belongings, appropriating what­ ever caught their fancies. The street-corners were littered with abandoned pushcarts. Next morn­ ing, these stood empty. There was a little moonlight then. Fires were still burning in buildings where desperate Japan­ ese continued to resist. Northwest Dr. F. E. KLEIN OPTOMETRIST—OPTICIAN Formerly with CLARK & CO. Best materials are exclusively used. From 9—12 and 2—4 P. M. 317 Regina Bldg., Escolta. VEILS for all occasions VARIOUS STYL® DOLLS Crying, Sleeping, Feed­ ing, with real hair, va­ rious sizesDRESSES Latest style ladies’ en­ sembles, smart blouses, sweaters- Handbags to match. SHOES For the whole family U. S- Leather. Not job lots All sizesBUY NOW U- S- Strikes will delay X’mas Shipments and raise prices. 64 Escolta. Opposite Crystal Arcade from the Singalong Church, a crimson line of tracers stretched out toward the Settlement House. The doctor heard more screams and he called out hoarsely, “Men! For God’s sake, help us with the wounded...” A few came forward. A flash­ light picked out tired faces from for help. Their cries turned the doctor’s blood cold. "Doctor, my baby...” “Doctor, please.. ” “Here, doctor...” He bent over "Still bodies, slith­ ered over the intestines of a man who had stepped on a land mine. “This one. This. Yes. His wife was misty-eyed, but she continued to direct some girls engaged in stripping off pieces of cloth from her discarded clothes. These were hurriedly sterilized and rushed to the makeshift oper­ ating room. Today, the hospitals of Manila are pleasant s'ights. White sheets and smell of disinfectant pervade their atmosphere. At the Settle­ ment House in February, the sheets were red and the smell was the smell of death. Sometimes it seemed the smell was alive, had fingers that stretched out.to you and tried to pin you down. More, yet more came. The cor­ ridors and the reception hall littered them. They were twelve deep in front and all had their salvaged goods •with them. The doctor was slightly puzzled. Was life not enough to be thankful for? That middle aged man who came in this morning, the one with the expensive iooking suit and the portfolio. He looked wealthy but he was breathing his life away in a dark corner of the operating room. What was wealth now? Many would trade their last possessions for a drink of wa­ ter. Why all the pots and pans, the bundles of clothing, the bloodsoaked dolls? What was there to cook, and who was in the mood for play? No water. Some of the men had dug a shallow well in the com­ pound and the people had prompt­ ly stampeded it into a muddened pool, potent with disease. Yet many drank the slime, and were glad to get it. No toilet facilities. Not even the stench of death could over­ come that which came from the living. The doctor left the operating room and looked at his charges with quiet despair. Where were the field hospitals? The band­ ages? The medicines? The dis­ infectants ? The food ? It was more than 72 hours since he had closed his eyes. Save for a few mouthfuls of cold fish and rice, he had not eaten. At Ca­ pas, he had seen men die violently but there was nothing to compare with this carnage. A soldier had Yes. to die. He knew that. But the I’m coming... God, we’ve run out civilians... who was to answer for of bandages already.” them? The sanitary conditions were awesome. He knew that unless something was done immediately an epidemic would break out. A few people were crossing to north Manila but every hour brought ten to take the place of five. The operating room was never empty. Ample grist stood by to feed the insatiable mill. TVIXJRE Americans were movilvA ing forward to do the dirty mopping-up. Several squads of the 145tH and 148th Infantry regi­ ments of the 37th division stopped by the Settlement House to share their rations with the refugees. They were hungry themselves and did not know their kitchens would come up but they willingly gava. They forged ahead to fight, some to die. There was a strapping young Texan who watched with un­ ashamed tears as the doctor ex­ amined a particularly ugly head. “My God,” he muttered. “For three years I’ve been fighting in jungles wondering what in hell I was fighting for. Now I know.” Days later, some' medicines ar­ rived. Husky Red Cross men dashed across the open field in front of the Settlement House where snipers still lurked. A path was beaten across the grass. Endless litters of wounded and dying civilians followed. The doctor had lost his voice and he could not talk above a whisper but already some color had gone back to his cheeks. The rooms were still full and it was an insult to call the place any­ thing more than an emergency hospital. But much had improved. At night, shells still whistled overhead and there were occasion­ al Jap mortar shells landing five blocks distant. But the initial terror had abated. Yet there were times when it seemed the earth could not hold all the dead that the living con­ signed to it. On these occasions, especially when additional burial grounds appeared to have been mined, flame throwers were used. It was a ghastly job, and never fully accomplished its mission. But it was effective in combatting disease. The sun and the elements would do the rest. Meanwhile, the dead would have to make way for the living. By now the PCAU had come. Conditions still left much to be desired but now the doctor and his wife could catch brief cat-naps. They were both haggard and un­ dernourished, and the strain of the last few weeks had not been kind to their health. But they had lived. The last two enemy strongholds in the Finance and Agriculture Buildings collapsed. More and more supplies poured into the Set­ tlement House. The refugees be­ gan trekking to north Manila. Soon the area looked clean again. Several doctors came to relieve him. Nurses arrived. The store­ room bulged ■with all manner of goods for the people. The job was done—ironically and conclusively, when there were few to benefit by it. It was late May, 1945. On the front steps of the Settlement House the doctor flushed under his captain’s uniform and looked long at his wife and children. “It will only be a few months,” he said. “The work here is done. In America I hope to learn more things that may help our country­ men . ” He bent down and kissed his wife. The truck waited for him outside, and as he got in he look­ ed back and waved a hand at the little gathering that still lived in the Settlement House. Many thousands would never know where he was going and many more would forget him and the small acts he had done for them. The shibboleths of charity and the generous spontaniety of war, after all, are the jokes of peace. The heroes and the soldiers know that, Man, is, in the last analysis, still a basically selfish creature. PAGE 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL POLITICAL LEADERSHIP FOR WOMEN (Continued from page 14) leadership not for the sake of fe­ minism but to save the peace and civilization confronted by the threat of an atomic deluge. FIELD OBSERVATION (Continued from page 29) ling us women “mysterious” sim­ ply because we often fail to con­ form to the pattern of behavior that they have set for us. Let any one of us do something which men do not like nor expect, and watch out for the howls that \dll surely come from the mas­ culine world. Take the recent bar examination, for instance. I hap­ pened to top it and because I am a woman, I have been chided for doing the unforgivable—that of leaving behind my supposedly superior brothers, members of the so-called stronger sex. You must have read Carlos Moran Sison’s writeup in the Star Reporter wherein he says that no matter how we women might vociferate about our having equal intelli­ gence as the men, experience tells that, as far as the law profes­ sion, is concerned the women are: “hanggang bar lamang”. Notice the change in expression. It is no longer “hanggang pier lamang” for us Filipinas but “Hanggang bar lamang”. Mr. feison further says that no woman has so far made a success of herself in the practice of the law and he wond­ ers why. We, certainly, do not admit the truth of his statement, but granting that he is right, he supplied the answer to his query when he says, “Some of them make good in government service, in research work. After some years, what happen? They get a husband.” Therein lies the dif­ ference between a man’s achieve­ ment and that of a woman. We, women, do not achieve as greatly as men do because we do not get a wife, we get a husband. Until such time as science or economics corrects this blunder of nature, we shall, no matter how you or I might dislike it, remain the infe­ rior sex. Nevertheless we have this to console ourselves with. No man may rise so high that his wife may not call him down... But this is no time for talks but a time for action. Let us leave men in the delusion that they are what they believe themselves to be, and that we women are what they regard us to be. Let us turn to actual facts, to the frighten­ ing things that are happening to the world. Our man-ruled civilization has reached an impasse with the in­ vention of the atomic bomb. If we are unable to prevent World War III, our civilization is doom­ ed. Statesmanship has been re­ duced—or elevated—to the single process of keeping peace. Pacif­ ism has become the vital factor of life and its issue cannot be separated from that of feminism. Without the active participation of women in political leadership, it seems imposible to meet the gi­ gantic crisis we