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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

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Volume XIII (Issue no. 1) May 1938

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National Federation of Women's Clubs of the Philippines

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English

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Women's periodicals.

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Manila

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I i 20 Centavos CMMLS cJ4ome JOl/RNXL V Appetizing— Refreshing— with the fragrance of the fresh frait and palp from which it is made — That is the delicious refreshment and health beverage — delightful ROYAL TRU^RANCL It brings to you all the natural goodness and healthful benefits of san-ripened golden oranges from California — A product of the SAN MIGUEL BREWERY Cooked Corned Beef Brings variety to every-day meals •THERE are so many ways to serve Libby’s Corned Beef * —so many attractive dishes that may be prepared from it — that it has become a great favorite in homes throughout the Philippines. Slice it just as it comes from the tin — use it to make savory corned beef hash — in omelets—or warmed up with rice and vegetables. , So convenient—easy to prepare LIBBY’S CORNED BEEF is cooked, ready to serve right from the tin. It can be heated quickly, or used in any re­ cipe for the preparation of meat. Look for the Libby label when you buy corned beef—one of the best food values your dealer offers. To get quality corned beef—always ask for “Libby’s” WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS OF THE PHILIPPINES Vol. XIII, No. 1 May, 1938 Minerva P. Guysayko (Editor) Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson (Advt.. and Business Manager) TABLE OF CONTENTS FROM COVER TO COVER JH1S month, we celebrate our twelfth birthday. (My, but we feel old; not many periodicals in the Philippines have lived this long.) Hence the new cover, the increased pages, and the special con­ tents of the magazine this issue. We hope our thirteenth year will be a lucky one. First our cover: The de­ sign was inspired by a pretty Christmas card that the edi­ tor received last December. To acquaint women abroad (yes, we do send the JOURN A L abroad — to several large women’s organizations in the United States and England) as well as our own readers of the different changes in our native cos­ tume, we have decided to show on our cover pictures of costumes worn by our women at different periods of our history, and in dif­ ferent sections of the coun­ try. Thus, this month. we show a picture of Mrs. Victo­ ria Araneta wearing the cos­ tume in vogue during . the eighteenth century. This js now known as the Maria Clara costume and is charac­ terized by its striped saya (skirt) which falls in broad folds and has a short, wide train; the narrow, soft sleeves almost reaching the wrists; and the small panuelo that almost covers the neck. Mrs. Araneta’s cos­ tume is a genuine antique, the camisa and panuelo of very fine jusi covered with fine hand embroidery. The antique jewelry is worth a small fortune. This photo­ graph Was taken by Murillo Studio. The story FROM LOVE TO MOURNING is based on a real in­ cident. One day the local papers carried a news item that a young man had committed suicide, for no apparent reason; he had a bright future, being a high-salaried em­ ployee in one of the Manila large business concerns. Those who were close to him, however, knew that ho killed himself because of a woman, (Continued on page 52) News, Views and Reviews Journal of Events ................................................................................. 2 Message from Mrs. Pilar H. Lim ......................................................... 3 Among Ourselves ................................................................................... 4 With Us (“Mother of Filipinos in California”) .............................. 11 “Dear Mrs. Lim” ................................................................................... 17 Women Abroad ....................................................................................... 22 Books and Authors by Pia Mancia ..................................................... 23 Movie Section ............................................................................. 24 & 25 Club News ..................................................................................... 26 & 27 Special Features “We Look Before And After” by Pura Santillan-Castrence ........... 5 May Traditions ................................................... 6 Early Days Of Club Work in the Philippines by Mrs. Pura Villanueva Kalaic ................................................. 8 Still True To The Tradition ................................................................ 10 “A Home Away From Home”................................................................ 14 Wings Over The Garden by Iris Brown ........................................... 15 We’re Twelve Years Old ...................................................................... 16 Rain by Amelia Earheart ...................................................................... 17 Tranquility by William Lyon Phelps ................................................. 18 White Angel of Crimea by Herminia Ancheta.................................... 50 Fiction Frqm Love To Mourning by Fidel de Castro ...................................... 7 The Daring Young Man Of The Flying Trapeze by William Saroyan 9 Other Tomorrows (Playlet) by Julia Palarca .................................... 13 Children’s Corner ................................................................................... 19 Three Together (Serial) by Mary Hastings Bradley ....................... 20 Fashion Two Balintawak Costumes, Designed by Tito .................................... 28 The Bride’s Bouquet............................................................................... 29 Home Institute How To Cook Vegetables ...................................................................... 30 Favorite Foods of Movie Stars ............................................................ 31 , Clean, Mend and Paint Your House Now ........................................ 32 Bringing Up Children ......................................................................... 34 Look To Your Carriage ....................................................................... 36 Insects vs. Health ................................................................................. 38 Shopping Guide ..................................................................................... 54 Poems All You Have Loved by Elaine V. Emans............................................. 37 Bear Me No Grudge by Herminio S. Ramirez .................................... 40 Loveliness by Eleanor Graham ............................................................ 46 This Is The Tragedy by Helen Frazee-Bower .................................... 44 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL is published monthly by the Woman’s Home Journal, Inc., with editorial and business offices at 1132 California, Manila. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office. The subscription rates are: P2.00 for I year, Pl.10 for 6 months, in the Philip­ pines; $1.50 for one year. $.80 for 6 months, in the United States; $2.00 for 1 year, $1.10 for 6 monhs, in foreign countries. Subscribers: Report change of address or incorrect address direct to Woman’s Home Journal, Inc., P. O. Box 30, Manila, two weeks before the change is to take effect, giving both the NEW and the OLD addresses. Missing copies should be reported to us not later than the end of the month of issue, otherwise orders for substitutes will not be filled. — Address all Correspondence to Woman’s Home Journal, Inc. 2 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila,, May, 1938 THE 1990 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN IS ON Journal Of Events Manila’s Martelino boys, rival candidates for the presidency in 1990, seem to have a little argument about the merits of their respective campaign pro­ mises. Says:—“Free IVORY SOAP for all babies will sw'eep me into of­ fice.” Says:—“Babies can’t vote. My plan will be a trade with all the mothers —one bar of IVORY for one vote.” Says friend IVORY SOAP:— “Go to it, boys—re­ gardless of the out­ come, I can’t lose. When you are sworn into office in 1990, I’ll be right there with you.” April 16: The chamber of de­ puties (Mexico) today approved President Cardenas’ project for is­ suance of a twenty-four million dol­ lar internal loan of national re­ demption to pay the 17 foreign oil companies for their properties in Mexico exproprieted by the gov­ ernment.... President Roosevelt today put the New Deal’s second recovery program into high gear in the face of impending assault from Republicans. His gigantic relief program provided for the expenditure of seven billion dol­ lars.... Pope Pius today cannonized three new sajnts in the most elaborate Easter service in St. Peter’s church. The new saints are Salvador de Horta, a Spanish lay Franciscan, Andrea Bobola, a Polish jesuit, and Giovanni Leonardi, an Italian priest. April 17: Europe rejoiced over the approval of a treaty between Italy and England. Both English and Italians believed their friend­ ship protocol, ending three years of constant bickering, was one of the most important moves in years. It was understood that France also desired an agreement with Italy similar to the Anglo-Italian pact ...The Roumanian ministry of in­ terior today announced the disco­ very of a nation-wide plot against the government by the Nazi-in­ clined Iron Guard... A Chinese Joan of Arc was reported leading ten thousand men in battle against the Japanese forces on the south­ ern Tientzen-Pukow railway front. The woman not identified by name but described as a stern woman of about thirty years, was formerly a bandit leader. Some of her pre­ sent troops are former members of the “Red Spears” and the “Yel­ low Dragon Society” both of which consisted one hundred years ago of powerful groups of armed peasants organized into self-de­ fense societies. The woman leader was described as an excellent markswoman, who shoots with both hands, on horseback or afoot. April 18: The National Assem­ bly approved the four-year public works program with a total ap­ propriation of P97,126,800. This huge sum will be taken out of the proceeds of the excise tax collect­ ed on coconut oil shipments to the United States, now on deposit in the United States treasury to th? credit of the Philippine govern­ ment. Each assemblyman is allow­ ed in this bill Pl00.000 for public improvements in his district—sivh as roads, bridges, public buildings and water supply projects. Among the most important national pro­ jects is the construction of a net­ work of inter-provincial roads in Mindanao which will make the in­ terior of the Island easily acces­ sible to travelers and home-seekers from other parts of the Philip­ pines. April 19: Insurgent General Franco declared today in a speech broadcast throughout Spain that the insurgents had already won the civil war. The general appealed to the government to abandon its struggle. However, heavy fight­ ing continues along the Mediter­ ranean coast. April 20: Severe earthquakes which shook Turkey rendered 50,000 homeless and 800 dead. Re­ fugees fled from suddenly opened crevices in the earth which emitted boiling water. Eighteen villages were obliterated and twenty-two others badly damaged. Whole fa­ milies, most of them women and children, were buried in the de­ bris... Dictator Josef Stalin of Russia today signed an order stop­ ping mass expulsions of peasants from their farms for trivial rea­ sons in the pretext of purging the farms of elements hostile to the government. . April 21: Davao’s mysterious fleet of 22 destroyers were 17 Jap­ anese whaling ships, Captain Kantaro Okamoto, master of an oceanic whaling company depot ship, revealed...Spanish loyalists in Catalonia, making a last stand defense against advancing nation­ alist columns, ordered all young men of 18 to shoulder arms and enter military service before April 27...The Quezon Preventorium of the White Cross, Inc. which is lo­ cated on Santolan. opened its doors, admitting 20 children of tubercular parents. Airs. Victoria Lopez Araneta is the founder and president of the White Cross. The preventorium has an initial capa­ city of 300. The children will be allowed to stay here for 3 years. April 22: Great Britain formal­ ly informed the League of Nations today that she is constructing bat­ tleships exceeding the London Naval Treaty’s 35,000-ton limit because of Japan’s reported construction of super-warships. April 25: The recent report of the presence of another mystery flotilla off the coast of Curimao, Uoeos Sur, was confirmed at the bureau of customs by a telegram from a customs agent at that port, stating that about 20 warships were sighted off Curimao. April 26: Commissioner of Pub­ lic Safety Leon Gninto announced the establishment of a state police training center in each province for the training of national police forces in law enforcment and crime defection. .. . The Philippine Army ir ear.lied the existence of an alleg­ ed subversive organization known as “Tt Is Come!” which consists of 3.000 members in the friar owned Hacienda Buenavista in San Jose. Bulacan. (Continued on page 48) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 8 National HFeberatinn of Women's (Wnba of the Philippines P. O. Box 80 OFFICERS Mr.. PILAR H. LIM Prefident Mrs. SOFIA R. DE VEYRA let Vice-Prefident Mrs. F. 0. CADWALLADEIl end Vice-President Mrs. JOSEFA LL. ESCODA Secretary Mrs. GERONIMA T. PEC8ON Treasurer Mr*. JULIA V. ORTIGAS Asst. Treasurer P. O. Box 80 OFFICERS Mrs. PILAR H. LIM President Mrs. SOFIA R. DE VEYRA let Vice-President Mrs. F. 0. CADWALLADEIl end Vice-President Mrs. JOSEFA LL. ESCODA Secretary Mrs. OERONIMA T. PEC8ON Trearurer Mr*. JULIA V. ORTIQAS Asst. Treasurer HEADQUARTERS: 1132 CALIFORNIA. CORNER SAN MARCELINO MANILA TEL. 5-77-81 MEMBERS Board of Director! Mis* BESSIE A. DWYER Mrs. N. ALMEDA-LOPEZ Mis* ROSARIO OCAMPO Mrs. LAURA SHUMAN Mrs. ALICIA QUIRINO Mrs. ROSA SEVILLA ALVERO Mrs. PURA V. KALAW Mrs. JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ Mrs. CONCEPCION F. RODRIQUEZ MEMBERS Board of Director! Mis* BESSIE A. DWYER Mrs. N. ALMEDA-LOPEZ Miss ROSARIO OCAMPO Mrs. LAURA SHUMAN Mrs. ALICIA QUIRINO Mrs. ROSA SEVILLA ALVERO Mrs. PURA V. KALAW Mrs. JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ Mrs. CONCEPCION F. RODRIQUEZ Dear Friends, We are extremely grateful for the support which the women all over the Philippines are giving to the WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL. The Board of Directors want to take this opportunity to thank them for their cooperation and to assure them that their magazine, in turn, will try its very best to be of maximum service to them by striving to disseminate all the available useful informa­ tion of social, cultural, or political interest. We are all conscious, of course, of the need of such timely in­ formation, not only that we women might keep abreast of the times, but also so that we may use whatever influence we have to safeguard community interests, to promulgate civic-mindedness among oqr people, and to act as “peace-maker J’ in this period of social unrest. The Philippines, relatively speaking, is a haven of peace and prosperity. And yet it is not entirely untouched by the tumult and unrest sweeping the rest of the world. It would be a backward country were it to remain completely passive to outside movements. Yet, whether or not these nervous social upheavals which we are feeling around us are a sign of progress, it is up to the women to see that they do not produce disastrous results. Again they must act as the “brake”, as the “shock-absorber” between what­ ever clashing forces are at work. Our magazine stands for all this —and for more, as it helps to educate, by informing the women of progressive movements abroad as well ad about our own strides to­ wards improvement in our club projects. The WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL can better serve this purpose if all women will cultivate the habit of reading. Our list of readers has steadily grown during this twelve years of our exist­ ence. And, you will make us very happy by asking more and more of your friends to be among our regular readers. Cordially yours, President 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 Among Ourselves... THE Triennial Convention of the General Federation of Womens Clubs of America was held from May 10 to May 17 of this year in Kansas City. The keynote of the Convention “Education for Living” was carried oh throughout the series of addresses, forums, lecture, and general discussions of the Federa­ tion in which some of the most brilliant and well-known women and men of America and of the Continent took part. Among the important measures passed was a list of nice well thought-out resolutions whose subjects included Uniform Marriage and Divorce Laws, National Parks, Hull Reciprocal Trade Treaties, Sanctity of Treaty Obligations, Tax Revision, Indian Welfare, Sy­ philis Control, Uniform State Narcotic Legislation, and Fiber Organization. These resolutions, while having a direct bearing only upon Americas problems are significant in this fact: the important place that the American women's opinions have in the civic life of the country. Our problems may be different, -are, in fact, different,-but our women’s attitude towards them should be the same, that of intelligent and whole-hearted cooperation in their solution. * * * GENEVA’S decision on the Abyssinian question should be an eye-open­ er to all small nations. The League of Nations has definitely eschewed its pre­ rogatives of standing for right rather than might, and has clearly shown the world its powerlessness to stand as a fair arbiter in protecting weak countries. What is a little nation like ours to do, therefore? Be prepared for contingen­ cies. Be watchful and alert and keep up with world events so that we would not wake up to such an unwelcome surprise as an unprepared-for attack by a foreign power. There is no doubt that the world's sympathy goes with the underdog, the weak people being crushed ruthlessly by the stronger one, but sympathy, while beautiful and wholesome, does not make up for the loss of one’s country. Ethiopia has found that out. We cannot afford to learn our lesson the same way. Every nation, big or small, is counselling PREPAREDNESS. We must follow suit — it is the only way. And it is up to us women to back up our men in laying out this program of preparedness. And it is only the wom­ en who should be responsible for a sturdy and upright manhood and woman­ hood in this country. * * * WE cannot let an anniversary go without congratulating ourselves on the progress the WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL has been making. While this sounds too much like patting ourselves on the back, we should like to have our readers know that “people who count” have generously thrown bouquets our way — and gullible beings that we are, we cannot help but feel grateful all over, and very much encouraged. After all there is nothing like approval to bring the best out of any man. Or magazine. Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 6 THE other day I lost an unfinish­ ed article. As soon as I was sure I could never find it again I also began to have the feeling that it must have been the best article T had ever written. I couldn’t for the life of me reproduce it, for I bad written it on the spur of the moment on a piece of wrapping paper which I must have thrown away afterwards. I cannot even remember which of the many sub­ jects coursing continually in my mind had caught my fancy at the moment and made me take up my pencil and whatever piece of pa­ per I could get hold of at once so that I would not lose the thread of my thoughts. Obviously, I must have been interrupted in my task, for T did not finish it—and now the thing I created so impulsively, so spontaneously, was lost. And it was still imperfect, incomplete, yet I felt that it must have been rather beautiful. The poet said that we always “pine for what is not’’. Why, in­ deed, do we! Why must we, when it seems so much easier and sim­ pler if we could enjoy wholeheart­ edly and without longings what we have, and can see and can hear around us? As a child. I had al­ ways dreamed that I should like to see other lands, and other peo­ ples, live for a while where there was snow and hail, and where girls wore hats and bonnets. All my plans as I grew oldei’ were cen­ tered towards that supreme goal— one day I was going far away to lovely, strange places. My coun­ try was not enough for me; I look­ ed about me and was dissatisfied. For the phoes ]beyond the seas were beckoning—...there was a fairyland peopled by wonderful beings who kntw so much, and had fine, sensitive noses and a skin as fair as dawn. One day I was told that at last I was to go. My excitement knew no bounds — but already there was sadness in every­ thing I did, ;for I was ’leaving home for the first time. One morn­ ing I woke up and everything that I saw was tinged with a beauty which I never was conscious of before—I was to part from this old trellis-covered verandah, and that lovely hen-coop which my mother had built, from this faded pink curtain through which T had so often looked at the ashen-grayness or the clear-blueness of the sky—and my heart grew heavy in­ side me. But the lure of distant shores was inevitable, inexorable, and there it was, fascinating, cruel, ruthless. T followed. T came upon a land of wonderful promise, youthful, active, exuberant. For a time I was caught by its wonder­ fully swift-moving tempo — this was the life. The timelessness of Eternity which had seemed to be the keynote of my former exist­ ence was swept away in the rhyth­ mical cadence of energetic spurts which characterized the life in this “We Look Before and After” We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those That tell of saddest thought. From To A Skylark By Percy Bysshe Shelly strange land. It was movement every minute of the day, restless, unreasonable, interminable move­ ment which knew no respite. It seemed, indeed, that in this great country of unbounded spirits and opportunities the people even thought in ceaseless tireless action. Then one day the futility of it all broke in upon my consciousness, and I began to be critical of my surroundings. The quiet, peaceful serenity of my home-land began to take on a significance it never had before. The laziness and indol­ ence which I used to note with such disdain assumed the dignified cloak of calm passiveness and medi­ tative inclination. How one can fool oneself! I contrasted the jittery laughter of my new friends, the shrill, excited note of their conversation with the slow, mea­ sured, musical drawl of my rela­ tives in the barrios; I visualized perfection in everything that my people did or thought or said, and gradually worked myself up into a veritable frenzy of homesickness. Nothing the strange land could offer quite came up to the ideal­ ized conception I had of home. To other shores I went—to coun­ tries whose civilizations date back MBS. PURA SANTILLANCASTRENCE, the author of this charming essay. from the earliest times, where the poise and calm of living seemed to be in harmony with the dignity and the serious mien of the peo­ ple. That was the first impression. Again, for a while I thought that this was, indeed, the life. Music, art, sculpture, architecture in the highest order, culture with every sweep of the eyes—charm, grace­ ful and majestic charm, — surely, Sales Agents Getz Bros. & Co. MANILA this time there could be no flaw in cxistense. It did no take long to disillusion even such a credul­ ous, fatuous foreigner as I was. I soon found out that the calm, the peace, even the poise, was only a cloak, a coat of veneer, so to speak, to hide a dreadful nervous­ ness which was shaking the peo­ ple. The dignified, gracious man­ ner was a studied pose intended to cover suspicion, and fear, and anxiety. I was caught in this sin­ ister atmosphere of feverish dis­ trust and dread, dread of one’s neighbors, dread of spies, dread of foreigners. I longed to get away. Even to get back to that land of perpetual, crazy motion was Heaven. And now it is my native land again. The tiny roots that had grown into the soil of my foreign lands in spite of myself had to be wrenched loose, and covered at once with the soil of my country. The wrenching was painful; so was the transplanting. But, hap­ pily, the rootlets have taken firm hold again. Of nights, however, when the cold haze of the moon or the lazy strains of some foreign music remind me of distant eve­ nings spent near a fireside of crack­ ling logs and mysterious embers— there is a curious twitch inside me that clutches and hurts, an inar­ ticulate longing for Autumn colors and the sharp twang of crisp Spring air, a surging desire to see once more friends of a different hue and stature and language, clasp their hands and tell them once again: “Our friendship makes us alike. And the distance be­ tween us is nothing, for our thoughts of one another travel constantly and meet somewhere in the void where all is sweet and deep and precious understanding.” With these musings there are {Continued on page 52) WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 EVEN the year has a fav­ orite child, and who would contradict us when we say this is May? There are so many signs that show up May as the most favored month of the year. Nature does her part in this happy conspiracy, filling her evenings with the frag­ rance of flowers and her days with glorious sunshine. The very mood of May is mellow with romance, re­ plete with festivity and charm. And because this is so, the most pleasant tradi­ tions are gathered about May, traditions that were founded on beauty and joy and the exhilarating spell of blooming things. Santa Cruz de Mayo Perhaps the most popular May tradition in the Philip­ pines is the Santa Cruz de Mayo. For those who are young, May seems to exist just for the Santa Cruz de Mayo. This is especially true in the Tagalog regions where children look at the celebra­ tion as an evening continua­ tion of their vacation play. The celebration also gives them a chance to take part in what approaches a costume pageantry held nightly under the sponsorship of prominent individuals in the commun­ ity. Usually, for a start, the Santa Cruz de Mayo features small sagalas, who, with flowers in their hair and car­ rying miniature flags, swords, diplomas, and other objects with religious symbolism, walk self-consciously inside a trail of candles to the gay tune of the Ave Maria. The One of the aMy traditions is the wearing of the Balintawak dress when making a pilgrimage to Antipolo. Left: Chita Zaragoza; right: Sonia Gamboa (Photo by Lyric Studio). MAY TRADITIONS Santa Elena, the most im­ portant of sagala of all, holds a crucifix in her hand—the symbol by which the Santa Cruz de Mayo gains signicance—which she later leaves at the house of one who will sponsor the next night of the novena. Often, there are more than one Santa Cruz de Mayo ce­ lebration at a time. Vows made in time of need inspire a great number of Santa Cruz celebrations, and the more there are, the merrier is the town. Some of these start from the games of chil­ dren, who, in their inno­ cence, divest the celebration of all solemnity and convert it into a pleasant game. The game, however, follows the same serious rituals so close­ ly that older people, intri­ gued by the beginning, take up the management in their own hands and continue the novena. They deck the pret­ ty girls out in fragrant scwnpaguitas, buy numerous small candles, then with their own eyes, watch the march­ ing of the procession, mum­ bling prayers the while to the crucifix in the hands of a young Santa Elena. Some Santa Cruz celebra­ tions start and end with a bang, literally bouyed up to exciting heights by the sound of music. The first night be­ comes the starting point of nine, eighteen, or even twen­ ty seven nights of merry­ making. Games of skill and courage are enacted near the home of the Hermana Ma­ yor whose turn it is to carry on the celebration. The pro­ cession is a gala affair, with imported beauties vying with local ones in gaining the admiration of crowds. The- red-clad banderada is there, the somber sentenciada, the valiant Judith, the radiant Queen of Flowers, the beautiful Santa Elena and hosts of other splendidly turned out girls who repre­ sent historical or religious figures in the colorful pa­ geant. The Pabitin But a word about the balag or pabitin. No discussion of the Santa Cruz de Mayo will be complete without mention of it. The pabitin is dedicated to fun pure and simple, unrelated to the ce(Continued on page 48) LYRIC STUDIO 341 Dasmarinas, Manila Tel. 2-11-53 MARIANO ANG, Prop. The Most Modern and Completely Equipped Studio — With Beauty Parlor — In Town. Day and Night Service Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 7 THE day the morning papers car­ ried the news that Rico More­ no, poet and journalist, committed suicide in his apartment in Quiapo where he lived alone, those who knew him wondered what might have been the cause. He was a THRILLING NEW LIP COLOURS FROM THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS Glamorouil... Exciting I... Irreiiitiblel ^Zere are lip colours that really enchant. They’re South Sea colours ... the tropical enchantress’ own secret reds found only in TATTOO. No, others are not like them! They are not only pulse­ stirring reds, but they’re beautifully transparent too. On you, they look like part of your lips. Captivating! Enhancing! And they really stay on your lips too...and keep them soft... smooth... luscious. TATTOO your lips today. See the five glamorous shades at your favourite store. Various sizes of Tattoo at prices that suit every purse. CORAL. . EXOTIC.. NATURAL.. PASTEL.. HAWAIIAN TATTOO YOUR LIPS ffiT? kom&MCt! quiet, young man who lived sim­ ply and rightly. He went to work on ordinary days and went to church on Sundays. He never had any enemies. This was the reason why the police nev­ er suspected that he might have been murdered. There was no let­ ter in jiiis own handwriting 'ex­ plaining his act however, but on the morning when the bootblack on the corner came to shine his shoes as he did everyday, he saw Rico Moreno sprawled on his bed with his mouth frothing and his face black all over, and under his bed, caught between his abaca slippers was a dark emptv vial. I was in the province when the news reached me. And what I felt then was not only intense sorrow for the loss of a good friend but a vast settling loneliness clapping down upon my heart like a huge thick cloud. In college we chummed around much together not so much be­ cause it was a natural friendship that sprang between us but it was more of an intellectual affinity that bound us together resulting from the intenseness of our curiousitv and the search for truth. We were students in philosophy and in our conversations we tore things, ideas and theories apart in the hope of understanding the natural order of things and Life. One who knew Rico Moreno like T did and aware of his sensitive­ ness for things metaphysical would have swcepinglv averred that he might have ended his life to know the meaning of Death. After college we worked toge­ ther in the same Magazine which he edited. From the office at five we would loaf up and down the Escolta and then spend the early hours of the evening at the park, talking about the arts, Life and Love. Walking down along the Escol­ ta on a quiet evening sparkling with a light drizzle, he pointed with his well-chiselled nose with the fierce sensitive nostrils, across the street to a very inconsequen­ tial closed wooden door whose top was burdened with shingles of practitioners and businessmen. “There’s the door,” he said, ca­ sually but withal profound with feeling, “through which my love passes every day.” Such stray bits of conversation which were virtually lyrics of in­ comparable beauty were evidently expressions of his poetic tempera­ ment. On another warm evening walk­ ing under the trees with his coat folded across the crook of his arm and his shirt wet with perspira­ tion he made inspired incursions into the metaphysics of love. “What is love?” he queried as though to himself. “Nobody knows what love is. Love cannot be known. And yet I feel that I love her. I am sure I love her. What is love?” Such unmitigated questionings hinted of the bird-wingedness of the spirit within him. But all these phenomenal up­ heavals of his soul took place af­ ter the day the artist in him dis­ covered a rare specimen of femi­ nine beauty and loveliness in Ali­ cia Gomez’ thumbs and nails. This was the day when love seeped into his heart like a turgid river and while he listened to her voice as she talked into the telephone and he sat there at his desk apparently reading, his whole being expe­ rienced a regeneration under the miracle of that soft tender voice. ; The lover in him rose like a Sam­ son wrecking down the walls of “a directionless existence” that had hitherto been atrophying bis soul. He was editing a manuscript for his magazine when the young secretary from the lawyer’s office next to us came in thru the open door and stopped. “May T use the telephone?” she asked with a lit­ tle shyness lurking somewhere about her. “Ours is out of or­ der.” Alicia Gomez was a lovely young girl, with tender, innocent eyes and short hair gleaming like a halo. Her skin was fresh and de­ licate like the texture of a tearose after the rain. Rather small of stature, but perfectly formed, supple and full of grace, her body looked like the stalk of a flower. But the flowering of her love­ liness, the artist in him found, was in her shapely hands and lovely thumbs. In her nails was a lyrical exquisiteness and perfection of shape and form. Rico Gomez became the gre.>t lover. He sent Alicia flowers every Saturday, love poems every two days and drawings done in the sur­ realist manner once a month. But when she was with him, he became the Sphinx. He became shy but his feelings were nice and good. His thoughts were beauti­ ful and divine. If he could only (Continued on page 41) NEW CREAM DEODORANT CHECKS PERSPIRATION INSTANTLY Now, at last, here is a cream deodorant that is neither greasy nor sticky-Odo-ro-no Ice, just what women have been waiting for. Pat it on the underarm with your finger-tips; it is absorbed completely and quickly, leaving no stickiness grease, or musty odour to spoil your clothes. Its own fresh odour of pure alcohol disappears at once. Used according to directions, Odo-ro-no lee frees you from perspiration odour and damp­ ness. This means you need never worry about ruining your lovely frocks. You’ll save on both clothes and cleaners’ bills. Try it, you will be delighted with Odo ro-no Ice. At all good chemists and stores. Agents: MULLER & PHIPPS (Manila ) LTD. National City ODO-RO-NO 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 FIRST DAYS of LOCAL CLUB WORK By PURA VILLANUEVA DE KALAW WHEN President Woodrow Wilson, appearing before Congress, asked the Amer­ ican nation to join the Allies in the fight for Democracy, the nation’s response was a solid backing of the Pres­ ident’s stand. The A m e rFOR UPS /—THAT Use Tangee .. .watch the blush-rose of youth appear Tangce with its magic Color-Change Principle changes from orange in tne stick to blush-rose on your lips—the most youthful, appealing shade for you. Its cream base keeps lips soft and smooth and Tangee won’t rub off. Use Tangee Rouge and Face Powder for complete color harmony in make-up. If you prefer a more vivid color for evening ask for Tangee Theatrical. Painted Glaring Lips Tangee Glowing Lips * 4-PIECE MIRACLE MAKE-UP SET P. 0. Box 1345 Manila HJ Send Miracle Make-Up Set of miniature Tnngee Lipstick, Rouge Compact, Cremo Rouge, Face Powder. I enclose (25 ctvos.)) stumps or coin. Address..............................................' . , CMy.......................... Country................. Mrs. Leonard ll’ood (center) with the 1921 NFWC board of directors: Mrs. Rosario Delgado, Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Miss Trinidad Fernandez (now Mrs. Benito Legarda), Maria Valdez (later, Mrs. Ven­ tura) and Miss Selim. lean women too responded and itook !theh* duties side by side with their men. Not to be outdone, we, the Fili­ pino women, also cooperated and showed our loyalty to America. I remember well how we filled the rooms of the Manila Hotel and took turns at different tables, pre­ paring bandages which were later on sent to Europe by the thou­ sands of packages. At. my own table, then, were Mrs. Galieano Apaeible. Mrs. Jorge Bocobo, Mrs. Rafael Palma and Miss Natividad Almcda. T was so enthusiastic over the Americans that Mrs. Bo­ cobo gave me an American flag as a souvenir of our work. The flag cost her Pl.50. We also sold Liberty Bonds. We offered prizes for the most col­ lections to organized women groups and individuals. Somewhere T still keep the medal they gave me for selling the most Liberty Bonds, and the then Secretary of War even sent me a letter of thanks. I still have this letter, one of my few boasts. Although we were already doing much for the cause of America, we still decided to secure the help of women in the provinces. Early in 1918, led by Mrs. Margaret Wrentmore, Mrs. Laura Shuman, Miss Bessie Dwydr, and Mrs. Horace B. Pond among the American la­ dies, we loured the provinces, from north to south, forming women’s clubs. Our aim was to make the women feel their responsibility to stand by the side of America in her hour of need. On my part, T remember going as far as San Joa­ quin, in Iloilo, which is already on the border line between Antique and Iloilo. The women responded very nobly, although someone in Talisay, Negros Occidental, re­ marked that after the organizing committee would leave, she was positive no one would come to the meeting any more. The next step we took was to make a campaign for the use of more home products. Today, this is called the NEPA movement. Our idea then was to avoid the consumption of foreign foodstuffs so that all the food produced in America could be sent over to Eu­ rope to feed the soldiers in the fighting front. As a member of the food committee, T was asked to prepare an elementary cookbook wherein ingredients used in the re­ cipes would be limited to Filipino products. This I did, but with much difficulty, since I had no texts to consult except verbal in­ structions from women who were recognized cooks in their own lo­ calities. In its own way, these re­ cipes were “tested”. Mrs. Pond, ptfesidenjt <If the food campaign committee, cooperated in having the book printed. And so, the little cookbook, about three by five inches, was really the first print­ ed matter distributed for use of club women of the Philippines. As I have said before, the or­ ganizing committee of women’s clubs was everywhere met with enthusiastic response. The women in the provinces were active and progressive, once they were organ­ ized. By 1919, around 300 clubs were formed, most of them active in welfare work. Then, during the Carnival season of 1919, the Ma­ PICTURES ARE KNOWN By/ THE FRAMES THEY KEEP/ PICTURE FRAMING DEPT. PHILIPPINE EDUCATION CO. PICTURES ARE KNOWN BY/ THE FRAMES THEY KEEP/ nila Woman’s Club called a con­ vention. Representative women from each provincial club were sent as delegates. Mrs. Margaret C. Wrentniore was elected president of the first convention, and Miss Trinidad Fernandez, now Mrs. Be­ nito Legarda, was elected secretary. These two were exceedingly capable and rendered real service to the organization in its early life. In 1921, during the third conven­ tion, it was decided that a perma­ nent organization, entirely sepa­ rate from that of the Manila Wom­ an’s Club, which was composed mostly of American^ women res­ idents of the Philippines, was needed. Many new activities in the provinces called for the forma­ tion of a bodjr that would lead and coordinate the work of the hun­ dreds of women’s clubs now or­ ganized. That was how the Na­ tional Fc d c r a t i o n of Women’.