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Title: Woman's Home Journal
Issue Date: Volume XVII (Issue No. 19) February 15, 1947
Year: 1947
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WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL (Official Organ of the National Federation of Women’s Clubs) Board of Editors Trinidad Fernandez-Legarda Paz Policarpio-Mendez Geronima T. Pecson Enriqueta R. Benavides Managing Editor Minerva G. Landico Associate Editor Paciencia Torre-Guzman Advertising Manager F. A. Fuenteeiila VOL. XVII No. 19 FEBRUARY 15, 1947 Contents This Fortnight’s Issue 3 Ambassadress 4-5 Lonely Hurt (Short Story) 6-7 Manuel A. Viray In Memor'iam (Poem) 7. Greg. A. Estonanto THIS FORTNIGHT’S ISSUE MRS. VIRGINIA LLAMAS-ROMULO adorns our cover this fornight. As wife of our Per manent Delegate to the UNO, Mrs. Romulo is a pretty busy woman abroad. When she came over with her husband in July to attend' the In dependence Inauguration, she aroused no little interest and admiration for what everybody called a "metamorphosis” in her. She looked peaked but that only served to enhance her attractive ness. She was bouyant, piquant, alert, every body noticed. VELUZAR, we think, has captured for The Woman’s Home Journal cover that muchadmired new look in Mrs. Romulo. Miss Helen Benitez came home unannounced, her arrival was a surprise even to her family. That her trip abroad was more business than pleasure is not to be gainsaid, as may be reveal ed by the article “Ambassadress” pp. 4-5. When we went to see her, she received us in the new offices of the new Administration .Building of the PWU. This bit of rehabilitation is definitely one of the new things Miss Benitez found upon her return. You see, she left when Manila was still smouldering. Ravaged Manila was a fresh sight she carried in her heart wherever she went in the course of her tour of the United States. She told the American people about this. Thus she ground her axe'wherever and whenever she had the chance to do it. Director Asuncion A. Perez carted a dozen of her lady friends to the Rotary Club Luncheon for “moral support”. She told the Rotarians that she didn’t feel equal to facing such a forbid ding crowd as the Rotary Bigwigs alone. And so, we lined up on both sides of her, dislodging thereby no less a personage than the Rotary President himself (Continued on page 27) Juvenile Delinquency Analyzed 8 - 9 Asuncion A. Perez After The Rain 10 Romualdo L. Bondame Men and Money ..................................................... 11 Struthers Burt They Died For The Red Cross Ideal ................ 12 D. Paulo Dizon Anne Guthtrie ......................................................... 13 Aurora Zablan Friends In America 14 World Populations 15 Club Women s Bulletin Bo^rd ............................ 16 U. S.-P, I. War Damage Commission 1 7 Gala Evenings (Fashions) .................................... 18-19 Homemakers’ Section 20-24 Bobowai and Amomoai (Folklore) 25 Maximo Ramos Silhouettes 29 Willie, My Filipino Houseboy 33 Nanette Kutner The Womans Home Journal” is edited and published by the Women’s Publishers, Inc., at 1055 Soler, Ramon Roces Bldg., Manjla, Telephone: 8-64-23. Entered as second class matter at the Manila Post Office on July 10, 1946. Subscription nares: 1 year (24 issues) P6.00; 6 months (12 issues) P3.00; 2 years (48 issues) P11.00. For foreign countries double these rates, (ZmbaAAjadMiAA A Nutshell Resume Of Miss Helm Brnitez’ Busy Year Abroad AN over-all write up of the trip of Miss Helen Benitez abroad which took a year may very properly begin with her me morable meeting with Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of the late President Roosevelt. Far from being a mere tourist routine, that meeting provides a high point in our* woman Educator's catalogue of impressions not so much because Mrs. Roosevelt is Mrs. Roosevelt and meeting her makes history as because one gleans from it a lesson in human relationships. A hand shake between the great and the not so great can be warmest. Social amenities with these people who ride the world's upper strata can be most genial, clothing the experience, theftby, with a simplicity that is most uplifting. Mrs. Roosevelt’s ex ample clearly points, asserts Miss Benitez that the greater a per son is, the less fuss and fanfare there is in her dealings with fel low humans. With-Miss Benitez, as with hundreds of other people who daily seek audience with the illustrious widow, see ing Mrs. Roosevelt is easier* than sitting in a restaurant and order in food. Talking to her is the most enjoyable experience. Appointment was made through the secretary. Miss Benitez on her way up had no room for self-con sciousness for, as she stepped out of the elevatoj, and knocked on the apartment door, there was Mrs. Roosevelt in person waiting to welcome every visitor. No maids hovered about. The living room was just as it should be—comfort able but devoid of unnecessary lu xuries. Conversation flowed smoothly and the arrival of other guests made no difference at all. Mrs. Roosevelt naturally asked questions about which occupied the late President’s most serious thoughts. The UNO conferences were a favorite topic with Mrs. Roosevelt. She would go into lengths des cribing the inner workings of the confab and was not reticent at all about the stumbling blocks one experienced trying to collaborate with the other delegates. Alice T. McLean was a name Miss Benitez frequently mentioned in her narrative of her experiences abroad. Mrs. McLean, we gather, typifies woman’s activities in the United States today. She is the founder and President of the AWVS (American Women Vo lunteer Service) a powerful orga nization of women representing all parts of America, dedicated to Jthe task of lending succor to 'those in need and of pledging a hand towards global convales cence. Miss Benitez was invited to speak before the AWVS at a luncheon meeting of the Central Committee. She had to forego the Constellation Flight in order to honor this invitation. This was only one of the va rious other invitations to speak which she honored, conscious of her role as a called-for ambassa dress from the Philippines ’who has a duty to perform. She could have gone on a lecture tour and this would have meant money, but she had previously mapped out the purpose of her trip and from this she meant not to be distracted. She had set her heart towards doing something for War Relief, for the Veterans, for her school, and for the various orga nizations in the homeland in which she took an active interest. And this she did. "The Philippines in Wartime” which included naturally the oc cupation years, and everything e'se that followed up to the Bat tle of Liberation, was a topic the Americans never seemed to tire of hearing. Miss Benitez was guest at forums in which she Miss Gladys E. Hall (left), Executive Secretary, and Miss Lucille M. Refshange (right), Educational Director of American Dietetic As sociation, are here shown with Miss Helen eBnitez of the PWU. answered very capably all ques tions directed at her abojut the Philippines. It is heartening, she said, to realize that the average American acknowledges guilty neglect on their part for their ward in the Pacific. Very evident as an outstanding characteristic of the women’s activities in the United States is alertness, awareness to the live issues of the day. "They are very much alive to international reper cussion and are greatly interested in National issues in Congress especially in those issues which directly affect them,” says Miss Benitez. “They employ watchdogs who form committees charged with the responsibility of keeping watch on government doings, and opening the eyes of the public to legislation trends. The women’s clubs there have made it a point to branch out into (1) working women groups, (2) homemakers’ circle, (3) dieti cians forums, etc. With the women abroad, active participa tion in civic organizations is a must. Activities in the home and even in the community are no longer enough. They now embrace a w-ider scope of interest in keep ing with the broader, more com plicated set-up of things. What ever it is they do, active interest always characterizes their work. Laxity in the home shall no longer be allowed to go as is, the women are determined. There is the re-direction trend stressing home or parental education. Consciousness of home responsi bility is keen even with career women. Moral education is one of the highlights of post-war edurational trends. PAGE 4 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Speaking of current educational trends, Miss Benitez predicts great changes for the next ten years. The servicemen returning, from the wars and are jamming the schools have upset all tradi tional system of education. And it is just as well, because as Pres ident Hutchins of Chicago Univ ersity puts it, plans for building army university sites should be good for only 20 years. You out grow everything after this length of time. Every 20 years there should be a complete over-all change. Miss Benitez reports that diapers and laundry may now be seen flapping in the wash line in the backyards of America’s most exclusive universities. State, ly Princeton, Alma Mater of Pres'ident Woodrow Wilson, is no ex ception. While this sight may be just another postwar effect, it is equally symbolic of the new blue print for education which is at hand. Right now, one of the many, common problems that the schools and universities are facing with the avalanche of GIs who have come home to study, is not so much accommodation as readjust ment. Consider battle-scarred, war-weary veterans to whom Okinawa was child’s play and the rather silly fraternities and their initiation rites and other “ridicu lous make-believes.” Naturally there are clashes, and campus life is far from placid. Quonset huts have been put up for the reetuming servicemen and their families, hence the long line of wash even in the backyards of the most exclusive universities. While it is true that the housing conditions in America have been worsened by the concentration of the population- in the cities—and this of course includes everyoneit is nevertheless a fact that the soldiers who now must get an education have aggravated consi derably an already taut situation. Educators, to meet this imme diate onset of problems, have banded into group committees to study specific headaches and draft a general program as an expedience. Dr. Reeves of the University of Chicago, who is the Executive Secretary of the North Central Association of American Universities and Colleges, has his hands full mtfi this project. Dr. Lynch,* educator-in-charge df wartime educational program has his energies directed towards the perfection of a streamlined system of education to meet the demands of a new world. There is a movement now in the United States among curriculum experts to adopt wartime methods of learning in the schoolrooms. In the Navy, for instance, the visual method is emphasized.- In other quarters, things are learned in the brief space of a few weeks. One gets a smattering of Spanish, French or Japanese with lighting speed. The changes in store for the world’s greatest center of learn ing promise to be atomic. These short-cuts may have been un dreamed-of by the bearded sages of our time, and when these ra dical measures are finally adapt ed to meet the demands of a new world hungry for lbarning, the history of education will have reached an all-time high. The changes will not hurt, because, as Miss Benitez puts it, “it will weed out all backlog, discard all deadwood so that the whole re furbished system shall not suffer from any hang-over". Speaking of the comp ete destruction of the PWU buildings, Miss Benitez is not being just philosophical when she refers to it as blessing. Start ing from scratch has all the ad vantages. One need not feel chain ed down to ahy old thing and this makes attainment of one’s goal rapid. To educational circles and to a populace waiting for some for mula for lasting peace, it should be of paramount importance that moral education is now receiving its just due abroad. Religion, no matter what, is being given a chance to help shape up a func tional education for a populace that is grateful for a post-war existence. One school for Catholic action is being run by religious sisters and lay folk combined. They have a course on boy and girl relation, courtship, marriage, etc. Char acter education is a smooth pro ject in this school. Very visible, according to Miss Benitez, are the drastic effects on dietetics in America today. There is a bigger demand for rice, which means Americans do eat rice now as they never ate it before^ Where before they felt they (Continued on page 30) Heading the list of women’s organizations in America is the American Women Volunteer Services. This association is particularly anx ious to expedite rehabilitation work and war relief especially tn the Philippines FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 5 Short Story LONELY HURT By Manuel 4. Viray broken voices a guttural parody of some lively Japanese air and farther beyond the bus station, near the market, there was a Japanese sentry. The tenderas were resigned to their daily ex posure of hypocrisy and inflation' and still talked with guarded ac cents of contempt and fear. There had been three trucks filled with soldiers passing through AzcarraPROUD ARE THE LONELY, SPECIALLY WHEN THEY SUFFER FROM A SECRET HURT MORE PAINFUL THAN ANY MORTAL ILL ga and a carretela had nearly careened against the lamp post. What had Consuelo said as he plVE DAYS AFTER Mario left * lor Palawan, the atmosphere like a solid bank oi aark ciouds depressed tne nnnd 01 Amomo. Like a sleepwalker, Anionm walk ed the racuous streets of tne c*iy, the unroiling film of life shaking his limbs like dried twigs in a slashing summer wind. This somber twilight he was standing beneath the electric post and flipped the indices oi n fragmentized memory. Two years ago, Mario had burst into the house with dramatic ten sion. The afternoon wind had swept in a lew yellowed leaves into the room where he had sa‘ with him, listening to his tumb ling words. ‘•Tonio, this is a chance. A big '’hance. Now we can go to Tana with the required ammunition ana three guns.” Nervously, Tonio had inhaled deeply at the atrocious Japanescigarette, waiting for further cla rification. “You have to wait, however, at the river bank in Mariquina.” “Does Consuelo know all this?” “She does and what else can she say? She is willing to wait. She will wait not only for the re turn of peace and freedom, but for me. For us.” “What else?” Mario had told him to accom pany the boatman. Tho bullets will be inserted between compart ments in the crates of fruits and in jars of salted fish; the guns attached to the bottom of the banca. After landing at Barrio Caoayan, he had followed the trail, effectively smothered b,y the shadows of the trees from the unpredictable silver of the moon, which was slowly climbing the rough outline of the silent moun tains. There had been a nervous wind and as he walked from the clear cool spring to the big boulder, his .stealthy steps seem ed to sound with enormous be traying noise. He had to part the thorny sides of the curving bamboo branches, step over a pile of rotting kakawate, walk on steadily and surely. Behind him the boatman’s shadow repeated Antonio’s every move. They had not spoken until they reached the seventh ridge. There had been no light, except for the dwindling red of embers. Somewhere the mournful moan of a dog sounded. The faint murmur of the river still sounded in Tonio’s ears when Alfredo who was acting as sentry, saw him. They had to wake Ma rio who was s eeping in the nipa hat under the overspreading mango tree hugging the hill. Now Tonio—on the . noisy street—was looking at the girl in green, who was almost lost in the thick exodus of the crowd jost ling through the street. The lift of her head, the white nape of her neck,. the arms moved in a rhythm like Consuelo, and Tonio could fee) again the fragrance of dangerous nights. A year ago he had taken the carretela for Antipolo where he was supposed to contact Mario for the distribu tion of pamphlets which were stored under the Monte de Pie dad building. Every time he thought of it, he perspired with the perspiration of one who had seen the intimate accents of mor tal farewell. He had gone from Antipolo to Manila and while he was walking down the street leading to Azcarraga, Consuelo, who had been riding in a calesa, had called him. He could not for get the stink of garbage can. The city was full of paradoxical odors. It had promptly nullified the freshness of Consuelo. He had slowly and deliberately boarded the calesa for there was a trio of drunken soldiers, singing in loud, got in, placing the bundles of the mimeographed sheets beneath his feet. She had dug her fingers in to his arms and said: “Where are you going, Tonio?” He had just widened his eyes and she had understood. PAGE 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL "I am supposed to bring this to the Kangyo Company.” Yet all the time he felt that unbearable quest for the impossible. She has to look like this—my best friend’s girl,—he had mused. How can I look at you with you looking at me like this. He had turned his head away. He was afraid, but not because of his mission yet the intolerable whiff of her nearness was smothering him. He had to take a deep drag from his ci. garette. The lurking treachery in every moving step, in every pass ing lumbering truck, in every drunken shamble, in every guttu ral inquiry, had been alien to him. And he had said: “If you’re going to' Caloocan, please tell Mario that you had taken me for a ride while going to Kangyo.” He had smiled for she had just nodded her head; how could she ever know that she has been taking me for a ride since the year, she, Mario and I graduated from college, because she is in love with him and he with her and I with her- but not she with me. “He’ll understand,” he had whispered as the calesa stopped and he had again delibe rately steped out into the harsh reality of the street and had en tered the bookshhop and had said: “I have come with some news print from Mr. Icasiano.” Tonio ground the cigarette un der his heel and moved with the people crossing the street. He followed the girl in green. The day was brutal with its glaring spears of sunlight. The girl moved with- rapid, clicking heels. He just kept behind her, walking and walking, tightening his lips, his hand in the left pocket of his jacket. “I’m crazy following an un known girl in this familiar city. Men, like me, are in quest of things that matter. But love tilts everything. We all move in con centrated areas where one’s life overlaps others’.” She turned inside a dress shop. He stopped before the news ven dor. "It js unreal, this purposeless walk.” For he was following an un known girl in green in a familiar city and he was still thinking of the years that had passed. Re membering the reunion of April when Mario and he had been de activated. Tonio did not see the girl come out from the shop. In his A l^jemoriam (To the Escodas) Home was a magnet holding firm and sure the wayward heart and the inconstant mind. It was a haven where you sought the pure balsam of peace at close of day, to find in voices young with happiness the hours, that linger long. Home was security, a citadel of love and song and flowers, a moment stolen from eternity. But when the war drums rolled and vandal hordes laid waste the land you loved, you left the peace and safety of your lot. Samurai swords no terror held and, deaf to all the pleas of friends, you bravely chose a harder way to serve, and perished nobly in the fray! GREG. A. ESTONANTO thoughts, he recalled that April night. They had been sitting in the house on Calle Enrique, scene of some of their occupation opera tions. The gas lamp had cast a bright glow of light on the cir. eular table and on the wa’ls* and ceiling. They had beeh eating, with Consuelo’s paralytic1 fa ther talking intently to Mario As at the head of the table, her mo ther talking intently to Mario. As he remembered it, Mario was thinking of how veterans could possibly unite and work for bene fits. Then they had gone out into the balcony. He, Mario and Consuelo. Below the three mango trees cast circular shadows. Far away, the lights from the city’s outline flickered like the million of sharp stars in the evening sky. There had been a slight wind. Consuelo had sat between him and idario. He had recounted the calesa incident