are now facing. Of course, the Philippines is young and almost a non-entity in the international world. And right here we have so many problems to solve. We have the strikes, the Huks, the guerri­ llas, the veterans, Manila’s bad elements, the Parity Bill, the military bases, and equally im­ portant to the women — the panuelo-less temo or the terno-less panuelo. The old policy of ag­ gression must be replaced by a new policy of housekeeping. Wo­ men are called to occupy com­ manding posts in political life. It would be a mistake to believe that this issue has been solved by giving equal voting power to women. Women’s votes have sometimes contributed to stress the masculine character of mod­ ern p.'htics. For women instinct­ ively hate wars, but love warriors. Witness the millions of women that rave about Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Clark Gable, and our own Rogelio de la Rosa. Wo­ men are attracted by the type of man whom they can trust to give them protection in times of emergency. Dictators and strong men have often Won women’s votes because a fighter appeals to women more than a compro­ miser. The last election proves that. The question is no longer one of equal votes but of equal op­ portunities. Of a fair chance for women to occupy political key po­ sitions. England’s next sover­ eign will apparently be a queen, another queen Elizabeth. Why should not we Filipinas aspire to the presidential chair? Thanks to the broadmindedness of President Roxas, we have now a woman governor, a woman ma­ yor, a woman judge, a woman bureau director, and policewomen around. Why not a woman pres­ ident ? The time has come to give wo­ men a fair chance for political For women’s proved talent for national and international house­ keeping in a planet that is swift­ ly shrinking to household size is needed now than ever. If we have the wisdom to put that ta­ lent to greater and more intelli­ gent use, perhaps the peace of the world without which neither our civilization nor ourselves, nor our children can long survive, ma^ at last be kept. How To Tell A Joke HAVE YOU ever wondered why your best jokes fall flat? Why hands rise to stifle apologetic yawns and atten­ tion wavers whenever you attempt a humorous yarn? Well, it’s ten to one you talk your stories to death, my friend- And the fault lies not in your subject matter but in your own bumbling, long-winded manner of presenting it. Listen to any witty after-din­ ner speaker, to any successful comedian and note how skillfully he pares away every unnecessary word and phrase to streamline his story. Introduction, dialogue and details are all cut to a minimum. In short, the point’s the thing! Everything else is but a build-upAnd the more you ramble and im­ provise before reaching this point, the more obscure it becomes and the less likely that joke is to re­ gister on the laugh meter. Here, then, are a few time-tried tips to remember when you un­ dertake your next joke: 1. BE BRIEF: Cut out every superfluous word from your story. Don't ramble; don’t hem and haw. This is the sure mark of an ama­ teur. 3- BE .CONCISE: Try to choose brisk colorful words that will exactly convey your meaning and heighten the point you wish to make. 3. SPEAK CLEARLY: Don’t mumble, or swallow your words as you talk- And, for the love of Mike, don’t snicker at your own wit. 4. BE SURE TO DRAMATIZE THE POINT OF YOUR JOKE: This should come in your final sentence as a punch line and you give it your all- Indeed, the sea­ soned speaker will pause, for em­ phasis, just before reaching this climactic sentence, and then let it come forth sharply. And with a bang! Seguidillas—Good yield can be obtained by planting any month except summer. Cucumber (Pepino)—High yield can be harvested from December, April to June. Eggplant — Any time except summer. Lettuce—Can be made during season of abundant moisture and cool temperature. Onion—Best planting, in Octo­ ber, November and December. Raddish — Favorable in May, September, March. Tomato—From about the end of rainy season. Watermelon—Harvested October to March. From our Diet Kitchen Club women may remember some common methods of cooking vege­ table such as: Baked — Wash vegetable and place on a pan or rack in a mod­ erate oven. Boiled—Wash the vegetable and cook it in the skin or pared, whole or pieces, in boiling water until tender. Buttered—Heat the boiled or steamed vegetable in butter or melted butter over the hot cook­ ed vegetable. Creamed—Combine the cooked vegetable whole and in pieces with white sauce. Curried—Add curry powder to the white sauce and prepare as for creamed vegetable. Many women are now pickling now that vinegar is cheap. Dr. Gavino C. Panem DENTIST X Ray Facilities Room 214 2nd Floor Monte de Piedad