-; Clubs of the Philippines was form­ ed. Mrs. Francisco Delgado was elected the first president. She presided over the Federation foi* two consecutive terms. Aiming to unify the activities of (he women’s clubs and to awaken the ambitions of our women, we decided to publish a magazine as an organ of the Federation. The fii*st number came out in October, 1922. “The Woman’s Outlook’’ was edited in both English and (Contiimed on gage .">(>) Manila, May, 1988 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 9 WILLIAM SAROYAN I. SLEEP HORIZONTALLY wakeful amid universal widths, practising laughter and mirth, satire, the end of all, of Rome and yes of Baby­ lon, clenched teeth, remembrance, much warmth volcanic, the streets of Paris, the plains of Jericho, much gliding as of reptile in ab­ straction, a gallery of watercolors, the sea and the fish with eyes, symphony, a table in the comer of the Eiffel Tower, jazz at the ope­ ra house, alarm clock and the tapdancing of doom, conversation with a tree, the river Nile, Cadil­ lac coupe to Kansas, the roar of Dostoyevsky, and the dark sun. This earth, the face of one who lived, the form without the weight, weeping upon snow, white music, the magnified flower twice the size of the universe, black clouds, the caged panther staring, deathless space, Mr. Eliot with rolled sleeves baking bread, Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant, a Wordless rhyme of early meaning, Finlandia, math­ ematics highly polished and slick as a green onion to the teeth, Je­ rusalem, the path to paradox. The deep song of man, the sly whisper of someone unseen but vaguelv known, hurricane in the cornfield, a game of chess, hush the queen, the king, Karl Franz, black Titanic, Mr. Chaplin weeping, Stalin, Hitler, a multitude of Jews, tomorrow is Monday, no dancing in the streets. 0 swift moment of life: it is ended, the earth is again new. II. WAKEFULLNESS HE (the living) dressed and shaved, grinning at himself in the mirror. Very unhandsome, he said; where is my tie? (Hje had but one.) Coffee and a gray sky, Pacific Ocean fog, the drone of a passing streetcar, people going to the city, time again, the day, prose and poetry. He moved swiftly down the stairs to the street and be­ gan to walk, thinking suddenly. It is only in sleep that we may know that we live. There only, in that living death, do we meet ourselves and the far earth, God and the saints, the names of our fathers, the substance for remote moments; it is there that the cen­ turies merge in the moment, that the vast becomes the tiny, tangible atom of eternity. He walked into the day as alertly as might be, making a de­ finite noise with his heels, perceiv­ ing with his eyes the superficial truth of streets and structures, the trivial truth of reality. Helpless his mind sang, He flies through the air with the greatest of ease; the daring young man on the fly­ ing trapeze; then laughed with all the might of his being. It was really a splendid morning: gray, cold, and cheerless, a morning of inward vigor; ah, Edgar Guest, he said, how I long for your music. In the gutter he saw a coin which proved to be a penny dated 1923, and placing it in the palm of his hand he examined it close­ ly, remembering that year and thinking of Lincoln whose profile was stamped upon the coin. There was almost nothing a man could do with a penny. I will purchase a motorcar, he thought. I will dress myself in the fashion of a fop, visit the hotel strumpets, drink and dine, and then return to the quiet. Or I will drop the coin into a slot and weigh myself. It was good to be poor, and the Communists — but it was dreadful to be hungry. What appetites they had, how fond they were of food! Empty stomachs. He re­ membered how greatly he needed food. Every meal was bread and coffee and cigarettes, and now he had no more bread. Coffee with­ out bread could never honestly serve as supper, and there were no weeds in the park that could be cooked as spinach is cooked. It the truth were known, he was half starved, and yet there was still no end of books he ought to read before he died. He remember­ ed the young Italian in a Brooklyn hospital, a small sick clerk named Molliee. who had said desperately, I would like to see California once before I die. And he thought ear­ nestly, I ought at least to read Ham­ let once again; or perhaps Huckle­ berry Finn. It was then that he became tho­ roughly awake: at the thought of dying. Now wakefulness was a state in the nature of a sustained shock. A young man could perish rather unostentatiously, he thought; and already he was very nearly starved. Water and prose were fine, they filled much inorganic space, but they were inadequate. If there were only some work he might do for money, some trivial labor in the name of commerce. If they would only allow him to sit at a desk all day and add trade figures, substract and multiply and divide, then perhaps he would not die. He would buy food, all sorts of it: un­ tasted delicacies from Norway, Ita­ ly, and France; all manner of beef, lamb, fish, cheese; grapes, figs, ap­ ples, melons, which he would wor­ ship when he had satisfied his hun­ ger. He would place a bunch of red grapes on a dish beside two black figs, a large yellow’ pear, and a green apple. He would hold a cut melon to his nostrils for hours, He would buy great brown loaves of French bread, vegetables of all sorts, meat; he would buy life. From a hill he saw the city stand­ ing majestically in the east, great towera dense with his kind, and there he was suddenly outside of it all, almost definitely certain that he should never gain admittance, al­ most positive that somehow he had ventured upon the wrong earth, or perhaps into the wrong age, and now a young man of twenty-two w’as to be permanently ejected from it. This thought was not sadden­ ing. He said to himself, sometime soon I must write An Application for Permisison to Live. He accept­ ed the thought of dying without pity for himself or for man, believ­ ing that he would at least sleep another night. His rent for an­ other day was paid; there was yet another tomorrow. And after that he might go where other homeless men w’ent. He might even visit the Salvation Army—sing to God and Jesus (unlover of my soul), be saved, eat and sleep. But he knew that he w-ould not. His life was a private life. He did not wish to destroy this fact. Any other alter­ native would be better. Through the air on the flying tapeze, his mind hummed. Amus­ ing it was, astoundingly funny. A trapeze to God, or to nothing, r. flying trapeze to some sort of eter­ nity; he prayed objectively for strength to make the flight with grace. I have one cent, he said. It is an American coin. In the evening I shall polish it until it glow’s like a sun and I shall study the words. He was now walking in the city itself, among living men. There were one or two places to go. He saw his reflection in the plate-glass windows of stores and was disap­ pointed with his appearance. Ho seemed not at all as strong as he felt; he seemed, in fact, a trifle in­ firm in every part of his body, in his neck, his shoulders, arms, trunk, and knees. This will never do, he said, and with an effort he assem­ bled all his disjointed parts and became tensely, artificially erect and solid. 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Already this is being done, not only by the younger generation of Filipino woman­ hood who were born to the “vestido” but even by the members of the older genera­ tion (as we choose to call those who were born before the coming of the Americans) who have discarded it for the more comfortable European dress. The exigencies of modern life make the daily wearing of it impractical; but there are still a few souls who lo­ yally wear it whenever they appear in public—when shop­ ping, when visiting, to church, to the theaters, and to par­ ties. Whenever we encounter one of these few on the crowd­ ed Escolta or in a movie house, we look at her twice as if she were some rare bird with strange plumage, espeLeft: ( "shier an<l soles woman <it the Philippine Editeation Co., who <tlicatfs wear the Filipino dress to work. Stand­ ing is Mrs. Hernandez and seated is Mrs. Aurora Gon­ zalez. ci al ly \\ hen she is quite young and beautifully turned out. Still rare is the sight of a Filipino woman dressed in her native costume in busi­ ness offices and in stores. We have gone in and out of these stores and offices in Manila, but we have seen MRS. A. M. LOPEZ of La Estrella del Norte only five women in Filipino dress: two at the Philippine Education, one at Beck’s, one at La Estrella del Norte, and one at the Pacific Commercial Company. If there are more in other offices, we have not seen them. All five, when asked how long it took them to get dress­ ed in the morning, gave the time as from ten to twenty minutes, no longer than for putting on the European dress. They get everything— camisa, panuelo, underskirt— ready the night before so that all they have to do in the morning is to put them on. The panuelo is already made up and is ready to slip on before leaving the house. As to whether the Filipino dress is more expensive than the European dress, they do not agree and each give a dif­ ferent reason. The two wom­ en at the Philippine Educa­ tion differ in opinion. The cashier, Mrs. D. Hernandez, thinks that the mestiza dress is more expensive than the European dress (both for of­ fice wear) because the laun­ dry for the first is expensive (the charge for an ordinary camisa alone being thirty-five centavos, which is the lowest) and a decent terno (the sttcsuc kind) costs at least three pesos. Then there is the un­ derwear to consider. Mrs. Hernandez buys at least one terno a month or twelve a year, and although each lasts for at least two years, the up­ keep amounts to something. Mrs. Aurora C. Gonzales, who is in charge of the Pen and Pencil counter near the door, on the other hand, says that the Filipino dress is less expensive, judging from her MRS. DE SANTOS of the National Library. own experience. She sews her, skirts and camisas and laun­ ders them herself. She buys few ternos in a year but she chooses good ones and takes care of them very well. Mrs. Teotico of the Pacific Commercial Company finds the Filipino dress less ex­ pensive than European dress. She buys only from four to six ternos a year; these ter­ nos accumulate and as they do not get out of style as quickly as European dresses do, they can be worn for more ■ than two years. If she were to wear European dress to office, she would choose the more expensive materials. As she does not know how to sew (Continued on paye •')!) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 11 With ASIXTY-year-old Amer­ ican woman -who has mothered thousands of Filipinos in California and Hawaii for over thirty years —guiding them along the right path, ministering to them when they are sick, cheering them up when they are despondent, getting them out of troubles and jails, and giving them shelter and food in her own home in Dinuba when they are homeless and penniless—this is Mrs. Reullura Harness, better known as “Mother Harness” among her spiritual wards. She came to the Philippines last Novem­ ber and stayed for six months, visiting with the mothers, sis­ ters, wives and children of the Filipinos who have been and still are under her spiri­ tual care and bringing to them news of their menfolk in Ame­ rica. Asked how she happened to become interested in Filipinos, she told that her father had come to the Philippines dur­ ing the early years of Amer­ ican occupation and when he returned home, he told many fascinating stories about the Islands and its people. These stories aroused her curiousity and she dreamed of some day seeing the country for herself. Once she read an article in a missionary magazine calling for volunteer teachers and missionaries to teach in the Philippines. She wanted to answer the call, but some­ thing or other prevented her from doing so. She got mar­ ried, settled down and brought up four sons. In the mean­ time, Filipinos began pouring into the United States, most of them in search of fortune. Through her work as a social worker, she came in contact with many of them—in trou­ ble or stranded. She thought: I need not go to the Philip­ pines to help the Filipinos or become friends with them; I can do this right here at home. And this is how her thirtyyear-old work began. “MOTHER HARNESS” She does not believe that Filipinos in America want to make trouble, as many believe. They are peace-loving and law-abiding. If they do make trouble, they are almost in all cases, provoked unduly. For one thing, they are not treat­ ed fairly, she said. One of her jobs is securing a fair dealing for her boys. In the matter of justice, in salary. When any of her boys gets into trouble, she tries her best Cooling AS A MOUNTAIN STREAM ECLAT FANCHON CASHMERE BOUQUET THAT IS how cooling you will find a spr-nkle of COLGATE TALCUM POWDERS on your body after bathing, or just before going out. They absorb excess perspiration — banish its odour — leaving your skin fresh, cool, perfumed. 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One of the complaints of the families of the Pinoys she visited here is that many of them do not write, not a few for many years so that their families give them up for dead. This is very sad in­ deed, and Mother Harness explained to them why. In the first place, many of the Filipinos in the United States are either sailors in the Navy or laborers who pick fruits. They are always in the move and do not have permanent addresses. Another reason is the families themselves. These folks back home expect too much from the boys in Amer­ ica—they believe they are rich or receive high wages and write to them always asking for money, clothes or gifts. Instead of disappointing their folks or letting them know that they are hard-up, they choose not to answer the let­ ters at all. Mrs. Harness remembered a boy—a hard-working lad— who used to show her letters from his sisters. Each letter always asked for gifts— wristwatches, shoes, dresses, etc., which he could not af­ ford. On the same boat on which she came to the Phil­ ippines was a Filipino young man returning home after an absence of several years. His family thought that he had accumulated ’ a fortune in America and had asked him to send them four thousand pesos with which to build a house. He was coming back home because jobs in the States were getting more scarce everyday. All that he brought with him were some clothes and about four hun­ dred pesos. He was afraid (Continued on page 49) 12 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 CAST PAZ: a servant girl of about 15 years of age, but looking much older than her years. PILAR: another maid, probably in her late twenties. DONA CARMEN: the typical com­ fortably well-off matron; talks too much and accomplishes lit­ tle. SCENE (It opens on the ante-sala of a fairly wealthy home. Landscape paintings are hung on the walls. Upper left is a sofa, chairs taste­ fully arranged on each side. Center is a table on top of which is a vase with flowers. Windows on the upper left and upper right. There is a door at the right which leads to the sola. It is flanked in both sides by two tall pedestals with green plants on top.) (As the curtain goes up, Paz is discovered in a kneeling position beside the table wiping one of its legs, with a soft cloth. She starts to whistle then breaks forth into a song.) PAZ: “I was poorly born on the top of a mountain, Carressed by the motherly love of the thunder... Tra. .la. .la. .la.tra..la..la. Thrilling, thrilling kiss of love Is always mine!” PILAR (enters bearing an armful of table runners, center piece* and chair-covers) : Pretty gay this morning, huh! It is a long time since I heard you singing while at work. You always complained of an aching head and bones and back—I thought you would break down someday without warning. (Lays down her burden on the sofa.) PAZ: (excitedly happy) : Oh, don’t you know? PILAR: Know what! (Goes near the other girl with a center piece in her hand). PAZ: That I am going home to­ morrow ! Tomorrow, do you hear? (Gets up and squeezes Pilar’s arms happily.) I’m going home to Father and Mo­ ther and Ben and Flora and ...and to a new, baby sister. Mother said she has soft curly hair and large eyes like mine. No more washing and scrub­ bing in the kitchen.... PILAR (smiling): I heard some­ thing about your going away last week. Dona Carmen said that it was a pity to lose a fine girl like you. PAZ (pleased): Did she say that? PILAR: Uh-huh. (She removes the flowers from the vase on top of the table and throws them briskly out of the window, then proceeds to change the center piece.) She said that the house is so much cleaner now, the fur­ niture, much more shiny, and that it would be hard to find another servant as capable as you are even if.. . PAZ (stiffening perceptibly) : Even if I grumble too much, is that it? A Play In One Act By JULIA PALARCA PILAR: Uh-huh. PAZ (sitting gingerly on one of the chairs with the rag dangling from her hand) : I couldn’t help it. (hostilely) It doesn’t seem quite fair to let me work so for a whole year to pay a debt of thirty pesos, .to. .to pay its interest rather, which kept piling up every month till I lost count of the whole thing. Everything was one long weary stretch of years filled with work that made you want to cry in the evenings but couldn’t be­ cause you were too tired to mind at all. PILAR: But I thought you merely borrowed thirty pesos! You told me... PAZ (sarcastically)-. Oh, yes! but you are supposed to pay an amount every month as long as the debt is not paid in full —and with the poor harvest and exceedingly low price of crops... the debt never seemed to diminish, somehow. PILAR (curiously) : Did you have to borrow that much? Surely, you did not need such a great sum as thirty pesos! Why, I never held as much as an entire ten-peso bill in my hand. Oh, no! If I did, I would.. .well, I would die in peace. PAZ (seriously) : We needed more than that. Father was very sick, I told you. When we brought him to the Tarlac pro­ vincial hospital, moaning and complaining about pains on his right breast, I thought I... PILAR (gently) : Yes, I know. PAZ: They said that he could stay in the hospital but that we would have to place him in a huge room with so many other people who could not pay for their stay too. We had to give a fearful lot to the doctor who opened Father’s breast and then sewed it up once more. He showed us something round and red in a bottle afterwards: Flesh—it looked like a huge jack-fruit seed which he had taken from Father’s body. PILAR (eyes ivide-opened) : Did you see them cut your father up? PAZ (bitterly): Oh, no! Father’s case was strange, they said. The first of its kind. It was an outgrowth that is only found in women and all the other doctors flocked to the room where they cut people up and watched. Mother and I stayed outside. Mother’s hands were so cold, I felt weak and lost all at once. I could not go near Father and tell him everything was all right: Mo­ ther and I were there—he would be on his feet in no time. PILAR (patting cushions on the chairs) : He got well didn’t he? PAZ: Hm... There was a funny scar on his breast, when you pushed it, a small indention was formed and only after a minute would the flesh resume its na­ tural shape again. Dr. Santos said we only had to pay twenty pesos to pay for extracting the flesh that hurt Father. Only that small sum, he said, be­ cause we were poor. PILAR: It was Dona Carmen who gave you the money, of course. PAZ: (nodding): Mother offered my services for half a year. You see we needed the money terribly. PILAR: And it took you all this long to pay the debt? PAZ (dully) : Yes. Mother thought I could go back home after that time but when she came to fetch me, Dona Carmen said I owed something else besides. Inter­ est she told Mother — and I staved some more. There were other things too! You remem­ ber the vase I broke once? PILAR: The rare earthen jar with the wonderful figure carvings? PAZ (bitterly) : It cost me a month and a half of work to pay for that. Oh, it was going to be like that always. I thought. The days loomed ahead without any promise. Work, work, work! Dreamless sleep and endless waiting for something you were slowly becoming unfamiliar with. PILAR (awkwardly patting Paz’ shoulders): Ah, but you are going home, after all. PAZ: It is going to be fun, it will be fun! You see, I will be just in time for Mother’s birthday— I haven’t forgotten. PILAR: Birthday! PAZ: And I have the prettiest gift for her too! PILAR (dropping the chair covers and almost upsets the chair1 nearest her): Show me! Quick! Show it to me, will you? PAZ: Careful now, woman. Don’t get all upset and nervous. Fin­ ish your work or the Dona.... PILAR (still eagerly, like a child) : Just a peep, Paz. Come on, just a little glance. You need not unwrap the whole present if you don’t want to. PAZ (perversely) : It is just the thing I would wish Mother to • have. PILAR: Shoes? Earrings? Comb? Dress? PAZ (shaking her head at every question then laughing out loud after she hears “dress”) : Right! A plaid gingham skirt in black and white. There was a pretty print — white background splashed all over by gay, red flowers, so huge. But Mother hates red things. She says gay (Continued on page 54) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 18 How Ovaltine Helps To Curb Nervousness In Children . . Ovaltine is a pure food-concentrate widely approved by doctors. It is highly valued because of the noticeable improvements in weight and lessening of nervousness which often follow when it is added to the child’s daily fare. Ovaltine benefits a child in many ways. It is extremely easy to digest. It contains Vitamin B for appetite. And it helps digest starchy foods in the stomach—so the stomach can empty sooner and hunger come back more quickly. It also contains Vitamins A, D and G and other elements needed by children. < ___ ____ __________ __________ Thus it helps to build up a child to normal weight and it has been found that, as a result of this, the child’s nervousness often disappears .. . The vicious circle of under­ weight and resulting nervousness is broken. Everywhere mothers are noting remark­ able gains in weight and lessening of nerv­ ousness when Ovaltine is given to their youngsters regularly. We believe you owe it a trial. Get a tin at your dealer’s and start to serve it today. Just add it to milk—hot or cold. Your child will love its taste. • Try Ovaltine for your child. Get a sample tin by using the coupon below. Mall us P.10 to cover handling and mailing. There is no need to put off trying Ovaltine. See what it will do for your child. MAIL THE COUPON TODAY Ed. A. Keller & Co., Ltd., Dept. 9-2 178 Juan Luna, Manila I enclose P.10 to cover handling and mailing. Please send me the trial tin of Ovaltine. Address........................................................................... Town............................................................................... OVALTINE Swiss food-drink... now made in U. S. A. 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 HUNDREDS of girls and young women all over the Philippines will leave their homes this June to attend high school or college. The majority of them will live in dormitories or boarding houses, a few fortunate ones in homes of relatives or acauaintances. The parents of these few will not have to worry much because at least they know the people with whom their daughters will live for nine months in the year. However, we think these daughters will not be so fortunate, for they will have the disadvantage of not mingling and getting ac­ quainted with girls of their own age group from various parts of t h e province or country and they will miss the fun of living in a dor­ mitory. For living in a dor­ mitory is fun, and it develops Modess DOES NOT CHAFE even when exercising To feel free and natural, one must be comfortable. Modess gives lasting com­ fort and freedom. Modess has a new filler that fluffs like cotton — all chaf­ ing, all irritation is prevented. The sides are rounded and guuze is cushioned with a film of cotton. For comfort use MODESS. Hold bi/ all Dnifj-storcs BOTICA BOIE ‘A HOME AWAY FROM HOME” WHICH SHOULD BE CHOSEN CAREFULLY FOR YOUR DAUGHTER a young girl’s independence as she has to look out for herself. It is an education in itself. Parents should choose very care­ fully the dorniitorv where their daughter will live whi’e she is away in school or college for it is going to be her home for the most part of the year. So many so-called dor­ mitories that have sprung up "like mushrooms in Manila during the past few years are not so particular about the type of boarders I bat thev admit and so lax in their discipline (if any) that people have reason to suspect their real nature. For­ tunately for parents, the creditable ones are so well-known that it is not difficult to single them out. As a rule, the older and the larger the dorniitorv. the more reputable it is. The University of the Philippines has during the past years made it its business to look after the wel­ fare of the students enrolled in it and inspects the dormitories and hoarding houses around >ts campus to check up on their san:tarv condi­ tions, safetv. meals served, and even formulated rules to be enforced in them. Tt has classified the dormi­ tories and boarding houses into dif­ ferent tvpes according to its find­ ings and has also prepared a list of approved ones. This list is sent free upon request by the office of the registrar. Dormitories are better than board­ ing houses, for as a rule, the former are under the management of ex­ perienced and competent matrons. Some boarding houses, usually man­ aged by married couples, admit hoarders of both sexes. Tn the pro­ vinces, dormitories run by religions organizations and those by the gov­ ernment are the best. Tf it is possible for you to do so, go and inspect the dormitory you have tentatively chosen or that has been recommended to you, and don’t rely on the information given to you. If it is your daughter who has chosen it. it may be because her friends had told her that it is “not so strict,” although she is careful not to let you know about this. What do you have to look for in a dormitory? Comfort, cleanliness, safety from fire hazards, location, rate, the kind of food served, re­ gulations, attractiveness, etc. The dormitory should be within walking distance to school or col­ lege. This location will not only save your daughter the expense ot transportation hut will also enable her to go homo between classes ins­ tead of waiting in the stuffy Ladies’ Room or in the crowded Library, or worse, loitering in the campus or hanging around cafeterias. Note the outside appearance which should look decent, if not attractive, so (hat your daughter will not be ashamed to point to it to her friends. Remember it is going to be her home. It shou'd be clean and neat. Note also if there is a suitable fire ('scape if the building is tall and a playground. The playground may not be necessary, but still it is nice to have. Although dormitories make it their business to appear clean and neat at the start of the school year to make a good impression on new comers, yet it is easy to tell if thev are clean and neat every day. The bathrooms and the kitchn, the din­ ing room, the corners, the stairs will tell. See if the receiving hall is ade­ quately furnished and cheerful; the bedrooms, well-ventilated and welllighted, with windows that are pro­ tected so that they need not be closed even if it rains or when the hot sunlight enters through them; if there are enough bathrooms and toilets and wash bowls: if the bed­ rooms are provided with hooks on which the boarders can hang their kimonos and towels. There are conveniences that should bo required of every dor­ mitory: an infirmary that is pro­ perly isolated; a well-lighted and well-ventilated studv hall (board­ ers should not study in the bed­ rooms; this prevents others from (Coiiti)iH'-d on page 17) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 15 WINGS Over the GARDEN By Iris Brown THE afternoon sun made a golden haze in the school library, as it sifted through the lofty win­ dows, and upon the smooth shining curls of the girl who sat at the table, sorting wellcared-for books from those that had been roughly handled during the school year. Jane was a Senior, and with graduation just around the corner, she had volunteered to help Miss Nel­ son put everything in order before the closing of school. And this had reminded Jane; there were so many books that were strangers to her yet—and they might have been friends and coun­ sellors to guide her through the maze that is Life. That book there, for instance, so beautifully bound'. A golden book, its cover decorated with a lacy scroll that said: GEORGICS, by Virgil. As Jane stared at it, the lacy filigree became a wrought-iron gate before a garden basking in the sun. Jane pushed against the gate, and silently it opened. She entered, and her feet were upon a velvet-smooth sward that sloped gently to­ ward a tree-shaded brook. Sweet flowers dotted the meadow, and the pleasant odoi’ of mint came up from the herbs that were crushed by her feet as she strolled to­ ward the brook. Violets cod­ dled among the dew-wet grasses and moss at the wa­ ter’s edge. And then Jane saw a tall Roman gentleman approach­ ing her through the grove of olive trees. She knew he was a Roman, by his costume, and knew that he was a soldier, by his fine military bearing and carriage. His eyes were keen as the eyes of the Ro­ man eagle, under his shock of white hair and heavy eye­ brows, but his smile was warm with welcome. “Iam Marcus, once a legionaire in the service of our Augustus Caesar, and now a happy farmer here among the olives and the roses, mine by grant of Caesar, for faithful service.” “I am happy to meet you, The finest refreshment in SUMMER DAYS: Sold by all leading Perfumery stores MENZI & CO., INC.-1/"""" Sir Marcus,” Jane said res­ pectfully.