and it had been with a disturbing force that he had re membered her nearness, and he had recalled how her fingers had dug into his arms, her alertness, her trust profile, her voice. Then Consuelo had gone ins'de because the night was getting chilly and Mario and he had gone to the balcony and watched the jewelled outline of the city. He had taken out his cigarette pack and offered one to Mario. Both of them lighted at the same time," inhaled and continued talk ing about veterans’ benefits. He had studied the passionate cruelty of Mario’s voice as he cri ticized the apparent slowness in the grant of benefits. “This was not a war of our own making. Why are they hedging and hesitating?” He had looked down the floor and saw to his amazement that the cigarette Mario was holding be tween his fingers was now only an inch long and was searing two small concentrated areas in both fingers and yet Mario had not spoken out in pain. “Look, Mario, what is the matter with your hand. Don’t you feel anything? Does it not hurt y«u?” Mario had looked at the cigar ette with calm eyes. “No,” and later had recoiled with tragic amazament. Consuelo had come in, putting across her shoulders the blue shawl he and Mario were familiar with. “My ’God,” Mario had said. The night received in deathly stillness PRRA NOTES Mr. Nicolas I. Misa, Acting Ex ecutive Officer of the Philippine Re ief and Rehabilitation Adminis tration, announced today that the PRRA released 5 bales UNRRA relief clothing, 2 cartoons house hold kit, 10 sacks rice, 5 sacks snap beans, 3 cases powered milk, 8 cases of coffee and 37 cases of other food stuffs for the consump tion of the inmate and employees of the Good Shepherd Convent of Manila which was recently visited by fire. The playground Director of the City of Manila, Mr. Silvestre Torres, also received 100 cases of miscellaneous food stuffs for free distribution among the mem bers of the different Boys’ Clubs ip Manila conjunction with the campaign to curb juvenile delinquincy in the City. TOWN OFFERED FOR SALE WASHINGTON — The War As sets Administration has offered a town for sale. It is complete with 604 houses, a general store, theatre, church, post office, hos pital, school, and one passenger automobile. The town is Dragerton, Utah, de veloped by the government in 1943 at a cost of $4,500,000 to house the employees of a coal mine. The coal mine supplies fuel for a steel plant and was purchased, along with the steel installation, by the United States Steel Corporation last year. The town has 2,500 inhabitants. Everything is owned by the gov ernment and now has been declared surplus. The WAA is offering it for sale in its entirety only, on a sealed bid basis, with credit terms permitted. The town occupies 377 acres formerly used for pasture and farming. Included with the houses are 450 new electric refrigerators, 50 used refrigerators, 125 coal ranges, 705 heating stoves and various household furnishings. The prospective owner must buy also a guest house, which could be used as a hotel; unused laundry equip ment originally purchased for the town’s laundry; the town’s hos pital, complete with operating room equipment, X-ray machines and other facilities; a playground; a complete water system and mo dern sewerage disposal plant and system. Mario’s measured words as he talked to Consuelo, revealing with unreserved frankness the full ex tent of his sickness. Tonio lighted another cigarette and looked with sadness at the oppressive familiarity of the city. FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE it Qiwwufo (Datiqu/mcy finalised. T1TTTH the rapidly growing concern about crime and lawless’ » ness in general, we have come to recognize the fact that crime often has its beginnings in the delinquencies of children. At the same time we have felt the necessity of seeking more scientific information on which to base community programs of prevention and treatment. More and more we are becoming convinced by the annals of the histories of leading countries of the world that the strength and stability of any nation largely By Asuncion A. Perez (Director of Public Welfare) A Blueprint For The Prevent]cn And Treatment Of Juvenile Delinquencies depend on giving the children come fully qualified citizens. CAUSES OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY There is no single cause of juv enile delinquency. The founda tions of delinquent behavior are usually laid in very early child hood; the period regarded by stu dents of child life as the most sig nificant in the development of personality and character. Many factors contribute to produce de linquency, but the central problem in any case is. after all, the delin quent himself. Clearly it. is only thru scientific study of the delinthe best possible chance to befrom homes of the poor. These children have had no chance to be come adjusted to conditions, nei ther were they taught any occupa tion nor trade to fit them for the stern realities of the world, when they are beyond school age. As children of the poor their com panions and playmates are chil dren of the slums. Their play grounds were the streets and the alleys and such vacant spots as they can find. They enter unoc cupied burned buildings and take out lead pipe and other saleable Very soon they are on the black list and taken into the Police Station and Courts, and later to Welfareville as delinquent boys. Large numbers of children com ing to the attention of the police and the Courts are from homes broken by the death, abandonment or separation of parents. A great many of them also came from poor homes in which lack of af fection and harmony between parents and other members of the family cause serious emotional prob’ems which often drive them away from home. Poverty and dependency are con ducive to juvenile delinquency as they lower the physical and mental powers of resistance, in crease and place the children in poor neighborhood and environ mental conditions. Through re search it has been proven that there is an increase in property crimes and vagrancy during the_ periods of economic distress. This shows that the individual’s power of resistance has been over balanced' by the strength of other circumstances. If this is true with adults, it is more so jwith children. The children of the noor do not get enough to eat. Their parents’ struggle for a living leaves Hoys shown above may grow up to be criminals if steps are not taken to eradicate factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency. It is not boys alone who should be taught some trade. Girls’ hands should be kept busy too, otherwise they will fall into mtscMej. its mark in their character. Their normal w'ants are never satisfied bv normal means. Thev feel in secure and unhappy because they witness the daily economic wants of their parents who in turn feel miserable because they are unable to protect the home against pover ty and all its attendant social evils. How society shall meet its basic obligation to strengthen the resistance capacity of its citizens by raising the level of economic security is the great question which we should ponder upon to day. Let us not deceive OUT quent himself that we can learn things from the debris which they how to check delinquent trends as sell to junk dealers. How else they may become known or how would such children get possesdelinquency in general is to be sion of a few coins for themselves ? prevented. Thgy do not know the meaning of allowance. Their parents have ECONOMIC STATUS OF nothing to give them. Their petty THE HOME thefts furnish to the emotion One of the most important con- and excitement necessary to growtributing factors is unhappy home ing life and love of adventure conditions, particularly emanating which they can get in no other from poverty. Practically, ninety- way. The only trade they know nine per cent of delinquent chil- to help a poor widow’ mother or a dren brought to the attention of sickly father is a street trade— the Bureau of Public Welfare come bootblack or selling newspapers. PACE 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Asuncion Perez, Director of Public Welfare addressing the Rotarians at their weekly luncheon. Her topic, Juvenile Delinquency, was a request from the Rotary club which proposes to do something for Manila’s young offenders. selves. If we are attempting to remedy juvenile delinquency we must consider the economic fac tor which is fundamental in its solution. This means a living wage for each family and whole some working life for the main support. There is nothing in poverty or bad housing per se which predes tines children to delinquency. The reason slums breed delinquency and develop de’inquents, is that delinquent habits and attitudes are inculcated on the dirty, nar row streets in play groups and gangs, in poolrooms and other hangouts and in other unsupervised contacts. It is here that the boy first acauires demoralizing per sonal habits and a premature sop histication that often leads him to cynical attitudes later in life. It is here that he comes in direct contact with the hoodlums, the street corner tramp, and the un derworld characters and learns the technique of crime. He learns the methods of pickpocketting, the tricks of the racketeer, how to go through doors without keys, how to secure guns and how to use thorn, how to sell stolen goods to fences. The whole technique of vice. crime, gambling and ra< . ke+eorino- is’the common subject ofl conversation in slum district. Furthermore, the boy in these proas aonuire a philosophy of life which fits him to participate in delinquent activities, a philoso phy of fatalism or "taking a chance”, or “bahala na.” He ac quires an attitude of independence and learns to stay away from home for long periods of time. He learns how to rely on himself rather than others. He acquires., disrespect for law and authority because he is in a position to see the law frequently flauted by cor rupt adults. Another important cause, of de linquency is the moral status of the home. By virtue of their au thority, parents definitely deter mines the type of behaviour which is required of the child. If the parents are well bred, train the child in courtesy and obedience and the child sees generally de sirable patterns of behavior, he will be socially adjusted. On the othe rhand, when parents exact no standards of conduct from their children—when the latter are al lowed to grow up uninhibited, un disciplined, there is generally grave danger ahead. Solomon was, indeed, right when he ad monished "to train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it.” In homes where parents are in competent, shiftless, unmoral, lazy and slovenly, children are power less to fight evils. They have been demoralized by home in fluences. They not only fail to train their children, but they incite requirement. Community stand ards determine paternal attitudes and at the same time mitigate or augment the influence working for or against the child’s welfare. And yet the same community contributes to the cases of juvenile delinquency by failing to provide wholesome recreational outlets and tolerating demoralizing com mercialized amusements—in short, the community’s failure to carry program for the prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency. With 20,000 children out of school in Manila alone, with thousands of broken homes due to death of • main support, with the high cost of living, and thousands living in make shift barong barong and crowded insanitary refugee homes, do we wonder that juvenile delin(nrn'w is on the upward trend? Delinquency Areas. — Not all community ' places tire safe to bring up small children. In the study made in Chicago, it was found out that the highest rates of de’inquency are located in deteriorating neighborhoods, where dismal homes rise upon row after row along narrow, dirty streets where industrial plants belch forth soot and smoke. Delinquents practically belong to the families of the poor. In fact almost all are on charity. Here in our country, the follow ing datas on minor delinquency have been gathered from different sources: Cases arrested by the Manila Police Department during the year 1946 the children to other type of de linquent conduct. There are parents who directly or indirectly encourage their children in petty pilfering, lying, and stealing of goods or articles for sale. What s wrong and what is right bel comes a very disturbing problem to children, in a home where parents have failed to set a pat tern for proper behavior and right conduct. As Shaw and Mckay point out, that emotional tension, petty bickerings, the impact of personal ity upon personality may be far more conducive to delinquency, than separation, divorce, desertion, per se. The particular re’ationships between father and mother, parent and child, and brother and sister are all vital factors in deter mining children’s conduct. It is to the parents that fall the ever present task of adjusting the petty differences that tend to distort family life, if they would help to build a healthy life or ganization for their children. Of the parents, the mother contri butes more of the deHnauency of the child. produce personality tra’ts which l»ad to delinquent. be havior. Rebellion from the father is caused by the mother-child re lationships. What we call well behaved and well adjusted child is a child that has been trained to conform with society’s standard—to the group’s 1. Quiapo .............. .... 2,744 2. Sta. Cruz ......... .... 2,622 3. Tondo ............... .... 519 4. San Nicolas .... .... 407 5. Sampaloc ......... .... 310 The records of juvenile delin quency in other districts that I have not mentioned herein are quite low and may not be of any significance. However, from these two tables, we shall notice a cer tain divergence of the first from the second. According to the num ber of arrests made bv the Manila Police Department, Quiapo takes the lead, with 2.744 cases arrest ed: whereas, in the second list Ouiapo ranks the last with only 10 cases placed on probation. On the other hand. Tondo ’eads in the list of cases on nrobatiori. The exnlanat’on for this is verv ob vious The fact that a delinquent boy is arrested in Quiapo does not alwavs mean that the boy resides in that district. The offense may (Continued on page 30) FEBRUARY 15. 1947 PAGE 9 Short Story as bouncing noisily the hard asphalt pavement, and Danilo and I were mutely watching each drop glisten as it traversed that light escaping from the door of the store just across the street. For almost an hour then we had been stand ing under a wide ledge of a tall concrete building, waiting for transportation, or waiting for the -rain to stop. Every now and then a gust would lash the cold rain to wards us and so we jostled and shuffled restlessly under that ledge. Danilo had to place his arm, shyly, around me to shield me from the stream of wet air. “We had better step into the rain, Danilo,” I was telling him. He threw his gaze at both street crossings but the darkness denied him of any empty vehicle. And wheti he looked up, he concluded worriedly that the rain would no longer stop that evening. The swagging black c'ouds above were threatening us with more torrents. “Let’s wait a while more, Es ter,” he said. “We can not soak our selves this chilly evening. farther from the border of the perceive the redness of his eyes rain until our backs touched the ' (frusty wall, with my head almost resting on his hard shoulder. On the other side of the street the storekeeper was laboriously closing his large rickety door, and thus cut off that shaft of light that gleamed across. With that our first kiss upon reaching that light gone, the dreariness of the dark shadow of our door. street increased, only the mono- I had suddenly wished our path tonous pouring of the rain left to under that rain would have not share our waiting. I turned to ended, because I then felt a spasm Danilo and saw him staring at that of loneliness when he said goodby, door where the light $as once is- Esthr, very softly, and then dissuing from. appeared like a complacent ghost “We had better step into the into that rain-lashed gloom. By rain,” I told him again. “I am our door I tarried long shivering, beginning to fear this ominous searching with my water-sored darkness here;” eyes the range of that rain as if A few belated men came pass- Danilo would reappear there any ing by, three of them drenched and moment. And when I was rapping shivering, the others snug under at our door, I knew they were not their raincoats. Danilo watched cold particles of rain anymore that them. That instant his disposi- I felt rolling below my eyes; they t‘on told me he was ready to yield, were tears. Then I understood so I pulled him gently away from why I had not feared that rain, our shelter into the rain. why I had not felt the chill with That was how we had event- 1 hadJ_a“gh_ed ually emerged into that evening rain. All at once I discovered myself seeking warmth in Danilo’s mus cular brace. Slowly, we trod along and the vague quavering of his lips. We were happy walking to gether. We felt free under that rain, laughing irreverently at this cold world, free in our youthful whims, even free in performing despite the ■ dreariness of that night. Yes, it all because clear to me then—I loved him. ...._______ _ THAT NEXT morning was MonshadelesTsidrwalks,’ ignoring thZ daV> and ™ther was reproving smart whipping of the cold rair >ne as she patiently pulled the on our faces. —------- - ' dress had clung pitifully on SHE KNOW THAT THE HOW COULD RAIN WOULD CUT THEIR UNFOLD ING LOVE IN THE BUD? By R. L. Bondame moreover, what will your mosay?" “She will not be angry,” 1 re turned with an air of insistency. 1 stretched my arms into that rain to test its strength. “But we’ll wait a little whi'e more.” he repeated. “Some emnty vehicle might be passing yet.” And so we waited longer, rivet ing our eyes to every suspiously covered truck that screeched heavily past us until it was swal lowed by the .treacherous darkness at the distance. The rain grew stronger and the water splashing on the curb be gan to wet our shoes. We moved My nice red-striped blanket over me. “I can not leave the bed this time, Mama,” I driveled, following with my eyes that motherly face which had always promised me security. “1 do not feel going to school today. 