Bldg. Corner of Plaza Sta. Cruz & Ongpin DATS are dangerous animals PATS disease and death Protect your family STEARN’S ELECTRIC RAT PASTE Positively KILLS Rats BOTICA BOIE95 Escoit i I i i t I NOVEMBER 30, 1946 PAGE 33 vernacular and the English simul­ taneously, either because of the elders’ familiarity with the foreign language or on account of the belief that teaching the child in English will help him much when he goes to school. The Filipino child of the pre­ school age should be taught first in his native language, be it Ta­ galog, Ilocano, Visayan, etc., be­ fore he learns a foreign language. Such a .procedure will lead to pro­ per mental development, eliminate the cultivation of undesirable at­ titudes and place in the proper educational level. To teach him a foreign language before he has mastered his mother tongue is fraught with limitations and dis­ advantages. Teaching the child two or more languages at the same time may lead to mental confusion and language difficulties. Language is a highly complicated mental pro­ cess. It requires strenuous men­ tal efforts. Although the adults take for granted the difficulties of language learning because they do not see or feel the mental exer­ tion involved in speech, the child in learning a language experiences a severe test. Studies have shown a high positive correlation be­ tween language and intelligence. In fact, the intelligence of a child may be indicated by the ages at which he begins to speak. If one language requires great mental ef­ forts, two or more languages will cause undue mental burden upon the growing mind. Studies shoy that when two or more languages are learned simultaneously, men­ tal confusion results. Mental tests reveal that when a child is tested in either of the languages learn­ ed, he is inferior to those who have learned only one language. Language, as previously pointed out, is learned by the simple pro­ cess of imitation. What a child hears is impressed in his mind and is later expressed in his language. A young child who is just beginning to speak will utter any word he hears from his elders. Lacking in experience and weak in foundation, he does not distinguish the difference in nature and mean­ ing of words and expressions that he hears around him. Tubig con­ notes the concept of water; glass signifies the concept of a container of water; bat a means a boy in his mind; and fish is meant some­ thing to eat. To a beginner in language learning, tubig and bata are not identified as Tagalog words; and glass and fish are not thing, unless it is assumed thm education is merely a foreign language learning, which is an un__ fortunate and untenable concept of education. While language ability is one of the criteria of an edu­ cated person, true education re­ quires much more than mere __ ability to speak a foreign language. Education is concern­ ed with the cultivation of ideals, acquisition of knowledge and for­ mation of habits. Without these ashamed to speak in his native as the end products of the educaiongue; he may take false pride, five process, education cannot be masquerading his ability to speak considered to have taken place e# English or Spanish. In its broader fectively no matter how fluently implication, the child may despise a child may speak English or what is native and may glorify Spanish. The proof of this statewhat is foreign. This attitude is undoubtedly far from our desire; we can never foster a.feeling of nationalism which is indispensable in building a nation. THE CHILD AND HIS LANGUAGE (Continued from, page 7) The teaching of English to a pre-school child on the assumption that it will help him in his stu­ dies when he enters school is be­ lieved unfounded. On the contrary known as English words. What he develops is the concept of wa­ ter (tubig), child (bata), glass and fish and he will use them to­ gether or in company with others to express his ideas when occasion arises. Thus a three-year old child who is reared in the atmos­ phere of early bilingualism may say, “I want some tubig,” or “Put the tubig in my glass,” or “The bata drinks tubig and eats fish.” These sentences are oj course a jumble of English and Tagalog words joined together to express some ideas. To us they sound funny; to the child they are a continuous expression of a it may place him at a disadvantage thought, ignorant of the fact that rather than at an advantage. The words of the two languages are normal Grade I class is composed mixed. While these are perfectly of children of various social natural with the child, the use of groups, the majority of them do the mixed language does not and not know how to speak English, cannot meet the desirable stand- Consequently, the usual procedure ard of speech. Those expressions is to