- “It is very lovely here m your garden. But I am curious about those small structures there, close by the stream, under the trees—” “Those are the palaces I built for my winged friends, the bees. They wander through the skies, to skim over the meadows and sip the purple flowers.” Jane examined the hives, and found that they were made of woven willow twigs. Soon, however, an ominous murmur arose within the hives. “Come away,” said the old man. “When they go forth to battle, my bees are more dangerous than all the fierce barbarians — Britons, Gauls and all the rest. Let us seat ourselves, and I will relate the miraculous manner in which I gained the serv­ ices of these willing slaves.” They strolica away from the bees to a little arbor, where roses mingled with grape-vines to make dappled shade for them. There was a stone bench for them to sit {(’nntiiiiied mi puyc 93} 16 Manila, May, 1938 Vitin Twelve Years Old Right are shown the children’s photographs which appeared on our cover from June, 1937 to April, 1933. Our May (1937) issue was a victory Number and showed a Filipino woman holding a laurel wreath. fHE WOMAN’S HOME JOUR­ NAL is twelve years old this month. We are proud of this fact for it makes us the oldest women’s maga­ zine and one of the oldest publica­ tions in the Philippines. We hope to live longer and record more and grater accomplishments of Fili­ pino women for posterity. And now let us talk of the changes, for the better, that were accomplished in the JOURNAL dur­ ing the past year. We shall begin with our cover because it attract­ ed the most favorable comments. Perhaps our readers do not realize that each year we have a cover scheme. The year before last it consisted of fruits and the year be­ fore that, of native flowers. Last year, we were fortunate in that our scheme was not interrupted. We featured children posed in typical activities, using 'a pair, a sister and brother, whenever possible, and chose those in that age when they are not yet self-conscious. For June, we had the two bright Escoda chil­ dren, “shot” in action while they were going to school. To add to the naturalness of the picture, their dog Queenie was included. The next month we had Laling and Pat Lim, shown pointing at a frog in the pond in the garden of the attrac­ tive Lim residence. The JOURNAL coming out after the celebration of Child Haith Day in September 7, we decided to feature the subject of child health a month in advance, so carried a picture of the two very healthy and active children of Mr. and Mrs. Dominador Ambrosio on our August cover. The photograph of the Quirino (Elpidio) girls, dressed in their Sunday best, at­ tracted the attention of an adver­ tising agent in the United States. He wrote to us to inquire if he could use photos of Filipino children, posed in the way he wanted, to ad­ vertise certain products. Another very natural picture, because it was shot in action, which appeared on our cover was that of the Limjap (Pedro) children (two girls and a boy), for the month of October. They were shown walking in the garden, the boy leading two lambs. For November, when Thanksgiving is celebrated, we showed a boy (Marito Balmori Moreno) and a girl (Citang Balmori Villegas) in an attitude of prayer. This was one of our most appealing pictures. The Nakpil children (two girls) posed near a Christmas tree appeared in own cover photo for December. A year-old boy, having his first ride on a tricycle, with the help of his older brother was the subject of the picture on our January cover. The children are Mauricio and Al­ berto Martelino grandchildren of our own Mrs. Concepcion Rodriguez. A local advertising agency wanted to use another pose of these same children in the advertisement of a brand of soap. (Ivory, which you will find in this issue). Fortu­ nately for us our February number came out earlier than the arrival of Better Homes and Gardens Maga­ zine in the Philippines. Otherwise the public would have accused us of copying the picture on the cover of the American magazine, which show­ ed a girl leaning out of a window. Our own cover showed the children of Dr. and Mrs. Manuel Tuason looking out of one of the windows of their beautiful home on Taft Avenue. The boy was the oldest of all the children we had so far used and he balked at the idea of hav­ ing his picture appar on the cover (no less!) of a woman’s magazine. The Napoleon and Josephine that you saw on our March cover first appeared during the Children’s Fancy Dress Ball held during the Philippine Exposition, Carlitos Prevsler and Vida Araneta made a very convincing Napoleon and Josephine, respectively, everybody remarked. The last picture on our cover scheme of children showed the two Barredo (Jose) boys playing with two large dogs. This is an­ other “natural” picture. To bring closer together the of­ ficers of the Federation and the club women all over the Philippines through the Woman’s Home Jour­ nal, we introduced an innovation in the July issue. The letter which contained the monthly message to the club women was heretofore writ­ ten by the president, Mrs. Lim. Beginning with July, the officers of the Federation took turns in giv­ ing the message and each was given the opportunity to address the club women on this page. So far only the following have given the mes­ sage: Mrs. Escoda, Mrs. Cadwallader, Mrs. Pecson, Miss Dwve’-. Miss Ocampo, Mrs. Rosa Sevilla Alvero, Mrs. Kalaw and Mrs. Rodriguez. We expect yet to hear (ra­ ther read) from these: Mrs. de (Continued on page 56) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 17 DEAR MRS. LIM: It will always be my aim to dedicate the best 1 can for the public welfare just as I have always faithfully complied with my clubwork. GLORIA AVILA DE VEYRA Councilor, Tanawan, Leyte * * * No obstante mi nuevo cargo, continuo siendo miembro y actualmente soy Tesorera del Club de Mujeres que es el que sostiene el Centro de Puericultura y casa Maternidad de esta localidad.............. Desearia rogarlo se sirva informarmos 6 convocarnos, con un mes de anticipaeion, por lo menos cuando haya otra convencion de los clubs de mujeres, pues procuraremos que una delegada de nuestro Club nos represente en la misma. JOSEFINA OPPUS ZIALCITA Consejal, Maasim, Leyte * * * I am thanking you for all the materials and suggestions that you sent us for our guidance. We have now started to make our plans and we will write to you again about them later. I look forward to meet­ ing you and the other officials of the Federation when we come to the headquarters for a visit. LEONILA SALVOSA President, Woman's Club Calabanga, Camarines Sur I pledge that whenever I may be able to do as a public official, I will always do something that will help the Club. If I find anything that I cannot do I will consult vou right awav. FAUSTINA ENTIA Councilor, Zamboanguita, Or. Negros * * * The club requires the exertion of all your efforts for the literacy The club requires the exertion of all our efforts for the literacy obstacle which may come in our way. SALVACION S. CUACHON Vice-President, Junior Woman’s Club Binalbagan, Negros Occidental * * ' * He recibido con suma satisfaecion vucstra felicitacion por mi eleecion conio Concejal del Municipio de Culasi, Antique, por lo que estov altamente enorgullecida, pues creiamos (pie estandonos muv alejadas de la Capital, nuestras hermanas no lendrian tiempo para fijarsc en este pobre rincon de la Isla de Panay. Sin embargo por vuestra carta (pie con placer la hemos recibido y que esperiTTnos que en el futuro nos ayudarian grandemente para el progreso del Feminismo on esta region de Visayas y en la defensa de sus intereses e ideales segun las modernas tendencias del pi'ogreso mundial, que mas tarde 6 mas temprano tendriamos que acudir suplicando ayuda a nuestras hermanas de Manila especialmente de la Federaeicn Nacional de Mujeres de Filipinas. ROSA VDA. DE JAVIER Concejal, Culasi, Antique GIRLS DORMITORY (Continued from page 11) sleeping well); a recreation and reading room (dormitories should provide newspapers for their boardel's) ; a sewing and ironing room (boarders may be charged for the use of the machine and iron) ; a place where wet things washed by the boarders can be hung (wet things should not be allowed lo hang in the rooms) ; a refrigerator where boarders can store perishable foods; a large bodega or store-room where all trunks and maletas and baskets should be kept (they should not be allowed in the rooms — to make the rooms look tidy and to make the job of cleaning them easier for the boys). Many dormitories in Manila have these conveniences and srave them as reasons for not re­ ducing their rates. And speaking of rates, we have found out that the average is twenty pesos a month. One large dormitory’ charges twenty-five, has been doing so even during the past years of acute depression, but it is always filled up to capacity. Instead of reducing its rate, it has improved the meals that it serves and has installed more lavatories. Wherever the rates are low (around fifteen pesos) the cleanliness and comfort are below par and the meals poor. Dormitories always economize on food first, then on lights and serv­ ice. Ask to be shown sample menus, and see if vegetables and fresh fruits are included every day, if cereals are served for breakfast, and how often meat (especially chick­ en) is served every week, and ex­ tras, every month. Some dormitory deans are also nurses who know about dietitics and they plan menus intelligently; large dormitories em­ ploy a dietician to make their menus for them. Find out also what is done to food of late comers—whe­ ther they are kept hot and covered or heated before serving. Has the dormitory a physician RAIN By AMELIA EARHART (This lovely essay was written just befora she started on her flight around the world. It is one of the last things she ever ivrote.) AIN slants against the land. Horizontally, distant views are blotted out; vertically, clouds drop to shroud the shoulders of tall city buildings. How many of the earthbound throng on the street beneath my window give a thought to the relative nearness of sunlight above them? I have just called the airport weather bureau, so I know if I fly upward for only three thousand feet my plane will emerge over a billowy, sunlit sea of clouds stretching away into blue infinity. Sometimes the climb ’ is greater — sometimes the air­ plane cannot top the towering formation of a storm. But no matter whether separated by ice or snow or rain or cold gray mist, the pilot knows the wall-card motto is meteorologically true, “Behind the clouds the sun’s still shining.” Now and again it illumines mystic caves and rearing fortresses, or shows giant cloud creatures mocking with lumpy paws the tiny man-made bird among them. But the airman’s pleasantest sight is probably glimpses of the earth through openings in a cloudy floor beneath his wings. Town and country, lake anfl meadow, the immobile sea— vivid are these earthly scenes when framed by clouds. who can be available any time and who give the boarders immunization injections? Is a resident nurse em­ ployed to take care of minor ill­ nesses and attend to sick boarders confined in the infirmary? Is them a well-stocked medicine cupboard and an emergency kit? The physical well-being of your daughter assured, how about her moral safety? Take a look at the regulations and find out if these are enforced. Many dormitories have printed regulations hung in a conspicuous place but do not enforce these regulations. The rule con­ We also have NOVELTIES in BUCKLES and DISHES of genuine MOTHER of PEARL. Come and see them at our store No. 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. cerning going out is on your mind. While you realize that it will be impossible for the dormitory to check up every movement of your daughter or to prevent her from going out alone, still you believe that there should be rules that will make going out alone difficult if not impossible. For instance, find out what method of checking up the whereabouts of every hoarder is used. Is everybody required to write on a permission book such in­ formation as to where she is going, with whom, when she expects to return? Even if there should be such a permission book, it is useless if there is not always anybody at the door who will see to it that every boarder going out does write in it. We wont to four dormitories one day and in every one of them the dean was out. There was no­ body at the table marked “Informa­ tion” in one, the assistant deans were out in the others. We won­ dered then from whom the boarders asked permission to go out. Sup­ posing some one should come look­ ing for an absent boarder, how could the dean or the girl at the “In­ formation” table tell where she is if she has not written in the permis­ sion book? The best thing to do, we think, is to get the class hours or working hours of every boarder; these arc noted on a card and the card filed away. Then somebody responsible must always be at the “Information” table and see to it that every boarder who goes out— not to her class or office—writes down in it before she leaves and when she comes in. Then when somebody comes to see her, or calls her up, it is easy to tell where she' is, and there is a record to show. There should be a limit to the hour when boarders may be out at night, not only for their safety but also for the sake of the reputation of the dormitory. Special occasions, such as dances, are exceptions but even then those who attend these should return at a certain hour, say, two o’clock. The dormitory should close at nine o’clock or earlier. Those who came in later will have to ring the bell or knock. This al­ ways discourages staying out late, especially when it is the dean who opens the door. It is useless to restrict a girl who lives in a dormitory. She may go out straight from her classes, thus fooling the dean, or go out from the dormitory with some believable excuse. It is better to impress upon her the fact that it is up to her to take care of herself since there is nobody to take of her. 18 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 Tranquility of mind, so absolutely necessary for one’s happiness and equally necessary for the accomplishment of good work, can be acquired. Every­ one who has ever seen He­ len Wills play tennis mar­ vels at her calm demeanor: she is utterly unruffled by op­ ponents, by her own mistakes, by bad decisions. As a mat­ ter of fact, she has naturally a turbulent heart, seething with ambition and excite­ ment. But she believed it was as necessary to acquire self-control as to acquire a good stroke. I knew a banker who for years had to face terrific problems and as I never saw Why do you think Kerry is avoiding you, dear?" "This is my corner. I'll have to leave you here . . . good-bye 1" MEN THOUGHT HER LOVELY —BUT........... That was only until they learned she was careless about such an important thing as personal daintiness! Nothing will disillu­ sion a man quicker than the odour of stale perspiration. Make sure you are free from the taint of perspirationl Don’t expect friends to tell you...don’t count on detecting it yourself. Use ODORONO regularly to check perspiration . . . prevent odour . . . save your dresses. ODORQ'DQ him fidgety, I asked him if it were natural for him to be calm or whether it were the result of training. He said that when he was young some­ body swindled him out of all his accumulated earnings. He did not sleep for two nights. Then he made up his mind that it was necessary to do the next piece of work without thinking of what had hurt him so; and gradually he acquired complete control. People are all alike in hav­ ing some cares, some sor­ rows, some fears, some anx­ ieties, the real difference between persons is the way they bear these. Now the only way to live in a world like this is to live at pne and the same time two lives—the outer life and the inner life. The Gospels say two things — “Give us this day our daily bread” and “Man cannot live by bread alone.” The former is an ab­ solute necessity for the outer life; and the latter is equally necessary for the real life, the life of the spirit, the inner life. It is a good thing some­ times to consider just where we are, what we are doing, and why. Every day at noon on the open ocean, the navi­ gator takes the sun. He wishes to know his latitude and longitude. But even while he is taking it, the ship is moving. Thus, it is not nec­ essary to cease activities, but it is a good idea occasionally to take our spiritual latitude and longitude. It is a mistake to wait for this knowledge until it is too late. It is from the inner life, the buried life, that our true happiness comes. It is the source of all our actions but it is also a place of retreat, a secure refuge. Here is what Matthew Arnold says in his poem: But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeak­ able desire After the knowledge of our buried life: A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; TRANQUILITY By William Lyon Phelps A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this, heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come, and where they go. . . And there arrives a lull in the hot race Wherein he doth forever chase The flying and elusive shadow—rest. An air of coolness plays upon his face, _ And an unwonted calm pervades his breast; And then he thinks he knows The hills where his life rose, And the sea where it goes. One of the wisest men was Benjamin Franklin. H e wrote a brief list of resolu­ tions, in which he was like other men; but he kept them all, in which he was unlike others. He wrote: “Tranquility. Be not dis­ turbed at trifles or at acci­ dents common or unavoid­ able.” If we could really keep that resolution six months— most men will not keep it three days—we should in­ crease our stock of happiness and our ability to work. Franklin was able to ac­ complish an enormous amount of work because he gave his entire attention to the mat­ ter in hand. He was like a great specialist who, although his waiting-room is filled with patients, devotes all his at­ tention to the one patient in front of him. It is a rare gift, and comes only by train­ ing. I believe that women are less disturbed, annoyed, irri­ tated by trifles than are men. There are two reasons for this. Women are more accus­ tomed to the inner life; they have resources that are often uncultivated ' by men. The other is that they are accus­ tomed to have children around them, from whom they must expect noise and confusion. The Reverend Doctor James G. Gilkey, in his book with the significant title, “Man­ aging One’s Self,” tells a story that thousands will im­ mediately verify. A young husband and father, happily, married, was accustomed to go to business after break­ fast and return only in the evening; on Saturday after­ noons he played golf. He sel­ dom had anything to do with the management of the three children. But one Saturday morning his wife informed him there were certain things in town she had to at­ tend to that afternoon, and would he just for once mind the children? He consented. When she returned to the house about five o’clock, her husband seemed on the verge of insanity. He had drawn up a memorandum something like this: (Continued on page 42) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 19 THE child often forgot to wash his face. There were two children at his house, younger than he, who had to have their faces washed for them, so the moth­ er could not always attend to him. He had a fine little washcloth of his own that his grandmother had knitted, but he often forgot to use it, which made his grandmother sad. This special morning the child ate jam on his toast for breakfast. Oh, he was very untidy indeed, for there was jam on his blouse and on the tip of his nose and on his mouth when he finished breakfast! But he did not use his washcloth, and he jumped down from the table and ran outdoors to play. Just outside the door, on a tree in the garden, hung the child’s vellow canary in a pretty gilt cage. The bird was very tame. When the child whistled and put his finger in the cage, the yellow canary would light on it and sing. But this morning it paid not the slightest attention when the child called. The yel­ low canary was taking a bath. It had a white saucer full of crystal water, and it dipped its little body in and lifted up its head with the drops shining on its feathers like diamonds in a gold set­ ting. So the child went farther on, until he came to his pus­ sy cat sitting in the path. She nearly always followed the child, runing after a string and ball which he carried in his pocket for her to play with. This morning, though, the pussy cat would not so much as look at the child. She was very busy indeed, washing the milk from her whiskers with one velvet paw and her little velvet tongue. She did not even purr when the child stroked her furry back. So the child went on still farther, until he came to the pond at the end of the gar­ den where the ducks lived. His pockets were full of bits of bread for the ducks. He often tossed their breakfast out into the water, and the ducks swam to him and gob­ The Child Who Forgot To Wash His Face bled up the crumbs in their bills and quacked, “Thank you.” Today, though, the ducks did not seem to see their breakfast. At the other end of the pond they were dipping their green bodies down in the water, until all he child could see was the tips of their point­ ed tails. Then they lifted themselves out of the water and shook a shower of drops from their green fieathers. THEY WON'T DANCE WITH ME. I WONDER IF I HAVE BAD BREATH? BAD BREATH IS SO ANNOYING AT A DANCE" COLGATE'S DENTAL CREAM MAKES MY MOUTH FEEL SO FRESH AND CLEAN, AND HOW IT POLISHES MY TEETH. NEXT DAY-IN THE NEWSPAPER H-M-M-M, HERE IT SAYS, COLGATE'S REMOVES THE CAUSE OF MOST BAD BREATH.” I'LL TRY ITI NOW-No Bod Breath Behind His Sparkling Smile The ducks were taking their morning baths. “I wonder why no one will play with me,” thought the child. Then he looked down in the mirror of the pond, and he saw that he had not washed his face. “Why perhaps it is because I am dirty,” he said. And the child ran home to use his washcloth. —Carolyn Sherwin Bailey. MR. PRICK’S WALK “What a fine sunny morn­ ing!” said Mr. Pricks, the Hedgehog. “I should like to go for a nice walk. But it’s dull walking alone; I will call on my friends and neighbors, and see if any of them will come along too.” So first of all he called on the snail, and said: “Good morning, Mr. ShelloverCrawley! Will you take a walk with me?” Yes, popularity and charm are destroyed by unpleasant breath caused by decaying food particles lodged between the teeth. Be safe! Do this, morning and night: Using Colgate’s, brush your upper teeth from the gums down—your lower teeth from the gums up. Rinse. Take a bit of Colgate’s on But Mr. Shellover-Crawley was busy moving house, and couldn’t come. So Mr. Pricks went on to Mr. Wrigley, the caterpillar, who was enjoying his break­ fast. He was having salad, which was his favorite dish. He would never eat anything else. “Oh, dear no!” said Mr. Wrigley, when Mr. Pricks had asked him. “I really haven’t time to go for walks! I’m having my breakfast, you see, and as soon as I’ve finished that, I have lunch. When lunch is over, it’s tea-time; and by the time I’ve had tea, supper is ready—so, you see what a busy life I lead!” So Mr. Pricks went to the house where Mr. WiggleWaggle, the centipede, lived. “Good morning, Mr. Wig­ gle-Waggle! Won’t you take a walk with me this lovely day?” “Oh, no!” said he, “Z can’t go—it’s my bootcleaning day —and going for walks does muddy one’s boots so!” Then Mr. Pricks went to Mr. Groper, the Mole. Mr. Groper was working in his (Continued on- page 35) your tongue, a sip of water and—wash out your mouth! Rinse again. Thus you combat bad breath—your teeth are really clean—gleaming with new beauty. Colgate’s, besides, stimu­ lates your gums—keeps them healthy. And what a delight­ ful, refreshing flavor! 20 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 SYNOPSIS EVE CARTLE decided to be noble and divorce her hus­ band, RICHARD CARTLE, when she realized that he did not love her anymore, so that he could marry his secre­ tary, KAY HANVY. Eve went to live in Paris on the rather large alimony that Dick Cartie paid her. She had a right to be treated generously, she told herself. A little luxury was all she had left; her only child—a boy—had died two years before and she had also lost her youth. Richard Cartie did not want to divorce his wife, al­ though he had stopped loving her. He did not want to hurt her. But he could not give up Kay, who loved him, he was sure of it, and was having a difficult time being “the other woman.” The divorce did not solve all their problems. Eve having no one else had to depend on her husband for every­ thing, specially on money matters. Richard had always the feeling that he had hurt Eve and had to work harder in order to support two women. Kay, although married to a properly divorced man, was always conscious of Eve, very much alive, although far away. CAN A SECOND WIFE START A NEW PATTERN OF LIFE WITH HER HUSBAND—IGNORING HIS OLD FRIENDSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS? KAY HANVY FOUND THIS DIFFICULT, ESPECIALLY WHEN HER HUSBAND’S FIRST WIFE WAS STILL LIVING. ]7VE knew what was in the letter. She was sure of it. There had been none for a long time, then this had come, addressed in longhand. If it had been about business, he would have dictated it. She wondered if he dictated her business letters to Kay Hanvy. She saw Kay, sitting at dictation, her smooth brow,—fliat brow Eve en­ vied so passionately,—and breaking into little curls at the nape of her neck. She saw the lovely curve of Kay’s cheek, the enchanting lift of her wide brows. She saw her dark lashes against her young, smooth skin. Eve did not open the letter; she stood at the door of the bureau of the concierge, at the entrance to the hotel, and looked down on the long envelope. It was a thin letter; whatever he was saying, he was say­ ing briefly. The porter was asking if Madame wished a taxi; automatically she as­ sented, and got in. Somewhat to her surprise, she did not give the ad­ dress where she had been intending to go for a tea; instead she told the driver to go to the Champs Elvsee. The top was down; she was glad of that. It was June, a day of lovely brightness, and the late afternoon sun was still pouring, like liquid gold, over the upper stories of the buildings on the Rue St. Honore. She had only a vague awareness of the swift current of cars, converg­ ing, swerving, tooting shrilly, then a glimpse of the stone figures of Alsace and Lorraine—she could re­ member when they had worn black, and immediately she seemed pass­ ing between the gold, cavorting hor­ ses at the entrance of the wooded alley of the Champs, and then, quite suddenly, she was out and walk­ ing. She noticed how bright and green the grass was in the sunlight, and what a number of children in ab­ breviated clothes were rolling hoops and playing diabolo, and how many little white dogs were taking their airings; and she moved to an iron bench, where she gave two sous to the old woman in black, and sat down on the newspaper offered for her protection, and stared again at the letter. She ran a finger under the flap and tore it open; she remembered how Dick always took out a pen­ knife and slit his envelopes neatly. H’e had always done it for her, ra­ ther than see hei1 tear them. Once she looked down again at the letter, verifying the date he had mentioned; it had already passed, lie had been married then, on some day that had seemed unimportant, some day when she had been going 77 gf? Expect more than " tooth - brushing99 from Tek. It massages your gums while you clean your teeth. Distributors: BOTICA BOIE about as on any other day. There had been no mention of it in the paper, none that she had seen.... Dick had written that he had be­ come engaged to Kay Hanvy, and had decided not to wait, but to be married the second of June. She tried to recall what date it was now—the fourth, she thought; she tried to remember what she had been doing day before yesterday, but the days seemed a blur. She wondered if the decision had really been sudden, or if he had shirked telling her. Perhaps it had been sudden—not the engagement, but the plans for the marriage. Spring had got in his blood. He had al­ ways been restless in spring. Probably they were away now on one of those trips of his up north —she had always had a feeling that he would want to take Kay Hanvy on some such trip. Probably the girl wouldn’t mind a wedding-trip with rough clothes and inconvenien­ ces. She would think it jolly. She had known this would hap­ pen; yet it was not real yet; it would begin to be real when she 4 & America’s Quality TOOTH BRUSH /Mt JhO got people’s letters and the clip­ pings, when she had got used to thinking about it.... She felt numb now, as if it had been a shock. It felt more conclusive than the divorce. She had gone through that in a sustaining excitement, be­ having well before Dick; the whole thing had seemed fantastic, just words. It had continued to seem so; she was still Mirs. Richard Cartie, living on Dick’s money, using his name. There was no change in her life over here. She was out of the Champs now, crossing a street; a taxi nearly ran her down in her obliviousness. The thing was a matter of inches. She thought how absurdly ironic that would have been to have gone to all this trouble to save Dick con­ demnation, and then come to a silly end with his letter of announcement still in her hand! No one would have believed it accident; it would have meant headlines. She beckoned the taxi that had skidded, with such screeching of brakes, and it received her, and she said: “Notre Dame.” The driver, still agitated, told her she should indeed give thanks—Our Eady must > have watched over her. Absently she smiled still thinking of the im­ plications of an accident. She found she wouldn’t mind at all hav­ ing Dick blamed; and yet she was being scrupulous to avoid it. Considering herself, she decided that she had behaved well, amaz­ ingly well, for a woman, and a fair­ ly clever woman at that; she had never let slip the phrase or two, in her letters, that would have brought the facile sympathy that people loved to give, especially when it involved a moral judgment of ano­ ther. ... Perhaps people had been giving that sympathy to Dick, left so alone by that wife who preferred Continental amusements; she had caught a shade or tw’O of that in the letter to her. There would have been more if it had not been for Johnny’s death, if her friends hadn’t felt that she had been thrown out (Continued on page 39) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 21 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 QFF and on we hear stories about the marvelous way wives give their moral support to their husbands who pull through suc­ cessfully in whatever undertaking they are in, backed by the staunch loyalty of “their women”. Our storj now is about such a woman, the wife of Peter Blume, who painted the famous anti-Fascist canvas “The Eternal City”. The painting took three years to com­ plete, and part of the work must be credited to Mrs. Ebie Blume who read to her husband all the time. As a matter of fact she al­ ways reads to him while he is at work, which is seven times a week from nine in the morning to dusk. This custom was established back in 1929 when he was doing “Pa­ rade”, the picture which first got people talking about him. He was working away, feeling nervous, and Ebie was sitting in the studio, reading Lou Tellegen’s memoirs, IFoOTen Have Been Kind. Any­ how, she chanced to read aloud to Blume the passage in which Tellegen, clad in his underwear, leaps from a lady’s boudoir into the Grand Canal. This had the rather unpredictable effect of relaxing Blume’s nerves. “Go on reading”, he told Ebie, and she did; she has been reading to him now for the last eight or nine years. During the “Eternal City” years she started out the day by read­ ing the papers. After the news would come a book: first TFur and Peace, which took three months, after that The Idiot, the plays of Ghristoplher Mairlowe, Anng Ka­ renina, then a run of twentv-two mystery stories. She next started Ulysses which turned out to be a mistake. Blume suddenly threw down his brushes, screaming at Ebie and James Joyce: “Stop, stop, stop!” Ebie calmed him with Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensi­ bility which saw them through the end of the picture. Superstitious Actress SOME people call it super­ stition, others, just a jinx —anyway, it is the fantastic belief of even educated peo­ ple about this or that odd thing bringing good or ill luck. For instance, there is Gertrude Lawrence, worldrenoWned actress, one of the most successful and most celebrated women in the stage today. So high up in her line of work that Noel Coward has devoted pages and pages of praise to her ability in his autography. Yet she has misgivings about the ending “e” in both her given and her family names. She sincerely believes that her career might have been more splendid than it is if her first name was Dagma WOMEN ABROAD ----------- --------------------------------------------------- ----------- ; By Pia Mancia instead of G e r t r u d e! It seems that some time or an­ other, Evangeline Adams, the great mystic, had told her that she would be luckier in life if her first name ended with an “a”. But why Dagma? one might be inclined to ask. She would patiently explain that her real name was Ger­ trude Alexanders Dagma Klasen. “The Alexandra and the Dagma came from my father’s family. He was a Dane. I get the Gertrude from my mother. She was Irish. Alexandra Lawrence would sound too old-fa­ shioned. Dagma Lawrence would have been perfect. . . much luckier than Gertru­ de!” There, ladies, is a bit of superstition which would match our own Philippine aversion to sweeping the floor at night because centi­ pedes might fall! First Woman Member, French Academy ^HENEVER any woman any whore in this wide world re­ ceives signal honor, it is only fitting that her sisters, the other women in all the other countries, should show their rejoicing. Thus, when we hear that the French Academy, heretofore only “100 per cent male” received a woman in its distinguish­ ed fold for the first time, we feel we should like to share the glad news all over. The French Academy, founded in 1635, has included in its member­ ship such great names as Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Diderot. Not only literary men are admitted. A few’ generals and churchmen are also, by tradition, let in. Thousands of famed Frenchmen wear out their hearts trying to get elected to the Academy, (Emile Zola was not an Academician), but no Frenchwom­ an has ever been a member. And, until November 23 no Frenchwom­ an had ever been received official­ ly in one of the Academy seances. It was then that France’s greatest living female writer, Colette, (whose names are Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Gauthier-Villars de Jouvenal Goudeket) was admitted. The w’ork of the French Acade­ my is to edit a Dictionary of the French language, a grammar, a rhetoric, and a book of rules for poetry. Going back to Madame Colette, however, who, by the way is now’ 64, it is interesting to note her “writer’s eccentricities”. She works with her feet stretched upon a sofa, propped on some of her books. Talking about her fortythree volumes -of plays, novels, short stories and essays, she says that she has no difficulty at all producing them, as writing comes to her as easily as “frying an egg”. That fact makes her the Academi­ cian—which we definitely are not. Creative Photography ^flTH the present craze for photography, verging on an almost libelous use of the camera, it is refreshing to hear of some one making a truly serious attempt of producing creative photo­ graphic art. Bernice Abbot, famous woman photograph­ er, is said to have made “the most phenomenal human gesture ever made.” For years this young woman had photographed the faces of Europe’s great; later she found out to her dissatisfac-’ tion that faces everywhere looked much the same. So she decided to see what people looked like by what they built. “Their houses”, said Berenice Abbot, “tell more about a people than their noses”. Her first sub­ ject became New York which held her with a “fan­ tastic passion.” She explain­ ed this fascination by the city’s ceaseless change, its overnight growths, its va­ nishing old structures, its weird contrast of past jost­ ling with present. She pre­ dicts with certainty that fif­ ty years from now it would he a different city. There­ fore, she feels that someone should preserve its flavor before this was gone. (Continued on page 37} Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 23 BOOKS and AUTHORS By Pia Mancia THERE is nothing that gives more pleasure than to stand up and acclaim something one has read en­ thusiastically, as having moved one to lofty heights of idealism, or to profound depths of genuine senti­ ment. We can safely say the first of George Santayana’s THE LAST PURITAN. Indeed, that might be the outstanding criticism to give against it, that, being a novel, it never, for a moment, ceased to give philosophy, and, therefore, there was lacking in it, that naturalness of everyday touch that a Maughan, or a Tarkington, would have sprin­ kled throughout his works. Never once docs Santayana leave the “plat­ form,” so to speak, whereon he stood to expound his theories of life and his views on Man’s behavior; here, he would use his hero, Oliver Al­ den, to speak out his platitudes on the attributes of the moral man; there, his mouthpiece would be the Vicar of Iffley. voicing his ideas about the terribleness, the blackness, the utter tragedy of Truth. But this ratified atmosphere is somewhat relieved by the presence of a few earthy characters. Lord -Tim, for instance, or Vanny, or Fraulein, or Mrs. Bowler, people who lived and talked and thought as you and me, and never once bothered to explain the whys and the hows of existence. They are the comfortable characters of this re­ markable book. Philosophy is a difficult subject to tackle. And the author’s job of making it live through a flesh-andblood character, a figure of fiction meant to represent a type, the Last Puritan, is not easy. He is confronted with coping w;th the tangible and the intangible, and making them meet in a common ground of understanding. In a way, Santayana never succeeded in mak­ ing Oliver Alden quite human enough. We feel in him too much of a strange creature whose reac­ tions against nature are understand­ able, but not to be sympathized with. We admire his austerity and yet would not want to practise such a quality ourselves. His puritanism was. however, so genuine as to be really tragic. Santayana, in his Prologue, defines it very aptly, thus: “His puritanism had never been mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shames, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts. All that passion for reality was beautiful in him ..... ” Oliver Alden himself was as beauti­ ful a character as one would wish— beautiful in the statuesque sense, perfectly molded, perfectly colored, but utterly devoid of the “joy of living,” that essence of existence without which everything is tone­ less, colorless, drab. In Oliver Alden is sounded the last sad note of Puritanism, that precious jewel of the American ideals of the past, whose memory Santayana seems to cherish dearly— this present work certainly preserves all that is beautiful in Puritanism, without, however, sparing it the evils, as it were, of rebelling against a Nature which is necessar­ ily strong and powerful, and, there­ fore, capable, in the end, of destroy­ ing mere man. And thus was Oliver Alden destroved. (THE LAST PURITAN: Scribner and Sons, New York, 1937. $2.75) * * * A TWENTIETH century judg­ ment of the eighteenth is fair­ er than either the verdict of the nineteenth century which does not understand it, or of its own time, whoso perspective is blurred by too close a proximity. When her contemporaries judged Try MEAT FRICASSEE with SWEET-POTATO MEAT FRICASSEE WITH SWEET-POTATO BISCUITS 1 lb. meat 3 tablespoons lard 2 garlics 1 green pepper a pinch of marjoram Cut meat In small pieces; brown meat in hot lard with garlic, onion and green pepper; add marjoram, sour orange juice, seasonings and wine with a little water. Cook slowly until tender, adding potatoes about 30 minutes before meat is done. Add peas and serve with Sweet-Potato Biscuits. SWEET-POTATO BISCUITS cup mashed sweet potato % cup milk 4 tablespoons melted butter 1% cups flour 4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 1 tablespoon sugar M teaspoon salt Mix mashed sweet potato, milk and melted butter. Add remain­ ing ingredients, sifted all together, to make soft dough.Turn out on floured board and toss lightly until outside looks smooth. Roll out inch thick, cut with floured biscuit cutter. Place on greased pan. Bake in hot oven about 13 minutes. Serves 6-8. Marie Antoinette, their vision was not clear—the French Revolution was too alive, too vibrant, too con­ demning, for them to see in the woman anything more than the prime cause of the bloodshed and the horror. A century later, the judgment might have been kinder, but mid-Vietorian morals prevail­ ing prevented too much sympathy for the flirtatious, somewhat gid­ dy-headed queen who made Ver­ sailles a pastoral garden of frivoli­ ties and rococo parties. But now with the frankness of our age, and with the clearer view born of the lapse of time and the extent of understanding we can see Marie Antoinette for what she really was: an extremely average woman, of mediocre intelligence, charming and flighty but never unscrupul­ ous; thoughtless and light-headed but never unkind, proud and ob­ stinate but never overbearing — a natural product of the circum­ stances surrounding her, over which *she had ho more control than she had over her own fasci­ nating, ebullient self. Such was the sympathetic treatment of Ste­ fan Zweig’s MARIE ANTOINET­ TE, whose telling subtitle is: The Portrait Of An Average Woman. salt and pepper to taste 1 tablespoon parsley teaspoon paprika 1 cup dry wine lb. potatoes I I I I I I I I I City. In this book, whose only defect is a somewhat obvious tendency for a frank discussion of delicate sexual matters which were better left undiscussed or else briefly treated, the author tells of the in­ timate life of the unfortunate queen — her loving nature which found expression only late in her short life, her devotion for her chivalrous exemplary lover, Fersen, and her simple motherly af­ fection and tenderness for her chil­ dren; her lightness and frivolity in the early part of her career changing into seriousness and an almost uncanny wisdom when try­ ing circumstances beset her — and finally her glorious, queenly death whose dignity, it seemed, more than made up for the flightiness of her young years, and justified the fact that she was the daughter of the great Maria Theresa. Such was the end of Marie Antoinette “who, in her day had been the goddess of grace and of taste, and subsequently the queen of many sorrows.” * * * There is always something poe­ tic and beautiful about gallantry —a gallant act, a gallant word, a (Continued on page 35) BISCUITS! ROYAL, the Cream of Tartar baking powder, assures perfect results. Don’t waste good ingredients through baking failures. Always use Royal! THESE flaky-light Sweet-Potato Biscuits give a finishing touch to the popular Meat Fricassee. Insure their delicate lightness by making them with Royal, the Cream of Tartar baking powder that assures fluffy-light texture, more delicious flavour in everything you bake. It’s more economical to bake with Royal, too. You run no risk of wast­ ing costly ingredients through baking failures. Buy a tin of Royal today. FREE! “Tropical Recipes” Interesting new booklet contain-___ Ing recipes for many delicious Z^Tja cakes, cookies, biscuits, fritters AH! and other baked dishes. Tested and improved by Royal Cook­ ery Experts for use right in your own kitchen! Every recipe easy to make. At­ tractively illustrated. Many valuable cooking helps. Send coupon to­ day for your/ree copy. -Country Standard Brands of the Philippines Inc.