1 am suffering from cold.” "How many times have 1 told you to take care of yourself, child?” she mumbled in that mild scolding tone to which I had become accustomed, placing a pillow under my feet. “I shall be all right in the afternoon, Mama,” I told her. But that whole day I found myself sniffling in bed, lavishly applying the menthol-rub on my nc'-k and nostrils. There was that pulsating pain on my temples that I could not get rid of, which tenaciously balked my eagerness to get out of bed. But when I re called Danilo and me under the rain, I laughed within myself foolishly. While the whole world was shunning the bleakness of that rain we had been enjoying it. I realized that no rain, no storm could prevent me from being hap py with him. I thought of the many more rains in which we (Continued, on page 26) person—that dress I loved, over which I would have cried furiously had it been wet by a careless sprinkle of my little brother at. home,. My hair began loosening its curls with the weight of the downpour. Danilo laughed when he looked at me, and I also laughed as I hung heavily on his arm. We laughed like two little children un der that rain, kicking playfully the water that had collected in the dents of our paths. With our bare hands we brushed the water on our faces, and when we emer ged into the misty light of some lampposts on our way, I could WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL Credit? Yes, that’s also true, and getting closer. But again it’s too easy. Everyone knows those answers. Money is you, I and everyone else; what we are doing and what we are thinking. It is the most human of man’s inventions because it is the clearest symbol of what, at any given moment, we are. It is a most accurate ba rometer of contemporary human behavior. If the majority of us go haywire, then money goes haywire too. If the ’majority of •us are dishonest, money becomes dishonest. If the majority of us are extravagant, money ceases to have any actual value. If we are lazy, money looks like a beg gar. If we are cowardly, money STRUTHERS BURT rIOMAS BACON, English writer, said in 1542. “Money maketh man”; and lots of others, before and since, have said the same thing. Thomas Bacon put the cart before the horse. It is true that money—wealth—may make a man for a little while an object of respect to most of his neigbors, but only for a little while if he’s what we call “a poor sort of man” to begin with. It is also true that a man makes money. But the truest statement of all, the fundamental one, is that money is what man makes it. Just that, and nothing more. J~yO you know what money is? Lots of people don’t, and this is strange, considering the length of time money has been in the world and how important it is. It is extraordinary how few peo ple have ever sat down to give themselves a home course in Basin' Economics. It is surprising how many people still think that money is something apart from themselves and beyond their con trol, round, hard dollars of silver or gold, or bank certificates or personal checks that have a life and meaning of their own. Things, that is, that stand up on their hind legs like people. What is it—money? A con venient medium of exchange? Yes, that’s true, but it’s too easy. becomes cowardly too. If we are hopeful, money becomes opti mistic. If we are selfish and short-visioned, money becomes frozen. And so on up or down the scale. Money is merely the sum total of human work, human in tegrity, human vision and human intention; and its basis is work. Like a faithful dog, money fol lows the footsteps, intelligent or erratic, of its master, man. In short, money is morals, and the morals of any period are the combined behavior of the men and women in it. Money, morals and charity all begin at home. From this moment on you can make up your mind as to whether you wish to depreciate or stabilize the dollar. If you do a careless job—and it doesn’t make any difference FORMER ROOSEVELT CHAIR AUCTIONED OFF NEW YORK—A high chair for merly used by the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt was auc tioned off on January 30, his birth date, as part of the current March of Dimes campaign sponsored by the National Foundation for In fantile paralysis. < The chair, originally presented by the late president’s mother to a man who needed it for his own child, was donated by a furniture designer. Meanwhile, the Amer ican museum of natural history was reported to have joined the campaign through the opening of a special display portraying the services offered by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. G. I. BABIES WASHINGTON — Miss Emma Puschner, American Legion child welfare director, estimated recent ly that there are more than 100,000 campus-bom or campus-bred “Gl babies.” She based her figure on reports from 62 schools. This means there is one GI baby for every ten GIs in college; what kind of job it is, running a business or chopping wood—and expect for it the price of a good one, right then and there you be gin to depreciate the dollar. If you do a half hour’s work and demand an hour’s pay, you do the same. If you overcharge for goods or services, you start a little whirlwind that may blow your house down. Tornadoes are nothing but a number of little whirlwinds getting together in a tropic sea. If you refuse to pay just wages, or just debts, you dig a pit into which you and all the rest of mankind will eventually fall. If you depreciate your credit, and so depreciate yourself, pretty soon there’ll be no credit, for credit is man’s appreciation of his own honor. If you expect for yourself everything man can desire, but soon you will have nothing desir able, for all you will have will be possessions and nothing else. The generation that enters blindfoldly, or selfishly, or care lessly the cave of inflation, only to come out through its only possible exit, the tunnel of de pression, has no one to blame but itself. Money is you, and you are it, and so what it is, or does, depends on you. FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 11 (Left) Vice-President Quirino paying tribute to the 19 men and women who were posthu mously awarded the ARC bronze medals /or their heroism during the Jap occupation. Others in the photo are Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra and Glen A. Whisler, ARC advisor. (Below) The nearest of kin of the martyrs who received the medals for them. THEY DIED for the RED CROSS IDEAL FOLLOWING the classic tradi tion of service to suffering humanity, in which ideal the Red Cross was conceived, nineteen Philippine Red Cross volunteer and staff workers risked, and finally lost, their lives in the performance of humanitarian activities, and in defiance of hoH'Jle, inhuman circumstances, during the enemy occupation. There is pain, and there is sor row, in the memory evoked by the manner these nineteen men and women died; but the meaning that lies behind ' their sacrifices upholds the Red Cross ideal. They died the kind of death no D. Mencarini, Mrs. Sue Noell, Mrs. one would wish to die, for theirs Maria. Y. Orosa, Enrico Pirovano, was a tortured death inflicted by Dr. Carmen de Venecia, and Mrs. a brutal, sadist enemy; however, Carmen de Vera. they died for their good intentions These men and women cafne towards their fellow human be- from varied walks of life; some ings—which was, perhaps the only from well-to-do and distinguished reward they were able to know, families, others from the middle to reap. class, while two or three belonged Very recently, these nineteen to the working class. martyrs, whose names appeared in In their various capacities as the roster of PRC workers, were Red Cross workers, most of them honored posthumously by the Red assisted allied prisoners of war at Cross at the Malacaiian Social Sto. Tomas and in the Los Banos Hall, on which occasion their and Cabanatuan concentration nearest of kin were presented by camps, smuggling in sorely-needed Vice-President Elpidio Quirino food and medical supplies. Some with Bronze Medals, the highest of them were caught in the noble posthumous awards of the Amer- act of aiding their suffering felican Red Cross, for distinguished lowmen, were arrested, tortured, wartime services. and finally put to death. The honorees were: Dr. An- The others, although they did not tonio Alberto, Antonio C. Barbey- take such daring risks as smugto, Dr. Rafael Sto. Domingo, A. F. gling supplies for the interness, Duggleby, Antonio H. Esoda, Jo- stood at their posts faithfully persefa Llanes Escoda, Juan Miguel forming their duties until death Elizalde, Mrs. Nati Perez Rubio befell them. On the whole, the Fox, C. C. Grinnell, Jose Miranda services these heroes and heroines Gonzales, Marcelino Guevarra, rendered to the interees covered Guillermo Manalang, Mrs. Angus- almost the entire gamut of altias Vaca de Mencarini, Joaquin truism. They procured food and medical supplies—from where and Theirs is the heroism of a purely how and at what expense, calls voluntary sacrifice without the for another tale of difficulties and compulsion of military discipline adventure, considering the scarcity or any other from of official of these things at the time; they duty, made with the gallant and transported these supplies from spontaneous decision for the love, the city to the camps—how they not so much of one particular crossed the sentries involves again country or one particular national another tale of tense adventure; cause, but of the cause of humanhow they managed to smuggle ity as a whole.... these supplies into the concentra- “They worked where human be tion camps, they did not live to ings were degraded as beasts in tell. They nursed the wounded prison dumps of concentration and the sick internees. They serv- camps. But their feats were the ed as “contact” between the pris- more heroic for, despite the unoners and the outside world. human and inhuman nature to They might have been alive to- which their surroundings were day; but they stood their ground, cast, theirs was the super-human on penalty of death, to stick to effort to keep the spirit of human the last, in their desire to help kindness taking upon themselves others. the stern but devoted duty not onEulogizing their deeds and the 'V to minister to others, irrespecideal for which they gave up their tive of race or creed, the needed lives, Vice-President Quirino, in assistance in their darkest hour, his address at the presentation but to shield them from the brut ceremony, declared: “Whenever a^ty and cruelty of the vandal in noble deeds are remembered, the vader.” heroism of these men and women “The cause to which they dedi will ever evoke the same spirit of cated their lives>” the Vice-Presreverence and dedication as that ident’s address continued, “makes which permeates this hall today. (Continued on page 31) PAGE 12 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Miss Guthrie wearing the Filipino dress which was a gilt from Filipino friends, and the tambourine necklace given by the YWCA board of directors. ON September 2, 1945, an army plane landed at Nichols Field and from it alighted a lone woman passenger. With quick energetic - steps, she walked across the strip and into the wel coming arms of a group of Filipinas. Anne Guthrie had come back to Manila after an absence of six years to begin a brief but event ful one-year and three months labor of love in the islands. I was not in that welcoming group at Nichols Field. At that time I had not yet met Anne Guthrie. I did not even know she had come. Three and a half months later, I was to join the Y. W. C. A. staff, meet Anne Guthrie and within a space of eleven months grow to know and love her. My first impression of her was as of a gust of strong wind push ing open a closed door. She’d come to office in the morning, walk in with her quick, energetic steps and simultaneously greet everybody with a rapid chain of merry, sunshiny good morning’s. Then she would pull out a sheaf of papers from a folder—letters she had written in her speedy longhand ready to be typed and sent off-to the United States, In dia, Australia, Switzerland..., letters or pamphlets she had reand breeze out again. And always I wondered why. It was only later when the huge “six by six” started roaring into our comppound and depositing lumber, galvanized iron sheets, sand, gravel, chairs, field desks, refrigerators and a whole lot of other bits of odds and ends, did I get enlightened: Anne Guthrie was putting the Y. W. C. A. on its feet again. And I marvelled at her energy and her efficiency and always, at her constant cheerfulness. The Association was striving to revive its peacetime activities handicapped by lack of transpor tation, little equipment and sup plies and‘•cramped quarters. By loan, by gift, by purchase she obtained from the U. S. Army and Navy and the American Red Cross, equipment, building ma terials and transportation to haul them in. Usually the goods were imme diate necessities of the Associa tion. Often we would exclaim at the quantity she bought but she would only laugh and say, “If the Scotch in me did not come up once too often, I would have ANNE GUTHRIE “LOVE NEVER FAILS”—THIS IS THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE OF HER LJFE ceived to be posted on the bulletin boards, and bits of paper on which she had scribbled off ran dom thoughts to be shared with staff and volunteer workers. All these she deposited at the desk of the business secretary. Then, to the telephone to make calls which seldom lasted more than three minutes with one party. Conver sations were always brisk and concise. Finished, she’d make one more check-up on her notes of things to do for that day, then out into the jeep, which by that time had driven up for her, and witth a wave of the hand and a sing-song "goodbye,” go off in a cloud of dust. Those first few weeks, I did not see her except during those mornings when she’d breeze in brought in more things.” Sometimes, however, the goods evoked only a quiet smile from us. We could not see their use fulness. But Anne Guthrie had an imagination which could see a twisted piece of galvanized iron sheet, flattened out and used to cover a building—a clubhouse, perhaps, painted white, with gay varicolored pots at the windows, and blue triangle sign at the doorway... How she went about getting these things, I had no chance to see and hear for myself. But I remember an army officer who once said, “Anne Guthrie could go to China and bring Manchu ria back with her!” A salute to the capability of a woman—given with spontaneous sincerity and By Aurora Zablan Y.W.C.A. Staff Member the warmth of real appreciation. However, when Anne Guthrie came to the islands, she not only found a country in ruins—she also found a people weary and hearstick, living but lifeless, bravely striving to stay on its feet. To the former she gave of her hands; to the latter, of her heart. Her truly Christian outlook in life was very contagious. Perhaps because of her responsive rather than reactionary nature. Warned of the danger of holding a leadership training conference for Girl Reserves at Tagaytay due to lawlessness said to be prevalent in that city, she never theless pushed through the plans saying, “If we go there with faith in our hearts, nothing will happen to us.” We went—with faith in our hearts (although to calm and reassure the weaker ones, arrangements were made for two night watchmen to stay with us) and eighty-two young girls, and conference leaders spent one carefree, happy week at Taal Vista Lodge. No one even so much as tried to disturb us! Men and women, young boys and young girls would go to Anne Guthrie and pour out to her their tales of woe, of disappoint ment, of failure. What or how many tales were told, only Anne Guthrie knows. Where she saw the need, she gave of gifts she had asked from friends in the United States—gifts of clothing, food, and every conceivable ma terial for human need, from pins and ribbons to lipsticks and me dicine—anything to gladden a sad heart. Not a few times she gave from her own pocket. (Once she fell victim to the cunning of a “money-to-burry-my-mother-with” racketeer. She did not anathemize the man. Anne Guthrie was human and she had compassion for the frailties of human nature.) And always, she gave of her bountiful heart. I know. Because once I follow ed that group who went to her with tales of woe and poured out the bitterness in my own heart. She leaned my head on her shoulders and silently gave me comfort as I sobbed out my grief. Then quietly, gently, she spoke to me. “Love never fails,” she said. “Remember—no matter what you go through in life, it is love—not hate—that sustains!” On December 19, 1946, another army plane landed at Nichols Field. There was a gay group of (Continued on page 34) FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 13 Miss Evangelista wrote to us from 769 Pine Street, San Fran cisco, California, the following letter: I am missing all of you there. I thot perhaps that after the con ference I would just sit down and rest but it’s worst now with the number of appointments we have. How is the Federation going on? To get first hand information about Manila, I go to Judge Re gala’s office to read the Manila holding a benefit for the boys in papers. I have read about the the 1st General Hospital. They Bridge & Mahjong Party and the have around $2,000 already and the donors and the winners. What is next benefit will be for our the result and who are the new NFWC. Mrs. Malbas and Mrs. members of the Board of Direc- Satumina Morales are the best FRIENDS IN AMERICA tors? How is Dna. Concha and Mrs. Martelino? Please extend my love and respects to them. I’ve written them too but I never received an answer from them. Right here I’ve started the New Year with the following engage ments. Jan. 2—I was the guest of honor of the Kiwanis Club of Salinas which is similar to the Rotary Club. After my talk a check of $100 was issued to the Salinas Woman’s Club headed by Mrs. Ma rina K. Malbas for our disabled veterans. This women’s club is clubwomen we have here. te and Mrs. Escoda was his pro Jan. 3—I was the speaker at a fessor at the U.P. big program of the Sanilas W. C i Dec. 30—I was the speaker of which was well attended both by pthe Rizal Day Program of the Americans and ' Filipinos, and Ivallejo Filipino Community and about five former American POW were also present. Mr. Pedro Gamatero, president of the San Francisco Filipino community was also one of the speakers. He is endorsing our fund campaign and is putting up a Spring Musicale Festival for us. He is a very good leader here and is a graduate of the U. C. He was responsible for the clothing that that organization GI Bill in favor of our boys. They promised to help us too. Tommorw, Jan. 20th I’ll be the speaker of the San Francisco City and County Federation of Wo men’s Clubs. Jan. 23—The American Athle tic Association of W.C. has also invited me to speak at their Tea Meeting. Mrs. Regala arrived last Friday and the Filipino women has sent us through the PWR. here are organizing a luncheon He was my classmate in he high iin her honor and they have re school before. He is the best quested me to be the chairman of sympathizer of the Federation be- the Program Committee. With cause he is a follower of Mrs. all these still I have the spirit and Escoda. He hails from Ilocos Nor- energy for the sake of the Federincur too much exonly hope our office financially. The Federation of California appointed Mrs. Oneal chairman for the Philipppine FeJan. —12—The Vallejo W. C. deration-Relief. They are now a Tea Party for changing $.50 a member and has had a terrible cold so requested for a donation of clothWell, Mrs. Legarda is now in Washington and will be back here about the middle of March or the last week of February ready to back to Manila. I have not or ganized the local Women’s Club ation. penses and I can help States W.C. has they promised to help us too. wanted to give me but I they postponed it for February 1. Jan. 18—I was the guest speak er of the American Legion of Vallejo and I’m enclosing a picture of the affair. (We did not get it. E.N.). They passed a resolution for the passing in Congress of the es for us. Ambassador and Mrs. Carlos P. Romulo gave a Cocktail Party for the entire UNO Assembly last October. Dinner for a small group of friends followed afterwards. Above are shown, left to right, Enya Gonzales.Beabout, Conrado Benitez, Virginia Llamas.Romulo, Mr. Beabout, Leonides Virata, the American Secretary to Ambassador Romulo, Renato Constantino, Helen Benitez, Ambassador Romulo, Lety Roxas.Constanttno, and Col. Ama .o Bautista. The group above is representative of the small official "family" with which the Pht ippine Ambassador tries to manage. Mr. Benitez and daughter Helen went separate ways in the accomplishment of their mission. But when they fi. natly compared notes, they found that they agre'd on a lot of things. Rafael Santos, a Fordham Univ ersity student in New York feted a number of Filipinos in New York, at China House between Park Avenue and Lexington on December 23rd. Among those in vited were Rev. Fr. John Wilson, Leonor Orosa, Lilia de Jesus Wambangco, Lucille Lazaro Fidelino, Dr. Perfecta Bautista, Maring Gutierrez, Fanny Cortes, Be len Sumulong, Nida and Ophie Villonco, Lydia Kalaw, Alice Jose, Rosy de los Santos, Anita Magsaysay, Rosy Osmena, Zita and Lita Fernandez, Violeta Gallego, Helen Manalo, Josephine Cojuangco, Lourdes Reyes, Pacita Panganiban, Ateta Arevalo, Mercedes Soley, Vida Araneta, Dr. Ampil, Tony Velarde, Oscar de Leon, Tirso Revilla, Ramon and Pete Cojuangco, Horacio Teehankee, Nicanor Reyes, Jr., Ding Reyes, Fernando de Vera, Tomas Lim, Andrew Choy, David Choy, Jose Fernandez, Renato Arevalo, Edgardo Kalaw, Manolo Bautista, Aurelio Montinola, Carlos Romu lo, Jr., Billy Manalo, Renato Grande. A few American fellow Fordhamite’s were also invited— Johnny Mahoney, Kenneth Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Gondolfo, Irene Monahan, Patricia Flunn, Anita McGrail, Dorothy Walsh, Rosa Sherna, Josephine Vito, Joan Daly, Barbara Clark, Betty Cas sidy and Anne O’Neill. PAGE 14 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL yet but I’m already trying my best. It’s hard to be moving with out funds but still I was able to reorganize the Women’s Club at New York, Salinas and Vallejo. I’m now staying with my for mer “yaya” who owns a nice home here. Her name is Mrs. Teodora Escolin and is an active woman here. The former Miss Selim, a Mrs. Murilens now, who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Federation is helping /me organize the Woman’s Club here. And here is letter from Mrs. Legarda to Mrs. Catalino: Happy New Yeark to you and everyone in the office! I am starting the New Year right by writing to the Federa tion. To be frank with you, I I should