adapt the teaching technique are unacceptable in English and to the children who do not know' - - -----..ertainly ridiculous in Tagalog. A English at all. Teaching English Spanish before one’s vernacular child that mixes English and Ta- takes a painful and prolonged x galog words in a sentence is con- course, requiring patience and ment is obvious in the fact that American children have to stay one year in each grade to be expos­ ed to the proper educative process notwithstanding that they learn' English from the start; and like­ wise a Filipino child who knows English cannot be accelerated in the American school simply because he happens to know how to speak English. It is therefore clear that a child’s mastery of the English language which may cause his ac­ celeration in school may in the long run create false impression and misleading sense of education­ al values. The attempt to teach English or is mastered cannot be justified on psyschological groundfs. A gaiog woras in a sentence is con- course, requiring pauence ana , v-------° fused. He is neither good in Eng- ingenious devices to hold the at- f°re‘£n language is best learned !:=h r." —T™'.c~ /ention of the pupils. A child who bYnt 3 solid f?un‘ knows English may get bored in ‘ . Y. ... lish nor proficient in Tagalog. ^ugua.. ..laj dation in his mother tongue. It is Language is commonly said to the difficult task of the teacher an elementary principle of psycho­ express the soul of a people. Be- and may lose interest in the class *°sy ^hat learning takes place cause of its intimate relations with instruction itself. He will listen ^10m the known to the unknown, the hopes and sufferings and with to what he has learned years be- One must have a foundation in the the feelings and emotions of the fore. If the teacher sees that the vernacular before he can make the people, it is wrapped up with their boy has acquired a relative mastery easy interpretations of the un­ attitude and personality. So dear of English as compared to his known foreign tongue. In making is the language to man, that a 4 *■ ’ ’ common medium of expression is considered one of the earmarks of a nation and a revival of the native language of a once subject people is sought as the first sym­ bol of their emancipation. For parents to foist the importance of a foreign language, by deliber­ ately ignoring the native tongue, if not despising it, is to create a bad impression in the young minds. The child may get the idea that what is his own is not good, and what is foreign has in­ trinsic value. The effect is be­ lieved especially disastrous when the parents deliberately teach the child foreign language and pres­ cribe the use of the mother tongue at home. In the last analysis, this practice may create a feeling of inferiority complex. He may be classmates, he will be promoted to comPar>s°n> contrast, analysis and Grade II, and if he still shows synthesis, the child will need some comparative proficiency in English understanding of the vernacular, he may be promoted to Grade Forei^n language learning on acIII. For these rapid promotions count of its nature, requires greatthe parents will feel jubilant; they er mental maturity. The older the may think that their child is Person> the greater is his ability in bright or even a genius. learning a language. This is con­ trary to popular belief that lanBut this is an educational fal-’ Suage £s best learned at an early lacy. The promotion or accelera­ tion of the child from Grade I to Grade III because of ability to speak English is not true education. It does not mean that the child has leveloped the needed skills, at­ titudes and knowledge expected in each of the grades. The promo­ tion from one grade to another does not mean anything, unless it is accompanied by the minimum accomplishment prescribed for the grade. It does not signify anyage. This common conception is only true with oral language, which is only a phase of language. The other elements of language such as reading, vocabulary deve­ lopment and writing are best learned when the child has. at­ tained considerable maturity. The assertion is supported by the find­ ings of several studies in the field of foreign language learning such as those of Buswell, Cheydleur, Fraser, Crowford and Thorndike. PAGE 34 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL SjuJbAaiJbfL Jo JhsL WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL OUT TWO TIMES A MONTH! of Good, Bad, or Indifferent Weather, You Will Receive This Monthly Of Progressive Women & Men As Soon As It Is Off The Press, Anywhere. ★ ★ ★ IF YOU ARE PLEASED WITH THIS ISSUE, OF WHICH WE HAVE NO DOUBTS, YOU WILL FIND MORE PLEASURE IN READING THE ISSUES TO COME. 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