—Dept. 136 P. O. Box 586, Manila, Philippine Is. Please send me copy (copies) of the free Royal booklets, as checked below: □ New booklet “Tropical Recipes” □ Illustrated Royal Cook Book Name — Address 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 QttWte- SECTION Franchot Tone and Gladys George in “Love Is A JEANETTE MacDONALD, who is co-starred with Nelson Eddy for the fourth time (they were to­ gether in Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie and Maytime) in The Girl of Golden West, was born in Phila­ delphia, Pennsylvania, on June 18th. Her first motion picture appearance was in The Love Pa­ rade with Maurice Chevalier ami she has been a signing star ever since. NELSON EDDY will also ce­ lebrate his birthday next month— June 29th. His first vocal teach­ er was a phonograph. First he listened to the records, them ho be­ gan to sing in accompaniment to the greatest singers—Caruso, Bonci, Scotti, etc., imitating their in­ flections, tone development and idiosyncrasies. Soon lie found that he was actually learning. The records showed him how a song should be sung. The technique, the voice method, came later; he learned the fundamentals and a lot of other things, both right and wrong, from imitating phonograph records. LEO CARRILLO, who plays the role of Mosquito in The Girl <>f the Golden West, was born in Los Angeles and educated at St. Vieent-Loyola University. His ancestors date back through five generations of Spanish-California dons and were among the first white settlers of the Pacific Cost. They included generals, nobles and an early Spanish governor of Ca­ lifornia. THE CTRL OF THE GOLD­ EN WEST is based upon the orig­ inal stage play written by Da­ vid Belaseo thirty years ago. But an entirely new musical score has been written for it by ‘Sigmttnd Romberg and Gus Kahn, deans among the composers and librettists of America, and the original songs they have contributed to the score promise to become song hits of 1938. Hailed by U. S. naval officers as the most authentic picture of Annapolis ever presented on the screen, Navy Blue and Gold, soon to be shown at the Ideal Theater, welds all the important phases of life through which midshipmen pass in their first two years at the Academy into a thrilling story, climaxed by the annual Army-Navy game in which the three leading characters, Robert Young, James Stewart and Tom Brown, partici­ pate. The love interest in this film is pretty Florence Rice, who plays the role of Tom Brown’s sister and the girl for whom Young and BEAR BRAND" MILK Stewart are rivals. Lionel Barry­ more, as the veteran coach who encourages the Navy Team, and Billie Burke, as the mother of Tom Brown and Florence Rice, are also in the cast. .JAMES STEWART, who is considered the most Wligible ba­ chelor in Hollywood, celebrates his birthday this month. He was bom in Indiana, Pennsylvania, on May 20th, and is a graduate of Prince­ ton University. ROBERT YOUNG became the proud father of a bouncing baby girl during the filming of Navy Blue and Gold. Prior to the birth of the baby the company went to Annapolis on location for the film­ ing of campus atmosphere. The nearest telephone, in a gatehouse a quarter of a mile from the scene of “shooting”, would lure the expectant and worried father a dozen times between “takes”. A winding roadway led to the gate­ house but motor traffic was for­ bidden, so between scenes Young would speed across the sloping lawns to the telephone. The en­ tire east and the director tried to make things easy, but to no avail. Take other expectant fathers, Young was worried. The baby, however, was born a week later after the company had returned to the studio. Dedicated to laughter, Love Is a Headache, soon to he shown at the Ideal Theater, starts on a high note of hilarity and builds to a suspenseful, comedy climax which finds everyone in the cast indulg­ ing in an orgy of mirth. Ti e story concerns the ploblem- of an act­ ress (Gladys Geroge) whose press agent (the late Ted Healy) has caused her to adopt two orphaned children (Mickey Rooney and Vir­ ginia Weidler) for publicity pur­ poses. When police suspect that the children have been kidnapped, the actress runs away to a small town. There she is joined by a columnist (Franchot Tone) who is in love with her. They confer on the mix-up. The inn-keeper, who is also a justice of the peace, over­ hears their plotting and believing he is justified, forces them to mar­ ry at the point of a shotgun, which is exactly what they wanted to do anyway. GLADYS GEORGE noted stage actress, first appeared on the screen in the film. Valiant Is The Word For Carrie. This was fol­ lowed by They Gore Him J Gun (also with Franchot Tone) and Madame X. MICKEY ROONEY, though on­ ly sixteen years old, is a veteran and one of the busiest actors in pictures. He has appeared in for­ ty three films in the past twenty months. He has been in pictures for ten years. Among his not­ able performances were those in Captains Courageous. Thorough­ breds Don’t Cry and You’re Only Young Once. Schools should incorporate a course in charm as part of their curriculum, according to Richard Thorpe, noted motion picture di­ rector. Every high school, he sugManila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 25 Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald in “The Girl of the Golden West” gcsts, should provide girls with the proper means of enhancing their femininity. The contrast be­ tween girls professionally trained and their unskilled sisters is un­ fair, he says. Actresses, he con­ tinues, are trained in the hard school. They are taught to walk, talk, dress, make-up their faces and dress their hair. Assurance and ease, plus a well-groomed ap­ pearance are part of their pro­ fession. Educational institutions, in his opinion, could perform an inestimable service to women if they inaugurated classes in charm. Subjects should include voice cul­ ture, poise, assurance, proper use of cosmetics, wearing of cloths and plain good manners. He pointed out that the two military acade­ mies, West Point and Annapolis, have complete courses in conven­ tional behavior that their grad­ uates may behave in a manner be­ coming an officer and a gentle­ man. “If good manners are valua­ ble to fighting men, how much more so to a girl graduate, faced with the necessity of making her way in the world ?” he asks. SHIRLEY TEMPLE celebrated her ninth birthday last April 20th and received hundreds of gifts, from every state in the union and from several foreign countries. If she continues to be the cinema suc­ cess that she is at present, she will be one of the richest women in the world by the time she will be 21, rivaling Doris Duke and Bar­ bara Hutton, both of whom are millionairesses. We also have NOVELTIES in BUCKLES and DISHES of genuine MOTHER of PEARL. Come and see them at our store No. 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. SIMONE SIMON, we read in the papers, wjas robed of more than $16,000 while she was away in her native land, France. It turn­ ed out that her secretary, using her power of attorney, embezzled the money and bought furniture, furs, silverware, and jewelry. When Simone arrived from abroad she was surprised to find her bank account considerably shrunk. She stormed into the office of the Los Angeles district attorney • demand­ ing why. A secret service man investigated and found out why. JACKIE COOGAN, now 23 and married to actress Betty Gra­ ble, is endeavoring to recover from his mother and step-father the sum of $4,000,000 he earned as a child actor. His most famous role was as the kid in Charlie Chaplain’s The Kid. Doin’ The Dopey, a new Big Ap­ ple Swing step, inspired by (he dance sequence in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs and named af­ ter lazy, lovable Dopey, is said to be taking the United States by storm. It is done by 7 couples in a circle and calls for hot swing and high stepping. WALT DISNEY is now busy at work on The Sorcerer (which is not so familiar as Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs). No less than Leopold Stokwoski has made the musical recordings for this new film. Mr. Disney is only 36 years old, married for- 12 years, and has two children: Diane Marie, four, and an adopted baby daughter, Sharon Mae. IIow do movie stars court sleep? Clark Gable recites the prologue of Evangeline; Claudette Colbert counts her toes; Ginger Roger’s tunes in on the Los Angeles police radio station (the droning voice of the announcer is soothing to her nerves) ; Joel McCrea recites Lin­ coln’s Gettysburg address. COMING FILMS: TEST PILOT with Clark Cable, Spencer Tracy, Myrna Loy, and Lionel Barrymore. FOOLS FOR SCANDAL with Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravet and Ralph Bellamy. KIPNAPPED with Freddie Bar­ tholomew, Warner Baxter, Ralph Forbes, ('. Aubrey Smith, and manv others. VIVACIOUS LADY with Ginger Rogers and James Stewart. THE GOLDWYN FOLLIES, fea­ turing Vera Zorina. WHITE BANNERS with Fay Bainfer, Claude Rains, Bonita Granville and Kav Johnson. THE FIRST 100 ’ YEARS with Robert Montgomery and Vir­ ginia Bruce. FILM RATINGS (Reviewed by Ruth Waterbury) Extraordinary (Four Stars) : SNOW WHITE and THE SEVEN DWARFS MAD ABOUT MUSIC, starring Deanna Durbin and Herbert Marshall. Excellent (Three Stars) : NEXT ATTRACTION JEANETTE MacDONALD 4zA»E0l»Y SOON!. . .Watch For Opening Date CLARK MYRNA GABLE LOY I 5^ 1ILK1 -,lh LIONEL BARRYMORE J MERRILY WE LIVE with Constance Bennet, Brian Aherne, Billie Burke, Bonita Granville. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER with Tommy Kellv and Mav Robson. IN OLD CHICAGO with Alice Faye, Tyrone Power and Don Ameche. TOVARICII with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer. HAWAII CALLS with Bobby Breen. ROMANCE IN THE DARK with Gladys Swarthout and John Boles. REBECA OF SUNNYBROOK with Shirley Temple. BLUEBIRD’S EIGHT WIFE with Claudette Colbert and Gary Cooper. THE BARONESS and THE BUTLER with Annabdlla and William Powell. THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST with Jeannette MacDo­ nald and Nelson Eddy. THE JOY OF LIVING with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. “The Department of Health, Bureau of Prevent­ able Diseases, say that every twenty minutes somebody in New York City is bitten by a dog: 25,000 nipped folk a year, approximately/* —The New Yorker 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 CL UB NE WS (Below) 1938 Board of Directors of the Tondo Woman’s Club, Inc. Members of the first Woman's Club ii> Ibaau, Hatangus, organized in 1938. President—Mrs. T. S. Suarez; Secretary—Miss Naty Marino; Treasurer—Miss L. Marino. HEADQUARTERS NOTES YOUR RADIES, we have “oodles” and “oodles” of news to tell you: The first thing to report here is— you have guessed it—the successful clebration of the first Plebiscite anniversary at the National Federa­ tion of Women’s Clubs headquar­ ters. More than two hundred invita­ tions were sent out, which were, to judge from the attendance, most enthusiastically accepted. Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Mrs. Laura L. Shuman and Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson were the distinguished members forming the reception line. The speakers for the day were no less well chosen— Mrs. Flora Ylagan, Miss Bessie Dwyer, Mrs. Asuncion Perez, Miss Carmen Planas—with Mrs. Concep­ cion Felix-Rodriguez playing the role of charming toastmistress. There was music too, with Miss Loreto Pamintuan, Miss Santiago and Mr. Jose Carreon taking care of the musical part of the program. As for the “eats” we have the follow­ ing ladies to thank: Mrs. Laura L. Slniman, Mrs. Mercedes de Jova. Miss Maria Orosa, Mrs. Emilia Alzate, Mrs. Josefa Llanes Escoda, Mrs. Concepcion F. ~ Judge Natividad Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Miss Rosario Ocampo, Mrs. Dominador Ambrosio, Mrs. Ru porta Lovina, Mrs. John Henning, Miss Bessie A. Dwyer, and Mrs. Pilar II. Lim. * * * The next item of interest is about the activities of our energetic exeeuFORMULA: — Boric acid, 12.6 grams; five secretary, Mrs. Josefa Llanes Potassium Bicarbonate, 5.78 grams; i o- Escoda. Before she left on a vacatassium Borate, 2.24 grams; Berberino . . . , Hydrochloride, 0.28 grams; Hydrastine tlOO 111 BflgUlO, She organized Hydrochloride, 0.001 gram; Glycerine, 3.3 . Rovs’ Clubs one in San grams; Merthiolate (.Sodium Ethyl Mei- LS0>S ^1UDS’ 0,10 111 curi Tiiiosaiicyiate) o.oi gram; sterilized Nicolas and one in Bav Boulevard. Water to 1000 Milliliters. (Made in . - . n ,, U.S.A.) She is so much a living part ot the EYES • Do your Eyes Burn after Exposure to the intense Sun ana Dusty Winds? Murine brings Quick Re­ lief. Soothes Tired Eyes and helps to keep the Eyes Clear, Clean, and Healthful. Murine is the Alkaline, Sate Eye Lotion success­ fully used for over 40 years; compounded by Dr. McFatrich, an Eye Phy sician ot many years' experience. Soothes Cleanses Refreshes rfnilRlNE^ 'oijreyES A Safe Eye Lotion tor Daily Personal Use in the Home. Easy to apply. A bottle lasts a long time. Never be without Murine. Ar til boticas. Rodriguez, Almeda-Lopez, Berberino Hydrastine tion Nationai Federation of Women’s Clubs, with her tirelessness and her enthusiasm with respect to its pro­ jects, that we cannot help but take pride in her merited successes. By the way, we must not forget to com­ mend the spirit of cooperation shown by the Women’s Clubs in San Nicolas and Bay Boulevard to the new Boys’ clubs. * * * Did you know that Councilor Carmen Planus met some of the Club Presidents at the National Fe­ deration of Women’s Clubs head­ quarters the other day to sound their opinion on the firecracker bill and to invite than to the hearing? These ladies were very responsive. Miss Dwyer’s and Mrs. Escoda’s speeches supporting Miss Planas’ bill invited, as we have seen, a great deal of favorable comment in the newspapers. * * * Our Factory Lunch Service is extending its operations. We just opened a new Service at the Helena Cigar Factory. One news item leads to another of like tenor—and so we shall speak now of our new dieticians, namely, Mrs. Gloria Abellanosa and Miss Buenaventura Guerra. * * * The Filipino Nurses Association Convention was quite well attend­ ed—and as part of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs cour­ tesy to the delegates, copies of the Woman’s Home Journal were dis­ tributed free. * * * Visitors to the National Federa­ tion of Women’s Clubs headquar­ ter would be surprised to see the big hall all agog with people prac­ tising dancing or physical culture exercises. They will be told that the School of Dancing and Body culture, under Mr. Manolo Rosado, has just moved to our place and lessons are being given daily bv this able instructor. * * * Upon the initiative of Mrs. Pura F. Kalaw, a meeting was recently called of representatives from the different women organizations in order to reorganize the General Council of Women. The response was not very encouraging—only National Federation of Women’s Clubs representatives attended. * * * Our last news is not the least important. It is about our recent' visitors to headquarters. They were Mrs. Concepcion Roxas Baylan, from Calanan, Laguna, Miss Rosa­ lia Rogayan, from San Felipe, Zambales, Miss Esta Afenir, from San Narciso, Zambales, Miss Aurea Mu­ noz, from Bayambang, Pangasinan, Miss Amelia D. San Agustin, and Miss Gregoria San Jose, new liter­ acy volunteers, for Paco and Singa­ long who will teach in then’ homes (they told us that everything is ready and we have furnished them with signboards), and Miss Paciencia Leano, a nurse in Tayabas, Tavabas. The National Fderation of Women’s Clubs house is always glad to receive such interested and interesting visitors. * * * We are proud to say that the April number of The Clubwoman G. F.W.C., include two items about the N.F.W.C. and the Manila Wom­ an’s Club. Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 27 APRIL and May are full of sig­ nificance to the National Fede­ ration of Women’s Clubs — April 30th being the Plebiscite anniver­ sary and May our twelfth birth­ day. So that echoes of one cele­ bration would still be heard when we celebrate the other. Needless to expect that these echoes will be ‘ loud and long”—and can we really blame the women? Not alter their successful year of full-pledged citi­ zenship and the praiseworthy use they have made of it. We won’t be the least bit surprised, therefore, if we still get reverberations of those anniversary activities long after they will have passed—from Lipa, for instance, or Ibaan, or Iloilo, or Manila, or Sorsogon—these places, we hear, and other regions as well, are all agog. 1938 Board of Directors and Technical Personnel of the Zam­ boanga Puericulture Center. A fitting beginning for our Club News is our unchanging note of warm welcome to the new clubs and those that have reorganized. Let us list them and their respective officers: Matnog Woman's Club, Sorso­ gon: President, Mrs. Priseila Vda. de Ruca; Vice-President, Mrs. Con­ cepcion Vda. de Diaz; Secretary. Miss Visitacion Gallion; Treasurer, Mrs. Socorro de Oliveros; Sub­ treasurer, Miss Estela Guevara; Board of Directors: Miss Glorificacion de Garais, Mrs. Tecla de Ubaldo, Mrs. Fruetosa de Garalde, Mrs. Marcia de Gonzales. Guinobatan Woman’s Club: Pres­ ident, Mrs. Carmen Ordiz Vda. de Redoblado; Vice-President, Mrs. Al­ Ho note ink Ataini Philippine Education Co. Distributors bina Frias de Jaucian; Secretary, Miss Justita Lola; Assistant-Sec­ retary, Miss Soledad Pavilando: Treasurer, Mrs. Rosario Reinendado de Navera; Assistant-treasurer, Miss Laura Rebeta; Auditor, Mrs. Cipriana Vasqucz de Baybay, Board of Directors: Mrs. Paz Pa­ pas de Oyales, Mrs. Isabel Ofrasio, Mrs. Carmen Palacio de Neric, Mi's. Antonia Rodrigucz de Opiana and Mrs. Victoria Orozco de Oliver. Pasaif Woman’s Chib, liizal : President, Miss Milagros Mijares; Vice-President, Mrs. Emilia Lim; Secretary, Miss Gregoria Malawig; Sub-Secretary, Mrs. Aurora Rosa­ les; Treasurer, Mrs. Margarita Lazatin; Sub-treasurer, Mrs. Ana Fer­ nandez; Board of Directors: Mi's. Dionisia Gutierrez, Mrs. Mary Tamhuatco, Mrs. Victoria Sande.jas, Mrs. Ruperta Lovina, Mrs. Purifi­ cacion Sopa, Mrs. Juanita Ch’aupoco and Mrs. Gracia Galvez. Lolombog- Auxiliary Woman’s Club: President, Miss Isabel Gu­ tierrez; Vice-President, Miss Felisa Mendoza; Secretary, Miss Mercedes de la Cruz; Treasurer, Aliss Perpetua Santiago, Chairwoman, Miss Maria Mendoza; Board of Direc­ tors: Miss Purificacion Mendoza, Miss Beatriz San Juan, Miss Ma­ ria Roxas, Miss Fidela de Guzman. Miss Rosa de la Cruz, Miss Maria de Guzman, Miss Virginia Garcia. Miss Rosario de Guzman and Mrs. Estanislawa Mendoza. Milaor Woman’s Club, (’amarines Sur: President, Miss Justina Subastil, Vice-President, Mrs. Paula THIS PEN CAN’T LEAK! No matter how you carry the new EVERSHARP—upside down — or in any position — IT WON’T LEAK! For when you screw on the cap a little valve automatically locks the ink in the pen barrel. Besides it holds more than twice as much ink. One stroke fills. Ink supply visible. And you TAILOR the point to fit your natural writing style. At EVERSIIARP counters everywhere Tena; Secretary, Mrs. Expectaciou Caceres; Assistant Secretary Mrs. Rosario Reyes; Treasurer, Mrs. Esperanza Ocampo; Assistant Trea­ surer, Mrs. Carmen Galiaz; Board of Directors: Miss Filomena Aliwawar, Miss Modesta Claro, Mirs. Pilar Aliwawar, Mrs. Agustina Aguilar and Mrs. Rufina Tosoc. Camaligan Woman’s Club, .('ama­ rines Snr: President, Miss Amparo Prado, Vice-President, Miss Beata Agong; Secretary, Miss Milagros Alipopo; Assistant Secretary, Miss Virginia Nicomedez; Treasurer, Miss Brigida Cambaling; Assistant Treasurer, Miss Natividad Rejo; Board of Directors: Miss Socorro Reyes, Miss Feliza Enquero, Miss Salvaeion Custodio, Miss Paz Abi­ lin, Miss Emerita Rivera, and Miss Felicisima Mariana. Pamplona Wontan's Chib, Camarines Snr: President, Mrs. Emiliana Francisco; Vice-President, Mrs. Agapita Bombase; Secretary, Mi-s. Margarita Bacheller; Assist­ ant secretary, Mrs. Francisca Sa­ lazar; Treasurer, Mrs. Emiliana Florcnto; Assistant-treasurer, Mrs. Josefa Reluvia; Board of Directors: Mrs. Melania Profcsora, Mi's. Ru­ fina Bocingot, Mrs. Victoria Redesilla, Miss Asuncion de la Rosa and Miss Soledad Marfil. Jovellar Woman’s Club. Albay: President, Mrs. Prudencia Monilla; Vice-President, Mrs. Ildefonsa Quintano; Sub-Secretary, M r s. A fra Gonzales; Treasurer, Mrs. I'amfila Orlina; Assistant Treasu­ a boratsp talsum • "Do I feel good! I've just been dusted all over with Mennen Borated Powder! No more prickly heat—no more chaf­ ing now! "Mummy says that the best is none too good for me. That’s why she uses Mennen Borated Powder. She dusts me all over with this silky soft powder every time she bathes, dresses or changes me. It keeps my skin smooth and soft—it keeps me cool and happy.” For baby's protection, insist on the non-refillable tin. BORBT5D TflLOJI’l rer, Mrs. Benedicta Orbe; Board of Directors: Mrs. Maria Clemente, Mrs. Susana Arellano, Miss Feli­ cisima Noveno, Miss Felicitas Orbe and Miss Bernarda Gonzalez. Binmanley Woman’s Club, Pangasinan: President, Mrs. Carmen F. Velasco; Vice-President, Mrs. Celestino Palma; Secretary, Mi's. Luz F. Jovellanos; Sub-Treasurer, Miss Agustina Velasco; Auditors, Miss Elena Maron, Miss Vicenta Sandoval, and Mrs. Corazon F. Bautista. Board of Directors: Mi's. Gregoria Mamaril, Mrs. Inocencia Bells, Mrs. Emmanuela Bautista, Mrs. Emmanuela Dominguez and Mrs. Andres Ferrer. Mabitac Woman’s Club, Laguna: President, Miss Encarnacion Zorilla; Vice-President, Miss Isabel Vicuna; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Morfa de Vela; Auditor, Mrs. Rafaela de Aguilar; Board of Direc­ tors: Mrs. Encarnacion Condenevo, Mi-s. Catalina Mendoza, Mrs. Julia de Luna, Mrs. Manuela de Vela, Mrs. Raymunda Gomez, Mrs. Mila­ gros Alcasabas and Mrs. Isidra Evangelista; Adviser, Miss Beatriz Alperiz. Antipolo Woman’s Club, Rizal: President, Mb's. Fidela M. Fuentes; Vice-President, Mrs. Angela S. Oli­ veros; Treasurer, Mrs. Rosario J. Masaquel; Assistant Treasurer, Miss Esperanza Masangcay; Secretary, bliss Paz Dimanlig; Assistant-Sec­ retary, Miss Purificacion Leyva; (Continued on page 40) 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 Designed by Clemente (Tito) Hidalgo, Jr. Manila, May, 1988 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 29 Left, above: This bride wears a gown of illusion pink marquisette with demure round neck, a tight basque bodice and a crinoline skirt caught with jas­ mine and bows and bands of velvet. Jasmine sprays face the tiny poke bonnet and trims her short puffed sleeves. She carries a small, old fashioned bouquet of jasmine. Right, above: The bridal gown is a mist of pale rose tulle, very wide at the bottom, and the short veil falls from a demure poke bonnet faced with orange blossoms. Note the bouquet—consisting of a few sprays of lilies of the valley. Right: Like a fairy tale princess, this bride goes to the altar in a beautifully draped gown of rose rachel chiffon, with a large clip of blue moonstones to match the tiara that holds her chiffon veil. The bouquet con­ sists of lilies of the valley. 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 COOKING How To Cook VEGETABLES NUTRITIONISTS have been tell­ ing us during the past few years to eat more vegetables because of the health-giving elements that they contain (they even point out the fact that vegetarians live longer than meat eaters), but why is it that many of us, especially the men­ folk and the children, still refuse to touch them at the table The rea­ son for this is not so much habit as the unattractive appearance ami flat taste of “gooey” that are seiwed as vegetables. There arc new ways of cooking \o COMPOUND EXTRACT OF VANILLA (Artificially Colored) Slretig Hi,combined wiHi delicacy of flavor makes tins Exfracf unsurpassed for flavoring Ice Cream .Custards, Je Hies,fesfries and all sweets. WAT50NAL FLAVORING EXTRACTS phili ppines BOTICA BOIEI vegetables that render them not only attractive but also more valuable nutritionally. We hope that you will give them a try in your kitchen and find out if your family will partake freely of vegetables prepar­ ed in these new ways. First, see that the vegetables that you buy are frosh. Crispness is synonymous with freshness, parti­ cularly in the case of leafy vegetables. If you cannot cook them im­ mediately and they wilt, immerse them in cold water, but do not soak them too long in water for soaking ALMOND BANANA L EMON OkANCE PINEAPPLE VANILLA CHERJUEZ kAZPBEkkY ZTkAWBEkkY ANIZE impairs their texture and flavor, and some of the nutritional substan­ ces dissolve and disappear. Peas may be hulled in advance and beans may be strung, but keep them cov­ ered with a damp cloth to prevent their drying out. Never remove husks from corn until the last mo­ ment before cooking. Second, prepare the vegetables in VEGETABLES Never soak any vegetables for more than a few minutes before cooking, for a more watery and less nutritious product will be the result. This applies es­ pecially to leafy vegetables. One very positive rule for boiling any vegetable is that it should be immersed into water which is al­ ready boiling vigorously. Keep the heat high until the water resumes boiling, then lower it to keep the water boiling gently throughout the cooking. The so-called strong-flavored vegetables, such as cabbage, cauliflowers, and onions, should be cooked uncovered in plenty of boiling water. Cook vegetables quickly and until they are tender —not longer. Otherwise they will become too soft or mushy, and loose their shapes as well as their colors (and much of their nutritive values, the dieticians will add). An easy way to serve leafy vegetables is to boil them, drain them very thoroughly, then pour over them a little melted butter or White Sauce or French Dress­ ing. the most attractive shapes you can think of. Slice or dice them uni­ formly. There arc gadgets in the market that cut up vegetables uni­ formly and quickly. There are knives that cut potatoes into dif­ ferent shapes. Iljowever, dieticians have found out that vegetables lose much of their nutritional values when cut into small pieces. More­ over, the larger the pieces of the vegetables (it is better to keep them whole, especially carrots and string beans), the less danger there is of over-cooking them. We have been cooking our veget­ ables in plenty of water. Tt seems that this is wrong because, again, they lose much of their nutrients in Butter-boiled vegetables: Place, dripping wet, in a saucepan, add butter and cover with lettuce leaf. Cover saucepan tightly and cook over very low fire. Result: tender, flavorsome vegetables. the water. But we do not have to worry miK-li about this because we always take the water in which they have been cooked as soup. Never over-cook vegetables. They should bo cooked until they are done. But when are they “done”? This is a question that is difficult to answer. All we can say is that vegetables should not be cooked un­ til they have lost their shape; cook them until they are tender—not a minute longer. Our practice is to cook several kinds of vegetables into one dish—eggplants, leaves, squash, which require different lengths of time. They should be put in at different times, but many housewives don’t bother to do so. Butter-Boiling This method is said to have re­ volutionized vegetable cooking in the United States (where vegetables are usually cooked “dry”). When vegtables are cooked in this way, none of their succulence and flavor as well as nutrients arc lost. Prepare vegetables as desired (preferably whole, if they are small). Use a saucepan with a tight­ ly fitting cover and place a . lump of butter or two tablespoons of salad oil in the bottom. Rinse the vegetables and place them, drip­ ping wet, in the saucepan with the butter (both unheated). Cover with lettuce or cabbage leaves, dripping wot also, tucking in these leaves around the edges and leaving no uncoverd space to prevent evapora­ tion of moisture. Cover the sauce(Continued on page 33) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 31 FAVORITES Of Hollywood Movie Stars IMOVIE stars are like us ordinary folks—'they also have their fa­ vorite dishes, which they frequently ask for when they dine out or have their cooks prepare when they eat at home. Grace Moore, the famous singer, is married to a Spaniard (did you know it?), Valentin Parrera, who directs Spanish films made in Hollywood. Her two favorite dishes are Spanish. They may he familiar to you. GRACE MOORE Langostinos Salteados a la Catalina 1 pound lobster meat 1 small onion, minced fine 1 clove garlic, also min­ ced fine V4 cup olive oil 1 teaspoon minced pars­ ley 4 teaspoons tomato sauce V2 cup white wine Salt and pepper to taste Remove meat from cooked lob­ ster shells and claws. Cook onion and garlic in the olive oil until ten­ der. Add the lobster meat and brown slightly. Add the parsley. Just before serving, add the tomato sauce and wine. Heat thoroughly. Season with salt and pepper. Serve immediately with a side dish of rice. Tocinos Del Cielo % cup sugar y2 cup water yolks of 6 eggs 2 (5-cent) bars of sweet chocolate 6 tablespoons boiling water Boil sugar and water until the syrup will form a small thread when dropped from the tip of a spoon. Remove from the fire and cool slightly. Beat the egg yolks with rotary egg-beater until thick and lemon-colored. Add the cooled sugar mixture slowly to the eggs, stirring constantly. Pour the mixture into 6 small buttered molds (or muffin cups), place the molds in a pan. surround with boiling water and simmer gently over low heat until the mixture sets. Cool." Dissolve the chocolate candy in the 6 table­ spoons of boiling water. Cool. Pour this sauce over each “toeino” before serving. The ethereal Garbo (there’s no other one), believe it or not, goes strongly for omelets—but she likes hers prepared this way: GRETA GARBO Omelet Beat 3 eggs until the yolks and the whites are mixed. Season with salt and pepper. Cook in a greased omelet pan until the under side is a delicate brown, then sprinkle over it half a cupful of grated cheese and a little chopped parsley and green pepper. Fold and finish cook­ ing by baking in a slow oven. Turn onto a platter and garnish with parsley. GEORGE BANCROFT Oyster Stew 1 cup oyster liquor, heat­ ed to boiling point 2 dozen oysters, simmer­ ed in the liquor until their edges curl 4 tablespoons butter Your Milk Problems The Answer to Forget your worries about milk. No longer need you have trouble in getting or keeping fresh milk. For with KLIM in your home you can have milk just as deliciously fresh as milk right from the cow . . . milk with all the nutritive elements so vital to proper growth and good health of your children. KLIM is pure, rich whole milk; powdered. Only the water is removed; nothing is added. Made and packed by an exclusive method, KLIM stays fresh and sweet indefinitely . . . without refrigeration. Doctors everywhere recommend KLIM for infant feeding because they know that it is absolutely dependable . . . pure, safe, and uniform. Try KLIM today. If your dealer cannot sup­ ply you, send us his name and address Sales Agents: GETZ BROS. & CO. Soriano Bldg., Manila MILK THAT IS SAFE FOR CHILDREN!" The Milk That Keeps — And Retains the Natural Flavor 6 cups milk l/2 teaspoon ground mace Salt and pepper to taste Simmer the butter, milk and sea­ sonings. Then add the ouysters and their liquor. Serve immediately. EDITH FELLOWS Fruit Salad On each plate, place a lettuce leaf and (lien arrange on it some pine­ apple sticks or slices. Mix 1 cup chopped orange, 1 cup sliced banana and V2 cup cooked salad dressing. Place a heaping tablespoonlnl of this fruit niiture on top of the pineapple. Top with 2 balls of cream cheese, softened with a little cream and with half a nut meat in the center of each. OUR &ANG Eggs In Potato Nests Mash 6 cooked, peeled me­ dium sized potatoes. Add 4 tablespoons butter, 1 tea­ spoon salt, a few grains of pepper and % cup milk. Whip until light and creamy. Divide into 6 portions and pile in mounds in buttered baking seet. Make a depres­ sion at the top of each and drop an egg into it. Brush the nests with melted but­ ter. Bake in a moderate oven until the eggs are set and the potatoes are lightly browned. LESLIE HOWARD Luncheon Salad 6 medium sized toma­ toes, peeled 2 c u p s sweetbreads, cooked and diced % cup mayonnaise (Continued <>n jiuyc ;>:>) WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 HOUSEHOLD HINTS CLEAN, MEND, PAINT Your HOUSE Now is the time for all good house­ wives to have their houses clean­ ed, mended, and painted—while the dry season still prevails and their children are at home to help them in the rejuvenating job. The .JOURNAL will never tire of preaching this to its readers: That if each and everyone of the houseteives in the land would only take the initiative and the responsibility of ■making and keeping her home and its surroundings clean and or­ derly, every town in the Philip­ pines would surely be a more healthy and lovely place to live in! As it is, when we pass through a town we see nothing but broken fences, untrimmed hedges, littered vards, houses very sadly in need of repairs or paint—not to say of pigs, chickens and other animals roaming in the streets and the wash on the".sides of public thorough­ fares. Well-kept houses with welltended gardens are few and far between. The outside appearance of your house and its premises reveal your character to strangers as plainly as if they have known you intimately for years. They tell whether you are careless and lazy or tidy and industrious. Many women are ashamed to be seen in clothes that are dirty or torn, with shoes with run-down heels and soles with holes, with hair that is not neatly combed. Yet they think nothing of having their houses look dirty, dis­ orderly and in need of repairs. It costs nothing to keep the house and its surroundings clean and at­ tractive. Only effort is required. More often than not it is the house­ wife who is to be blamed when bro­ ken windows and fences are not re­ paired immediately, when the yard is untidy, when the roof leaks, when there is no pen for the pigs, no coop for the idhickens, no good drainage under the kitchen. The husband is willing to remedy all these, but he needs constant remind­ ing, even prodding. Sometimes the children, who ought to know better than the old folks, are too lazy to do anything or too busy with social affairs to he bothered with such things as broken fences, untidy yards. Or, they have become so snooty after a year of study in Manila that they consider such work as sweeping the yard or mending the fence beneath them. We have nothing but admiration for two young men we know who in plain view of the neighbors (young ladies some of them) spend their summer vacation weeding the garden and trimming the plants, painting the iron beds (treating them with petroleum and hot water when there are bedbugs), shining all the doorknobs and oiling all the hinges in the house, cleaning the underpart of the house, climbing on stepladders to clean the outside of the house. Their fourteen-year-old sister puts the contents of all the aparadores in the house in order, sorting the clothes in storage and cleaning very thoroughly the chinaand glass-ware. No one among the neighbors thinks the boys sissies. They simply take pride in their home. Once a year take the time to go over the entire interior and ex­ terior of the house with a broom— removing cobwebs from the ceiling, and routing accumulated dust on tops of aparadores, carvings and grooves; getting rid of things that are useless; storing away those that are not needed often; having all broken pieces of furniture or parts of the house mended. If you do not have time for a flower or vegetable garden at least keep weeds from filling the grounds around the house. Perhaps there are small trees around the house. These should be pruned or trimmed once in a while and their fallen leaves gathered and burned at least every two days if not every after­ noon. If there is a hedge, this should be trimmed as often as need­ Don't Gamble] With Your Health | When you suffer with Sour Stomach, Head­ aches, Colds, Heartburn, or Muscular Aches and Pains, it is nature’s way of warning you that there is something wrong with your system that needs correcting. 