have written since my re turn from Washington where I took care of my son during his appendix operation; but my hands have been so full that I have had no time to do so. I really need a secretary here—my correspond ence is so much and so little time to do it in, what with the piling engagements to meet the differ ent Women’s Clubs. I had to turn down an invitation to go to St. Louis, Missouri, for lack of time. We are just about ready to drive back to the West Coast where we have to get a ship to take us back to good, old Manila. Not that I do not like it here — I am thor oughly thrilled and enjoying every bit of my stay but our finances are getting rather low, so inspite of my great desire to continue campagining for our clubs, I will have to give that up now. Anyway, I feel that the response here has been wonderful and that I have accomplished something not only for our clubs but also for our peo ple and our country. This letter is addressed to you instead of to Mrs. Henares as I do not know whether she has been getting the letters I have been sending her. Up to now, I have not ereceived any reply to my com munications sent to her, I do not know why. Please try to check up on the various communications endorsed to my by the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. One is from Orara and the other is from Mr. Veloso. About the latter—is his school a public or a private one? The General Federation is reser ving its decision to act on these two letters until they hear from us. You can continue to address me thru my son at Georgetown University in Washington. He will know where to forward my mail. Since your letter to me telling me about the clippings which Miss Rey was going to send, I have not received any. up to this time. If it is a question of post age, kindly ask Mr. Cristi of our office to mail it for you so as to save stamps. I am complete ly out of touch of all of you and the only news I get are those WORLD POPULATIONS i THE statesmen charged with the ■ task of building a postwar world have become sharply aware that they must take into account the basic facts about the growth and decline of populations. The reason for their reawakened con cern is that, after 150 years of unprecedented growth, the hither to fertile nations of the Western world are now faced with declin ing or, at best, stationary popula tions. Even the U. S. will prob ably reach the stationary stage in about 25 years. In contrast to the Orient, where populations are still growing by leaps and bounds, na tions like Britain, France and Germany face an eventual decline to perhaps half their present numbers. The only major power in Europe whose population is neither stationary nor declining but still growing rapidly is the U. S. S. R. According to popu lation experts (called demogra phers), Russia’s people in 1970 will number about 250,000,000, an increase of about 65,000,000 in the next 25 years. Her potential mi litary force (males from 20 to 35) may total 32,000,000, possi bly twice that of the U. S. in 1970 and 40% greater than that of Britain, France, Germany and Italy combined. Clemenceau once STATESMEN READ BIRTH AND DEATH ERN NATIO exclaimed, “France’s tragedy is that there are 20,000,000 Germans too many!” Now Germany too has lost her population race. Demo graphers believe that the Ger mans took their last possible chance to beat Russia in 1941. Sheer numbers do not make power. The island of Java, for example, with a population of 41,000,000, is far less strong than Australia, with 7,000,000. But plenty of people, teamed with economic resources they have learned to master, are the ideal. By this standard the U. S. and Russia are the best-fixed powers. China and India, each with popu lations in the neighborhood of 400,000,000, must master the machine age before they come into their own. Without exception every country in the Western world is dedidat ed in varying degrees to the po licy of “more babies.” Only their methods differ. Russia leans to ward medals honoring mother hood and improved means of from friends like Nati Valentin who told me something about the Mothers’ Day celebration. Would it be too much for you or some one there in our office to send me a brief report about our of fice and our clubs since my de parture? I am still very much interested, you know, and would like to keep up with all events THE. FUTURE IN RATES AS WEST STOP GROWING child care. Germany and Italy, before defeat, relied on large financial benefits and a change in morals whereby no stigma was attached to illegitimate children. France is now en couraging immigration. Whether such measures can greatly affect the cycle of population growth and decline is an unanswered question. Wars do not have much effect on long-run trends in population. On demographic charts World War I shows up as a slight dip in the 20 to 30-year age group of that time, representing men kill ed, and 25 years later as another dip, representing the unborn children of those men. World War II may create bigger dips because so many families in Europe have been broken up for longer periods. But no war has yet upset the long-run equation of birth and death rates. as much as I can. Am still waiting for the list of Active Women’s Clubs as request ed by the Federation here. Please send it to me. without further delay. You see, Mrs. Alafriz’ club already got a “madrina”. I would like all the other clubs to have “madrinas” too as the club women here help us. FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE" 15 nezuela, agraduate of the College of Agriculture, U.P. The hus band died three years ago. 6. Carmen, 32 years, a high school graduate, is married to Mr. Gregorio Baltazar, a B.S.E. of the U.P. who is now the principal of San Fabian Institute, a private school. They have 3 children. 7. Paciencia, 31 years, a B.S.E. graduate of the Sto. Tomas Univ ersity and the University of the Philippines, married to Dr. Dio- " a prominent Fabian. Mrs. .____ in the has contri- San Fabian Institute. They have after its affiliation with the Na tional Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1938, was reorganized Sahagun, Miss Eulogia Cucueco, Mrs. Lucina T. Cruz, Mrs. Leonor F. de Vera, Miss Soledad de Guz man and Mrs. Nenita V. Concep cion. We are still receiving reports from the Women’s Clubs about their outstanding mothers. The San Fabian Woman’s Club, Pan__ ___ , a report through Mrs. Emperatriz L. Mrs. Macaria Serraon, secretary, men’s Clubs, i has some funds, i membership fees, gifts, and col lections from benefits. This in formation was sent to us by Mrs. Sotica S. Compasivo, president. 9. married, living respectable The Numancia Woman’s Club of Surigao was organized last month with 30 women enrolled as mem- ____ ...____ f bers. The membership enrollment last month with the following is still going on. Some of the newly elected officers: Mrs. Esteplans of the club are: To register ia P. Abrenio, president; Mrs. with the Bureau of Commerce and Justina Trinchera, vice-president; be incorporated in accordance with Mrs. Corazon A. Colasito, secretthe laws of the Republic of the ary; Mrs. Esmeralda V. Palana, Philippines, to affiliate with the Mrs. Antonia Posado, Mrs. Gua-___ _____ NFWC, and to carry out projects dalupe Posado, auditors; board of gasinan, sent in accordance with the policies of directors: ~...r__ L. ”___ the National Federation of Wo- Mendoza, Mrs. Juan Lauzon, Mrs. that Mrs. Rosario M. Erfe-Mejia . ™ At present the c]ub Consolation Mereda, Mrs. Emilio was chosen the “Outstanding medes R. Verzosa, _-±:, representing Soria, Mrs. Felisa T. Pundavela, Mother” of the municipality not physician in San Mrs. Dalmacio Colasito, Mrs. Eu- because of wealth or social stand- Verzosa is an instructor genio Ramos, Mrs. Maria P. Raz, ing but because she ' ’ " ’ Mrs. Marceliana P. Calda, Mrs. buted very good citizens consider- 3 children. Elpidio Palana, Miss Felisa Lon- ed very prominent in the com- g Vicente, 29 years, married, gasa, Miss Cristeta Palana, Miss munity and in the places where js a graduate in Commerce and is Mrs. Alice Hawkins-Bona, pres- Cristina Junia, Mrs. Matias Paia- ' •.........................- - ~ ident, and Miss Jovita 0. Baqui- na, Mrs. Cristeta L. Pundavela, ran, secretary of the Piat Woman’s Mrs. Cesario Colasito, Mrs. ManClub, Cagayan, reported that Mrs. sueto Lagutan, Mrs. Irene Ocana, Esperanza Gannaban Hawkins Mrs. Catalina Dadola; sergeantwas unanimously chosen as the at-arms: Miss Restituta Vivero, “Outstanding Mother” of Piat for 1946. The outstanding mother is a native of Piat, attended a re ligious school for girls, Sta. Imelda, in Tuguegarao, Cagayan, and then married Atty. William Haw kins, an American Captain of the Spanish-American War. She is now 60 years "old, a widow and the mother of eight children. Her children are: Mr. Ralph Hawkins connected with the Manila Daily Bulletin; Major Clifford G. Haw kins, dental surgeon, MPC Com mand, Cebu; Mr. Henry Hawkins, graduate of the school of com merce attending to the family business and family interests; Mrs. Alice Hawkins-Bona, gra duate of the Philippine Normal Mrs. Maura Parono, Mrs. CeleriSchool; Mrs. Ruth Hawkins Mil- na Zabala, Mrs. Francisca Adinler, formerly a school teacher, cula and Mrs. Paz I. Pelenio. married to Sgt. Eddie Miller and -------at present residing in San Diego, Miss Maxima S. Francisco, presCalifornia; Mr. Sam Hawkins, ident of the Bautista Women’s graduate of the college of en- Club, Pangasinan called our atgineering, at present working in tention to the mistakes we made the U.S. Merchant Marine; Mrs. in the publication of their list of Dolly Hawkins Conde, high school officers in the JOURNAL issue of graduate; and Mrs. Teresa Haw- December 31, 1946. We are herekins Medina, high school graduate, with publishing a corrected list: Mrs. Esperanza Gannaban Haw- Miss Maximo S. Francisco, pres kins is loved and respected in the ident; Mrs. Felisa B. Almerol, municipality for her unassuming vice-president; Miss Carmen S. de manner in spite of her wealth and Guzman, secretary; Miss Leoniza for her generosity and kindness. Brillante, sub-secretary; Mrs. RoShe is known not only in the town sario A. Sison, treasurer; Mrs. Carmen G. Macaranas, sub-treas urer; board of directors: Mrs. Feliza T. Chua, Mrs. Raymunda G. Semana, Mrs. Aurora G. Sales, Miss Marcelina Silva, Miss Cresencia Escano, Mrs. Simplicia 0. Sison, Miss Petra Ferrer, Mrs. Maria K. Galsim, Miss Romana they are residing. Mrs. Erie- employed in the Pan. Tran. Co., Mejia is a widow, 62 years old, jn Dagupan. He has 2 children, years old, who 1942, was a high with 13 children, all living until 9. Ramon, 23 1942 when one of them died at djgd jn Capas in Capas. Eight of her children are scbool graduate, married, living respectable lives jq. Prudencio, a student of the Dentistry. 11. Gloria, 22 , alumnus of the University of Sto. Tomas. 12. Antonio, 19 years, is a student of the University of Sto. Tomas. 13. Patrocinio, 17 years, is a student of the San Fabian Insti24 years, is now Manila School of years, is also an Picture taken is of the Naujan Woman’s Club in Minaoro. Balungao Woman’s Club, Pangasinan was reorganized on August 3, 1945. In five weeks period four branches in the bar rios were organized, namely, San Leon, San Aurelio, Rajal-Angayan and Capulaan. The club reactivat ed the puericulture center which began functioning last November. .luuuvat-id Vda. de Soliven TT . , was unanimously chosen the “Most Here is a complete list Outstanding Mother” of the year. , T dre.n' , She is the mother of Mr. Vicente t Soliven> third member ofthe „ Provincial Board, has two daugh ters who are teachers in the ele mentary school and a son who is a successful businessman. The ofT •«! c ficers °f the club are: Miss Jasc min Soliven, president; Mrs. Pilar L. ~------Miss Teofila G. Palacol, secretary; Mrs. Isabina C. Peralta, treasurer; with their families; studying in the Manila; and one high school of the San Fabian Institute. IT- — -- - ’ ‘ ‘ of her children: universities in ,, ,. , uegan luiicuomi .K.thLt:r5l??.a_r Mrs. Anastasia of commerce in a school in Ma nila, is married to Dr. Luis Gar cia, a prominent physician in Da gupan. They have 6 children. 2. Cesario, 43 years, z ’ school graduate, married with 5 children, and now a successful L.^BercasIo,’ vicZpre’sident;0 farmer residing m Santa Bar----— - - - - bara. „ T .n . ivirs. isaDina v. reraita, treasurer; 3. Jose, 40 years, an engineer, Mrs. Benita Garcia sub-treasurer; married, with 2 nhiIHron Mrs, Rosalinda Y. Soliven, Mrs. Maxima S. Bascos, business man4. Francisco, 37 years, married agers; board of directors: Miss to Belen Fernandez, a pharmacist, Victoria Belvia, Mrs. Maxima with 4 children. He is a practicing Quezon, Mrs. Pastora Malisdem, physician in this town. Miss Mercedes Oralle, Miss Nico5. Florencia, 35 years, a gra- lasa Palpal-latoc, and Mrs. Maria duate of the Lingayen High Zarate. School, is married to Mr. F. Ve- -------married, with 3 children. Resid ing in Dagupan. but also all over the province where she has numerous friends and admirers. We received the good news from Miss Estela P. Abrenio, president, that the Tolosa Women’s Club, Leyte, dormant for several years PAGE 16 WOMAN'S HOME JOURNAL US-Pl War Damage Commission QUESTIONS and ANSWERS q.—What are considered dam age causes to property under the law ? A.—In the language of the Philippine Rehabilitation Act these are called “perils”. They are: 1) Enemy attack; 2) Action taken by or at the request of military, naval, or air forces of the United States to prevent such property from coming into possession of the enemy; 3) Action taken by enemy repres entatives, civil or military, or by representatives of any govern ment cooperating with the enemy; 4) Action by the armed forces of the United States or other forces cooperating with the armed for ces of the United States in op posing, resisting or expelling the enemy from the Philippines; 5) Looting, pillage, or other law lessness or disorder accompany ing the collapse of civil authority determined by the Commission to have resulted from any of the other perils enumerated above or from control by enemy forces. Q.—Is there a time limitation as regards damage or destruction caused by enemy armed forces? A.—Yes, between the seventh of December 1941, and October 1, 1945. Q.—This time limitation ap plies to all perils? A.—For a claim to be consider ed, damage or destruction must have occurred between the two dates mentioned (Philippine time). Q.—Would depredations com mitted by enemy or fifth column sympathizers be compensated? A.—This is the intent of those who wrote the Philippine Reha bilitation Act. Q.—What about damage or destruction sustained during the campaign by American forces in collaboration with Filipino guer rillas to liberate the Islands? * A.—The Commission will con sider such claims, provided the damage or destruction occurred between the two dates specified. Q.—What is meant by the phrase collapse of civil authority in connection with war damage claims? A.—The Commission must de termine that the collapse of civil authority resulted from any of the other perils. Q.—What about the kinds of property for which the Commis sion is authorized to pay dam ages? A.—It must be made clear that the law does not permit the Com mission to pay claims on account of personal injuries, or for loss of life. Only for loss or damage to private and public property. Q.—All types of property? A.—Not all. There are some classifications of private and per sonal property for which the Commission cannot pay damages. For instance, the Commission can make no reimbursement for loss of money, or securities, or securities certificates, bonds, stocks, etc. Nor can the Commis sion compensate people for the loss of evidence of debt such as notes, bills and similar promisso ry papers. Q.—Doss not the law allow any exception on this point? A.—There is only one condition under which claims for loss of or (Continued on page 27) FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 1' Gala Evenings The latest Fashion S picturesque scheme at left s less theme from the Philip] have their gowns fashioned less gown takes on a new si treatment. Wear a black fk creation of dull red, besequir of the bustle is illustrated The latest Fashion Show in New York showed great enthusiasm for portrait gowns such as we display hdre. The picturesque scheme at left should look familiar to us panuelo-less gals. In fact, this gown, we are told, was inspired by a panueloless theme from the Philippines. Incidentally, this is an eye-opener for those who belong to the panuelo-less school. They can have their gowns fashioned this way without having to call the resulting attire Filipino Ternos which they are not. The strap less gown takes on a new skirt silhouette. Of blue taffeta, what could be lovelier than jet-black shining lace for generous bosom treatment. Wear a black ffen tied by black ribbon to your wrist. Burning Ember, if names were requested, would fit the third creation of dull red, besequined and veiled in black net. The fan is part of the attire. The decline of the hoopskirt and the advent of the bustle is illustrated (last picture) by this white silk marquisette which comes strapless, too. Note again the fan to matdh. Show in New York showed great enthusiasm for portrait gowns such as we display here. The hould look familiar to us panuelo-less gals. In fact, this gown, we are told, was inspired by a panuelopines. Incidentally, this is an eye-opener for those who belong to the panuelo-less school. They can this way without having to call the resulting attire Filipino Ternos which they are not. The strap art silhouette. Of blue taffeta, what could be lovelier than jet-black shining lace for generous bosom flt tied by black ribbon to your wrist. Burning Ember, if names were requested, would fit the third ted and veiled in black net. The fan is part of the attire. The decline of the hoopskirt and the advent (last picture) by this white silk marquisette which comes strapless, too. Note again the fan to matdh. ^*HICKEN is so expensive here w in Manila that we have it only once or twice a week. You may be interested to know that in cold stores, local dressed chicken cost more than the imported but cost less than the live ones. Many housewives are prejudiced against dressed fowls for they say who knows if these birds are al ready dead when the cold stores buy them? And they do not like the imported ones, though these cost less and are larger and fat ter, because they are “helado.” Personally, we prefer to buy a dressed chicken than a live one, for we can see right away whether it is fat or thin, how much meat the breast contains, how large are the legs. Moreover, it be comes tender much more quickly, especially if it has been refri gerated for a day or two. Didn’t or any DAY of the Week... Your marketing can be so When you SHOP with us. Our shelves are stocked up with all your needs... canned goods, groceries of all kinds, fresh produce like but ter, ham. chicken, cheese and sau sages, and internationally famous brand of wines and liquors. Remem ber — for convenience in Shopping — go to ST. GEORGE GROCERY & COLD STORAGE, INC. 242-248 Quezon Blvd, corner Globo de Oro you know that one way to make a chicken tender is to keep it in your ice box, if you are lucky to have one, overnight or for a day or two? When you fry chicken, or any meat for that matter, dry the pieces first with a clean damp cloth to prevent spattering of the lard. And if the pieces stick to the bottom of the frying pan, do not pry them loose until their underside has become crisp. This applies also to fish. Wait until a sort of crust has formed on the underside of the meat or fish, loosen with a turner and turn care fully. Our old cook once sugested to us sprinkling coarse salt on the bottom of the frying pan before putting in fish to fry to prevent sticking, but we find that using a smooth frying pan and waiting until the lard is very hot before you can see how the food is going adding the fish also do the trick, on without lifting the covers but they require much care in their handling. Certainly they are not for your careless maid to use. Even we ourself are not very care ful all the time—we are always in a hurry when we are cooking that we are liable to put down a hot pot anywhere. And a hot glass pan breaks when put down even on a damp table. Do not get the idea that all glass cooking utensils are by Pyrex and are safe to use on a flame. Some can be used only in the oven; others are just heat-re sistant, which means that you can pour boiling liquid into them and they will not break as ordinary glassware does. To be sure, read the labels or the folders that go with them—these give you the in structions on their use and care. And speaking of labels, make it a practice to always read them be fore you buy things. You will get very valuable information from them, for they are re quired by law to give the ma terials or the ingredients used, the sizes and the uses of the products to which they are attached. Be suspicious when a certain product sells for less than another of the same kind. For instance; there recently appeared on the market a certain milk product which cost sixty centavos less per Manila housewives learned to cook by electricity during the Jap anese occupation when firewood or charcoal was scarce and very ex pensive and the gas service was discontinued. Electricity is still economical and more convenient for cooking but because the cur rent often fails in many parts of the city, we have gone back to the use of the old fashioned kalan. We find that having three types of stove in our kitchen is a great help in insuring uninterrupted cooking, come what may. We have an ordinary electric hot plate that takes very long to become hot but once it is hot, it is very, very hot and must be disconnected; a kalan where we cook our rice; and a charcoal stove for slow cooking, as for adobo or pot roast. To get the most service from your electric hot plate and there by save on current, use utensils whose bottoms are of the same size as that of the hot plate. Aluminum utensils heat the quick est. Pots used in boiling or slow cooking should have tight-fitting covers. Frying pans should have very f'at bottoms, heavier than their handles so that they will not tip over when not held. Glass cooking utensils are very nice—they are easier to clean and PAGE 20 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL HOLLYWOOD BEAUTY SECRETS By MAX FACTOR \ JR. (Famous Make-up Advisor to the The Screen Stars) HAIR BEAUTY vs. THE YEARS Even though it shouldn’t be so, and needn’t be so, the fact still remains that very few adult women have hair which is as beautifully soft and lustrous as it was when they were in their early teens. Hair perfection of this teen age sort can and should be ap parent for many years, and, in most cases, throughout an entire life time. The reason that such is too frequently not the case is because young possessors of healthy and beautiful hair gen erally take this glamour asset altogether too much for granted and consequently fail to give their tresses even the slight amount of regular conditioning care which would insure the per petuation of its beauty. HAIR BRUSHES Brushing and shampooing are the only major conditioning treat ments, for women of any age whatever, which are needed for hair which is normally healthy and lustrous. No matter how old or young you are, your hair should be thoroughly brushed every night, and shampooed at least every ten days. This brushing and sham pooing treatment should be given all hair, regardless of its length or lack of length. Too many wo men who have short hair seem to think that this brevity lessens the need for brushing and shampoo ing. It doesn’t. Even though it is so much easier to brush and wash, short hair still needs such treatment just as much and just as often as long hair does. WORKING HAZARDS Women who are working at somewhat strenuous jobs err in the frequency of their shampoo ing. If your hair is regularly sub pound than other milk products of the same type. By reading its label we got the information that it was rather inferior in quality, hence the low price. When buying foodstuff, especial ly canned goods, in quantity, be sure to make the rounds of the stores first in order to get the prices. The difference may be only two or three centavos but when you are buying many, you jected to perspiration and grime by the kind of work you do, you need to shampoo it much more frequently than you would if you weren’t working. If you don’t, you may permanently mar the beauty of your hair and seriously endanger the health of your scalp. So if the work you are doing quickly detracts from the cleanli ness of your hair and scalp, coun teract this by washing your hair with an increased degree of fre quency. Contrary to a widely held opinion, it is not possible to sham poo too often, anymore than it is to wash one's face or hands too often. Don’t assume, as so many wo men seem to do, that you can’t effectively shampoo your own hair, and that this operation must be done for you. Any woman can shampoo her own hair to perfec tion if she will but try. SOAPS For shampooing, be sure to use a regular shampoo soap, rather than your usual complexion soap. Liquid shampoo soap can be rinsed from the hair more surely than the lather from a cake soap can. Rinsing is of the utmost im portance to effective shampooing. The most thorough removal of grime from the hair and scalp is of no avail unless the soap film is removed too. One rinsing will never surely remove such film. Rinse as many times as you have minutes for. If you are very young, start in with regular brush-and-shampoo conditioning of your hair now. Or, if you are not so young, and have not been giving your hair as much of such care as you should, start doing so. You may be able to regain some of the hair beauty which was probably yours when you were seventeen. will be able to save quite some more}. There are times when the dust situation here in Manila gets us down—we just leave the layers of dust on floor and furniture un touched until the next morning. What is the use, we ask our selves? No sooner had we dusted a table when its surfece got co vered with a film again. But if you have to dust and dust, at "least -make this chore easier. One way is to put away small ob jects that usually clutter your open shelves or your tables so that you will have less to lift when you wipe off the dust. Take down empty bottles and cans and put them away in covered boxes. On the table in our living room, we left just the ash tray and the flower vase (with vines—phelodendrons); before, it used to hold even day-old newspapers and pocket books. When the vines in the flower vase becomes dusty we just swish them in water. You can’t do this to paper flowers so don’t have them as decorations. And curtains—except where they are very necessary for privacy—we have taken them down and put them away, for how they can catch dust. If you do not like the bare look of your curtainless win dows, try a row of potted plants on the sill? or hang several or chids or aerial plants from the top. A BRIGHT piece of linoleum or oil cloth makes a very attractive table top and we mean top, not table cloth. HAVE you tried waxing your bookshelves, much as you wax the floor? It helps books to slide easily in and out the bookshelves. * * * IF YOU are annoyed by the buzzing sound of electric fans, try putting a piece of newspaper or cardboard under the base and the buzzing will cease. SOUNDS fishy, but if yop have a cracked dish and you want the crack to be invisible, boil the dish in enough sweet milk to cover it for about three quarters of an hour. You’ll find that the crack disappears, almost. * * * HAS it ever occurred to you when you are purchasing egg plants that the light ones are the good buys? Those heavy .in weight are full of seeds. THAT bit of sponge is not only an appurtenance for the shoe box or. bath tub. Use it with which to apply liquid floor wax when waxing floors. YOUR wicker furniture not only is best cleaned by salted water, it stiffens as dries making furniture as good as new. IF YOU haven’t loop material to make new button loops, use a shoe string. It looks just as well and will wear much longer.' * * * MOST LIKELY it has never occurred to you to cover pillows first with oil cloth then with whatever outside covering you. want. This makes a lot of dif ference in confining the kapok where it belongs. THE WHITE coating that en velopes a tongue must always be removed first before it is cooked into whatever dish is intended for it. To remove, boil in water with a tablespoon of vinegar ad ded to it. HERE’S something you’d never thought about- tomatoes: Slice, then dip each slice into egg and then into dry breadcrumbs before frying. FORMULA FOR 100 GMS.—Sulfathiazole. 2 iated Mercury, 4 gms. ; Bismuth Subnitrate, Lanolin Anhydrous, White Petrolatum aa. q. gms. ; Salicylic Acid. 8 gms: 12 tjms. ; Oil of Eucalyptus, s., 100 gms. Ammon FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 21 Recipes WAYS WITH PORK QNCE in the course of our meandering in the market trying to decide what to buy for the meals of the day that were within our food allowance, we met an acquaintance to whom we confided our plight "Buy a piece of pork," she airily advised us and was gone before we could ask her what she did with porkie. We did buy a piece of pork and all went well and ever since that day, we have been following her advice whenever we are stumped. Once the piece of pork is in our market basket, certain dishes easily come to our mind and we have even invented certain ways with porkie that saves us a trip to the market the next day. We Moqgi's Seasoning Initanfly Improves in a remarkable manner Hie flavour of soups, gravies, meat and vegetable dishes. In addition It acts as a beneficial stimulant to digestion. Sole Disfri buj’ors ■■ ED. A. KELLER & CO.,LTD. 3rd.FLOOR, WISE BUILDING 178 J.LUNA, MANILA TEL.2-71-05 are a lazy person and if we only had a refrigerator we would market only once or twice a week as we did during the Japanese occupation. We used to store meat and fish in the ice compartment of our ice box and they stayed fresh even for two weeks. And now what to do with pork besides the usual adobo or sinigang? PORK ROAST Let’s start with a kilo of pork (it is more economical in the long run to buy a large piece of meat) from the leg or from the shoulder (this cut is more ex pensive but you get very little fat and no bone). You trim this cut and use the small pieces to go with some vegetables or to flavor sotanghun or pancit or some other quick-to-cook dish for lunch that day. You buy some shrimps, of course. The rest of the pork (kept whole) is placed in a deep pot with a tight cover, and a little water, some black pepper, crushed gar.ic, a l.ttle vinegar and salt added to it. Sim mer over charcoal until tender or until all liquid has evaporated. This piece of pork, not unlike asado, will keep for as long as four days, and can be the base of various dishes. For supper that evening, thin ly pare off with a very sharp knife the outside of the roast. Place the slices in a frying pan and heat thoroughly with a mixture of half toyo and half water. Nice to go with this dish are string beans sauteed with one sliced onion in the same fry ing pan in which the pork slices have been heated. The next day have Pork with Tomato Sauce. Slice thinly about one third of the pork roast and heat in a sauce made with chop ped tomatoes and sliced onion. For a change, try adding one sweet pepper, red or green, or chopped stuffed or ripe olives to the tomato - sauce. Another dish which may be made with the same pork slices is a soup with pechay or mustard leaves in it. Just boil the pork slices in water and when tender, add a bunch or two of pechay or mustard and bring to a boil. Serve with toyo. If there is still a little left of this roast after a day or two, polish it off at breakfast. Serve cold, thinly sliced, with pickles or sweet pickle relish. Pork cooked this way tastes just like chicken when served cold. If your family is big, cook two kilos of pork this way, and use some for snack sandwiches. ADOBO When we make adobo, we make plenty of it, usually a kilo, with a cut that consists of alter nating fat and meat. We choose a young pig—you can tell be cause the skin is thin—so that the adobo will become tender quickly. Several dishes may also be prepared with adobo as a base. There’s pinacbet, the Ilocano bulanglang, made with ampalaya, sitao, eggplants, squash, and maybe kangkong leaves. You simply sautee a little bagoong alamang, onion, and tomatoes in a little of the adobo lard and add the vegetables with some pork pieces. You should serve liver at least once a week, but fresh liver is expensive (8 pesos a kilo here in Manila) and your food budget does not warrant your making a dish with liver as its main ingre dient. Why not serve some of the adobo with a Ever sauce? There are canned liver pastes which are inexpensive and in addition, contains wheat germ, which as you probably know, is an excel lent source of Vitamin B. If your children are al ready beginning to look down on canned pork and beans, which, according to our father-in-law, should be called “plenty of beans with very little pork" instead. Serve the canned beans topped with adobo and they - will eat them again. By the way, have you tried sour pickles with beans? Of course you know that humba starts as adobo. You just season your adobo with toyo and sugar to suit your taste, maybe add a few slices of saba bananas, and you have humba. Serve with crisp lettuce leaves. (Wrap each pork piece witlj lettuce and eat it with your fingers, as the Chineese do.) Have you tried American style stew with pork instead of beef brisket or lamb? For this, ribs are best. They are cut into twoinch square pieces and browned first, then simmered in water until tender. Add a can of mixed vegetables or whatever local vegetables are your favorites, or perhaps just white squash, cut into cubes. For Caldereta (which is Spanish stew), add cubed po tatoes, peas, habichuela pods, and sliced red sweet pepper. GROUND PORK Another standby of ours uses a kilo of ground pork (do not buy already ground pork when you need plenty, but buy a cut from the leg and have it ground for you—yes, the butcher will do this for you if you buy a kilo—so that you will not get too much fat which will just melt during the cooking). Offhand, we can think of four dishes to make with ground pork, namely, almondigas, torta, lam an buche with raisips, lumpia frito. For the almondigas, add about a cup of shelled and chopped raw shrimps to a cup of raw ground pork. Mix in a bunch of finely chopped green onions, including leaves. Shape into balls, each the size of a marble, and roll in flour or cornstarch. Brown in a little PAGE 22 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Pork should be cooked tho roughly before it is eaten, for it may be the carrier of some dangerous disease or parasites. Ground pork should be cooked for at least thirty minutes; whole or large pieces, for at least one hour. Pork is cooked when the meat has become white. Pierce a large piece with a fork and when reddish juice comes out, it is not yet cooked. Few housewives know that a pig has also a tenderloin (salomillo) as a cow has. Pork tenderloin is seldom sold se parately—it is usually includ ed in pork chops. When you are in a hurry, ask for it, have it cut like tapa or pound it until thin, and after breading it, fry in a little lard. It is also good for “bachoy” or used in “chop suey.” Comparatively speaking, pork is less expensive than either fresh fish or vegetables. Here in Manila, pork without bone sells for P3.50 a kilo, while first class fish, like apahap, or shrimps cost from P3 to P5 a kilo. Chicharro (pea pods), when they first appeared, sold for P8 a kilo, cauliflower for PIO a kilo. Pork is a -good source of vi tamins, especially Vitamin B, and is more versatile than either beef or fish. Moreover, everybody like it. fat and set aside. Make a soup by browning finely chopped gar lic and then adding water. Bring to a boil and add the pork balls. If you want to make this dish more filling, add misua and sliced patola. The rest of your ground pork you cook with plenty of chopped onion. Just mix the pork and the onion, add a little water to prevent burning, and cook until the water has been absorbed and lard is coming out. With some of this cooked mixture, make torta, using 3 tablespoons of pork for every beaten egg. Three eggs and about ten tablespoons of pork mixture will make two small-sized tortas. Add a box or two of raisins to the rest of the cooked pork mixture and serve as laman buche (stuffing). If some of this re mains (which we doubt), add grabanzos and wrap in lumpia balat and fry in deep hot fat. LUMPIA MACAO And now for the great favorite of our own family—a dish so very easy to prepare you will want to make it every week. We shall not put down the quantities of the ingredients as you will make them up according to the needs of your family. When we make 10 pieces of lumpia (allow ing two for each of us), we use 1/3 kilo of pork with fat, one peso worth of shrimps (just enough to fill a cup when cooked and shelled), and from three to four onions. The best proportion for this dish is 1/3 pork, 1/3 shrimps, 1/3 onions, but you may use more onions or more shrimps when these ase plentiful. Boil the pork and the shrimps separately. The pork should be thoroughly cooked and cut into small cubes. The shrimps are shelled and cut in the same size as the pork cubes. The onions are peeled, sliced lengthwise first, then crosswise. These three in gredients are then mixed tho roughly so that each lumpia will get the same proportion of pork, shrimps and onions. Place two tablespoons of this mixture on J'each lumpia wrapper and wrap J tightly, folding in the sides. Fry Jin deep, hot fat, drain and serve immediately with toyo and calamansi juice. The Macao cooks make these lumpia rather thin, allowing as many as four to each person. To save time and fuel, you may make your lumpia larger or thicker. The fat in which they are to be fried should be smoking when you drop them in so that they will brown quickly and not absorb any lard. The onion should still be crisp when you bite into them. This dish is rather expensive so you will not want anything, else to go with it. However, we suggest that you also cook some gulay to utilize the shrimp heads which will yield very rich juice when pounded. How about patola or' chicharro, or a bulanglang of eggplant, squash and kangkong? PORK TOWERS 3 1/2 inch slices of fresh pork (from the leg) or ham Bread Stuffing: 2 cups dry bread crumbs 2 tablespoons chopped onion 1/2 cup chopped apple Salt and pepper to taste Hot water to moisten Season pork steak with salt and pepper, dip in flour, and brown in a little fat. Cover each piece with thinly sliced unpared apples, then with Bread Stuffing. Place in a frying pan, cover, and cook over low heat for one hour. Each steak will make two serv ings. SWEDISH HAM BALLS 1/2 pound ground ham 1/2 pound ground pork 1 cup dry bread crumbs 1 well-beaten egg 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard 1/4 cup vinegar 1/4 cup water Combine ham and pork, crumbs, egg, and milk. Mix thoroughly and form into small balls. Com bine remaining ingredients, stiring until the sugar dissolves. Brown the meat balls in a little lard, being careful not to burn them. Pour the vinegar mixture over, cover, and cook over a low fire until the sauce is thick. Baste the balls frequently with the sauce. BARBECUED RIBS 1 kilo spareribs 1 cup ketchup 1/3 cup Worcestershire sauce or toyo Salt and pepper 2 cups water Have the butcher cut the ribs into serving pieces. When you arrive at home, wipe each piece with a clean damp cloth and brown in a little lard, doing a few pieces at a time so as not to crowd them in the pan. Arrange them in a large pan, then lay thin slices of lemon and onion on top. Pour the ketchup-water mixture over the whole, cover the pan, and cook over a very low fire until pork is very tender. If desired, quartered ripe tomatoes and sliced sweet peppepr may be added half an hour before the pork is done. THE MARK OF SAFETY nestle’s milk products (export) inc 'IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIH1 FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 23 AS a mother we are keenly in** terested in th^ latest trends or findings in child care and education so we avidly read whatever books and magazines fall into our hands. Moreover, living with two doctors, we have access to the latest scientific in formation on child care from literature that physicians receive from various parts of the world. We are sure that many mothers, especially those who live in the provinces, do not have as much chance as we have to read books or magazine articles on the sub ject that interests them most. It is our desire to help them and so we are starting this page which will be a sort of clearing house for ideas on the upbringing of children. No matter how many children a woman may have, there is always