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Each member may appoint her own assistants. During the CLEAN YOUR HOUSE campaign, the members go from house to house in their respective streets tactfully pointing out to each housewife spots that need to be cleaned—the yard, the underpart of the house, the kitchen, the pig pens, etc. and giving suggestions as to how these may be accomplished. At the end of the week a check up is made of every house and premises. If help is needed by some housewife, this is reported by the mem­ ber in charge of the street to the chairman of the cam­ paign who will contact some unemployed man in the com­ munity who can do the work. The next campaign is MEND YOUR HOME. Again the members go from house to house reminding housewives of odd mendin'g jobs that should be attended to—perhaps a broken window, a falling fence, a leaking roof. A handy man may be commissioned to visit these homes where re­ pairs are needed, and make arrangements with the house­ wives about payment. Before the PLANT MORE campaign is started, the members first contact those women with gardens who are willing to give away seeds and cuttings that they do not need. Then cards are printed with the names of these women. The members leave these cards with the house­ wives who desire to make flower or vegetable gardens. The housewives present these cards when they ask for seeds or cuttings. Later a Garden Club may be formed and con­ tests for the most well-tended garden conducted every six months. Prizes may be in the forms of more seeds, flower pots or flower vases. A placard bearing this legend. “First Prize-—Garden Contest” attached to a stick that can be stuck into the ground may be sufficient—and attract more attention. ed. If you cannot keep a hedge tidy-looking, better not have one at all. A smooth, frequently swept baren ground around the house is more attractive than one with a lew scraggly plants. After the house and its surround­ ings have been cleaned and tidied, how could you keep them so a.l the year round? Children will not throw waste paper and peelings ol fruits out of the windows into the yard if you will place a waste bas­ ket in each room. Empty petroleum cans, their tops removed and the cut edges smoothed down, make ex­ cellent wastebaskets. These may be painted inside and outside and pro­ vided with wooden handles if de­ sired. Require the children (and Father also) to throw all waste pa­ pers into these receptacles. Fine any one who throws garbage into the yard. Discourage spitting out of the windows into the yards; it is a very dirty habit. Place cuspi­ dors, partly filled with some dis­ infectant solution, in corners where they are not so conspicuous. If garbage is not collected in your town, do not dump it into your backyard where it will become a breeding place for flics. Have a shallow, wither large hole dug in the ground and dump the garbage there, then burn it. Dig another hole, smaller but deeper, near it, and throw the refuse from the kit­ chen into it. Cover with the ashes from the other hole. Every housewife should take some pride in the appearance of her home. It does not matter if her house is small or old; it should always look well-cared for, showing to all who see it that the people who live in it are orderly and clean in their habits. Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 33 HOW ’^o COOK VEGETABLES (Continued from page 30) pan and cook the vegtables over the lowest possible heat (over char­ coal if you use coal stove). Dur­ ing the cooking period, lift the cover enough to insert a fork for test­ ing, then replace it at once. When done, remove the leaves that have served as a cover, season and serve at once. This method is especially recom­ mended for cooking peas, carrots, spinach, cauliflower, asparagus, and others that will be served with a sauce poured over them. Now for some recipes: Spinach Remove tough parts and wash in a colander or wire strainer by run­ ning water through it until you are sure that none of the sand or dirt is left in them. Pile it into a sauce­ pan (without adding any water) and place the saucepan over low heat. Sprinkle the spinach with salt. As soon as the spinach at the bottom of the pan is wilted, lift it up to the top to cook it evenly. After eight or ten minutes, remove from the fire, drain and chop it fine. Serve with any dressing. Three Color Vegetable Platter Boil and mash potatoes, then sea­ son with butter, salt, pepper and moisten with a little milk. Place in the center of a platter. On one end arrange small boiled carrots and on other end, green string beans. Serve with meat (came asada. for instance). Cauliflower Remove the green leaves from the cauliflower and cut off any bruised or dirty spots. Place it, top downward, in a deep bowl of cold salted water and allow to soak in this for about half an hour to draw out dust and other impurities. Cook it whole or broken into flowerettes in boiling water, uncovered. .Just before cooking Is completed (from 15 to 30 minutes) salt the water. Lift out the cauliflower carefully and allow it to drain in a warm place. Pour medium white sauce over it and serve immediately. White Sauce for Vegetables 3 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons flour 1/3 teaspoon salt Few grains of pepper 1V2 cups of milk (or % cup vegetable water and % cup evaporat­ ed milk) Melt butter in saucepan, add flour mixed with the sensonings. Stir until smooth, using a wire whisk, then add the liquid gradually while stirring constantly. Stir until the sauce boils, then keep hot over hot water until time for serving. For color, add chopped green pep­ per or pimiento. FAVORITES: (Continued from page 31). 1 cup celery, finely chopped 1 tablespoon finely chop­ ped parsley Salt and pepper to taste Remove a slice from the stem end of each tomato and scoop out the center. Sprinkle the inside with salt and pepper and turn upside down to drain for a short time. Mix the sweetbreads with the rest of the ingredients and fill the to­ matoes with them. Top with a dab of mayonnaise. Serve on shredded lettuce which has been sprinkled with French dressing. RONALD COLMAN Corn Pudding 1 12-ounce can whole kernel corn or 2 cups young corn cut from the cobs 2 eggs, slightly beaten 1V2 tablespoons melted butter 1 teaspoon salt % c u p green pepper, finely chopped 2 cups scalded milk (’hop the corn and stir into it the eggs, the butter, salt and pep­ per. Add the milk gradually. Pour into a greased baking dish until firm—about -15 minutes. ARE SAYING... Attractive faces everywhere are proof of what Cuticura Talcum can do to help you look and keep looking your best. 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Add 2 tablespoons powder­ ed sugar 1/3 cup orange juice 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 slice lemon peel 1 cup red wine To serve cold, chill the hot liquid before adding the wine. JOEL McCREA Ham-Siad) Sandwich l/z cup deviled ham 1 cup cole slaw % cup Swiss cheese, min­ ced 2 tablespoons green pep­ per, chopped 2 tablespoons onion, finely chopped Butter 12 slices of bread and toast. Spread the six pieces with the deviled ham and the other six pieces with the cole slaw and other ingredients. Put together and serve with quartered tomatoes. HERE’S your gift With every purchase of a 20< tin of Cuticura Talcum, you receive FREE a trial size cak< of world-famous, mildly med icated Culticura Soap. GET YOUR GIFT NOW, as this offer is for a limited time only. WHEN BREAST-MILK RUNS LOW Often the cause is a lack of sufficient “necessary” food-elements in your diet! This food helps to give you such elements. Improves quality of milk, too 4'’ IF your breast-milk is running low, it may be because your diet is low in certain necessary food­ factors. In other words, your food may not be giving you enough of the elements needed to make a good, rich milk supply! The way many mothers are solv­ ing this problem is to add Ovaltine to their diet. Ovaltine is especially rich in factors needed to produce a healthy supply of milk. For example, it is rich in Vita­ mins, Minerals, good Proteins. It supplies Carbohydrates and Lipoids. It contains 31 separate food-factors in all! It is really a “protective” food, which helps to improve the quality of mother’s milk as well as the quantity . . . It is advised not only during the nursing period but throughout the entire preceding period of preg­ nancy. Among the Vitamins it contains is Vitamin D—the "sunshine” vita­ min-needed for the bones and teeth. Drink it regularly. It will help to fortify your strength, besides con­ tributing to an abundant supply of breast-milk. It is very easy to digest. Helps digest certain other foods, too. Get a tin at your dealer’s today. (At left) Cow’s milk forms tough, large curds in your stomach. When Ovaltine is mixed with it, it forms small, easily digested curds, as at right. Ovaltine also helps in the digestion of starches. —helps you nurse your baby— MAIL THIS COUPON 34 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 First Days At School PARENTS have often asked Miss Jane Quigg, a pri­ mary teacher, how they can be of help to their children and the teacher when the child begins school. Here are the suggestions that she has offered at various times or has felt like offering: On the first day of school take your child to the teacher. Intro­ duce yourself and the child and as quickly as possible go, without lin­ gering good-byes. Miss Quigg stresses this point because once she heard a mother say, “Goodbye, Ed­ ward, dear,” then with a tearful look at Edward, say, “Oh, I am sure he will cry. He just cannot bear to be separated from me.” When she reached the door, she turned and waved good-bye. Once outside the door — it was a glass one—she waved another tearful good-bye, which brought the desir­ ed result — for Edward burst into loud, angry wails. A child to be happy in school needs to get up early enough to dress properly, eat a good break­ fast, and attend to his toilet duties before he leaves the house. And it is very important that there be care­ ful inspection to see that the child is well. If there are symptoms of a cold, or there is a skin rash of any kind, keep him at home. It is not fair to the child, to the teach­ er and to other children to send him to school if he is not well. Most schools now require morning inspection by the teacher, so the chances are that he will be sent home anyway, but not before lie may have exposed the teacher or the other children. Yet absence from school when it is unnecessary is of course, to be avoided. Most parents are con­ scientious and take care that their children are neither tardy nor ab­ sent without good reason. When tardiness and absence do occur, try to inform the teacher of the reason as soon as possible. If the absence is prolonged, realize that important work has ben missed, and do your part in helping the child to make up the work. To make this help most effective, it is always wise to consult the teacher to find out pre­ sent-day methods of teaching. In regard to clothes, children five or six years of age should be dress­ ed as nearly like other children as possible. They have no desire to be different; they want to conform. In other ways, too, the child will wish to conform. Perhaps many of the children buy milk for midmorn­ ing lunch period. You may feel that it spoils his appetite. It can do little harm, however, to let him have it for a few days. Usually at the end of that time the novelty will have worn off, and you can persuade him to do as you wish. Parents can be of great assistance to the tea-cher and helpful to their BRINGING UP CHILDREN Learn From The Expe­ riences Of Other Mothers children by showing interest in the children’s work. Be sure to have a bulletin board where papers brought home by the child can be displayed. This is a good job for Father, if he is at all handy with tools. The bulletin board should be a simple affair made of burlap, on an easel, so that it can readily be moved from room to room. If the child is ill, he will naturally want it in his room, so that the doctor and other visitors may see his papers. To see his work displayed brings pride and satisfaction to a child, and will most certainly encourage him to improve. When the child is a little older, give him a desk in which he can keep his school papers and at which he can do his home work. But for the kindergarten and primary child, wide table and a bulletin board will do very well. It is essential, how­ ever, that he be given plenty of large-size manila paper (12 x 18 inches) and large pencils and large colored crayons, so that when he feels like working, his tools will be ready. (Miss Quigg once suggested to a mother of a child having difficulty learning to write a movable black­ board on which the child may prac­ tise) When the child begins reading at school, encourage him to read aloud for at least ten minutes each day at home. This will give him con­ Use Baby Powder Distributors: Botica Boie fidence in the class and will be a great aid to his progress. A special problem is presented by children who are very shy. If your child continues to have dif­ ficulty in getting acquainted with the teacher, why not ask the teach­ er to have lunch or dinner at your home? Make it a happy social time and see if that does not help to re­ lieve the tension. ' Of course a wise parent would never under any cir­ cumstances discuss the child’s dif­ ficulties within his hearing. Visit the school often, but do not expect the teacher to stop her class and visit with you. When yon have questions to ask, or when you wish to discuss your child, come before school or after it has been dismissed. Visit at any time, and when you are invited to a play or to any other special celebration make it a point to go. Finally, if something happens that you do not like—and mistakes are made even in the best of schools —go to the teacher. She is anxious as you are that your child shall be happy in school and do well; she will welcome a conference with her. Puppy Love THE mother of three girls has found out that the best way of dealing with even the worst case of puppy love was to assume a mild “hands off” program: Not too much objection to an un­ desirable boy friend lest he be given the allure of a martyr to mother’s cruel dislike; just a gentle substi­ tution of more desirable compan­ ions, more wholesome interests and, what is very important, faith in the girl’s own innate good taste. Cer­ tain things, however, were not to­ lerated in the family; teasing, which was considered cruel, unnecessary and only the sport of a bully, and produces the tendency to make the child sneak; boy friends not of daughter’s age group. There is more reason for this second taboo than may first appear. The boy friend in her own age group has possibly come up through grade school with her and is difficult to invest with a great deal of glamour. With the older man. the situation is more difficult. Miss Teen-age has so recently emerged from child­ hood where the adult word was law and to be obeyed without question, that the improper suggestion is more apt to be considered the right and proper thing to do. Lastly, this mother suggests, do not feel hurt and disappointed if daughter would rather go with the gang than with Mother and Father in the family car. She realizes dimly she must learn to go her own way, indepen­ dent of home and mother. She is being weaned. Refusal To Eat 1)0 you have any difficulty in making your children eat, at the right time and the right kind of food? This is the way one woman who took charge of an eight-yearold niece who had been coaxed to eat and worried over until she had an abnor­ mal idea of herself, solved the problem: Her first step was to banish all cake, candy and pickles from her diet. Next, she found out the few wholesome things that the child, liked to eat. Fortunately one of these was cheese. This woman never urged the child to eat, but she sat up nights searching for recipes that included cheese, milk and eggs, or all three. It was at lunch, when the two were alone, that the crisis came. Rather noisily, the child re­ fused to eat a thing. “Then you may have a nice glass of water,” the aunt said, in her pleasantest voice. Without any loss of time, the child ate a good lunch. After that she gradually learned to eat the foods that were set before her and in a few months gained flesh and lost much of her irritability. Her aunt felt sure at the begin­ ning that she would eat wholesome food when she got hungry, if un­ wholesome foods and between meal snacks were not allowed her. (From PARENTS MAGAZINE) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 35 BOOKS AND AUTHORS (Continued from page 23) a gallant thought, Erie Knight’s SONG ON YOUR BUGLES is a gallant story — the tale of a York­ shire boy with chivalrous blood in his veins and noble feelings in his humble heart. It is the story of a young lad going through the years, struggling against poverty and class preju­ dices, with the star of his genius (he was a painter) ever before him, spurring him to big tasks and lofty sentiments. And at the same time there is the undercurrent of an attack—the author’s tirade against the existing state of things where the poor had to fight a los­ ing battle against the problems of unemployment, starvation, wages and strikes. It is a moving tale, spiced with sprinklings of York­ shire dialect and Yorkshire humor, with an almost inevitable tragic end. Impressive and forthright, the heroism of Herrie Champion seems so natural—seems, in fact, to be the only thing one could ex­ pect of him in the circumstances surrounding all his brave deeds. The story is almost unique in the artistic blending of poetic lyricism with cruel, brutal realism—an in­ spired novel, one might call it. ♦ * * Blessed, or cursed as it some­ times turned out, with a love of animals and fair-play, Mrs. A. E. Krows found herself dealing sin­ gle-handed with the “animal situa­ tion” in a typical small town. The longer she persisted, the more com­ plicated her efforts became, till, finally, sympathetic crusaders were discovered and the community was systematically aroused to deal with the problem in the most com­ mendable fashion. The HOUNDS OF HASTINGS: The Welfare Of Animals In A Small Town is her story. On the one hand, it is a chock-full of hu­ man interest journal of Mrs. Krows’ experiences in fighting for a square deal for animals. On the other hand, it is a manual of do’s and don’t’s for any individual or group that embarks or wants to embark on a similar crusade. Both phases of the book are dramatically and practically combined to make for good reading and ready refer­ ence. In the last particular, the book is a backlog for any humane insti­ tution r.cw in operation. Witness these two resolutions: First, "We (The American Humane Associa­ tion, in convention at Mailwaukee, 1937) endorse this book and en­ courage its widespread circulation among Humane Groups. Be it fur­ ther resolved that we express our gratitude.. . .for this splendid con­ tribution to the Humane Move­ ment.” Second, “Be it resolved that the Convention of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals in annual convention (A.S.P.C'.A. and S.P.C.C. at Niagara Falls, 1937) do hereby con­ gratulate Mrs. A. E. Krows...on the publication of the book..and commend it to every Society and especially to he smaller societies en­ gaged in the promotion of the hu­ mane care and treatment of ani­ mals.” The League of Nations has not failed. The machinery of the League is as good as ever it was and we’ve got to use it. It is the will to work the machinery that has failed. If ordinary men and women like you and we don’t keep faith and the fire spreads to our own neighborhoods and our homes are burned—look into your own hearts and see whose fault it is. Katherine Courtney CHILDREN’S (Continued from page 19) garden; he had a lot of dig­ ging to do, he said, and couldn’t possibly come! “Dear, dear, dear! Every­ body seems to have so much to do!” sighed Mr. Pricks; and just then he met Mr. Brumble, the bee. But Mr. Brumble wouldn’t hear of such a thing as going for a walk. “Fancy asking me! Can’t you see how hard I’m work­ ing?” he snapped. “I’ve heaps and heaps of honey to gather before winter comes!” So Mr. Pricks went still farther. “Ill ask Mrs. Flurrie-Skurrie,” he thought. But Mrs. Flurrie-Skurrie, the ant, was rushing about in a very excited way. “I never go for walks,” she said. “I’ve too much to do!” And when Mr. Pricks ask­ ed Mr. Speckles, the frog, Mr. Speckles replied: “Oh no; it’s too sunshiny! I like a nice wet day for tak­ ing walks, thank you!” So Mr. Pricks went back home, feeling sad. And when he reached home, he felt tired. “Well,” he exclaimed, “it’s very strange — but I do de­ clare, I’ve had my walk! And, when you come to think of it, he had! So that’s that. Mothers Find Quaker Oats Wonder Food For Children I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH CHARLES. HE WON'T PLAY, ALWAYS SEEMS I SO NERVOUS AND CROSS ■ This May Be True in Your Own Home— is a marvelous food for Quaker Oats children—and for adults too. Its Vitamin B content soothes jangled nerves, regu­ lates constipation, creates sound, healthy appetite. Its minerals, proteins and car­ bohydrates build firm tissue, create rich red blood; make strong bones and muscles. It adds inches to height and pounds to weight. There’s nothing like a daily diet of Quaker Oats. And so deli­ cious too. Try it for the next 30 days. Cooks in 2 Vi minutes after water boils. YES, DOCTOR TOLD SUBSTITUTES Look for the Quaker Man Mrs. T. M. Stuart says: "I have Jed my boy regularly on Quaker Oats ever since early childhood. It’s a won£ derfood for nourish­ ing and developing strong, active chil­ dren. I recommend it to every mother." f QUAKER OATS ? US IT IS RICH IN VITAMIN B. OFFSETS NERVOUSNESS­ MAKES YOU STRONG AND HEALTHY MAYBE I CAN TELL YOU...MY JIM WAS THE SAME WAY UNTIL WE GAVE HIM QUAKER OATS OH, MRS. JONES, THANKS FOR TELLING US OF QUAKER OATS CHARLES IS A DIFFERENT BOY NOW. FULL OF LIFE AND VITALITY. NEVER SICK OR CROSS 36 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 GUIDE TO CHARM WATCH Your CARRIAGE Meaning Your Posture QOOD posture, we have found out, is intimately allied with good health, and now the practice of it is our “project” and the subject, our pet. This is why we are dis­ cussing it here on this page. Backache, headache, continued fa­ tigue, internal difficulties, are of­ ten due to bad posture. Tf not, they are certainly aggravated by it. The slumped, narrowed, cramp­ ed chest not only induces unlovely hollows at the sides of the chest and rounded shoulders, but it also decreases the efficiency of the lungs hindering the pasasge of clean, purifiying and nourishing blood through them and leaving them a ready prey to germs and disease. The spinal column is such a com­ plicated and delicately adjusted me­ chanism that the slightest deviation from the normal may cause a strain on nerves and muscles. This induces pain, chronic fatigue and nervous­ ness. Bachache is a frequent result of poor posture. When the backmuscles are weak the trunk of the bodv and its internal organs s’limp down. The pelvic basin is tipped forward and the organs drag down­ ward. Thus the weight of the mid­ dle part of the body is thrown for­ ward, increasing the strain on the muscles in this area and irritating the nerves. Backache results. The large protruding abdomen appears, and the curve of the lower hack is accentuated. Can you see now why good pos­ ture is important from the stand­ point of health? From the stand­ point of good looks or appearance, all we have to say is good posture creates an impression of youthful­ ness and can correct many of the figure faults that embarrass women. Many women are unaware of their posture. They do not know whether they have a good posture or a bad one. Here is a simple test: Stand naturally and then turn sideways before a full-length mirror and look at your silhuette. Now answer this question: Can a straight line be drawn from the top of your head to your hipbone, then to your knee and down to your ankle bone? If that line is straight, you have a Constant amply mnos- tREBin The cream tW^ns’lt’S-J III fl good posture. Posture correction and control should take place in the middle of your body, and not in the shoulder section as these admonitions im­ plied : Throw back your shoulders —Throw out your chest. Begin in the middle by getting your bones in line, your muscles in position. Then make them strong by exercise so that good posture becomes as unconscious as breathing. Here are two tricks for getting your bones in line: Stand with your back against the wall and try to make your shoulder blades, your buttocks and your spine touch th<‘ ivall. Arrange two chairs back to back with just enough space between them for you to squeeze through. Walk between them. Unconsciously you will draw in your stomach. As you do, your shoulders arc pulled back and your chest raised. Dorothy Nye, famous American physical culturist, gives this very effective exer­ cise : Put your feet six to eight inches apart, toes point­ ing straight head! See that your weight rests on the out­ side edge of each foot. Relax your knees slightly. Now place one hand on your ab­ domen, the other on the but­ tock muscles. Push down with hand on buttocks and pull in wdth hand on abdo­ men. Now let your arms fall naturally at your sides. Next grow tall by pulling up from the pelvis. Head and neck should be well back — as if the back of your neck were resting on a high collar. But do not pull chin in or down. Let the back of your neck settle on that imaginary stiff collar. Be careful that your shoulders are loose and not too high. Hold this position and count to fifty. Slump. Repeat. Slump. Repeat. Good posture can be maintained by simply pulling the stomach in, while you are walking, standing, sitting. Walking around your roomwith a book on your head is also recommended by many physical culturists. When you stand, let your two feet bear your weight, remember­ ing to always draw your stomach in. When you sit, sit with your back straight against the back of the chair, your stomach drawn in. and your feet planted on the floor. But do not be rigid as a ramrod. You can place one foot ahead of the other and your hands, palms up, one on top of the other, in your lap, but keep your back straight. When you walk, walk as if you were sniffing flower?, in the air, or, as if you were buffeting the wind—your head held high, your shoulders back, your stomach in. Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 37 Sec if somebody would not remark that you look like Diana or some other goddess. Now for some exercises: Stand with your back against the wall and try to make every vertebra touch it. Then walk away from the wall, holding the correct position, and walk around the room. Sit in a straight-backed chair with your abdomen pulled in, your back straight and your feet flat on the floor. Rise slowly from the chair, keeping the torso from the waist up perfctly straight. Keeping the correct position, walk around the room and sit down on the chair again. Repeat five times. Here is an exercise which will develop the bust and make the shoulder muscles strong: Double or close the fist of one hand and put it in the palm of the other, holding both hands shoulder high. Now using all the strength you can mus­ ter, push with the closed fist and resist with the open hand. Repeal the exercise, ten times to the left and ten times to the right. Do the exercise sitting in a chair, ten times. If you want to take your exercises lying down, here are some: Lie flat on your back (dis­ card pillowis) and wiggle about on your spine, trying to make every single verte­ bra touch the bed. Then bend your knees and bring them up close to your chest, raise your head and rock back and forth on your spine. You may find it nec­ essary to clasp your arms tightly around your knees. Repeat ten times. Now roll on your stomach. With your elbows bent and your hands flat under your chest, the palms down and the fingers pointing to each other, raise your body slowly until your elbows are straight and your arms rigid. Lower the body, bending the el­ bows slowly, until the first position is resumed. Repeat five times at first, then in­ crease to ten. This exercise will make the back, shoul­ ders and chest muscles strong. After you have acquired the cor­ rect posture you will find that your clothes hang better, your protruding abdomen, rounded shoulders and caved in chest have disappeared, and your general health improved. WOMEN ABROAD (Continued from page 22) Berenice Abbot set about her unique task of making a detached and clear sighted document of the changing face of New York. At first ALL YOU HAVE LOVED By ELAINE V. EMANS All you have loved indubitably lies Warm in the heart, or sparkles in the eyes: Bird song at dawns intoxicate with May, Organs at dusk, slim birches, and the way A rabbit patterns first snow; color of ocean; Rain on the roof at midnight, and the motion Of dancers swaying with unstudied grace; Old volumes, joy transfiguring a face, Slow talk in candlelight, and lark spur’s blue. All you have loved is now forever you. she was confused by the ci­ ty’s frantic pace, its appa­ rent indifference, and even hostility; she was handicap­ ped by the shortness of her funds. In 1935 the Museum of the City of New York re­ cognized her merits and came to her rescue. Since then she has prowled indefatigably over the city’s pavements, photographing everything, its old markets, its little shops, its vanishing elevated stations, its Victo­ Other wives envied her romance—a lasting honeymoon courtship . . . told their husbands, often, how nice he was to her. She had an understanding of the personal feminine daintiness that all husbands admire and expect. Strangely enough, a woman is frequently unaware herself of neglect of proper feminine hygiene. Yet, if the truth were known, many a case of "incompatibility” can be traced to this source. For over 50 years discriminating women have found "Lysol” indispensable in their personal hygiene. "Lysol” is non-caustic in proper solution —active even in the presence of organic matter—economical to use—of a cleanly odor which promptly vanishes after use—and of lasting full strength. Remember its name of two syllables: Ly-soL zJ~£ex Happiness Envied rian mansions, its water front ships, and terraced towers. She often waits for hours till the' light is right or distracting action has stopped. Berenice Abbot says that she does not care whether her pictures are called art or not. What she does care is “using the camera me­ dium as honestly as possible to make for posterity a de­ tailed document of the glory of American civilization.” THUMB-INDEXER THIS brief story, folks, is on the romance of thumb-indexing. (Thumb-indexing, in ease you are not familiar with the term, may be observed on any dictionary: the scooped-out places, marked with letters, that enable you to turn rea­ dily to any section you want.) The widow of the inventor of thumb-in­ dexing, Mrs. Dimies Trvphena Stocking Denison, carries on the fa­ mily business. Mr. Denison had a patent on the process, but it ex­ pired years ago. A number of local bookbinders are now equipped to do thumb-indexing on the side, but Mrs. Denison is still the only specialist. Also she takes in work at the cheapest rates. She handles large orders, too, however; last year her indexers did three hun­ dred thousand volumes, which is about $50,000 worth of business. Mrs. Denison was eighty-five her last birthday, and has been in the thumb-indexing business for quite a few years. The beginning “of it all” is rather accidental. Mr. Denison who was a city attorney of Bay City often had occasion to consult the town charter, a large, annoying volume. One dav, sud­ denly inspired, he took his pen­ knife and notched the edge of the book so that it could be opened al the chapter headings. This worked so well that lie tried it on his La­ tin dictionary adding another im­ provement by marking in each of the cut-out places the proper let­ ter of the alphabet. Carried awav by his idea, he then indexed his entire reference librarv. Next he took out a patent, moved to New York, and set up in business as a thumb-indexer, continuing his le­ gal practice on the side. He had a monopoly for seventeen years; all the thumb-indexing in the Unit­ ed States was done by his com­ pany or by people to whom he granted the right. The patent ex­ pired in 1894, after which the Donisons experienced reverses: busi­ ness fell away and Mr. Denison became ill. It was then that his wife stepped into the breach, and when Mr. Denison died, seventeen years later, she continued the busi­ ness in her own name. Mrs. Denison has a staff of fif­ teen working for her The first process in thumb-indexing is to in­ dicate the pages on which the in­ dex work are to be placed. Next the book goes to the cutter who scoops out the holes, using a ra­ zor-sharp hand puch; it takes the cutter about a minute to do an average volume. The next step is performed by the dauber, who paints the scoopedout places. Then the hook is passed to a man who pastes in the letters of “pasters”. Finally, a checker inspects the job. Mrs. Denison’s work is confined these days to general overseeing— except during emergencies. Such an event, for example, as the ap­ pearance of a batch of HebrewEnglish dictionaries which had to be thumb-indexed backward! 38 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 HEALTH PAGE INSECTS vs. HEALTH How To Get Rid Of Insects In Your House Many housewives take the pre­ sence of insects (bedbugs, fleas, ants, cockroaches, and many other bugs) in their homes for granted, considering them as one of the ne­ cessary evils that have to be suf­ fered in this world, and so do no­ thing to exterminate them, or at least try to reduce their number. It is now known that these insects not only are annoying pests but are likely to carry germs of seiious di­ seases and may be a potential dan­ ger of real proportions at times. While not all insects are injurious (some are beneficial), there are some 300 varieties that are un­ friendly or even dangerous to man. We have to fight them—for our personal comfort and safety and to protect our food supply. Insects require only a favorable temperature, moisture and food to reproduce with great rapidity. And they have an uncanny ability of finding means of entering even the tightest of homes. The housewife, therefore, must always be on guard if she wants her home relatively clear of insects. The house must be kept scrupu­ lously clean. Since temperature and moisture cannot be controlled, the third condition—food supply—that enable these pests to live must be covered so that they cannot get at them. This is especially true when dealing with cockroaches and ants. The garbage can must be covered and foods should be kept in tight containers. But with some insects, these precautions are even useless, for they can live without food for long stretches of time. In order to deal effectively with insects, their life histories and the methods of destroying them should be studied by the housewife. Bedbugs When the life history of the bed­ bug is studied it can readily be seen how they will reach even the homes of the most fastidious and cannot always be excluded from hospitals. These insects are primarily para­ sites of man, although they will feed on other warm blooded animals if necessary to maintain life. Mice, chickens, or birds may at times sup­ port them. They will survive for months without food and can bide in exceedingly small spaces on ac­ count of their flattened bodies. They are found in all parts of the world, and wherever there are poor sanitary conditions these bugs will abound. They are great travelers and readily pass from person to person in crowds, since they fre­ quently inhabit clothing. Their spread is almost entirely by human agencies. The bite of the bedbug is inflict­ ed by a remarkable apparatus. He does not bite but saws his way through. The bug injects a secre­ tion into the wound that prevents the blood from clotting; then he sucks rapidly. This injected sub­ stance is extremely irritating to some person and cause serious dis­ turbances at times. Others do not react to it at all. There is notv little doubt that bedbugs transmit disease, and tularemia is one that has been traced to them. Undoubtedly they also transmit bubonic plague as well as several other serious diseases through excreta deposited on the skin and the scratching in of the infective material, due to irritations from their bites. Such infective ma­ terial has been found in the dejecta of bedbugs, and so they become a serious menace to health as well as comfort. The control of bedbugs, is comparatively easy, but once eliminated they do not stay eliminated, and constant ef­ fort and Watchfulness are necessary. When buildings are infested, fumigation with sulfur is by far the most 'Sbmohn* A COUCH REMEDY FOR BABIES and CHILDREN ,C$ec^ effectively all developments of coughs, colds and catarrh. FAMILY SIZE ••• 6Of INDIVIDUAL SIZE** ’5# MADt IN THE PHILIPPINES BY BOTICA BO1E practical way of destroying these bugs, as it also destroys eggs and reaches all hiding places. To prevent lodg­ ment, all walls and floors and ceilings should be free from cracks as possible. Wooden beds should be dis­ carded and metal ones sub­ stituted. Gasoline and kero­ sene are also efficient. In­ fested clothing should be sterilized by heat. Cockroaches Cockroaches are to be found in nearly all parts of the world crawl­ ing over man’s food and thus be­ coming a serious menace to health through the possibility of conta­ minating food with various disease germs. They eat large quantities of food but destroy more by conta­ minations. Practically everything is food to them, and while they pre­ fer that which is found around the kitchens, nevertheless the clothes basket, library or closet will fur­ nish food, as they eat cloth, book bindings and leather when other food is-not available. Cockroaches may be read­ ily destroyed by a chemical called sodium fluoride. This is a cheap white powder, harmless to man and animals but deadly to insects both by contact and by ingestion. Hence if this powder is keot around places where cock­ roaches are likely to be, it will largely destroy them. Fumigation with sulfur or one of the poison gases will completely eliminate them in large buildings or on ship­ board, but this measure must be used only under expert supervision. To learn how successful one has been in the effort to destroy these insects one should visit a kitchen at night a considerable time after all work has ceased and suddenly turn on strong lights. Often where no cockroaches at all have been seen by day, dozens will be seen scurry­ ing to shelter under sudden and un­ expected light. As long as any tiny ones are about, one may be certain that the premises are still consider­ ably infested. It requires much per­ sistence to be rid of these tronblesomo pests. Lice Like bedbugs, they are present almost everywhere, and any lower­ ing of personal or household clean­ liness is almost certain to result in infestation with them. Household pets frequently become infested with lice and transmit them to the fam­ ilyInce are exceedingly dangerous insects as they are known to give a number of the most serious diseases to man. Typhus fever (not ty­ phoid) often called ship, camp or poison fever, is directly transmitted by lice. It was first thought that tularemia was largely limited to rabbits, but it is now known that it is carried by lice. Several tropical diseases are also known to be trans­ mitted by lice. The destruction of lice de­ pends largely on personal hygiene. In the hairy scalp they may be destroyed by thorough shampoo of equal parts of kerosene and vine­ gar. If the hair is long, this solution may be left on for half an hour, the head being wrapped in a towel. The vinegar dissolves the mate­ rial attaching the eggs to the hair, and the kerosene kills both eggs and lice. Fleas How we detest fleas, those elu­ sive jumpci’s that are so prevalent on our pet dogs and cats and arc so prone to visit us! It is now known that fleas are capable of transmitting bubonic plague, tula­ remia and perhaps other serious di­ seases. Fleas lay eggs on their hosts and each female lays about 500 eggs. But the eggs are not fastened on, as in the case of lice, and they may drop off anywhere. They are- espe­ cially numerous around places where animals sleep. There they hatch out in a few days, and the larvae or worms quickly hide themselves in dust, bedding and other places. After a few days the worms spin cocoons which are hard to find as they become dust covered and close­ ly resemble the material around them. Flea bits are irritating and annoying, and in some perManila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 39 The Philippine Women’s University (THE PHILIPPINE WOMEN’S COLLEGE) TAFT AVENUE, MANILA COURSES OFFERED PRE-SCHOOL EDUCATION AND ELEMENTARY Nursery Kindergarten Primary Intermediate SECONDARY COURSES GRADUATE COURSES Master of Science Master of Arts General High School Secondary Home Economics Combined Secondary General and Home Economics Course Secondary Business and Secretarial Training NORMAL, COLLEGIATE, AND PROFESSIONAL COURSES Associate in Art6 Three-year Combined General and Home Music Teacher’s Diploma Pre-Education Economics Course Bachelor of Music Pre-Law Bachelor of Arts Dramatics Pre-Medieine Bachelor of Journalism Library Science Associate in Chemistry Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Health Education Associate in Commercial Science Bachelor of Science in Education Social Welfare Work Two-year Normal Kindergarten Course Bachelor of Science in Home Economics Philippine Linguistics Two-year General Normal Course Two-year Normal course in Home Economics Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy' Physical Education Culinary Art Dressmaking Machine Embroidery Applied Painting Fine Arts SPECIAL YEARLY COURSES Home Arts Stenotypv Secretarial Training SPECIAL SEMESTRAL COURSES Foreign Languages Classical Dancing Club Advising Spanish and Mexican Dancing Art Appreciation Swimming Principles of Interior Decoration Courses in Public Speaking and Debate sons they become quite dis­ abling, usually because the itching is intense and inter­ feres with proper rest. Un­ der ordinary conditions, flea control is purely a personal matter. If the house is bad­ ly infested, fumigation is the most certain way of destroy­ ing them. If there seems to be a constant entrance of a few, they may be captured by fly paper placed around the walls and under beds. Other kinds of insects, especially those that infect wardrobes (apara­ dores) and closets, may be kept out by the use of naphthaline or moth balls. Mosquitoes and flies may be lessened in number by destroying their breeding places. THREE TOGETHER (Continued from page 20) of balance, trying to escape her me­ mories. Now, Dick’s marriage might open other vistas to them. She had only to write something, in deepest confidence, to start a storm. She could let it all out in seeming to exonerate him, in in­ sisting that there had been nothing really wrong.... She was astonish­ ed at the vividness of the tempta­ tion. Superior behavior, she perceived, was not something you achieved in one leap; you had to keep up the struggle for it. But she would not fail the standard she had set; she would never destroy in herself the feeling of her own fineness. For that feeling, so deep, so secret, so intense, she had something of the exaltation of a nun. The driver stopped before the great doors of Notre Dame, and she got out there, but she did not go in. She walked about to the little park at the other end, where work­ ing people were sitting on benches, and a few children in black sateen were bouncing balls. Later, she got up and began to walk again.... She passed a cafe, with tables on the sidewalk and a big man with a napkin tucked in his neck, and she remembered that she had had no tea and her luncheon had been slight; she had no engagement for dinner, and there was no place she seemed to wish to go so she moved on aimlessly and turned into a little unknown restaurant and sat down at the window. SHE came out into a darkening street, where the lamps did little against the shadows; and a man, with the accessories of smart dress, a silk hat, a white boutonniere and a cane, swerved toward her, drawn by her slim figure and chic air. When he saw her face, his expres­ sion altered; he raised his hat, ironically, and went on. A fitting salute. Oh, to be young again! Now she was eager to be back at the hotel, writing to Dick. She wrote till midnight. She put pages aside and began others; in the end FOR OCEAN PEARL BUTTONS Made in Manila COME TO OUR STORE AT 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. she sent brief and formal good wishes, and put the other pages carefully away to be reread at some future day when she needed to re­ mind herself that once she had been quick with feeling. She realized now the finality that the actual divorce had failed to make her understand. Nothing, now, could be undone.... But sleep was slow to come; she lay hearing the noises of the street beneath her windows, the sound of cars, the bleat of French horns. She found Anne Trowdridge unaccountably in her mind, and her old resentment at Anne’s attractiveness; some wom­ en had all the luck. But sometimes even the lovely were unlucky. Men made fools of themselves, left young and charm­ ing wives. But the young and charming had other chances. They had feeling still to give. Eve was spent. She tried not to think of Johnny, of Dick and herself, Dick and Kay Hanvv—Kay Cartie she was now. Katharine Hanvv Cartie.... Mrs. Richard Cartie. .. . Eve wanted no pictures in her mind. She desired only emptiness and sleep. But sleep brought to her a dream, a dream of that man on the side­ walk, veering toward her, turning away with his gesture of mocking disilusionment. And in her dream the face under that lifted hat was suddenly the face of Dick, grinning at her, his teeth white in his brown face. JT was a narrow little house on a side-street off the Avenue, a lit­ tle house that by dint of white paint and jade-green trim and window­ boxes achieved a difference from the other little houses, which were boarding-houses and rundown homes. The white paint and the jade trim and the window-boxes all appeared after the Richard Carties had moved into it; the Carties moved in because the property be­ longed to Dick and was tenantless, and it was more sensible to occupy it than to pay rent elsewhere. Money was a factor in the life of the Richard Carties. Investments, said Dick, were going to hell in a wheel-barrow; he had not been caught with Krueger, but he had with Utilities; and real­ estate was at such a low level as to income and at such a high cost as to taxes and maintenance, that it took money to support the invest­ ments formerly so productive. Eve’s alimony had to be paid out of his income, and the insurance kept in her name to protect her in case he died before the investments came back; there had to be new in­ surance taken out for Kay; and though his income was substantial, it couldn’t support a second family in affluence, not with a slice taken out of it to be put aside for a rainy day. Dick hadn’t expected to have to do that again, but this de­ pression made it imperative. Kav refused to admit to herself that the little house was cramped; (Continued on page 44) 40 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 CLUB NEWS. . . (Contimted [mm page 27) Auditor, Miss Juliana Francisco Torres; Adviser, Miss Eusebia Si­ mon. Toledo Woman's Chib, Cebu: President, Mrs. Natividad Noel-C'avada; Vice-President, Mrs. Consolacion M. Evangelista; Secretary, Miss Adelina Apurado; Treasurer, Mrs. Rosario Zates-Bolarde; Board of Directors: Mi’s. Felicidad T. Ahellana, Mrs. Anita C. Trocio, Mrs. Irenea L. Santa Ana, Mrs. Rufina N. Pagdalian, Mrs. Nativi­ dad Go. Trujillo, Mrs. Maxima B. Monte de Ramos. Mrs. Josefa Laurel Vda. de Benito, Miss Trini­ dad Polovapoy, Miss Cecilia Trocio, Miss Remedios Evangelista, Mayor Potenciano V. Lebuinfaeil and Rev. F. Einrcniano Manzo. Rosales Woman’s Club, Pangasinan: President, Mrs.' Soledad Pine; Vice-President, Mrs. Petra A. Callanta; Secretary, Mrs. Teodora Serafica; Sub-Secretary, Miss Luz Vallejos; Treasurer. Miss Josefa C. Sasano; Sub-Treasurer, Miss Tomasa P. Olivar. Board of Directors ; Mrs. Maria B. Damasco, Mrs. Constancia V. Quiton. Mrs. Amparo Duinlao, Mrs. Bonifaeia Sasano. Mrs. Severina C. Castillo, Mi’s. Ro­ sario Villas, Mrs. Encarnacion Par­ do, Mrs. Felisa Macuno; Legal Ad­ viser, Mrs. Julia Gonzales. The Noveleta Woman’s Club, Ca­ vite: President, Mi’s. ApoIonia A. Luna; Vice-President, Mrs. Dalisav A. Tejada; Secretary, Miss Zoe Alberto; Sub-Secretary, Mrs. Remedios V. Bunda; Treasurer, Mrs. Josefa A. Vallido; Sub-Treasurer, Mrs. Gregoria C. Yap. Board of Directors: Mrs. Aouilina A. Alva rez, Mrs. Eulogia D. Medina, Mrs. Anselma B. Santos and Mrs. Pacieneia M. Villena. Bida Woman's Club, Camarincs Snr: President, Mrs. Martina Par­ dales; Vice-President. Mrs. Melecia Regola; Secretary, Miss Loreto Re­ lative; Sub-Secretary. Miss Rosario INSURANCE FIRE—MARINE AUTOMOBILE—ACCIDENT—PLATE GLASS WORKMAN’S COMPENSATION Atlas Assurance Company, The Employer's Liability Limited Assurance Corporation, Ltd. Continental Insurance Co. Orient Insurance Company Insurance Company of North America E. E. ELSER, INC. GENERAL AGENTS Kneedler Bldg. No. 400 Telephone 2-24-28 BEAR ME NO GRUDGE By Herminio S. Ramires Bear me no grudge if I have taunted you To fits of hatred, jealousy, or ire— My taunts are but thrown fuel to the fire Of love that leaps in joy between us two Bear me no grudge if now and then I seem To be in silence quite remote and cold— My quietness is but a cloak; I hold You closely all the while within a dream For love is ever thus; unless we make It flame forever high it will but burn To glowing embers, then to ashes turn Before we know it. Let us therefore take Wise measures that our love be ever bright As this day's sun. as all the stars of night ! Bagamasbad; Treasurer, Miss Fredisvinda P a p i e a ; Sub-Treasurer, Mrs. Benigna Delvo. Board of Di­ rectors: Mjss Teofila Losa, Mrs. Sofia Registrado, Mrs. Engracia Parro, All’s. Maria Leynes, and Mrs. Estela Bustamente. Ja-ro Woman’s Club, Leyte: Pres­ ident, Mrs. Felisa A. Miralles; VicePresident. Mrs. Zoilo Trota; Secret­ ary, Mrs. Pedro Gilang; Treasurer, Mrs. Ariston Villamor. Placer Woman’s Club, Surigao: President, Mrs. Felisa Tan Cuna; Secretary, Miss J e s u s a Lesaca; Treasurer, Mi’s. Maxima C. Cabacungan. Sta. Ignacia "IPomau’s Club, Tarlac: President, Mrs. Ceferina A. Abetuer; Vice-President, Mrs. Mrixima B. Fajardo; Secretary, Mrs. Jovita L. Gaea; Treasurer, Mrs. Maria L. Alviar. Piat TT'omau’s Club. Cagayan: President, Mrs. Alice H. Bona; Vice-President, Mrs. Josefa Malana; Secretary, Miss R.osa Aquino; Treasurer, Miss Maria de Saza. Board of Directors:: Mi’s. Espe­ ranza G. Hawkins, Mrs. Rafaela Durian, Mrs. Lutgaria Casibang, Mrs. Felisa Taguba and Mrs. Dorotea Cu. The Bacacay Woman’s Club’s of­ ficers (Albay) are the following: President, Miss Josefina LI a net a ; Vice-President, Miss Estela Estcnes; Secretary, Miss Socorro Bar­ coma ; Treasurer, Miss Remedios Bonzagales; Board of Directors: Tone, Miss Amparo Lovenko Miss Miss Raymunda Bibal, Miss Prez Avelina Borja, Miss Cristina Borromeda and Miss Adela Villar. The Sevilla Woman’s Club, Bohol: President, Mi’s. Constancia P. Meseona; Secretary-Treasurer, Miss Petra Digal. Magallanes, Sorsogon Wom­ an’s Club: President, Mrs. Maxima Tee; Vice-President, Mrs. Valeriana Balboa; Secretary, Mi’s. Paeiencia Espejo. Other clubs that have also af­ filiated themselves recently to the National Federation of Women’s Clubs are: the Compostela Wom­ an’s Club, Cebu, organized through Mrs. Matilde Evangelista, our Na­ tional Federation of Women’s Clubs’ field worker there; the Maigao Woman’s Club, Iloilo, whose President is Mi’s. Jesusa N. de Haro; the Abulug Woman’s Club, Cagayan, which elected Mrs. Ama­ lia P. Maguddatu for its president; the Pintuyan Woman’s Club, Leyte. which was organized under the ini­ tiative of Miss Paz Braselino, In­ sular Nurse, and the Santa Magda­ lena Woman’s Club, Sorsogon, which calls itself “Women’s LTnion of Sta. Magdalena.” A little discouraging is the news from some barrios in Cebu. In Minglanilla, the members would not attend meetings. In Consolation, there is no Woman’s Club, although there is a Puericulture Center. That is better than in Barili or in Dumanjug, which have neither organ­ izations. * .* * Now, a word about the Junior Women and their activities. First we must greet the new officers of the Alcala Junior Women’s Club, Pangasinan. These officers are: President, Miss Josefina C. Fronda, Vice-President Miss Dolores Duque; Secretary Miss Milagros Bacolon; Sub-Secretary, Miss Antonia Calisterio; Treasurer, Miss Laureta Tadeo. Board of Directors: Miss Con­ cepcion R. Bugarin, Miss Remedios Fronda and Miss Purifieacion Lo­ ria. Then we must not fail to congra­ tulate the Pasay Junior Woman’s Club for their colorful “Oriental Night” last April 2nd, at the Muni­ cipal Auditorium. The Celebration was jointly participated in by the Pasay Junior Woman’s Club and the young men’s Knights’ Club. Speaking of celebrations reminds us of the elegant coronation Bali which the Santa Cruz Ladies’ Civic Club of Laguna gave last April 3rd at the Provincial Tennis Courts. We are extending belated but hearty congratulations to the sponsors of the successful party. * * * We wish we did not have to cloud our bright atmos­ phere of breezy news with this little note of timely ad­ vice. The National Federa- - tion of Women’s Club likes to think of itself as the mo­ ther organization for the different women’s clubs in the Philippines. As such, it gives this little reminder: There should be as much cooperation as is possible among the Senior Clubs and the Junior Clubs. The old adage, trite and worn-out as it is, still gives a wholesome lesson: in Union there is Strength. So away with pet­ ty wranglings. Our work needs concerted action— always. * * * Time and again, the National Federation of Women’s Club has to turn a deaf ear, unwillingly, to the appeals of oui- Women’s Clubs to help them establish a Puericulture Center in their different regions. It is with a heavy heart that it has to do this—we quote here part of Manila,, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 41 a letter of Mrs. Pilar H. Lim, our distinguished President, to Dingras, Ilocos Norte: “More than a year ago the Bureau of Public Welfare made us understand that whatever subsidy we receive from them should be used only for the nursery, lite­ racy, and other club projects, but not for the Centers, which should be directly aided by the govern­ ment.” As we said, the National Federation of Women’s Clubs is sorry; it is doing its level best, but it can’t do everything. * * * More and more interest is being shown all around to women’s doings. We cannot take this encouragement for granted; therefore, we always take time to acknowledge it and ex­ press our gratitude. To Mr. Tomas C. Pales, Municipal Secretary of Jovellar, Albay, go our heartfelt thanks for his cooeration with the organized Woman’s Club in his town, to Mayor C. Alfelor, for his interest in the Woman’s Club pro­ jects to Mr. Q. Ormochuelos, Mu­ nicipal Secretary of Plaridel, Misamis Occidental, for wanting to help organize a Woman’s Club, to Mr. Enrique Monscrrat, General Man. ager of the Monserrat Company for the prompt attention which he gave to the National Federation of Wom­ en’s Clubs’ request for a pass for Miss Victorina Picar, Literacy Su­ pervisor in Manila, to Mr. Juan del Galleqo, Member of the Provincial Board of Naga, Camarines Sur, for the aid he gave Miss Bonagua, our field worker in obtaining a pass in the Alatco, and lastly, Mayor Juan Posadas and Judge John W. Hausserman, for their generous donation of a Coo’erator for the office of the National Federation of Wom­ en’s Clubs. To one and all, our sincere “thank you.” * * * A few strav news items of inter­ est mav not be amiss at this junc­ ture,—to sort of catch our breath, you might say, before we go to our club projects and the progress we are making in them. The National Federation of Wom­ en’s Clubs received a very nice let­ ter from Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra, thanking the Federation in Mrs. Quezon’s name for “those lovely flowers while she was sick.” Thanks, also, for the gracious acknowledg­ ment. Mrs. de Veyra. Let us all congratulate Municipal Councilor Fortunato, S. de Atega of Butuan. Agusan, for her brave stand opposing the establishment of a dancing hall in her town. She won her cause and we are proud of her. While we are on the subject of the activities of our councilors, we would also like to commend the in­ terest that Dr. Sixta Guinto, Muni­ cipal Councilor of Masantol, Pampanga, is taking in the welfare of her communitv. We are sure that with her efficient leadership, a Woman’s Club in her town will not only be successfully organized, but will soon enter into the different club projects and campaigns. ♦ * * FROM LOVE. . . (Continued fro mpage 7) write those down! But he couldn’t. Alone in his room after those love­ ly moments he would sit down at his table his pen poised over the white sheet of paper, cudgelling his brain for those lovely things and feelings which she stirred within him when in her presence. He could not write a line. Heaven­ ly was the state of spirit wrapped about him. He felt winged and his mind was full of loveliness and truth and meaning, whirling like a confused mass of splendor that transcends the functions of human intelligence. A spiritual state which numbed his brain and bewitched his sensations. When he dropped his head into his hands more in a gesture of ecstacy than helpless­ ness, in his mind’s eye ho would see her clearly in a flowering of loveliness and breathless wonder. When they started taking those walks at the boulevard at sunset I had to do my loafing alone. In the morning Rico would tell me about the lovely hours he and Ali­ cia had sitting on the rocks watch­ ing the sunset. About the silences that walked with them when they held hands together under the trees. About the wind in her hair at twilight and the liquidness of her eyes in the dark of evening. He would talk about their dreams and their plans and his voice grew husky and soft evervtime lm men­ tioned her name, as though it were a prayer from his lips. I knew then how Alicia meant to him. He only lived for her, his hours standing atiptoe because he knew she was eager and alive and always wanting to be near him, to hear his voice and the words that fell from his mouth like a litany of endearments. It was the real thing for him. This love he felt like wine in his blood for Alicia was the only definition of love. This feeling the end of which only meant death. This fee' ing the fulness and growth cf which meant the quintessence of life and its meaning. Ali the beau­ ty around him, the loveliness he found on leaf and flower, in a line of poetry or in a caress of music and the swoop of a bird, all these were now meant to serve as a back­ ground to the marvelous opening of the flower of his love. The ra­ vishingness of sunrise °.nd sunset, the quiet prayerful calm of even­ ing powdered with stars, the mur­ mur of spring water, the lisping of leaves, these were instrumental contributions to the great holy motif of song eternally unfolding in his heart. Such was his love for Alicia. One night she was stricken with a case of acute appendicitis. Two hours after she arrived at the hospital she was wheeled into the operating room. All the time that surgeon’s scalpel was cutting into her white (Continued on page 50) ELECTROLUX The Servel GAS Refrigerator All the cold things you want to eat and drink; plenty of ice cubes for the table; milk for the children always fresh and wholesome; meats, fish, vegetables, fruit in splendid condition.... these are some of the comforts and safety to be had with the dependable ELECTRO­ LUX. Why not come in today and arrange to have an Elec­ trolux installed? We have the size to fit your family needs. MANILA GAS CORPORATION 42 WOMAN’S HOME JOUxlNAL Manila, May, 1938 Today, women th- world over have dis­ covered that greater possibilities of love­ liness arc open to them by using their face powder with skill so that subtler cosmetic effects are obtained without taking hours to make up. 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TRANQUILITY (Continued from page 18) Dried the children’ tears... 14 times Tied their shoes . . 16 times Served drinks of water. . 22 times Toy ballons purchased.. 3 per child Average life of ballon. . 12 seconds Told children not to cross the street . . 34 times Number of times children crossed the street. .34 Number of Saturdays Fa­ ther does this again..0 He obtained from this ex­ perience a new respect for his wife, who had been doing this every afternoon without mentioning it. Just as it is a painful sight to see an orator wildly shout­ ing and gesticulating in front of an audience when he is evidently the only per­ son in the room who is ex­ cited, so anyone in a state of peevish irritation or nervous worry makes a pitiable spect­ acle. One reason why nerve spe­ cialists are usually so calm themselves is because they are constantly in the presence of persons who are excited or worried or restless or afraid. There are perhaps no per­ sons whom we admire more than men and women who, no matter how active their lives may be, seen somehow to posses an inner tranquil­ lity. We often see lakes fill­ ed by streams running into lives may be, seem somehow lakes at a high level with no visible supply. They are fed by secret springs. Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 44 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 THREE TOGETHER (Continued from page 39) she said it was quaint, and that the long narrow rooms had character, and their primness suited the old mahogany that Dick had produced from storage. It had come from his mother’s home in the East, and he liked seeing it out again—he kept from Kay his awareness that a piece or two of Eve’s Southern inheri­ tance had crept in, for he knew that women were abnormally sensitive about associations. Kay had declin­ ed, positively, to use any of the furniture from the apartment, which had gone into storage when he gave up that home and went to the club. He sold that to the warehouse for a song. Kay knew that Eve and Dick had begun their married life with the mahogany, but this did not trouble her as much as using the later pieces of Eve’s own selection would have. Those early memories were seventeen years old. And if she thought, sometimes, that the bed where she lay with her husband was where he had first lain with Eve, she gave no sign; an unspar­ in? irony reminded her that it would be silly to reject the bed when she took the man. After a little time it would seem always to have been her own bed. Ada had not been very generous in the matter of furnishings. Kay had taken her own bedroom set for the new guest-room, Chinese lacquer with gay designs in rose and gold: and she had taken furniture for a maid’s room—there were plenty of empty maids’ rooms in the old Hanvv house. Ada suggested nothing more, and finally Kay said, bluntly, indicat­ ing some silver and china: “I sup­ pose these things were personal pro­ perty—I have my share in them?” And her sister, flushing resentfully, answered: “They are all part of the house, of course. If you want anything specially—” Kay had been too proud then— mistakenly, she thought afterward —to force a division. However, she did take her piano. It was queer, she thought, how Ada could make her feel meanspirited in taking what was really her own. But Ada thought of things as part of the completeness of the house. She said, “You may want to come back her after William and I are gone,” as if that left Kay innumerable years in which to enjoy them. ... It was over such things as these that families became divid­ ed Kay saw. So Kay used Dick’s china and silver and linen; after all, he had bought these, she reminded herself, and they were unobstrusive, not as individual as Empire furnishings and Aubusson rugs. She bought her own draperies in warm tones of rose and amber instead of using the lovely pale brocades from the apart­ ment; she was profoundly thank­ ful for that, when Mrs. Maitland called. Mrs. Maitland was among the THIS IS THE TRAGEDY By HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER QOD pity eyes that have not seen the dawn, Twilight, or shadow, or a wind-blown tree, But pity more the eyes that look upon All loveliness, and yet can never see; God pity ears that have not caught the notes Of wind or wave, of violin or bird, But pity more that, daily, music floats To ears that hear and yet have never heard. QOD pity hearts that have not known the gift Of love requited, comfort and caress, But, O God, pity more the hearts that drift From love’s high moment to forgetfulness. This is the tragedy of common sense: To dim all wonder by indifference. few of Cartie’s friends who sent a present; and in those few Kay, knowing the office connections, could often trace a practical reason. She hadn’t expected gifts, certainly not for the mere announcement of a second marriage; but she had ex­ pected more callers. She wondered, a hundred times, if it wouldn’t have been better to have asked his friends to a small reception after the ceremony and let them make their decisions then, instead of undergoing the suspense of waiting to be called upon. She could hear people asking each other, TESORO JEREZ-QUINA LEGITIMO Stop worrying... This health restoring tonic is indispensable for nursing mothers. It is highly re­ commended to im­ prove the nervous system, and is an excellent prepara­ tion for general debility, especially for convalescents. (3D Nothing like it for restor­ ing vitality REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES! ,rWhat on earth are you going to do about Richard Cartie and that marriage of his?” and answering: “Oh, why not wait—” But Mrs. Maitland came puncti­ liously. That gesture was due her friendship with Dick, since there had been no scandal; and she in­ vited the Carties to a small dinner that proved to be mostly Maitland relatives. It was very pleasant, but it didn’t mean a thing socially, Kay was aware; Grace Maitland was not committing herself to sponsoring Eve’s successor. Twice Kay asked the Maitlands back, and each time For loss of appetite, TESOItO JEREZQUINA answers the need. Jt sti­ mulates and aids digestion. TESO­ RO JEREZQUINA is an ex­ tract from the juice of selected grapes and qui­ nine. It stands out because it is the host. Try it today! GD Most in de­ mand through the year round they were engaged: Kay did not know whether that had meaning or not. Her Evanston friends came, her mother’s friends and some of their married daughters; and Mrs. Ver­ non, Tracey’s mother, made an un­ expected descent, and chatted of Tracey’s new modern house, look­ ing curiously about this small oldfashioned one. Kay lugged Mi’s. Maitland into the conversation, re­ membering derisively how she used to drag Eve’s name into speech with her mother, to shelter herself. She had a feeling that she was being talked about; she saw heads turn when she took some Evanston friends into the Casino to lunch— Dick had kept his membership there though he resigned from his old club.... She found herself grate­ ful that the coming baby was an escape from social problems. She had been eager to have a child; but she was a trifle abashed to find nature so immediately responsive. “I do hope it won’t he a sevenmonths’ child and disgrace us,” she said to Dick with that whimsical smile that indented the corners of her mouth so prankishly; and Dick hooted at her. But the idea remain­ ed to bother Kay. She felt wretched at first; she had thought that her splendid health would think nothing of a baby, but all those first weeks and months she had to struggle against nausea and lethargy; and when that wore away, she was sensitive about her appear­ ance. It was all very well for young moderns to dash about unconcerned­ ly till the moment of leaping for the hospital; she felt too self-cons­ cious for public appearance. The thing to do, she told herself, was to live her own quiet life, to have her child, and later on to make a place for herself in the school and church community — they’d go to church again when the child was Sunday-school age. She was Dick’s wife. Nothing could undo that, and people would get used to it. Eve was not here to excite any partisanship; and the marriage didn’t really matter to people, she> thought, one wav or the other. There was probably a faction that condemned Eve for running off to Europe.... If she had felt well, if she had been able to entertain, she might have done something so­ cially, she conjectured; as it was, she was practically on another planet. J)ICK did not appar conscious of being out of things; he saw his men friends at meetings, conferen­ ces, luncheons; they asked him out to play golf with them. He did miss his country club, he admitted; leaving that had been a mistake, but he’d thought it a wise economy, since they weren’t living north and Kay wouldn’t be using it. He fi­ nally accepted an invitation to join another, though it was an expen­ sive one. It was a club to which women were never admitted, and Kav wondered if there was any Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 45 significance in his being invited to that. Perhaps there was none; she didn’t know. She was happier when she didn’t let herself think about the outside world, and her days were so full that she put it more and more out of mind. Being a wife was quite an occupation, she found. The dream had come true; she lived un­ der Dick’s roof; she ate at his table; she slept in his arms. They had hours of rapture, and the gay glad­ ness of being together grew deeper instead of diminishing. Sometimes she played to him evenings, and he rediscovered a baritone; sometimes they read contentedly before their open fire. Their home was a haven. But havens have to be stewarded; meals and maids and comfort never happen automatically. For the first time in her life Kay had to put her mind on them. As a girl she had taken sei" ice for granted; as a sec­ retary she had merely boarded at home and let Ada’s problems brush past her; but now the responsibility was hers. Until the baby came, she was managing with one maid, and a laundress and cleaning-woman who came in each week; the maid, Elise, a brisk Frenchwoman, used to lar­ ger establishments, was not sorry at Kay’s inexperience, as she liked her own way with things. She was a treasure—but Dick had been ac­ customed to more than one treasure. Unconsciously he took for grant­ ed the smooth functioning of his former home, where there had been a cook and a maid and another maid bv the day, and a laundress three days a week, and a chauffeur to run errands; and Kay discovered that he left his things where he took them off; that he imagined laundry found its way to hampers and back to bureau drawers; that rips and buttons were attended to without being called to attention. Because Eve had evidently had these things done for him, Kay was fiercely determined not to be found wanting but though it gave hei’ a dear sense of domesticity to mend his socks, the fii-st time or two she soon perceived in herself a prefe­ rence for the work of taking dicta­ tion. Between her unaccustomed duties and the coming baby, she felt exhausted sometimes, by night. One thing was a complete sur­ prise to her; she had imagined that life would be more unified because she knew his workaday world and could talk about its problems; but she found he didn’t want to dis­ cuss the office at home. He wanted to forget it. If there was a ease she knew about and was interested in, he was glad to furnish her with its outcome; and sometimes, of his own accord, he brought up some subject on his mind; but for the most part he wanted to get away from business. Her place in it was over. That left Kay a little bereft. Seeing him go out the door, with a swing of his gray ulster, his hat tugged down against the Chicago wind, his eyes eager for the day, she had almost a regret that she could not be a girl again, waiting at his office, a vigorous, slim, un­ trammeled girl, who would live through all those hours with him. Not that she would have exchang­ ed for them the hours of the eve­ ning when he came back to her, and she recounted to him, wife-wise, the trifles of the day, and they had the safe togetherness that they had always craved; but the feeling of being part of his working day died hard in her. She was sorry her health was so upset; she felt he had expected one kind of wife and got another; and though he was quick with care for her, she was not very sure how glad he was about that baby. She thought be dreaded it a little, dreaded hav­ ing his affections wrapped again about a child, dreaded the remind­ ers of Johnny’s infancy; but she was sure that once a child was part of their lives, their marriage would have justified itself—if it still need ed justification. She knew he was thinking about Johnny, for he avoided any ques­ tion of the sex of the child. She decided upon Barbara, if it was a girl; and when she made herself ask, off-handedly, “But if it’s a boy?” he had asked gruffly. “What’s your father’s name?” And that was unfortunate, for her father’s name had been John. He might have re­ membered, she thought, th? implica­ tions of J. T. She said quickly; ‘‘John Thomas —I don’t like Thomas, do you? Let’s decide on Richard—I seem to be calling you Dick more than Ri­ chard these days.” And he said, even more quickly: “Oh, we’ll let that ride.” He might shy away from the idea of a boy, she thought; but she want­ ed a boy for him. The baby proved no seven-months’ child but a most procrastinating one; even after it had announced its advent, it took so long, getting itself born, that Kay was racked and spent. She had imagined that her youth and strength would make it easy, but it wasn’t easy; it was terrific. Her hours, up on that high floor of the hospital, were un­ ending nightmare. She hated hav­ ing Dick sent away from her; she hated all the automatic routine that took no account of the deep, emo­ tional necessities of human nature. Since emotion had brought all this about, she thought it ought to have more consideration now; and decid­ ing that it was all devised to make life easier for specialists, she thought less of specialists and mourned the lack of the old-fash­ ioned family doctor who stood by. There was a time when she thought she was going to die alone up there among the ghostly white-robed figures, for the inten­ sity of her agony left her prostrated, like a drowned thing washed up on (Continued on next page) Health, and a happy disposition LACTOGEN The Better Milk For Babies Lactogen is specially and scientifically made to be the next best food to breast-milk and it contains the cor­ rect, balanced proportion of nutrition that a baby’s rapidly growing little frame needs. 