something that she may not know that a new mother knows because the latter has read about it. Shortly after liberation we were lucky enough to be the reci pient of a bundle of old maga zines from two kind American ladies. You cannot imagine how eagerly we looked through these magazines after four years of not seeing them. We were expecting a baby then so the articles that interested us most were those about children. After reading these magazines, some of which dated as far back as 1942, we got the impression that the tendency in the United States when it came to child rearing was to go back to , many old fashioned practices that child specialists found bene ficial instead of harmful. Just two examples? Rocking a child to sleep was approved and rocking chairs were back ih circulation after beChild Care Enjoy your. Eaby hard you' try. In the second place, you are more apt, in the long run, to make him balky and dis agreeable when you go at his training too hard. Everyone wants his child to turn out to be healthy in his habits and easy to live with. But each child wants, himself, to eat at sensible hours, and later to learn good table manners. His bowels (as long as the movements don’t become too hard) will move according to their own healthy worm ueieninneu lu gev uieu pa- ... . rents under their thumbs by hook Pattern’ whlch, may may noJ ka Karrnlar* orifl WHOTl HP IQ THUCn or by crook. This is not true at all. Your baby is bom to be a reasonable, friendly human being. If you treat him nicely, he won't take advantage of you. Don’t be ing consigned to the attic for loving. You’d think from all you years. Rocking a child to sleep m- hear about babies demanding atclude singing to him, fondling tention that they come into .the him; in short, it develops inti- ...................... ’ ' " " macy between mother and child. What could be more impersonal, not to say cruel, than to put a child in his own bed in his own room, and leaving him alone, with the light out, to sleep? Thumb-sucking long considered afraid to love him or respond to a very undesirable habit, was be- his needs. Every baby neeeds to ing okayed by child specialists, he smiled at, talked to, played not only because it is natural for with, fondled gently and lovingworld determined to get their pabe regular; and when he is much older and wiser, you can show him where to sit to move them. He will develop his own pattern of sleep, according to his own needs. In all these habits he will fit into the family’s way of doing things sooner or later without much effort on your part. The same thing goes, later on, a child to suck, if not his mother’s ly—just as much as he, needs vinipple, his thumb, but al^ th? cause it helps develop the muscles who doesn’t get any loving will around his mouth. When a child grow up cold and unresponsive, sucks he is satisfying a need, When he cries it’s for a good which when not met, may cause reason—maybe it’s hunger, or problems later on. More on this wetness, or indigestion, or just subject of thumb-sucking later. because he’s on edge and needs All the books on child care soothing. His cry is there to call that we have read advocate bring- you. The uneasy feeling you have ing up a child in the mosot na- when you hear him cry, the feeltural way. In other words, let jng that you want to comfort him, nature be the mother’s guide, and js meant to be part of your Jgrjmly determined, ii not a Schedule, which was invent- nature, too. A little gentle rock- to bring up a l..J.t’..„ ________ ed for the convenience of mo- jng may actually be good for successful child. It’s the parents thers. A schedule, the authors say, him who have a natural self-confidis all right but it should be fie- jje doesn’t have to be sternly ence in themselves and a comfortxible, not rigid. trained. You may hear people say able, affectionate attitude toward Let me quote Dr. Benja- that you have to get your baby jnin Spock, author of a fast-sell- strictly regulated in his feeding, ing, authoritative, commonsense sieeping, bowel movements, and guide for parents on the care of other habits—but don’t believe children from birth to - adoles- this either. In the first place, you cence: can’t get a baby regulated beyond “He isn’t a schemer. He needs a certain point, no matter how mother’s iy—Just as mucn as ne neeus »i- .... ,T. . • □ SX tamins and calories, and the baby dise.pl.ne, good behavior and A1OU ninacant mnnnprs You Cant drill pieasant manners. You can’t drill these into a child from the out side in a hundred years. The de sire to get along with other peo ple happily ahd considerately develops within him as part of the unfolding of his nature, pro vided he grows up with loving, self-respecting parents. What I am saying in different ways is that you don’t have to ■ ' ’ '__ in order healthy, agreeable, their children who get the best re sults—and with the least effort. Enjoy him as he is—that’s how he’ll grow up best. Every baby’s face is different from every other’s. In the same way every baby’s pattern of development is different. One may be advanced FORMULA:—Cod Liver Oil, 29.032%; Glycerine 12.097%: 1% Solution of Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda 66.937%; Excipient, 1.796%; Flavoring, .138%. Approved and Registered by the board of Pharmacy. A ~[in his general bodily strength jand coordination, an early sitter, Istander, walker—a sort of infant athlete. And yet he may be slow in doing careful, skillful things with his fingers, in talking. Even a baby who is an athlete in roll ing over, standing, and creeping, may turn out to be slow to learn to walk. A baby who’s advanced in his physical activities may be very slow in his teething, and vioe versa. A child who turns out later to be smart in his schoolwork may have been so slow in begin ning to talk that his parents were afraid for a while that he was dull; and a child who has just an ordinary amount of brains is sometimes a very early talker. Love and enjoy your child for what he is, for what he looks like, (Continued on page 28) PAGE 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Children's Corner When they reached the middle of the water, the crocodile began to dive. The monkey, alarmed, clawed the eyes of the crocodile and said, "Do not go too low now, Friend Bobowaia, or I will dig out your eyes!” Bobowaia rose back to the suf face and the monkey let go of his eyes. But as soon as he had done this, the other started to dive again. At once Amomo-ai began clawing at his eyes with all his might, and in pain Bobowaia had to rise back to the surface of the water. This happened again and again with neither the monkey nor crocodile gaining an advantage over the other. Finally the mon key started screaming for help, and Pilandok, the Farmer, heard him. “What is the matter with you two fellows?” shouted Pilandok to them. “Come nearer and let me settle your trouble.” Bobowaia knew that Pilandok hated the monkey for stealing his bananas and he felt that the far mer would be glad to help him capture the thief. He swam to trouble,” said the crocodile. “Now,” said Pilandok, “this quarrel appears to be more dif ficult to settle than any quarrel I have settled before. I think you better run a race. Whoever wins I shall declare as the innocent one.” Now Bobowaia knew very well that he could not beat the monkey in a foot race. So he decided to kill the monkey with his powerful tail and he moved over to one side in order to do this. But before he coul dstrike Amomo-ai, the mon key had scampered away and had climbed to the toppmost branch of a nearby tree. From there he laughed loud and long at Bobowaia Pilandok also climbed up the tree laughing. The crocodile’s anger knew no. bounds. He went back into the water and promised to make mon keys and men his most hated ene mies. And although this story happened when the world was still young, Bobowaia has not forgotten his promise. That is why it is dangerous to go near a crocodile. BOBO WAI AND AMOMOWAI (A MORO FOLK TALE) By Maximo Ramos DOBOWAIA’S grandfather was very sick. The medicine men had tried all their remedies on him, but the old crocodile’s illness would not go away. So young Bobowaia went to see a wise man and asked him what he thought might be good for his sick grand father. “Give him the liver of a mon key,” said the man. Bobowaia went to look for a monkey and soon found one sitting at the bank of the river, saying: “How I wish I could cross the water and eat of the ripening rice on the other side!” Bobowia went to him and said, “Amomo-ai, what might be trou bling you this fine morning?” “You heard me,” said the mon key. “One never can tell about you crocodiles in the water. You .may be around or again you may not be: it is so easy for you to hide yourselves under the surface. But I do wish I could swim across!” "Well then,” said Bobowaia, “what are you waiting for? I am going across right now. If you get on my back i shall take you safely to the other side.” “That is very kind of you, Bo bowaia,” replied the monkey. “But how am I to know that you will not eat me on the way? Your appetite for monkey’s meat is quite well known.” “Did you not know,” said Bo bowaia, “that your grandfather and mine were great friends and that they promised each other that they and their children and their children’s children will al ways be friends? Since when did I become so wicked as to eat my own friend? Jump on my back and let us go!” “I might drown,” said the mon key. “The rice is ripe on the other side, Friend Amomo-ai,” said the crocodile. “Hold on now,” said the croco dile, “and let us go.” the edge of the water. “Now tell me what is the quar rel about,” said Pilandok. “You see,” began Bobowaia, “Amomo-ai, who has often stolen your bananas, asked me to take him to your field across the river where he was going to steal your rice. Since I was going across my self for something else, he begged me so hard to give him a ride that I took pity on him and allowed him to get on ipy back. But when we reached the middle of the stream, what should he do but start claw ing out my eyes? Naturally I got angry.” “Is it true, Amomo-ai,” said Pi landok, “that you tried to claw out Bobowaia’s eyes?” “It is true,” said • Amomo-ai. “But I clawed his eyes because he wanted to drown me.” “I wanted to drown you because you tried to dig out my eyes!” “But you began the trouble,” said the monkey. “It was you who started the When You Have Sour Stomach Common Sense Prescribes ENO A dash of ENO in a glass of water makes a sparkling, ef fervescent drink that helps relieve you quickly. It aids in sweetening the stomach, in fighting fatigue due to ex cess gastric acid. Also use Eno as a help in relieving that stuffed up feeling due to heavy or hurried eating—or as a mild laxative. Eno is so good for you— and so good tasting, too. Buy Eno, the worldknown family standby, at your farmacia today. MAKES A SPARKLING EFFERVESCENT DRINK Forrnnl* eacordinfr to the Bqtmo of Scleoee of the Goran* slant of the Philippine lelanda. 48 per cent Tarterlo Add, fit p* cent Sodhin ud PaWaalom Bloubooatee. Muufao* I EBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 25 AFTER THE RAIN (Continued from page 10) would walk together again. AFTER THREE days Danilo came to visit me. “I have been missing you very much, Ester,” he whispered. ‘‘These three days I have been wondering what had happened to you. You haven’t appeared in school.” “It’s just mere cold,” I said, rocking my chair beside him to show him I was already feeling well. “I will be all right in a day or two.” And be under the rain toge ther again? he seemed to com municate with his eyes—and catch cold again? And we both laugh ed. Then I knew we would al ways understand each other, even in silence—after that rain. "But, Ester, you have grown pale,” he breathed out, feeling much concerned, surveying my face fondly with his devout eyes. I looked at my palms as if they would reflect the wanness of my face, and then searched his own hand with them. “Don’t worry,” I smiled at him, then succumbed to a soft laughter. “I can go un der the rain again after this cold. Maybe after two days, or perhaps even tomorrow.” “And, Ester,” he called sud denly, yet in a low, assuring voice as he stood, looking straight into my eyes, “I have got a good job now—” and turned his back, and left me there staring uncer tainly at his back. And even when he had already vanished, I was still staring at the door. He had forgotten to say, goodby, Ester. I laughed, but my bright laugh did not produce any sound. MOTHER WAS holding my arm because I was feeling very weak then. She was nervy; I felt her hand tremble. She had fastened her eyes at the doctor’s unruffled face, waiting ecitedly for what the doctor would say. I coughed, coughed recurrently while the doctor was tapping my back with his stethoscope. And when I thought he was thru I turned my face to him, not a bit less apprehensive than mother. He was nodding when he had taken away the instrument from his ears. It is pneumonia, he said, plainly, calmly. I gasped. Everybody in the room gasped save the doctor. I could not look at mother straight in the eyes. I could not believe it was all that rain—that was al most two weeks ago—but—yes, it was that rain, the doctor nodded in his peculiar calmness as he began to prepare the syringe. When the doctor had finished instructing mother what to do and left, Danilo entered the room quite perturbed. Mother asked him to sit beside my bed. When I coughed he did not hesitate pars ing his palm slightly over my forehead thought mother was there looking at us. Danilo had shed off his shyness. He turned to mother but he was unable to utter anything to her. And mo ther, whose understanding kidness I had always admired, left us to gether in the room. I could ■ see Danilo’s brow wrinkle for the first time as if he was telling me he had already bloomed into manhood and he had left the frivolities of his young age behind. “Do not worry, I’ll soon be well,” I told him. “The doctor said it would not take me long in bed now—just a week or two only. I am feeling better now after that injection.” All that time he was silent, but he was looking me over, from my feet on the pillow up to my hair. “This will not happen again, Ester,” he spoke. “We will be careful of ourselves next time. Now I can not help but worry over—” “Do not worry,” I coughed again. "But I love you,” he said al most in a hush. “Very much, Es ter.” And he had seemed to have uttered that with a sob which he was trying to keep from me. I did not tell him I love him very much, too. I could not say anything. I wanted to make him stay, stay there with me. But at the same time, I wanted him to get away, get away from my side and not suffer the misery of looking at my thin, bedridden self! I DID NOT know what day it was then, or how many weeks had passed since that evening rain. This was my first night in the hospital. My world had mer cilessly shrunk into the bare four walls and the scent of medicine and the torture of this unappeas able coughing, coughing, cough ing. They had even pulled the window blind down so that I could not know then whether the night outside was very dark. Here in the hospital, with all the equipments at hand, you will surely get well pretty soon, the doctor had said. Your condition is not serious; nothing to worry about, he added. And when the nurses came they said: Many of the patients came out from this ward strong and lively with just a month or so of care. Dr. Rey noso is a good doctor. And all these assurances I told Danilo when he had come to visit me in the hospital. I was gladly hopeful, and I tried to make him so. He had become dearer to me each day since that evening rain, and my endearment seemed to have no end; the more frequent were his visits, the more I yearn ed for his presence. He came to me relating everything, his work, how he was saving his money, the school life which I was miss ing, and he even made me fancy a home—our home together— when I get well. When you get well, they all kept on saying. And suddenly I wished I were strong enough to drop into his arms that moment. “Yes, you will be all right soon, he said, passing nicely his palm over my dry, long-uncomb ed tresses. “Yes,” he smiled, then dipped his lips on my forehead. And when he was gone from my side that day, I looked at my emaciated arms and cried. I cried and cried. I was afraid I could not recover anymore that flesh I had had before. And also my laughter, my smiles, the glitter in my eyes—Danilo would never exchange all these for all the treasures in the world, he had told me once. But could I regain them for him in a month or so? Here in the hospital, with all the equipments at hand, you will surely get well pretty soon... Yes, a month or so would not be long. I prayed and prayed and prayed. TWO WEEKS, three weeks, four weeks—time really fleeted that fast, with me and Danilo wait ing for that day when I could walk agajn and be free again from this imprisonment of hopThe luckiest woman isn't the one who marries the best man, but the one who makes the most out of the man she marri —Helen Rowland. Usually women make them selves more agreeable in public than at home. —Livy. Bonds of matrimony: Worth less unless the interest is kept. up. —J. G. Pallard. Husbands are awkward things to deal with: even keep ing them in hot water will not make them tender. —Mary Buckley. ing, praying, coughing, then hoping again. But this morning the doctor was nervous, nervous as he held my wrist for my pulse. All of them were restive around me. And now they have closed the windows and hushed their voices. They want to hide the truth from me now. But I can plainly hear that water dripping outside, that pattering coming nearer and nearer. Could that be rain? Rain, Da nilo ? And they—why don’t they say something to me now? Why do they turn breathless to one an other? Why does not the doctor tell me when I would bfe well again? Why don’t they tell me now that it would take me a few weeks more in bed? Two months more? A year more? They have kept me in anguish, Danilo. They have made me hope. They have rent my world; I have rent your own. Why have you shackled yourself to my own misery, Danilo? You have suffer ed with me all the days since that rain, I know. Since that rain when ^e tried to escape this dreary world into a world of our own. Remember? And now, why have we undergone' all these tra vails for a mere hope? Why don’t you speak too, Da nilo? Have I hurt you completely with this finality? Why don’t you come near and pass your hand once more on my forehead—for— for the last time? And let me finger the shape of your face and —and your quivering lips? That pattering of the rain, Da nilo, that rain outside—it calls for me. When shall we tread together again under the rain?.When shall we laught together again? When, Danilo ? PAGE 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNA1 US-PI WAR DAMAGE COMMISSION (Continued, from page 17) made. The Commission will re ceive and consider claims for the loss of or damage to such items providing they constituted inven tories, supplies, or equipment, for carrying on a trade, business or profession in the Philippines. And also, providing, of course that such claims meet all the other requirements of the law. the United States Philippine War Damage Commission, enplaned last February 1 for Washington to appear before the Appropria tions Committees of the House of Representatives and the Sen ate when they hold hearings on the proposed allocation of addi tional funds for expenditures in the next fiscal year under the Philippine Rehabilitation Act. Commissioner Francisco A. Del gado will carry on the work of the Commission in the Philippines. The request for the fiscal year 1948 for payment of private claims and administrative ex penses of the Commission amounts to P180,000,000, and for restora tion of public property totals nearly fifty-one million pesos. Under the procedures of United States Government, the U.S.-P.I. War Damage Commission must submit estimates of its financial needs for each ensuing fiscal year to the Bureau of the Budget which may approve or re duce them. The Budget Bureau’s recommendations are in turn sub mitted to the President who for wards his decision to the Congress for its consideration. It is for this reason that Chairman Waring will return to Washington to appear before the House and Senate Apthe propriations Committees when Q.—What about aircraft and watercraft ? A.