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She thought: “They’ll just go out and tell him —and he didn’t want this baby—’’ Later, she was aware of the bright overhead light beating down through her closed lids, and fingers relin­ quishing her wrists. A voice above the fingers pronounced, “She’ll do —she’s coming round.” There were iron weights on her lids, but she managed to get them open and gasped: “The child—all right?” “You win,” she heard an interne remarking to a nurse. She realiz­ ed that women always said that. She thought, light-headedly: “Pity not to be more original for them!” “It’s all right, girlie,” the nurse soothed. “It’s all right.” “My husband—I want—” “You wouldn’t want him to see you like this, would you? Now you just wait—” LOVELINESS By ELEANOR GRAHAM LIVE i)i the sweetness of the now, and take Its essence to your lips to comfort you. Then though the end my cause your heart to break, Some healing balm will come along with rue. He who has known true loveliness is wise— Some beauty always lingers in his eyes. The child was a girl. Kay told herself that it was really better so, that a boy would have brought too many memories to Dick. She had ben foolish to want a boy so soon. The next would be a boy.... The little girl was a dark-eyed mite, another Kay, only a funnily fat Kay, with deep creases like bra­ celets on its tiny wrists. “No won­ der you made your mother look a sight.” said Kay reproachfully to it. The likeness made Dick discard Barbara determinedly and insist upon Katharine; so Kathy the child was called. [)ICK was shy with the baby when they first came home, addressing it as “Young lady,” or “Miss Cartie” in forced humor; but young Kathy was an individual from the start, and she made her own way with him. Kay was quite sure that he saw a good deal more of this baby than he ever had of young Johnny, for she remembered from things said years ago, that Johnny had had a rigorous English nurse, and she surmised that life had been more formal in that nursery. She had a pretty little colored maid now as part nurse, part house­ maid ; for Kathy slept out in the garden during the four hours be­ tween her meals; and the French­ woman was broad-minded about color and appreciative of assistance. In fact, she saved, so many of the least savory of the scullery jobs for the obliging girl that Kay could see how housewives grew distracted trying to have justice done. An office was easier to manage. But these problems were trivial; they were part of the warp and woof of everyday existence, and Kav liked the reassurance that she was making a real home. It was astonishing, the difference the baby made in her secret feeling. Now she could admit to herself that she had driven Eve away by coming back— thought Dick did not know that— and not let. the admission trouble her; for against Eve’s happiness she put Dick’s, and the joy of the home they were making together, the child that they were rearing. Sh was sorry, sorry for all their sakes, that there had to be a sacri­ fice, but better Eve than Dick. Eve became a pale figure wandering through far-off scenes; she grew more and more unreal as any part of Dick existence. But for those monthly chocks, she might have been forgotten altogether. Sometimes, in odd moments, run­ ning up and down stairs, or straight­ ening from bending over a splash­ ing Kathy in her tub, Kay had a sudden thrill, half terror and half ecstasy, at being what she was, a safe, assured wife and mother, ins­ tead of that drifting, love-torn girl .... She caught back her vision of what had been ahead of that girl. She felt the touch of a veritable miracle in what had happened to her. THE days slipped past; she was kept at home a good deal, and felt ever less inclination toward social effort. The Weynards, from Evanston, came in informally for bridge; the young Blights, from the University, and the Norcrosses—she often wished she lived nearer the University. But Dick grew restive. He suggested going out; they went to movies, to concerts, to lectures, to the theater. She insisted on dressing for the theater—no more hole-and-corner look to their ap­ CERVEZA NEGRA—SAN MIGUEL The blood-enriching tonic beverage that is a favorite throughout these Islands and known as a giver of strength and vitality — Mothers of small infants, the aged, and con­ valescents depend on its health-giving carbo­ hydrates, phosphates, and minerals to help them back to health and give them vitality and energy — A product of the SAN MIGUEL BREWERY Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 47 pearance—and once they dined be­ forehand at the Casino. Another dinner was going on in the next room, and some people who knew Dick drifted past, and paused, and were presented to her. They were affable enough, though the men’s looks were the more warmly appreciative, and the women’s glan­ ces were weighted with a latent an­ tagonism for her youth and vivid­ ness; hut these were only fleeting contacts — nothing could come of them, she felt, except an awakened responsiveness of Dick to his old work. She felt it in him when he looked after them that night. Later he suggested, “Let’s get the V pions some night and do a theater toge ther,” and Kay marveled at him. Had he no awareness of how things were done? Did he think that she could phone Mrs. Upton, who had ever acknowledged her ex­ istence except for two sentences at some club meeting, and invite her to dinner and the theater? The Maitlands were the only ones that Kay could possibly approach like that, and Kay was too shy to at­ tempt it; the Maitlands were too occupied, for one thing; and for an­ other, Kay felt they were unready for any public appearance, sponsor­ ing her. Grace Maitland had been fond of Eve. Mrs. Maitland did come to see the baby, bringing a silver cup, and she suggested that Kay would enjoy joining the Arts Club, which Kay promptly did, though Dick scoffed; “Seventy-five a year for looking at pictures? I could buy you some stock at this new level with that.” Kav thought. “You used to buy pictures for Eve,” but she knew her resentment was unfounded; these wore different times. She know ho worried about what would hap­ pen to her and Kathy if he should ever be ill, with his income stopped. Mi's. Maitland did not ask them to join any of her dinners at the evening occasions of the Arts Club, and Kay made up her own little parties, sometimes with Ada and William. Dick was bored with them and with the entertainments. He broke out once, “Why, we never used—” and Kay said lightly: “It doesn’t look very jolly, that’s a fact.” Secretly she was hurt out of all proportion to the cause. She went, determinedly, to some morning lec­ tures, and met a few people whose names Dick did not seem to know when she repeated them. Of others he said: “Oh that bird!” or “Stay off of her!” Not a constructive hus­ band, thought Kay. But then, she was shyly inadequate too. Life would have been more friend­ ly in a suburb she felt, for then she would have had neighbors, young mothers like herself, inter­ ested in foods and ailments, in schools and nurses, the things she lived with now. She decided—or rather, she found the decision ready made in her—that she wanted a sec­ ond child. Tn secret her heart was set upon that boy for Dick. Aloud she said, “Since Kathy is such a success—” and again, “The thing to do is to have your family and get it over with.” Dick had cocked an eye at that pronouncement. “And what are you contemplat­ ing, .Mrs. Cartie?” “Twins,” she told him. “Twins would save time and money. Have you any twins in your ancestry?” He recalled an Uncle Delos who had been a twin. “But the other twin died—it fell down the cellar stairs.” “That isn’t hereditary,” Kay told him. “Having twins is. I don’t l;now how the first pair happened. Since I’m staying home with Kathy more or less, I might as well put in the time for more.” “Am I in the breeding business?” said Dick dubiously. “Well—temporarily—” “There’s going to be an end of this sometime, then?” “Oh, three will do nicely. Or Extra days on the tree, to be sure that they are fully ripe, ready for canning, make all the difference in the world in canned peaches. That’s the reason why Del Monte peaches are so superior — so outstanding in quality and rich flavor. Buy them in the Del Monte tin — halves or sliced, whichever you prefer. Leading Grocers Stock Del Monte Canned Foods even two—if one’s a boy. It would be nice-to have a boy, wouldn’t it?” she said daringly. His face closed. "If you want one.” She wanted to say : “Oh, darling, don’t! Don’t keep me so outside those other feelings of yours. You know I’m only trying to make up for the past.” But instead she said: “Oh course I want one. I’d like one of each, and perhaps an extra —that would be a good collection. No dubs—just museum pieces.” “Well, you’re asking for her,” Dick told her. She wasn’t sure what was beneath his banter. Kathy was increasingly dear to him, but he seemed to feel no urge, for more. A child wasn’t the excitement to him that it was to her; lie had, been through all that before, she reminded herself: and perhaps he resented a little this submergence in a domestic life when he had wanted her so much for sheer companionship. He was past the age for young domes­ ticity. But she wa.~ stubbornly sure that she was right. Children would make their mar­ riage even more real. A boy would take some of the hurt away from the thought of that lost son. It wasn’t that she was trying to have her son supplant Johnny in Dick’s memory, she told herself quickly; but being innately honest with her­ self, she knew that in this feeling of hers there was a craving to do everything for him that Eve had done. He said, “Any cigarettes over there?” and crossed the room to­ ward a table. He stopped beside her, and put a hand down on her shoulder; he had a habit of little casual touches, small inarticulate assurances of affection; but now his fingers gripped her with a hard intensity. He said, his voice charged with feeling: “I can’t bear it for you, Kay.... And I’m afraid.” She said—as if such words had meaning: “You’ll never lose me.” 48 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 MY TRADITIONS (Continued from page 6) lebration in mood but indis­ pensable to it. The very looks of it give the whole af­ fair a pleasant aspect, and old and young consider it the highlight of the evening’s gayety. The balag is a strong, trel­ lis-like square made of split pieces of bamboo and hung with luscious fruits. Red and green siniguelas, tempting mangoes, flaming macopas, heavy watermelons and pine­ apples, combine to make a happy sight for young eyes eager for fun. The balag is then hung away from the crowds, up on the trunk of a large caballero or mango tree where eager hands can­ not reach it. After the pro­ cession, the balag is lowered to the delight of boys who had gathered for just such an occassion, and everyone of : them tries to get his share of the ^delicious fruits that had attracted him. A sort of free-for-all ensues, and the boys snatch whatever fruits they could reach. If the fruits, after the affray, take on a mashed and mained appearance, the boys ac­ cept that as part of the fun and eat them anyway. With triumph they show them to whoever would care to see. Then with dreams of fu­ ture chances at the balag, they depart to talk about their numerous exploits, their interest never once straying from the delights of the Santa Cruz de Mayo. More solemn than the Santa Cruz de Mayo in both the essence and the proce­ dure is the May flower cele­ brations conducted by the Church. Services are held every afternoon in the church during the month of May. The peak of these services are the flower offerings giv­ en by young girls, dressed in white from head to foot, in honor of the Virgin. At the end of the month, a proces­ sion is held, and beauty and gayety come to the fore to uphold this important May tradition. Maytime is Harvest Time In the Visayan region, there is a halo of romance around this month’s tradi­ tions, for May brings the harvest time. Golden .fields beckon to youth, and young men and women seeking no­ velty and change of occupa­ tion, take scythe in hand and join the merry reapers. But it is when the moon has risen that the lasses and their swains find the most enjoyment. Let us peep into a typical scene. From afar we hear the echoes of eager voices—some raised in song, some in jest. An illusive light, like St. El­ mo’s fire, leads us to an edge of a rice field. A few youths are still plucking sheafs of palay. Two torches light the space. One is placed near th? girls taking turns at winnow­ ing the fragrant palay. Be­ side them is another pair toasting the winnowed grains in a big carajay. The other torch sheds its light on the young men’s group. They are happy in the strenuously skillful job of pounding the pinipig, four, five boys at a time. The rhythm of the pest­ les is carried on by still another group of young men and women seated at a near­ by bench. They sing the plain­ tive songs of the fields, ‘of love disappointments and tragedies, but their faces be­ lie the sadness of their songs. For pinipig-time in May is love-making-time. journaiTof events (Continued from page 2) April 27: The United States Chamber of Commerce announced today that the Philippines ranks seventh among the nations supply­ ing commodities to the United Sta­ tes. April 28: Vice President Osmena, as secretary of public instruction, authorized the continuance in June of nearly 2,000 emergency exten­ sion classes conducted in borrowed or rented buildings, thus averting a major school crisis affecting no far effective Dhoble-ttch. Qin pi op ___ Ecgenra, wndhrtr. GALISATUM less than 10,000 children in the ele­ mentary school. April 29: Constabulary and state policemen were mobilized today fol­ lowing a report hat 8,000 tenants of San Jose de Buena vista estate in San Rafael, San Udefonso, Baliuag and Bustos in Bulacan were determined to hold the Sakdal-sponsored meeting in San Udefonso in spite of the refusal of the town mayor to grant a permit for the meeting. May 1: A military alliance of Europe’s most powerful nations— France and Great Britain — was concluded today.... President Roosevelt quietly pressed Congress to speed enactment of military and naval measures. His preparedness program involves two billion, dol­ lars. ... Great Britain was report­ ed likely to offer to mediate between China and Japan within a few months, reliable sources revealed to­ day. May 2: The French cabinet to­ day approved the recent FrancoBritish agreement which includes provisions for large-scale aerial co­ operation in the event of war.... The Joint American and Filipino preparatory committee of experts today reached a compromise agree­ ing on the use of the $28,000,000 annual tax refund from the United States to the Philippine Common­ wealth. Under the agreement, the President of the United States would be privileged to suspend payment if the Philippine National Assembly should appropriate the funds for purposes prejudicial to economic adjustment. May 3: Premier Daladier’s na­ tional defense cabinet today de­ creed a drastic increase in man­ power in all of the nation’s fight­ ing forces at the same time ordering a raise of 8% in all French national taxes.... One hundred and sixty­ inhabitants of Sagay evacuated Camiguin Island in tear of an immenent eruption of Camiguin vol­ cano, prophecied by a local seer. Land grabbers took advantage of this to buy land at give-away prices. .... A substitute bill on religious instruction was passed in the Na­ tional Assembly. It provides strin­ gent penalties upon education authorities who obstruct in any way the optional religious education pro­ vision of the constitution or who fail to set convenient hours for such instruction which must be furnish­ ed upon petition of the parents. May 4: Japan today formally asked Soviet Russian to cease giv­ ing military assistance to China.... In a message to the National As­ sembly, President Quezon recom­ mended the enactment of a law pro­ hibiting the sale and assignment of private agricultural lands to aliens .... The re-examination plan advo­ cated by AHC McNutt was report­ ed gaining grounds, members of the Congressional Insular Affairs com­ mittee revealed today.... Premier Mussolini rejected suggestions for a German-Italian military pact.... The Chinese today claimed they scored a sensational 12 mile advance against the Japanese.. .definitelyturning the tide of warfare in their favor.... The Japanese govern­ ment established iron-bound control of all Japanese industry today with the invocation of part of the Na­ tional mobilization act. Foreign military authorities interpreted this as a virtual admission of a break­ down of Japanese offensive in China. May 5: The franc was devalua­ ted ait $38.50 to the dollar to per­ mit investors to buy the forthcom­ ing national defense bonds with reasonable assurance that they would be paid........U. S. senator Gibson today declared that minus the protecion of the Stars an<jl Stripes, the Philippines would soon become a Japanese domain. May 6: President Quezon recom­ mended to the National Assembly the repeal of the Employers’ Liabil­ ity Act and the amendment of the Workman’s Compensation act in or­ der to give greater protection to laborers.... A Japanese foreign office spokesman said in Tokyo to­ day that Nippon tillers of the soil in Davao should be granted conces­ sions looking toward eventual own­ ership of the lands they now occupy. May 8: The through railroad line connecting Manila with Legaspi and the rest of the Bicol region was inaugurated in Del Gallego, Camarines Sur, midway between the two terminals. President Quezon drove the svmbollic gold spike while American High Commissioner McNutt unveiled the marker. May 9: Secretary of Labor Ra­ mon Torres ordered 11,000 aliens who had over-stayed their permits to reside in the Philippines, round­ ed up and deported, and indicated that administrative action may be taken against several officials and employees of the immigration divi­ sion in connection with the irregu­ larities uneai-thed.... Local labor elements settled long-standing dif­ ferences to form a national laboorganization, tentatively named The Naional Chamber of Labor. May 10: A corps of rural labor agents has been organized and are now under training under Jose G. Domingo, adviser in the department of labor, before being sent out on a social justice campaign. Among the duties of the rural labor agent will be to study various existing (Continued on page 52) Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 49 THE DARING... (Continued from page 9) with magnificent discipline, refus­ ing even to glance into them, and at last reached a building which he entered. He rose in an elevator to the seventh floor, moved down a hall, and, opening a door, walked into the office of an employment agency. Already there were two dozen young men in the place; he found a corner where he stood wait­ ing his turn to be interviewed. At length lie was granted this great privilege and was questioned by a thin, scatterbrained miss of fifty. Now tell me, she said; what can you do? He was embarrassed. I can write, he said pathetically. You mean your penmanship is good? Is that it? said the elder­ ly maiden. Well, yes, he replied. But I mean that I can write. Write what? said the miss, al­ most with anger. Prose, he said simply. There was a pause. At last the lady said: Can you use a typewriter? Of course, said the young man. All right, went on the miss, we have your address; we will get in touch with you. There is nothing this morning, nothing at all. It was much the same at the other agency, except that he was questioned by a conceited young man who closely resembled a pig. From the agencies he went to the large department store: there was a good deal of pomposity, some humiliation on his part, and fi­ nally the report that work was not available. He did not feel .dis­ pleased, and strangely did not even feel that he was personally involved in all the foolishness. He was a living young man who was in need of money with which to go on being one, and there was no way of getting it except by working for it; and there was no work. It was purely an abstract problem which ho wished for the last time to attempt to solve. Now he was >pleased that the matter was closed. He began to perceive the defi­ niteness of the course of his life. Except for moments, it had been largely artless, but now at the last minute he was determined that there should be as little impreci­ sion as possible. He passed countless stores and restaurants on his way to the A .M.C.A., where he helped him­ self to paper and ink and began to compose his Application. For an hour he worked on this docu­ ment, then suddenly, owing to the bad air in the place and to hunger, he became faint. He seemed to be swimming away from himself with great strokes, and hurriedly left the building. In the Civic Cen­ ter Park, across from the Public Library Building, he drank al­ most a quart of water and felt him­ self refreshed. An old man was standing in the center of the brick boulevard surrounded by sea gulls, pigeons, and robins. He was tak­ ing handfuls of bread crumbs from a large paper sack and toss­ ing them to the birds with a gal­ lant gesture. Dimly he felt impelled to ask the old man for a portion of the crumbs, but he did not allow the thought even nearly to reach con­ sciousness; he entered the Public Library and for an hour read Proust, then, feeling himself to be swimming away again, he rushed outdoors. He drank more water at the fountain in the park and be­ gan the long walk to his room. I’ll go and sleep some more, he said; there is nothing else to do. He knew now that he was much too tired and weak to deceive him­ self about being all right, and yet his mind seemed somehow still lithe and alert. It, as if it were a separate entity, persisted in arti­ culating impertinent pleasantries about his very real physicial suf­ fering. He reached his room ear­ ly in the afternoon and immediate­ ly prepared coffe? on the small gas range. There was no milk in the can, and the half pound of su­ gar he had purchased a week be­ fore was all gone; he drank a cup of hot black fluid, sitting on his bed and smiling. From the Y.M.C.A. lie had sto­ len a dozen sheets of letter paper upon which lie hoped to complete his document, but now the very notion of writing was unpleasant YOUNG LADIES AND MATRONS ARE IN NEED OF— FOR SALE AT ALL GROCERIES to him. There was nothing to say. He began, to polish the penny he had found in the morning and this absurd act somehow afforded him great enjoyment. No American coin can be made to shine so bril­ liantly as a penny. How many pennies would he need to go on living? Wasn’t there something more lie might sell? He looked about the bare room. No. His watch was gone; also his books. All those fine books; nine of them for eighty-five cents. He felt ill and ashamed for having parted with his books. His best suit he had sold for two dollars, but that was all right. He didn’t mind at all about clothes. But the books. That was different. It made him very angry to think that .there was no respect for men who wrote. He placed the shining penny on filie table, |Looking upon it with the delight of a miser. How pret­ tily it smiles, he said. Without reading them he looked at the words, E Pluribus Unum One Cent United States of America, and turning the penny over, he saw Lincoln and the words, In God IVe Trust Liberty 1923. How beautiful it is, he said. He became drowsy and felt a ghastly illness coming over his blood, a feeling of nausea and dis­ integration. Bewildered, he stood beside his bed, thinking there is nothing to do but sleep. Already he felt himself making great strides through the fluid of the earth, WITH US (Continued from page 11) his family would be greatly disappointed in him. The families of the Pinoys cannot understand why with the high wages (as compar­ ed to ours here) that they re­ ceive, their boys cannot send them the things they ask for or bring fortunes when they return. This is one of the things that Mother Harness had to explain to the old folks. She hoped she had made them understand why it was diffi­ cult for the Pinoys to make both ends meet in America. Mrs. Harness reached thirty-two provinces in six months and visited nearly every town and barrio in these provinces. When trans­ portation was not available, she walked, from ten to fif­ teen kilometers each time, to the barrios just to give the messages intrusted to her. In exchange for this hardship, she had the joyful experience of meeting the folks of her boys and giving them news of their wandering sons, hus­ bands or brothers. She met about a hundred of her re­ turned boys in the provinces and in Manila and was proud and happy to learn that they are engaged in some gainful occupations and are leading good Christian lives. She felt that her work had not been in vain. Mother’s Day had long been celebrated in the home of Mrs. Harness, long before it was made a national holiday in the United States. She also originated the celebration of Father’s Day. swimming away to the beginning. He fell face down upon the bed, saying, I ought first at least to give the coin to some child. A child could buy any number of things with a penny. Then swiftly, neatly, with the grace of the young man on the trapeze, he was gone from his bo­ dy. For an eternal moment he was all things at once: the bird, the fish, the rodent, the reptile, and man. An ocean of print undu­ lated endlessly and darkly before him. The city burned. The herded crowd rioted. The earth circled away, and knowing that he did so, he turned his lost face to the emp­ ty sky and became dreamless, unalive, perfect. [END] 50 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 FROM LOVE. . . (Continued from page 11) lovely flesh, alone in his room he was cogitating on the exactness and reliability of Science. Essen­ tially a mystic he had never be­ fore bothered about Science, much less about Medicine. If, for in­ stance, he ailed with a stomach ache, he would not take purgative. He believed that the human sys­ tem is equipped with the neces­ sary chemistry that will secrete the alchemy which will react against such disorder. But tonight as his young be­ loved lay on the operating table watching on a mirror hung above her the gruesome process of med­ ical science trying to save her life, in the quietness of his room he was poring over a medical book bor­ rowed from an interne for the pur­ pose of ascertaining the possible fatality of such an operation. His mind, however, refused to concentrate on the scholarly pro­ ceeding. He rose from his chair feeling substantially jaded, flung himself on his bed and then he be­ came a great, great prayer. “Gud, please save her. Spare such beau­ tiful creation from pain and suf­ fering. She is so young, God. So delicate. And so lovely. Stand over her and hold her hand for me and whisper, 'Be brave, my child, God is near beside you, watching you, protecting you with tenderness and love.r God, God, God, I haved asked you so little favors before. I have always be­ lieved in you. God is all-powerful, all-merciful, all-love. Now at your feet my spirit rises in gratifica­ tion. my body a cathedral of faith, my heart a candle, burning in re­ verence.” Morning of the operation when he learned that she was well and saved, he went about his chores with a certain beatific halo. He looked like a devout Catholic who had just entered a temple of God. In her room in the hospital, the fragrance of flowers was ethereal. It seemed as though he had gather­ ed all the roses in the town’s flower markets and crowded them in her room. He was gravely sitting down beside her bedside waiting for her to open her eyes while inside him his heart was heavy with love and his lips mumbling with prayer. This was one instance where love assumed the holiness and strength of religion. When she opened her eyes it was as though his presence encompass­ ed a miracle. Her lovely innocent eyes were filled with yearning and a breathless ecstacy that blurred life into insignificance. She put out her beautiful hand for him to hold as- though believing that his touch was magic to her. In silence he held her hand. It was white, lovely and throbbin <r (and birdlike—and the feeling which flowed thru him was a stream of magnificent ten­ derness, a breathless moment of life too fluttering sweet, a reality whose White Angel of Crimea By HERMINIA ANCHETA PERHAPS no other wom­ an is more idealized in the hearts of men living in hospitals and who are con­ nected with the nursing pro­ fession than Florence Night­ ingale. This feeling of rever­ ence is particularly felt by every British soldier who had the privilege to be ministered to by the hands of this white angel of Crimea. Treasured in the museum of the United Service Institution in London is a badge bestow­ ed upon Florence Nightingale by Queen Victoria for her work in Crimea and a dia­ mond bracelet given to her by the Sultan of Turkey. But perhaps more precious and enduring is the blazed trail which she has left behind her, for it was she who opened a new career to women. meaning surpasses itself. When my father died I had to leave the City to take over the job which Father had left behind , in the farm. Rico corresponded with me, telling me about the love be­ tween him and Alicia. He wrote to me about their plans and their future. He even asked me to be the godfather of his first born. And then after a couple of months or so he stopped writing to me. I did not insist on him answering my letters believing that he was busy in his work and with Alicia. That day I read the news item in the papers imagine the terrible shock that turned like a dull knife in my heart! I wanted to dash over to the city for his funeral but I could not leave the farm. The farm workers were on a strike and they were burning the sugar plantations. So I wrote to Alicia. But there was no answer. I wrote again. No answer. Two days later I received a let­ ter from her and it was postmark­ ed Bali. The letter read: "My dear friend Guillermo, Of course this is a surprise to you. I am here in Bali with my Boss (he is also my husband now) honeymooning. This place is won­ derful and the women are perfect specimens of beauty and loveli­ ness. I’ll write you again before we leave for Sourabaya. I am a bit busy now shooting all the love­ ly spots with my candid camera. So long. Alicia.” In the post­ script, she wrote, "How is your friend Rico f” Early Childhood Romantic Florence was the birthplace of this young lady sometimes called the “Lady with the Lamp.”, who was born on May 12, 1820. Little Florence had the for­ tune of being brought up in a life of relative ease. Fortu­ nate I say, for she could have the chances to travel during her childhood, thus getting an insight into the habits of dif­ ferent kinds of people, a knowledge which was to serve her in attaining the dream­ work of her life. Her innate love for caring for helpless creatures showed up in her early days. She possessed many pets includ­ ing a pig, a donkey, a pony and a cat. She loved playing giving first aid to her dolls and at an early age adminstered first aid to her injured animals. Flowers and birds found a sure place in her heart which loved to serve. That Scouring Ideal The gay social life and ac­ tivities of which she was a part gave her no satisfaction. Hers was a life of restlessness and discontent during these early years. There was that ever-haunting ideal which bit by bit consumed, her soul. The non-fulfilment of this scouring ideal made her look at life as fruitless and insig­ nificant. Love and marriage could not answer that Ideal and cure her restlessness. As the years went by, this Ideal threatened to absorb her be­ ing almost completely. She moved in a world — a mad world as far as she and her dreams were concerned. Her childhood years over, this restlessness and unhapiness became so overpowering and irresistible that she fin­ ally concluded that God had implanted into her heart the absorbing desire to dedicate herself to the care of the sick and the distressed. Struggle With Family Prejudice In those Victorian days when families adhered closely to conventions, Florence’s fa­ mily held prejudices against public nursing. Why, it was propesterous and absurd for a lady of her social standing to think of such a career. Thus began the struggle of Florence to tear down this social prejudice. So strenous was the struggle at times— even with her indomitable energy—that there were mo­ ments when it seemed that Death alone could end it. Early Work But the dawn of victory came soon with the breaking down of her family opposi­ tion. At the age of thirty she managed to get some experi­ ence in a German nursing es­ tablishment at Kaiserworth. Later she served a short ap­ prenticeship in a hospital run by the Sisters of Charity in Paris. August, 1853, found her as the Superintendent of an Es­ tablishment for Gentlewomen during illness, situated at No. 1 Harley Street, London. I will not dwell much on her work in connection with the Crimean War, fought be­ tween England, France and Turkey on the one side and Russia on the other, for much has already been written about it. The services she rendered in this War were the answer to her unceasing quest of that scourging Ideal. Florence Nightingale, The Woman Her unequalled service and success in the Crimean War were due to a few sterling character traits which she possessed. Tact and patience were extraordinarily hers when occasion demanded them. But when she saw it necessary, this silent saintly lady could be domineering and bold, bordering even into fierceness. Possessed of that magical gift of understanding of human nature, she won the admiration of everyone who came in contact with her. Strange as it may seem, ■Florence Nightingale was sel­ dom linked romantically with any suitor. She was heart and Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 51 soul absorbed in her serv­ ice work that it drained all her thoughts of romance. However, her private life was one showered with hon­ ors. Great men visited her and she enjoyed many friend­ ships. Among these friends was Benjamin Jowett, the great Oxford scholar and translator of Plato. No friend had giv­ en her, however, more assist­ ance than Sidney Herbert. This friendship was blasted by the death of Herbert in 1861. Her Death An invalid for most of her life, Florence died in Eng­ land on Aug. 13, 1910 at the age of 90. She was buried in Westminster Abbey with the Great Men of England with fitting ceremonies and high­ est honors. STILL TRUE TO. .. (Continued from page 10) them nor have the time even if she knew, she would have to pay a dressmaker at least one peso and fifty centavos, perhaps two pesos, for each dress. Even at one peso a meter (silk costs more), three meters will cost three pesos; add to this sum the amount to be paid to the dressmaker, and the finished dress will cost about five pesos. And this dress wil not last for a year. Whereas, she reasons out, one can look decent even in a suc-suc temo that costs three pesos and which will last for two years. Mrs. Teotico ought to know, for she has a daughter and she her­ self wears the vestido some­ times, but never to her of­ fice. Mrs. A. M. Lopez, who has been working at La Estrella del Norte for about twenty years and worn Filipino dress in all that time every day, cannot say whether Filipino dress costs less or not than European dress. She thinks it depends upon the taste of the person. In her case, for example, she buys a temo whenever she needs one or when she sees one that she likes and she prefers the more expensive kind. (No wonder she always appears elegant.) But she wears only three ternos a week and she launders her own camisas and panuelos at home as she mistrusts giv­ ing them out. She also sews her own skirts. Mrs. Margarita A. Lazatin, cashier at Beck’s, did not he­ sitate to say that the native dress is less expensive. At least in her own case. She is not “vanidosa,” she said, and she wears the same ternos again ’and again for years. She wears a house dress when at home and always the Fili­ pino dress when she goes out. There are three women con­ nected with the National Lib­ rary who always wear the Filipino dress to work: Mrs. Abriol, sister of our own Mrs. Sofia de Veyra (who also al­ ways wears the native cosHEINZ Pure Cider Vinegar Have You Tried HEINZ Peanut Butter? 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Another woman we know who always wears the Fili­ pino dress outside of her home is Dr. Encarnacion Alzona, U. P. professor. She is one of our modern women—she drives her own car—but still she clings to the old tradi­ tion. Unlike their other sisters, these women who still wear the Filipino dress when they step outside their homes, would rather sacrifice com­ fort for becomingness. They know that they look better in Filipino dress so they stick to it. And another reason— they can be decently dressed even in an inexpensive suc-suc terno. 52 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 FROM COVER TO COVER (Continued from page 1) whom he loved but did not recipro­ cate his affection. Here’s something for cynical people who say that no such thing happens nowadays. FIDEL DE CASTRO who is the author of our local short story in this issue is a graduate of two univer­ sities, the U.P. where he fin­ ished his Ph. B and the Uni­ versity of Manila where he got his B. S. E. “These lia­ bilities,” he writes, (that’s how he regards his college degrees) “are what make my existence godly and preca­ rious.” In his undergraduate years he used to write poetry. Now having grown up and being more practical he writes short stories and ar­ ticles to keep him from being violent and hungry. Also a movie actor under the screen name of Ricardo de Sotto he has just finished acting the leading role in a local pic­ ture entitled “Dugong Hinugasan” which will soon be released. The playlet, OTHER TOMOR­ ROWS. is from the pen of a very young and promising woman, Julia Palarca, who writes also essays and short stories. She is a graduate in Litt. B. in Journalism (whatever that means) from the University of Santo Tomas. When asked for her picture, she said that she did not want to disappoint “enthusiasts”. “Mother Harness” who is featured in our With Us de­ partment this month, said that she lost forty pounds during the six months that she was in the Philippines— due to the heat and her many trips (frequently on foot) to distant towns and barrios just to meet the families of the Pinoys under her spiri­ tual care in California and other states in the American union. She was very much impressed by the hospitality offered her by the humble folk in the barrios. When we learned that she was in Manila, we hurried to the Y. W. C. A. where she was staying and was told by the girl at the Information table that she had already left for the boat. It was just pure luck that we saw her valise at the door as we were going out. We called up the dor­ mitory and was told that she was dressing. Could we not go upstairs to her room ? We did and talked with her while she was putting on her dress and her hat. The next time you enter a store or a business office, if you live here in Manila, and even in the prov­ inces, look around you to see if there is any clerk or saleswoman dressed in Filipino costume. You will be lucky to see one or two. Of course there are still quite a number of teachers who still wear the mes­ tizo dress everyday to their classes, but their number is diminishing every year. Only last March we went to the high school from where we graduated to attend the Alumni Home Coming and we saw our for­ mer teachers who used to wear the Filipino dress every day, in vestido. Here in Manila, except in the stores and in the office mentioned in the article on page 10, no woman em­ ployee wears the mestiza dress. William Lyon Phelps says in his article, TRANQUIL­ ITY, on page 18, that wom­ en possess the virtue of tran­ quility in a greater degree than men because they (the women) have to spend most of their time with children. Which is true. You do not have to go far to verify this. We remember that once our younger brother swallowed a ten centavo piece. While Father and the other men­ folk present shouted and waved their arms, mother very calmly hit the boy sharply between his should­ er blades and the coin came out and rolled on the floor. Then mother went back to whatever she was doing, which We can’t remember now. while Father spanked the boy on the buttocks just to relieve himself. One of our neighbors has five chil­ dren who freauently start crying or fall ill at the same time. While her husband loses his temper or his ner­ ves, this woman calmly wipes the children’s noses or puts a pan of water tn boil while waiting for the doctor. Tito (our fashion designer) has at last sent us some designs, two of which appears on one of the fa­ FOR OCEAN PEARL BUTTONS Made in Manila COME TO OUR STORE AT 460 Calle Dasmarifias MANILA BUTTONS FACTORY, INC. shion pages in this issue. We have already told you that Tito had gone to the States to attend the school of fine arts in famous Yale Uni­ versity. Wait till you see his other sketches. Already they show some improvements, although lie has not taken figure drawing yet. He wrote that this summer he intends to take up fashion designing in any school in New York. Tito’s letter was full of gossip. He and his uncle, Enri­ que Ruiz, the well-known painter, with whom he went to States, share an apartment and do their own cook­ ing, which are cheaper (we mean the apartment and the home cook­ ing), for a room each and eating outside are expensive. He was going to get pictures of the Filipino girls living in the International House but a thief stole bls camera—plus a brand new radio. He went to see the preview of a musical comedy, You’ll Nver Know, starring Clifton Webb, Lupe Velez and Toby Wing; the gowns, he said, were lovely but very plain. He saw Snow White and recommended it as one of the films that should not be missed. He asked if the Big Apple lias been introduced here yet. You are very late, Tito, we say. And speaking of fashions, note that the wedding gowns shown on one of our fashion pages are not white. White is no longer the fashionable color for bridal gowns; pas­ tel colors are. The first Filipina we know to use pastel color in her wedding dress was Maria Lanzar, now Mrs. Carpio. Her wedding terno was light salmon pink. Re­ cently, Asuncion Lopez wore a blue ensemble when she got married. Her maid of honor and madrina also wore this color in different shades. We read in one of the Amer­ ican magazines that in the United States, colored rice to match the bride’s ensem­ ble is now thrown at the newlyweds instead of white rice. This world is certainly moving along. The sight of the two women (ca­ shier and the one in charge of the Pen Counter) dressed in Filipino costume at the Philippine Educa­ tion is so rare that tourists who see them always ask them to pose for* pictures. And they always oblige, for the sake of our national costume. JOURNAL OF EVENTS (Continued from page 48) agricultural systems in each local­ ity, look into the agrarian problems, gather date on the cost of living of the common tenant family with a view to improving its standard of living. May 11: Director of Health, Eugenio Hernando, completed plans for a large-scale small pox immuni­ zation program calling for the vac­ cination of nearly 2,000,000 unpro­ tected individuals every year.. .. Japanese marines and bluejackets and Cantonese troops fought through the streets for the posses­ sion c.f Amoy.......... Adolf Hitler was indignant over the closing of the Vatican museum and chapel during his visit in Rome. He intimated the German Reich might retaliate by renouncing future re­ lations with the Holy See.... It was strongly rumored in Rome that Pope Pius would crown King Victor Emmanuel III, Emperor of Ethio­ pia in a ceremony at St. Peter’s, probably June 11. May 12: National Hospital Day was observed today, stressing the need for more clinics in the Islands .... From 3,000 to 4,000 Chinese civ­ ilian inhabitants of Amoy were killed during its occupation by Jap­ anese troops.... A bill abolishing the one thousand pesos monthly pen­ sion of General Aguinaldo and pro viding for a general pension of from P20 to P100 a month foi- deserving Filipino veerans was introduced into the National Assembly by Assem­ blyman Justiniano S. Montano of Cavite.... The National Assembly approved on third reading and in final form the religious instruction bill by a vote of 48 to 24, thus end­ ing consideration in the legislative body of one of the most controver­ sial measures that has come before it.... The daughter of Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands was baptized with the name Beatrix. May 13: Well-informed observers expressed conviction that a new Philippine mission might be neces­ sary within the next year to draft a trade treaty providing post-inde­ pendence trade preferences.... 2.300 Chinese refugees from Amoy, now occupied by the Japanese, ar- , rived in Hongkong aboard an Eng­ lish vessel.... The United States House of Representatives today ap­ proved with an overwhelming vote of 328 to 70 and sent to the Senate, the recovery hill recommended by President Roosevelt. May 11: The National Assembly approved the textbook bill reorgan­ izing the texbook board and pro­ hibiting the sale of notes. Tlr’s bill aims to stop the book racket.... Chinese sources said that China had obtained an agreement with League of Nations members credits for the purchase of arms together with an assurance of help in getting the armaments into China. May 1~>: The National Assembly passed the election bill, governing the forthcoming national elections set for November 8. This bill con­ tains provisions that will revolu­ tionize the philosophy of elections in the Philippines. Manila, May, 1938 HOME JOURNAL 53 WINGS OVER. . . (Continued from page 7.5) upon, and in front of the ar­ bor there stood a marble statue. “Is that a statue of Mer­ cury, the messenger of the gods?” Jane asked the kind old man. “No, Child,” he replied, “That is a likeness of Aristaueus, protector of the bees. It is to him that I made sac­ rifice. It was he who sent these armies of busy laborers to harvest the golden sweets of the flowers for me.” “Just what sacrifices do you make to please Aristaueus?” Jane asked, and then confessed, “I guess I’m quite ignorant in regard to such matters.” “Many people are ignor­ ant, and many more are care­ less and forget to thank the powers above for their good gifts. I learned the secrets of sacrifice from an ancient seeress in Delphi, long, long ago.” “It is necessary, first,” said Marcus, “to build a sacrifical hut. It is tiled and walled, and has four win­ dows, so placed as to catch the breezee of the four winds. Then I choose from the cat­ tle markets the finest twoyear-old steer. He is knock­ ed down, and his nostrils stopped, so that none of the blood escapes as he dies. Finally, the body is placed in the appointed hut, upon a carpet of scented boughs and sweetest of flowers. This must be done before spring makes equal day with night, and only when the west winds blow.” Marcus continued with the recipe for obtaining a new strain of bees. “It is done. I leave him lying there in flowery paradise. And in a short time the tainted blood begins to boil. Out of this ferment a new creature arises then another, and an­ other—a moving mass at first, short of thigh, then shooting out with legs and equipped with wings, these grubs become bees with point­ ed stings. Then, like summer storms from spreading clouds, they burst out through the hide in swirling floods. There was a noise like thunder as my new found armies swept from the sacrifical hut, and flew to the four winds.” ‘You mean,” Jane asked, “that bees were created out of a dead animal, just like that?” “Yes, that is true,” Mar­ cus replied, and he did not see Jane’s glance of pity for his ignorance and supersti­ tion. Marcus talked on. “In haste I laid down a trail of sweets to the doors of those willow homes you have seen. I knew that bees are enticed by a scent made of the thick­ ened juice of grapes, with rose petals and savory thyme pounded up in it. I laid down a trail of this sweet bait, sweet to the taste, and frag­ rant to the smell, and it led the hordes to their new do­ mains. The hives must be near a living stream that is edged round with moss and tufts of grass; protected from the wind, where no goats or cows trample down the flowers, and no lizards lie in wait to destroy the hives. Once in their hivps, the busy laborers set to work, daubing up the chinks with the wax they make themselves.” “Bees are wise mariners, too,” said Marcus. “When the storm winds blow, they each carry a gravel stone as ballast, so they aren’t dashed to death against the rocks.” 1938 RADIO HIT : Only P5.50 monthly 6 tube TELEDIAL with electric tuning EYE, Model 476 for local Broadcast. And a small down-payment brings this beautiful Radio in your Home. Ask for demonstration or write to: ELMAC, INC. (527 Kizal Ave.,—Tel. 2-3'>-32 Besides we have a wide range of other models at attractive prices on stock. Jane wasn’t sure that she believed * this either, but she was much too polite to con­ tradict the kind old man. “Do bees work all the time?” Jane asked, as she watched them buzzing from one sweet scented flower of the garden to another. “Bees have an orderly government in their hives, and each his alloted task,” Marcus said admiringly, and Jane could see that the old man had a deep love of order and of peace. “Of all the races of animals, bees alone have common cities,of their .own, and common sons. They ga­ ther their children from the leaves and flowers, and thus make new kings to fill the regal seat.” “Kings?” said Jane with a question in her voice, for she knew that bees are led by queens. “Yes, bees live under the rule of a warrior prince. But all have one and the same law; worker and prince. All is the state’s, the state provides for all. Some over the public food supplies, preside. Some are sent for new forage, while those at home lay deep foundations for the laborer’s comb. Some honey condense, while the rest, in cells apart, the liquid nectar shut, and some nurse the future nation of the hive, but kings and warriors all.” “That’s a little like commu­ nism, isn’t it?” Jane asked. Marcus replied, “I do not know what this communism is, but I know what rebellion is. There was rebellion among my bees not long ago. An or­ derly people, my bees, busy all, except when two rival princes contend for the throne. “When in the season of un­ clouded spring, they follow their undaunted kings forth to battle—brother against broth­ er—and murmuring sounds proclaim the civil war. Still you can tame them as easily as our Caesar tamed the ter­ rible Britons. Clip the wings of their high-flying kings. And lure the squadrons home again, by pounding honey­ suckle flowers, so that allur­ ing savors strew the ground. “And then soon, you can surely press huge heavy ho­ neycombs, full of golden juice, not only sweet, but pure and fit for use.” ■ Then the sunlight faded from the garden. Jane awoke, and found herself still staring at the scroll on the golden book. The lacy filigree that spelled the words: Georgies of Virgil. Jane had stepped into the world of the past, through the medium of that book, as we all may do. And the wit and wisdon of the past may be­ come ours. Though science and time have modifed much of what the ancients be­ queathed us, their spirit of reverence can never become outmoded. 54 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 OTHER TOMORROW (Continued from page 12) colors are for the young. She likes subdued hues—you know, black or violet or something just as somber, ugh! PILAR: Do let me see it! PAZ (unheeding) : I wanted to buy a camisa besides, to match the plaid skirt, but I thought of Flora and Ben. They would love apples. You see, they used to ask me before I left for the city, to buy lots of apples. They are pretty expensive and the tyrants said they were tired of guavas or santol fruits. Tired! (laugh). PILAR (wryly): Children have the funniest of tastes. Once I saw a rich, young girl throw away a half-eaten mango by the win­ dow where she sat typing. Two boys raced after the discarded fruit, wiped the earth that clung to it and then started tak­ ing bites by turns. PAZ (softly) : Poor, greedy things! And I have a pail* of slipper."' for Father, Pilar. Not just straw ones, mind you! Real leather slippers! I can hardly wait to go back home to them tomorrow. (Reminiscent­ ly). They will be waiting for me at the station—Father, Mo­ ther, Ben and Flora—and we would all walk to the house. We live near the railroad tracks, you see. Ben and Flora munching at the apples, Mother asking questions so fast you never finished answering a sin­ gle one—you were so excited too; and Father smiling and quietly happy. PILAR (very wistfully) : It is going to be fun, sure. PAZ (leaning back on the chair luxuriously): Packing and buy­ ing things for the folk, wait­ ing for the morning to come... Oh yes, it will be fun. PILAR: When I return to the pro­ vinces too, there will be Mo. ther to wait for me at the sta­ tion and.. .and Rafael. (Blush­ ing and looking down confus­ edly as Paz looks at her questioningly). He and I expect to be.. .to be maried someday, you know. That is, as soon as we have laid aside enough to live by—'Mother and us two. PAZ: Oh! (After a pause). It will be a long, long wait. I know! PILAR (gently) : But it is some­ thing worthwhile waiting for, little girl. I do not think you know at all: you are such a baby in many ways. I do not mind working here, really. Every month means a little something added to our sav­ ings and... (gives a start as she realizes that it is getting late). Heaven forgive us! We have hardly done a thing and the Dona may come any mo­ ment! PAZ (rebelliously) : Why must we SHOPPING GUIDE GLASSWARE. One of the cool sights on the Escolta during one of the past weeks was the display of glassware in the window of a store which specializes in home furnishings. No-Nick tumblers; tall, iced drink glasses; water or beverage pitchers. But what we admired most) were the Dunean pieces, thin and clear as crystal (that’s right, they are made of crystal), that made us think of the river at home the water of which is so cold even at noon and so clear that you can see a pin on the sand of its bottom. This Dunean set consisted of ash trays, fruit bowls, candelabras or candlesticks, divided mayonnaise bowls and goblets. THRDE-DUTY-KITCHEN SHEARS. Manufacturers are constant­ ly putting out gadgets for the housewife which can do more than one job not at one time of course. A pair of Wiss kitchen shears costs more than two pesos but it is of good quality and it can do three things: cut vegetables, fruits and meat; unscrew bottle caps; and squeeze lemons and oranges. This three-in-one gadget is a space saver. THE HANDY FORK. This two-tined, untarnishable fork with a long, slender handle made of some colored material called Catalin, is a very convenient utensil to have around the kitchen, for it will extract the contents of a small mouthed bottle without trouble. Very useful for re­ moving olives and pickles out of their bottles. FOR KITTIE OR DOGGIE. Do you have a dog or a cat pet in the house? Remember the SPCA article on the care of household pets that we published in this magazine a short time ago? It suggested, among other things, that cats and dogs should have their own dishes, which should be washed and kept clean like our own dishes. Well, the American Hardware sells enameled round, deep dishes with covers just for the use of your pet dogs or cats. Each dish is marked “DOG” or “CAT” which prevents your exchanging the dog’s dish with that of the cat’s. INDIVIDUAL PEPPER AND SALT SHAKERS. Again these come in colors and in miniature size.' You use one color for the salt and an­ other color for the pepper and place a pair in front of each cover plate. We suggest red ones for .the pepper and white ones for the salt. But you will have to let your guests in into the secret. SEAL SAC. This is the trade-mark of a material, like thin rubber, that can be stretched, boiled and washed. It has numerous uses, among them for covering bowls with foods to be stored in the ice box or refrigera­ tor, for keeping vegetables and fruits fresh, for steaming foods, for wrapping foods to be stored away. It can be had in any size and shape. ZIPPERS. Everybody is zipper-minded these days. The longer they are the smarter (from neckline to hem—sometimes even around the neck­ line). They may be had in many colors, in metal or in celluloid, the latter being the more expensive. Be sure, however, to get real Talons. Look for the name Talon on the head, which you pull up or down. Those that are not Talons, we have discovered to our sorrow, sometimes fail to zip! FOR THE BRIDE: Hamilton-Brown has inaugurated a new serv­ ice. The bride and her attendants can now be completely outfitted at its Fashion Salon. The wedding gowns now on display are stately sheaths of dignified loveliness, the veils wisps of sheer magnificence, the bridemaid’s hats in tune with today’s tempo. You will never go wrong if you go to Hamilton-Brown for European wedding apparel, or for such accessories as veils and shoes. always have to go on work­ ing? (Pilar hurriedly begins to work again. She also wipes the rest of the chair and the 2>edestals lifting the green plants carefully. Paz does not move). PILAR: By the way, Paz, I have something for you before you leave. I would like you to keep it. It is nothing much—just a silk handkerchief I embroidered during the afternoons after work. PAZ (looking at her steadfastly) : You are the wonderfullest girl, there is! (Pilar laughs softly and rumples the other girl’s hair affectionately.) PAZ: Sh! She is coming. I would so hate to have her scold again —it is my last day! (She works loo). (Enter Dona Carmen—stoutish with a blank face but other­ wise interesting. She has small, flabby hands and her hair is black and neat. She plumps herself on the sofa, vigorously fanning herself). DONA CARMEN: Is that all the work you have done today? Goodness! Hala, hurry with those pots, Pilar. Later on, you go down to the yard and take the clothes off the line. Sprin­ kle water on them because I would like you to start the iron­ ing tonight instead of tomor­ row. Then tell Disio to wash the car, I forgot to tell him that before he left for the store to make a few purchases. Tell him to do it thoroughly. Last time, I actually saw a mud pud­ dle as big as my closed fist on one of its sides. Also, pass by the kitchen and fetch me a glass of water. (Fanning her­ self more vigorously). This day is terribly hot! (Pilar starts to leave the room when she calls her back on sec­ ond thought.) DONA CARMEN: And oh, yes! See whether Disio watered the plants on the verandah. He is such a forgetful creature. If he has not, you water them yoursel. (Muttering). Such irres­ ponsible people! (To Pilar). Go on, woman! Go on! What are you standing there for? (Exit Pilar. Dona Carmen sees Pax busily wiping the already shining furniture. She looks at the girl silently for a moment, then clears her throat). DORA CARMEN: Er.. .ah.. .you can leave those pedestals now, Paz, and sit near me. Here at my right. No, not there! Here beside me. (Pilar approaches respectfully and sits herself on the chair gingerly). You are the best girl I have ever had for a long time. Yes. I like the way you do your duty without being told. Why, I used to have a girl once, she gave me more trouble than three lazy maids put together! I had to tell her to do this and to do that every minute or the things would be left lying anywhere. No order, no nothing! (Paz makes a pleased sound in her throat, looks down, flushed and im­ mensely pleased). But you... PAZ: May I go on wiping the chairs, Dona? I can see specks' of dust on top of those paint­ ings on the walls, and I still have to clean the window sills. DON A CARMEN (allowing her to leave her seat with a nod but continues talking): But you! I was telling your master only a week ago that it is such a pity to lose you someday. We would be unable to find such a capable servant as you are even if you wear a long face verv often. Yes. No, no, no. Don’t wipe those pictures too vigo­ rously—the paint will come off. As a matter of fact, your mas­ ter suggested that we raise your wages. You deserve itj really. And I thought vou would like that—for the sake of your fam­ ily back there. (She points vaguely out of the window). PAZ (eagerly) : Oh, thank you, Doha Carmen. Thank you! We Manila, May, 1938 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 55 need every little sum that can come our way. Perhaps Mo­ ther told you how both she and Father find it harder and hard­ er to make both ends meet. You arc very kind to think of us! (Paz in her gratitude makes a move toward Dona Carmen but checks herself al­ most immediately.) DONA CARMEN (complacently) : I knew you would like it! Of course, I expected something like that—it is but natural. You would like to help your parents in any way you can. What do you say if we in­ creased your wages from five to eight pesos a month? PAZ (happily) : You are very, very kind. DONA CARMEN: Oh, it is al­ ways easy to be kind to good, able servants like you. Er... ah... Your master told me your mother will have her birth­ day tomorrow, Paz. PAZ (excited) : Yes, yes, how did you know? DONA CARMEN: Don’t you re­ member? You told your master she was going to be exactly thirty-eight years old on Oct­ ober the fifth. Now is the fourth. PAZ: Now I remember. It was during lunch time. DONA CARMEN: And of course, you—as a daughter, would like to give her something special. PAZ: Yes. I... DOnA CARMEN (triumphantly) : I knew it! I told your master that you would appreciate what T suggested to him. You see, (looking at the girl from out of the corner of her eyes) I sent a birthday gift to your mother in your name. She can’t know the difference. I wrote to her as if you were there be­ side me telling me what to say. I added that it would hurt you inexpressibly if she were to re­ turn the gift. PAZ: A gift in mv name? DONA CARMEN: ‘ Yes. PAZ (questioningly) : But I do not understand! I have a gift for her too! DONA CARMEN: Ah, but the gift I sent her is much, much bet­ ter than anything you can ever give her. You see, it will help your family no end and they would appreciate your thought­ fulness. Why, I even sent an­ other note together with the present telling them that they were not to worry at all be­ cause you were all right. PAZ: But...but.. DONA CARMEN: You see, I sent your mother thirty pesos as a birthdav gift. Thirty pesos! DONA CARMEN: Yes. They would love you for it all the more. Of course... (avoiding the girl’s horrified eyes) now you will have to stay with me a little longer, but you would not mind it much. After all T (Continued on next page) the Campbell tin. What could be more attractive for the beginning of your luncheon! Only Campbell brings such appetizing flavor—the best soup you ever tasted. And being condensed, it is most reasonable in price. 21 delicious soups by Campbell’s famous chefs How many do you know as Campbell’s make them now? Asparagus Bean with bacon Beef Bouillon Celery Chicken Chicken-Gumbo Clam Chowder Consomm€ Consommd Madrilene Consommg-Printanier Mock Turtle Mushroom (Cream of) Noodle with chicken Ox Tail Pea Pepper Pot Scotch Broth Tomato Vegetable Vegetable-Beef include all the great popular favorites that are served so regularly in millions and millions of homes throughout the world, and also other fascinating soups that give freshness and newness to your meals. Every kind of soup you ever want, all of the same splendid Qual­ ity that has won for Campbell’s a world-wide reputation. Buy from your dealer 56 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, May, 1938 FIRST DAYS OF. . . (Continued from page 8) Spanish, with two separate editors and editorials. This magazine was really the first to be published in the Philippines, truly written, edited, and sustained by Filipino women for Filipino women. I wish to call especial attention and ac­ knowledgement to Mrs. Francisco Delgado who subscribed with me and guaranteed before the print­ ers that we would be responsible for and would stand by the new Woman’s Outlook. To give an idea of the nature of this maga­ zine, I translate in part a para­ graph of the editorial that I, as editor, ■wrote for the first number. Entitled “From Woman to Wom­ an”, it was reprinted by the daily newspapers as an encouragement of this new endeavor of the wom­ en of the nation. Part of it ran as follows: “. . .To coordinate and to consolidate more tightly this constructive wfork of the women's clubs throughout the Philippines, The Wom­ an’s Outlook comes to light, anxiously wishing to serve them as spiritual tie, faith­ fully echoing in its columns all their activities, and en­ couraging them thus to en­ thusiastically continue to­ wards their luminous goal . . . .Without desiring to dis­ turb the affection of our women for the tranquility of the home, The Woman’s Outlook desires to reach their seclusions and to de­ posit in their hands delight­ ful reading matter for their hours of rest and spiritual nourishment for their minds. With all faithfulness, we shall cultivate the national virtues of our women, just as we shall their habits of eco­ nomy and their love for work. The activities and the duties of our women in the sphere of the home shall re­ ceive from us primary and preferential attention. We are difinitely convinced that the home is the kingdom of the women. And as the home is an integral and basic part of the nation, we shall con­ cern ourselves also with the relationship existing be­ tween our women and the nation and its affairs. . . In sum. our desire is to form good citizens. THE WOM­ AN'S OUTLOOK is proud to announce that it is a maga­ zine edited and published by Filipino women.” When the magazine celebrated its first anniversary, it then be­ gan to express itself more firmly, more convincingly, more decided­ ly for Woman Suffrage. The magazine planted the first seeds for the enthusiasm for feminine improvement. And so, little by lit­ tle, we began to notice the realiza­ tion of changing the political stat­ us of the woman in the nation. Mrs. Leonard Wood, wife of the then Governor-General, showed great interest in our discussions. During the convention of 1923, when this matter of Woman Suf­ frage was brought up openly for discussion, she gave great encour­ agement and sound advice. Mrs. Francisco Delgado was acting president then, and the Board of Directors had Mrs. Maria ValdesVentura, Miss Selim, Trinidad Fernandez, and the writer as mem­ bers. From then, the fight for the right to vote and hold office was waged, and successfully ter­ minated on April 30, 1937. The Manila Woman’s Club and the National Federation of Wom­ en’s Clubs of the Philippines are organizations where the Oriental tendencies of our women can be given opportunities for expansion along the progressive tendencies of their Occidental sisters. The Am­ erican women completely ignoring racial prejudices, have given whole heartedly of their help and sym­ pathetic support. And we, the Filipinas, in return, are sincerely grateful for their guiding hand along these new paths of progress and modernity. OTHER TOMORROWS (Continued from page 55)' increased your wages and.. . PAZ: But Dona Carmen, I... DONA C 2k R M E N (unheeding) : You ought to thank me, really. T thought of the best way to please your mother on her birthday. Oh. she will have the happiest of celebrations with the gift you sent her. Thirty pesos, why that should mean something! (she stands prepa­ ratory to leaving the room). And now, that you have clean­ ed up everything, you can go to the kitchen and start scrub­ bing the sink—it is terribly greasy. I hate greasy things— you know that. And then, you can help Pilar do the ironing. I want your master’s coat iron ed very well. You know that he detests creases to be wrin­ kled. Afterwards, you may cook the rice if Pilar does not need any help. I shall be out for lunch — tell the children when they arrive, not to wait for me. (As Paz looks at her dully). Now, go to the kitchen and hurry! It is almost eleven o’clock. (Dona Carmen leaves the room slowly, fanning her­ self.) (Paz crushes the rag in her hands quietly and says softly: “Happy birthday, Mother—oh, the happiest of birthdays!” Sh; looks around the room slowly and then breaks forth into sil­ ent crying as the curtain falls.) WE’RE TWELVE (Continued from page 16) Veyra, Mrs. Ortigas, Mrs. Shuman, Mrs. Quirino, Mrs. Martinez and Judge Almeda-Lopez. Each of those NFWC officers who have alrady given their messages touched on •subjects that were not only timely but were of special interest to them. While it is impossible to please every reader, the JOURNAL, how­ ever, strived to make its contents of varied interests. For fiction lovers, there were three stories: one local, one foreign, and one serial. Some­ times when space permitted, we pub­ lished more stories. There were poems (one or two always by local authors) sprinkled here and there for those who love them. We are proud o*f our regular fea­ tures, which are informative in na­ ture: the Books and Authors (re­ views) which is attracting consider­ able attention; the Women Abroad; the Journal of Events; the Movie Section; the Club News; and the Homo Institute. Going over the twelve issues last year, we were rather pleased to note that the JOURNAL had, with its feature articles, recorded important events, particularly those that were of interest to women and their homes. For instance: with the win­ ning of suffrage by Filipino women, the question arose: Could the Fili­ pino women be elected to public of­ fices? The question was widely dis­ cussed even outside of the National Assembly. An article by Nicolas Villaruz tried to answer the question by citing pertinent articles of our constitution. The proposed visit of famous birth control advocate Mar­ garet Sanger to the Philippines aroused public deseussion of the subject of birth control. While not siding with any faction, the JOURr NAL reprinted a timely article by another famous American woman, Dorothy Thompson, considered one of the ablest commentators in the world today. Another question which was brought out after the Filipino wom­ en were granted suffrage was that of taxes, whether they should pay them or be exempted from them. A report by Mrs. Mauro Mendez, chairman of the committee of the General Council of Women which was intrusted with the work of finding out what possible substitu­ tes for cedula tax could be found that the women could pay, revealed that women do pay taxes, although indirectly, but they were willing to pay the cedula tax. The proposed inclusion of some form of military training for coeds in the curricula of all high schools and colleges brought out an article by Major Salvador Reyes. The ar­ ticle explained the advantages of such a training and gave the broad outline of the course as prepared by the committee in charge, of which Major Reyes was the chair­ man. AMONG the well-known persons who have graced the pages of the JOURNAL with their names arc the following: Dr Manuel L. Car­ reon, superintendent and chief of the Measurement and Research de­ partment of the Bureau of Educa­ tion and secretary of the National Council of Education, who wrote, in our June issue, on the great role that women teachers play in the social reconsruction of the Philip­ pines; Irene M. Abelgas, acting di­ rector of the nursing service of the Philippine Red Cross, who wrote on the new service inaugurated by the Red Cross for the development of home hygiene and care of the sick in the Philippines (July issue); Professor Emilia Malabanan of the U. P., one of the delegates from the Philippines to the World Educa­ tion Conference held in Tokyo at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanesc hostilities who wrote of her impres­ sions during her brief but memor­ able trip to Japan; Dr. Stanley E. Jones, noted lecturer and author, who was on a short visit here: Eulr>gio B. Rodrigue?, then acting di­ rector of the National Library, who chose what he considered the five greatest Filipino women in Philip­ pine history and gave a short bio­ graphy of each to prove his selec­ tion: Celedonio Salvador, who dwelt lightlv on the decline of the “myths” about women; and Iris Brown, of Denver, Colorado. Frequent contri­ butors were Francisco R. Fernando. and latelv, Mrs. Lourdes C. Reves, whose first short story, Bad Boy. appeared in our magazine last month, and Herminia Ancheta. We have had stories from wellknown writers: Estrella D. Alfon, one of the most promising short story writers (some say she has al­ ready arrived) in the Philippines today who authored our local short story in December; Fidel de Castro (“Pay Day’” and in this issue, “From Love To Mourning”); Her­ nando R. Ocampo, who contributed a sketch entitled “Twelve Forv— Post Meridian”; Adriano P. Lavdico (“The Stars are Kind” and, “Death In The Evening”); Manuel E. Buenafe, who has also contribut­ ed several poems; and Marcial E. Agui’a. who wrote “Story For My Sister”. “WE LOOK BEFORE. . .” I Continued from page 5) often tears, and a numb feeling of emptiness, of incompleteness. Again the joys of home are tinged with incomprehensible sadness and fraught with foolish, unreasonable pain.... Yesterday I found the article I lost. It was, as I thought, unfin­ ished. I read it over—it was a very ordinary, maudl'inlv senti­ mental piece of writing, decidedlv mediocre, and possibly one of th"' worst sketches I have ever set my hand to. 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