—Pleasure watercraft and pleasure aircraft also fall into the category of excluded items unless they were part Of inven tories or equipment for carrying on a trade or business or prof ession in the Philippines. Ships and boats used in business are covered, subject to certain provisisons. First, they must be of Philippine or United States reTHIS FORTNIGHT'S ISSUE (Continued, from page 3) to head the Philippine Army Air Corps. He died when his plane crashed at Randolph Field in the United States, back in 1935. He gistry and owned by nationals of either country. Second, they must have been in harbors, terri torial or inland waters of the Philippines, when the loss or damage occurred. Q.—Any other provisions of the Act covering ships and watertercraft ? The US-PI War Damage Com mission will consider claims for vessels used exclusively for stor age, housing, manufacturing, or for generating electric power. It will likejvise receive claims for damage or loss involving such craft which were under construc tion at the time of damage or loss providing, of course, that the broad, general qualifications are met. who had to sit somewhere else. Mrs. Perez told the Rotarians that they could change Manila this very minute if they want to. The Rotary Club, we understand, has pledged itself to the project of helping minimize juvenile de linquency in Manila. interest to many readers. A word about Mrs. Leynes. She was Miss Soledad Hojilla whose name. is familiar to magazine readers especially readers of this official organ of the National Fe deration of Women’s Clubs. She, has a year-old baby. . Thfis, was then taking advance courses in aeronautics. Aurora is the younger of his two daughters. The elder sister, Gloria, is now Mrs. Sison. Before her marriage she was student se cretary of the YWCA. A student in the Philippine Women’s Uni versity, Aurora edited the 1941 Miss Anne Guthrie has long months ago, was the reason she College Annual and the Philipsince arrived in the States. She could not come to join us sooner, pine Women’s Magazine. She was was loathe to leave the Philip- Our Home Institute . will once due to finish her college course pines, but there was a bigger more greet our readers now that when war broke out. Now she “but”. Miss Zablan here writes she is with us. wants to resume her studies and about her in a very enlightening But to go back to Miss Zablan, get her diploma, but the YWCA manner. Mrs. Leynes, our new a tall, exotic girl in case you don’t is reluctant to let her go entirely. Associate, informs us that Miss know her. Everybody has heard She has become very indispensable Zablan has promised to write of Zablan Field in Camp Murphy, to the organization. about other YWCA personalities. This historical place was named They died for the Red Cross The coming series should be of after Major Zablan, the first man (Continued, on page 34) are categorically excluded. ----*---Q.—What about intangible property ? A.—They are not claimable. Intangibles of all descriptions Q.—Any special claim forin for lost or damaged watercraft or ships? A.—There is a supplemental form in addition to Form 100, which is the general form for private claims. Claims for vessels or automobiles must be submitted on the supplementary form-Form 100-A—and appended to the gen eral form. Frank A. Waring, Chairman of NEXT DOOR TO THE CORN STATE—Though Iowa is known as the corn state of the union, her neighbor, Illinois, is ready to boast competition for the title. And a goodi reason why is shown in the photo above, with Gladys Huddleston wading in ^“chinhigh” stalks on her farm near Sherrard. Ill. It certainly looks like a bumper crops FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 27 they hold hearings on proposals its administrate functions more for additional money for the Com- effectively. These amendments mission for administrative pur- would deal with such detailed poses and payment of claims in the problems as the ratio of admimsfiscal year 1948. trative expense to the total auThe Commission, in announcing thorized appropriation, leave re Chairman Waring’s proposed trip, gulations for the Commission’s stated that his only purpose will employees, and the authority of be to present the Commission’s the Commission to request aid in case for funds for the fiscal year its work from agencies of the 1947-48 before the appropriation Philippine Government, committees of Congress, and to re. It is anticipated that Chairman quest the Congress to enact cer- Waring will remain in Washingtain technical amendments to the, ton for approximately eight to ten Philippine Rehabilitation Act to weeks. enable, the Commission to perform -------ENJOY YOUR BABY (Continued from page 24) for what he does, and forget about the qualities that he does not have. I don’t give you this advice just for sentimental rea sons. There’s a very important practical point here. The child who is appreciated for what he is even if he is homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with con fidence in himself, happy. He will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that he has, and of all the opportuni ties that come his way. [He will make light of any handicaps. But the child who had never\been An ideal wife is any womah who has an ideal husband. / —Booth Tarkington. A woman must alwaysyknow more about her husband than he thinks she know/ and more than he know/ about himself. / —Mrs. Albert Einstein. quite accepted by his parents, who has always fe't that he was not quite right, grows up lacking confidence. He’ll never be able to make full use of what brains, what skills, what physical at tractiveness he has. If he starts lifer with a handicap, physical or mental, it will be mu’tiplied ten fold by the time be is grown up Now, of course, once in a great while a baby seems to be general ly slow in his developmoent, doesn’t hold his head up, or res pond to people, or show an in terest in his surroundings, at an age when other babies are doing these things. Should a parent be pkylosophical about this and try to forget it? That would be carry ing it out too far. One of these babies is just born to be that way and there’s no magic way to change him; but another may have a deficiency disease which can and shound be treated early. That’s a reason for having a doctor check a baby regularly.’’ We would like to say here at the very beginning that whatever suggestion may come from this column should be tried on your baby only after con sultation with a physician. For babies are highly individual and what may be good for one may be harmful to another. Never dose your baby with out consulting a doctor first. This is one of the valuable pieces of advice that a woman doctor gave us and we have followed it religiously. Even “safe” patent medicine should not be given to a young child without a doctor’s knowledge. If your baby tends to be constipated (as is the case with most bottle-fed babies) and giving him orange juice daily and water to drink between feedings do not seem to help, try increasing his dose of tiki-tiki. But’ ask your doctor about this first. * * ♦ Should a baby drink water between feedings? It is not absolutely necessary, doctors say, because the amount of f.uid in the formula (if he is bottle-fed) is calcu lated to satisfy the baby’s or dinary needs. If he is breast fed, he does not need any. It is more important to offer water during excessively hot weather or when the baby has a fever. However, if your baby likes to take water, offer it to him once or several times a day when he is awake between feedings. Boil some water for minutes and keep it in a sterilized feeding bottle with a sterilized cover. When you need some, pour it into another steribzed bottle and give it to the baby as you do milk. ♦ * * How about orange juice—at what age should it be given? A breast-fed baby receives a «rood supp’y of Vitamin C from his mother if she is taking a d:et that includes raw fruits and vegetables. A glassful of orange juice or tomato juice or water with calamansi juice is a must each day for a nursing mother. Cow’s milk contains very little Vitamin C even when raw and nart of that lit tle is destroyed bv heat when the milk is pasteurized or evanoTated. All babies who are bottle-fed need extra Vitamin C, otherwise they wi1! get a disease called scurvy. The gums swell and bleed and there are painful hemorrhages around the bones. Orange juice is started be fore the baby is one month old, even as early as two weeks. It is usually mixed with an equal amount of boiled water in the early weeks so that it won’t taste too strong. One way is to start with 1/2 teaspoon orange juice and 1/2 teaspoon of boil ed water. The next day give 1 teaspoon each of orange juice and boiled water. Increase the amount of each by 1/2 tea spoon until you are giving 1 ounce or 2 tablespoons of each (2 tablespoons of orange juice and 2 tablespoons of boiled water). Then gradually de crease ' the water by 1/2 tea* spoon but increase the orange juice by 1/2 teaspon each day until you are giving 2 ounces or 4 tablespoons of straight orange juice. Wash the orange with soap and water before cutting it for squeezing for it may have been handled recently by someone with a cold. And squeeze the orange just shortly before the juice is to be taken by the baby. Exposure to air will make it lose some of its val uable Vitamin C. Strain the juice through a sterilized wire strainer so* that the pulp won’t clog the holes in the nipples. The baby takes it from the bot tle like a formula. Later, per haps at about three months, of fer it to him by spoonfuls and three months later, in a cup or a small g^ss, such as a small tumbler, marked with ounces and tablespoons, used by bar men to measure the ingredients of drinks. Some babies love orange juice and digest it easily. Others always vomit it or have stomach upsets (like kabag). Very rarely a baby gets a rash from it. If for some reason your baby can’t take orange juice, trv giving him tomato juice, but double in quantity as tomatoes do not contain as much Vitamin C as oranges. Ask your doctor about Vitamin C pills, called ascorbic acid. The baby wi}l need 5Q milli grams everv dav. T^e pill mav be dissolved in his formula af ter it has cooled How about Vitamin Q^? We shall write about that in the next issue. PAGE 28 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FROM ABROAD come these four ideas for dresses that have that one-of-a-kind look. Distantly-spaced print is set off in the first dress by the simplest of treatments. The over-all print, next, is not hard to put over when fashioned and worn as shown in the picture. Your two-piecer seersucker is the love of a dress in the third photograph. Sleek, demure, you can’t get into trouble in it. For a smooth longtorso silhouette, turn to last illustration for inspiration. FROM A LOCAL DESIGNER, these four sketches should mean something because they reflect the local trend in fashionable wear ables. They are actually worn happily by the girls. Left to right: tiers of drape, lopsided if you wish; frills for peplum and yoke, fit accents to a closed neck; next a polka-dotted X to mark the spot of a bare midrif; finally, a row of ribbons can look right even on a tailored outfit. FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 29 WILL TEND BABIES TO GET A HOME should apologize for a meal of chicken and eggs, they now know nothing could be more self-suffi cient. America’s post war diet is more cosmopolitan, more interna tional, in the same degree that the peop'e ire now conscious of other countries including a place called Bataan. Finally, Miss Benitez wants to go on record as advocating for a plan oy which every Filipino given a visa to go abroad may properly equip himself with per fect and correct information on MARINE CAPTAIN Dennis D. Nicholson, Jr., has offered to act as a sitter, or practical nurse, to babies two nights a week for anyone who will find an apartment fcr him and his family in Atlanta, Ga., where he is on a two-year assignment. The father of two young children, Nichol«on is shown entertaining eight-months-old Alan. (International) JUVENILE DELIQUENCY ANALYZED <Continued from page 9) AMBASSADRESS (Continued from page 5) have been committed in Quiapo while he lives in some other dis trict. With regard to the nature of offenses committed, records in courts as well as the report on cases admitted in Welfareville point to the fact that prevailing minor delinquents are cases of crimes against property, such as theft and qualified theft, as well as robbery, as shown in the fol lowing data obtained from the records in Welfareville: Nature of Offenses Frequency 1. Theft............... 2. Qualified theft . . 3. Disobedience . 4. Robbery . . . 5. Robbery in uninhabited •house...................... 6. Vagrancy ................ 7. Illegal possession firearms . . . . . 23 . . 20 . . 19 of . 13 An enlightened sympathetic and Preevntive measures.—With all dynamic public opinion is a prithe tensions and dislocations mary requisite in any successful caused by post-war conditions in program for the prevention of our midst which have intensified juvenile delinquency. Juvenile maladjustments in the homes and delinquency, like other social in the lives of our deprived and problems, are sysptoms of a de bereaved children, there has come caying social order.. It means a growing realization that society that the agencies designed to prest do something for the pre- vent or remedy this social evil of delinquency. i- are not yet properly functioning. It means that the community has not yet been fully aware of the existence of behavior prob’ems in home; or if it is aware, it has not taken deep interest in its solu tion. The school must bear its share of responsibility for delin quent conduct, since it supervises a larger share of the children’s waking day than do the parents. One of the worst pre-delinquent behavior habits is truancy, which hps been called the kindergarten of crime. Failure to recognize in dividual differences or to relate the school’s program vitally to the accomevery conceivable topic pertaining to his country. His trip abroad then, whether it is purely for pleasure or for business, ^vill have attained a purpose and plished a service he owes to the new-boin Republic of the Philip pines. The local office in charge of issuing visas may even make provisions for printing leaflets and pamphlets which our people going abroad may" find- useful in their unofficial capacity as am bassadors for the Philippines. needs of the growing child is a criticism which may be leveled to many schools. Schools should em ploy teacher social workers who can visit the homes of problem children whose school attendance are irregular. He can do very much in briging about a better understanding of home conditions and in ironing out behavior pro blems. The following are some sugges tions for a practical program in delinquency prevention: plete outline of a preventive pro gram would include reference to all movements for the improve ment "of conditions affecting the family and child life. 'Better housing facilities to les sen congestion and to afford privacy are directly related to the prevention of delinquency. Extensive studies have shown that delinquency which comes to the attention of the police and courts is concentrated in certain areas which lack adequate resources for wholesome community life. Parks, playgrounds and organized facili ties for the constructive use of leisure time, all have their place for home in a broad program for the pre- parenthood in the vention of delinquency. 1. Assistance to parents in deal ing with early behavior problems of children. There is no substitute life and intelligent rearing of chil dren. It is in the home that the child’s needs for affection, secur ity and opportunities for growth or development are met or thwart ed. Some of the means to aid in the promotion of successful home life are: a. Promotion of economic sec urity thru establishment of wage levels adequate to main tain wholesome living stan dards, regu.ation of employ ment, prevention of industrial accidents and diseases, im proved workmen’s compensa tion laws and similar mea- sures. b. General education of parents in child care and training may be carried out thru adult education program .and the activities of women’s clubs. c. Facilities for early diagnosis of children’s behavior pro blems like child guidance clinics. Community Influences and LeiPAGE 30 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL THEY DIED FOR THE RED CROSS IDEAL (Continued from page 12) their decision doubly worthy of our admiration. All of them were true patriots, loyal to their coun try and to the cause of democi acy. But more than anything else they were motivated above all by a pure and simple love of their fellowmen. Above all other con siderations, they were true to the cause of humanity, that cause which is the very soul of the Red Cross. That is why it is most fitting that they should be honor ed today, not by any particular government or state, but by an in ternational organization which knows no frontiers or distinctions of race or nation, and which is dedicated fundamentally to the services if humanity as a whole. Through tbe deeds performed by the nineteen heroes, Mr?. Au sure Time Activities.—Beyond the wails of the home and the scnooi lies another world in wmch tne child will spend more of Ins time as he grows older and which, therefore, he.ps shape his per sonality and influence his conduct and attitude towards life. This outside world is the community. The community thru its various agencies, may help strengthen the child, fit him to meet life square ly or it’ may help make him dis satisfied with his environment, to rebel against it, and thus may be come one of the causes of delin quent act. Community resources for preventive and protective work should provide recreational facili ties under -public auspices such as public playgrounds and parks, athletic fields, etc. Government extorts must be supplemented by mat or private organizations in snapmg piugrams to meet special needs. Organized groups under the auspices of the Boy Bcouts, Girl Scouts, Y.M.C.A., etc, may provide programs tor leisure time activities for various age groups. Treatment of Delinquency.—At no time is the child in need of more careful study and sympathe tic understanding than when he has come into conflict with the law. For the past 20 years, more socialized treatment had been given to our juvenile delinquents thru encouragement and guidance Probation is the outstanding development in the treatment of our juvenile offenders, consisting of investigation and supervision of delinquent minors for the purpose of protecting society, preventing delinquency and rehabilitating the offender. He is given individual ized treatment by sympathetic as well as scientific study of his back ground, environment and associarora A. Quezon, PRC chairman, said in her message, which was read at the ceremony by Mrs. Sofia de Veyra, the Philippine Red Cross has strengthened its position as an aspirant for independent status and as a national Red Cross so ciety. i x.v Advisor Gen a. VViusiers nessufec xci.us ill pan. ' ah presenting mese nineteen bronze ineuuis lu me survivors ox muse riuiippaie Xveu Viuss WviKers wno gave meir nves to tne seiviue.oi meir people, tne Ainerlean .uea moss is paying tnoute not only to tneir aevouon to uu<,y, out aiso to me laitmui devotion or many tnousanus ox rilipinos wnose nves were mane the tortions, mental attitudes and physi cal characteristics. in tms connection, we feel more man ever tne need for specialized cvurts with trained judges who wnl try and study these chiluiens cases so that the cniidren may be given cnances to remin to society as noimal and userui citizens and not as ex-convicts with the stigma of crime that will forever handicap them in their latter life. The creation of the Juvenile Delinquency Bureau oi the Police Department has socialized the police attitude towards minor de linquents and neglected children. The Coordinating council for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquen cy in the City of Manila is anQther great step towards the pre vention of juvenile delinquency. This council, headed by the City Mayor and having as its members the Chief of Police, some mem bers of the Municipal Board, the City Fiscal, Superintendent of City Schools and the *heads of all organized welfare agencies has the object of studying and coordinat ing the activities of tfie different Government and private social agencies to eliminate the causes (Continued on page 32) reit in tneir desire to serve otners. Vv neuter uns loyalty unto death is directed at tne protection or one s own lamiiy, or at service to the human iamny at large, it ex presses, in tne Ultimate terms, tne willingness ox man to piace him self in jeopardy on benalf of his leilow men.__ “Ge Saouid also remember that there are alive today many Fili pinos and Americans who owe tneir lives and their health to tne proxessional skill and unselfish service of these heroic souls. Much that is fine and worth-whiie will emanate from these redeemed lives, and all of it will stand as a living monument to the memory of those who saved them. “it is the fervent wish of Red Cross workers the world over, and indeed of all people of good will, that the events of these sad years will have furnished the final evidence, if that evidence be needed, that war is futile, waste ful and insane, and that no one really wins in a war. If this universal desire proves possible of fulfillment, and if this, indeed, shall have been the last time that blood must be spilled in a heedless orgy of brutality, then the unsel fish spirits of these heroes who made the ultimate contribution to lasting peace, may well say of their sacrifices....... ‘It was worth it.’ ” The message of Basil O’Connor, chairman of the American Red Cross, which was read by Dr. J. H. Yanzon, PRC manager, read in part: “We recognize and extol the great valor and unselfish serv ice of these workers, but it is impossible adequately to express our gratitude and admiration for their sacrifice. Their heroism will live in the annals of the Red Cross, and in the hearts of our two nations.” —D. PAULO DIZON meucs supremacy no longer exiats. Elizabeth Post Correct Cosmetics is universally recognized as the STANDARD BOUDOIR ACCESSORY. 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CxENERAL FACTORS 4th.Floor* FiilipinasBldg.’Manila FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 91 of minor delinquency, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------In cooperation with the above organizations, vagrant and neg- JUVENILE DELIQUENCY ANALYZED lected children who have been ap- (Continued from page 31) prehended by the juvenile bureau officers are directly turned over ---------------------------------------------to- our Bureau by the officers for care and protection without filing fareville Institutions, Settlement any case of vagrancy against House and Indigent Children’s them. While Social Workers Hospital. of the Bureau are conducting so- After careful study of their cases, cial investigations of these cases, these children are either returned the children are temporarily to their paternal or guardian’s housed and taken care of in Wei- homes or placed out in foster Si: 3 is never afraid to appear in a low cut dress, because her skin is so.c, smooth, radiant —a tribute to her daily beauty bath with Palmolive Soap. And what a complexion! Clear, petal-soft! For you, too, Palmolive offers a simple easy way that brings a more beautiful skin to 2 out of 3 women. » The proved 14-day Palmolive plan. Each time you wash, work •T up a thick, rich lather with Palmolive Soap and massage it onto \ your skin for one full Minute. Now a quick rinse and pat dry. Remember it takes only a minute, but it is that extra 60-second cleansing massage that brings to your skin the full beauti fying effect of Palmolive’s creamy lather. Palmolive offers proof! 1285 women and 36 doc tors have tested Palmolive’s 60-second massage. ~heir reports prove conclusively that it can bring lovelier complexions in just 14 days. t Bathe dally with Palmolive. It will do for your body what it does for your face. homes either on employment or guardianship basis. Those for whom it is very apparent that nothing could be done by way of placement are recommended for institutionalization, while others found in need of further help are followed up and supervised by our Social Workers who enlist the cooperation of other community resources to rehabilitate them. With the cooperation of this Bureau, the Manila Coordinating Council is now considering the putting of a "Boys’ Home’’ in Ma nila for the temporary care and shelter of these homeless and neg lected children found as vagrants in the streets. One draw-back which the work on juvenile deliinquency had en countered last year w’as the pas sage of Republic Act No. 47, wmeh lowered the age for juvenile delin quents from below 18 years to beiow 16 years whereby children = from 16 years up are to be dealt with as adult criminals. The main reason given for this was the high tide of juvenile delinquency in 1946. The authors of the law be lieve that children from 16 up will be deterred to ■ commit crime if they know they are going to be sentenced and sent to Muntinglupa instead of being committed to the Training School for Boys. We still uphold that this law based on the old idea of vengeance, ar bitrary punishment and detenance, and which takes into consideration only the offense committed is a backward step and contrary to progressive legislation on child welfare. This law is not in con sonance with the modern trend of crime treatment as it places pri mary emphasis on punishment and retribution rather than on the correction and rehabilitation of the offending minor. A child below 18 years is still immature in his judgment and when he comes in conflict with the law, at no time is he more in need of sympathetic understanding and assistance. Full protection of the public can be obtained only when the anti-social tendencies of a de linquent have been diverted into channels of orderly behavior. This requires careful individualization of treatment fitted to meet the needs of the delinquent child.* Our efforts should be directed along AMERICA’S TEN OUTSTAND ING MEN CHOSEN WASHINGTON — The United States Junior Chamber of Com merce has announced its selection of "the nation’s ten outstanding young men of the year.” Those honored were Joseph A. Bieme, 35-year-old president of the National Federation of Telephone Workers; Cahrles G. Bolte, chair man of the American Veterans Committee; Dan Duke, assistant attorney general of the southern state of Georgia; Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion; Bill Mouldin, ex-serviceman car toonist; John F. Kennedy, 29-yearold congressman from Boston; Dr. Philip Morrison, Cornell Univer sity atom physicist; John A. Pat ton, Chicago management engi neer; Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Har vard University author; and Harry Wismer, sports director of the American Broadcasting Company. NEW YORK — Yeh Chien Yu, Chinese cartoonist who, with his wife, is visiting the United States under the State Department’s cul tural cooperation program, told a New York Herald Tribune reporter that after three months in the country and a few weeks’ in New York they are still fascinated by American women. Yeh said "they typify the won derful American philosophy that you are not old until you feel old. In China, when you are old—well, you just keep quiet.” The cartoonist said that he is planning a book of sketches and text on the contrasts of American and Chinese society. He and his next autumn and travel extensi vely there before completing his book. the line of “fitting the treatment to the child and not fitting the punishment to the crime”. Herein lies the essence of the treatment of juvenile delinquency. May I close with the statement of Fordick: "To think of children gives re newed strength to a decent man. They are worthwhile! They are the incarnate future tense of man kind! They are the seed corn of the race! The love of children is the universal bond that across all universal and racial lines make all mankind akin! The cooperative world organized that like the fools •we are, we have refused to build for our own sakes, we may be wise enough at least to build for their sakes. So we will keep the faith and not surrender. We will not let the children down.” PAGE 32 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Willie, My Filipino Houseboy THE iirst time 1 saw Willie, he stood on tne carpet in my siudy, hugging a pean gray Fedo ra and wearing what 1 now realize must have been an auvnentic an cestor to the zoot suit. He caught my startled glance. “White coat when 1 work.” Willie was brown-skinned and less than five feet tab. 1 ,couid picture him in his little white uniform, looking like an . orna ment to 'put on the mantelp.ece and I moaned inwardly at the fortunes of an employer. Here I had longed for a competent maid and I was getting a man doll. When I had told my friend that I was worked ragged, and had to have someone to do housework, she’d said comfortingly, “I know a wonderful employment agency in downtown Los Angeles. I’ll go right down and hire a maid for you.” Whereupon I had settled down to my, t ypewriter with a sigh of relief and envisioned a buxom, capable female domestic, who would soon dissipate my household worries. I was somewhat nonplussed therefore, when my friend return ed later with a guilty expression and Willie. He was, it seemed, a Filipino hous.eboy. She was never able to tell me just how she had happened to choose him. But “magnetism” was Willie’s simp e explanation of the choice. As a rule, my friend was well balanced, yet that day she seem ed bewitched. “He’s out of this world!” she whispered excitedly. I nodded, if not with delight, at least in stony agreement. “Willie has excellent refer ences,” she ventured. Then she mentioned his salary. It was high for those days, but reasonable enough if he knew his business. Again Wi.lie spoke, his voice a series of jerky squeaks. "You writer?" “Yes.” “You pay when you make. I wait when you don’t. I know writers. Okay. What the devil? What’s money?” He beamed with fond understanding. Suddenly I was beaming too. Willie had won me over. When my mother learned that a Filipino man was doing my housework she telephoned all the way from New York to warn me. "Your throat will be slit in the middle of the night!” she cried. My mother was to eat crow. When she did meet Willie the “magnetism” worked overtime. He swapped his thirty-five dif ferent rice recipes for the secret of her apple pandowdy. Wil.ie was a superb cook. He had come to the United States when he was twelve years old. On shipboard someone told him that if h'e could cook he would never starve in America. Willie got a job as houseboy and learned cook ing from his -employer’s French chef. He could bake, tend bar and drive an automobile. In the garden he possessed the fabled green thumb. And he arranged flowers with the elegance and simplicity of a decorator. He was as versatile as a Boy Scout knife. As Wi.lie said, “I better than maid. I not nervous.” This was true, except for his automobile driving. Once, while driving peacefully, he suddenly clutched at the wheel, yelling, “Skun. . . skun!” and at full risk of our lives, zigzagged maddly across the road. The odor fur nished a clue—skunk. Because of Willie I shall never drive a car. I am left nothing save muddled complexes from his firm instructions to “go to the left right,” or “fast slowly.” He had worked for several screen stars and at first his gossip mystified me. With Willie, most pronouns, no matter wnai person or number, turned out to be “he.” Willie liked Clara Bow. -“He a iady.” As for another ex boss, also female and a dramatic headliner, Willie’s imp face grew positively prudish. “He no lady, he sleep nekid on porch.” Adding, completely innocent of pun, “You know ... sin tanned.” The only time Willie deserted me was when he importantly de parted to “ock in the movies.” A major studio sent out a call for Fi ipino extras and Willie dis appeared for two weeks. After the picture was released I accompanied him to the theater As his scene appeared—approxi mately fifty loincloth-clad Filipi nos scaled a wall, their posteriors to the camera—he jumped up and By Nanette Kutner at the top of his lungs announced, “That’s me”! The audience, entering into the spirit, cheered. I, rememberng the help shortage, assured him he gave a splendid perform ance. From then on, if the picture played within range of Willie and his roadster—an ancient lavender-colored Ford—he was there. When I decided to leave Cali fornia, I gave Willie ample no tice so that he would have a chance to get a new job. A sce nario-writer friend of mine imme diately made him an offer. The month before I left, I moved to a hotel and Willie went to work for her. She, having been minus com petent help, now splurged. Boast ing everyone about the talents of her cook, she ^invited the execu tives she wanted to impress. This would be a dinner done to a gourmet’s taste. The morning after that initial dinner she telephoned, her voice hysterical, her news worse. She’d fired Willie. Instead of serving dinner at seven-thirty, he reluctantly had it ready at nine o’clock. In each large soup plate lay a tablespoon ful of pure hot water. The ducks which followed were like rubber; the wild rice was mud, the apple sauce left behind in the icebox. “He did it maliciously,” she moaned. This was an unprecedented change in Wiilie. He never drank. He had not been ill. “What made him doit?” The mystery was solved ten FEBRUARY 15, 1947 PAGE 33 days later when hfe appeared at my hotel. Gone was his jaunty outfit, including the aluminum wrist watch of virtually Hope diamond value, in his esteem. “Hock,” said Willie. “But why?” “Gomble.” He paused. Again he beamed brightly. “Now give job in Conneck-ticut.*’ Then I saw the roundabout pat tern. “I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.” If he could make himself need a job then I would have to ask him to come with me. What could f do but take Willie along? warned him—no electric refrigerator and the stove was an old contraption that smoked. He just beamed on, in spite of my forecast. And then I left to live in rural Connecticut. While I traveled by air, Willie, in a blissful dither at this chance to see America, drove my car across the continent. in the East 1 received a mound of postcards—all from Willie, wno sent me an average of live a day. Everything was a miracle, from the numbers onthe road maps matching the numbers on the real roads to the hun^eds of little towns he passed' through—never really strange because of familiar signs—the movie billboards, the neon lights, the A & P stores and the five-and-ten. He was most grateful for the trip. Upon arrival, he instantly, presented me with a neat notebook which contained" an accounting of every penny. His immediate reaction to New England was one of enthusiasm. Each home, no matter how tiny its surrounding grass plot, he graciouly dubbed “a ranch.” I let him take entire charge of the household. ^Willie loved being boss. He refused to cook his best dishes for guests he did not like. Invariably those guests turned out to be heels. Granted it was rude, but after the guests had gone 1 enjoyed listening to his analysis of them. Regarding one effeminate young man, Willie commented, “He no like women. He what you call.. tomboy.” That summer Willie became world conscious — Hitler had al ready begun his European demo lition. Willie was certain the Na zis would be over here in no time flat. “When he come I stand in front. I soot him.” He had an intense feeling for the United States, asking me where he could see “The Donserly Lie.” I looked blank. “Donserly Lie.” To demonstrate he pulled the cord of a floor lamp. “Oh...light. Donserly Light. I heard of it.” Willie was plainly disgusted. “Dady...ne sing. He your song.” Then’in quavering voice sang out. “ ‘(>n, say <;.n you see by the Don serly Lie., ’’ While vacuuming the living room Willie listened to the radio tuned low. One day, in the middle of this chore, he broke self-imposed rules by knocking at my study door, excitedly announcing, “Ooeylondye;” and laughing the high giggly laugh he used as nervous period to any serious remark. That afternoon, calling at the post office for my newspaper, I under, stood. The headline told me. Huey Long died. His expressions were original, graphic and to the point. The time I worried over a difficult as signment Willie informed my friends, “He busy breaking her brain.” Our conversation often led to a kind of inspired double talk. “What’ll we have for dinner?” I’d ask. “Fis” he’d suggest. “Swell. I’d love fish. How about roe?” “No,” Willie’d say “let’s cook it.” Although Willie was remarkably self-sufficient, his life in Connec ticut became unbearable. Willte was lonesome. I was acutely aware ofthis after he started over tures towards my distant neigh bor, a widower, who lived a mile away and had a buxom' cook. Willie sent several batches of rolls and cakes to the widower, baking and delivering them him self, but presenting them in my name! .. I demanded a full expla nation. He agreeably complied. ‘You marry. We. all be coople.” Next, on one of his nights off he came home early and like an inex plicable cyclone slammed every door in the house. I said nothing. In the morning, of his own ac cord, he told me. When he had gone into a lunch wagon for a sandwich the lighter-skinned work ers had refused to serve him. Willie never tried again. He missed Los Angeles, his friends, his club. So we agreed that he should return to the coast. I bought him his ticket. And Wil lie asked for my picture. “I haven’t a good one,” I pro tested. “What about two in room?” “Oh; Willie!” My tones were ANNE GUTHRIE (Continued from page 13) Filipinas, and with them three American ladies waiting for that plane. It was to take Anne Guthrie to Japan on the first lap of her journey back to the United States. This time I >vas with the group. And I, too, was gay as I watch ed Anne Guthrie move about in her usual brisk, efficient way with the quick, energetic steps I had come to know so well. I was gay because Anne Guthrie was leaving me a precious—all too precious—part of herself. It. was a secret only she and I shared and I hugged it close to my heart. Later, as we all our goodbye’s to her, I looked at the other happy faces about me. And I know that with each Ann Guthrie shared a happy secret. shocked. “Not those, never!” “They clear,” said Willie stub bornly. He wrote to me from California that he had changed his name to MacArthur and that he had be come cook for another movie star. But the only information I could gather from his letters about this lady was “He eat mashed pota THIS FORTNIGHT'S ISSUE (Continued from page 27) Ideal p. 12 is a bouquet of eulo gies from an appreciative people. At the impressive ceremony held to award the nineteen bronze me dals to the survivors of those Philippine Red Cross workers who gave their lives in the pursuit of their duties, tears fell unheeded. Our fictionists this fortnight are Manuel A. Viray and' Romualdo L. Bondame. Viray, author of “Lone ly Hurt”, has just made an eva luation of the best in Philippine Literature in English for the year 1946. He writes not only short stories and poetry but also essays. Bondame has a provincial ad dress. He was very chary in his letter. Didn’t tell us a thing about himself. Our fashion double-spread comes from the Fashions of the A strong gust of wind blew our faces as the plane took off and went up into the starlit skies. And in .my mind rang these lines I had read somewhere before—“And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” That was the guiding law of the life of Anne Guthrie. NOTE: A signal honor was recently accorded Anne Guthrie by her school when, in abolishing soro rity houses at Stanford Univer sity, the one to which she belongThe sororities were abolished as being “undemocratic institutions.” Each house was named after its most outstanding member. stood waving ed was named “Guthrie House.” toes.” I hate to think what she gathered about me. Willie, feel ing I was being too shy about the pictures, had made off with them. Certainly they were clear, having been taken when I was doing a series of prison stories, taken as a gag at Sing Sing, pro file and front face with the same long number under each. Times, New York. The adaptation of the panuelo-less terno was published in a very recent issue of Harper’s Bazaar. Helen Beni tez, who will not be seen, in a terno without the panuelo, gave us the sketch to “exploit” as we wish in the campaign against pa nuelo-less attires. In our next issue will be an art icle by Mrs. Cecilia Munoz-Palma, President of the Women Lawyers’ Association. In this write-up she tells us about the Legal Aid Cli nic and how it is functioning un der all odds. Also ‘Seems To Me and Book Reviews by Pura San tillan Castrence will become part of our regular features. This is cmly the beginning of a better and bigger magazine which we are trying to give to our readers. —P. T. G. PAGE 34 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL