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Title: Woman's Home Journal
Issue Date: Volume XII (Issue No. 8) December 1936
Year: 1936
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extracted text: OFFICIAL PUBLW^TION OF Tl-l£ NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS OF THE PHILIPPINES 20 Centavos December, 1936 i? Home December 1936. PHILIPPINE EXPOSITION January 30 to February 14 An Expoment of the Country’s Progress in COMMERCE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY of Sugar — Hall of Rice — Hall of Hall Hemp—Hall of Coconut—Hall of Tobac co—Hall of Forestry—Hall of Mines Hall of New Industry New and Novel Amusements—Spectacular Parades—Histo rical Pageants—Side-shows and Rides—National, Beauty Con test—Firew'orks and Manv Other Attractions. •v> Minerva P. Guysayko Editor Wnnuufs Jjnnw dlminutl OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF 'THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF WOMEN’S CLUBS OF THE PHILIPPINES Mrs.. Geronima T. Pecson ❖ Business & Adv. Mgr. X Published monthly. Entered as Second Class Matter at the Manila Post Office 1132 California St. Manila, Philippine Islands Telephone 5-77-31 SUBSCRIPTION RATES J 1 Year.... P2.00 (P.I.), $1.50 (U.S.), P2.00 (Foreign) £ 6 Months.. 1.00 " .80 ” 1.10 ” + Vol. XII—No. 8 December, 1936 20 Centavos (ktblp (0f CnntPttta News, Views and Reviews Manila Carnival Notes ................................................. 2 President’s Letter ......................................................... 3 With Us ........................................................................ 4 Woman’s Reason ........................................................... 17 By Atty. Alejandra Antonio Reviews.......................................................................... 19 From Aparri To Jolo..................................................... 20 Sidelights On The Convention .................................... 23 Club News..................................................................... 24 & 25 Special Features Christmas Prayer.......................................................... 5 By James Hilton Motherhood Is No Longer A Gamble........................... 6 Says Dr. Pedro T. Lantin “Was It For This Your Mother Sweated In The Cold?” 8 By Doreen B. Gamboa Filipino Christmas Abroad........................................... 11 By L. V. Reyes They Are Not Forgotten......................... .................... 13 Tolerance........................................................................ 14 By Francisco R. Fernando “I’ve Got To Have A Merry Christmas!”................. 15 By Cornelia Ramirez Around The World With Only $50.............................. 18 The Plebiscite: A Challenge ........................................ 26 By Teodorico Ayson Fiction A Story For Christmas ............................................... 10 By Manuel E. Arguilla The Hole In The Stocking........................................... 12 By Christopher Morley The Black Rose ............................................................ 16 By Frederick Hazlitt Brennan First Love...................................................................... 22 By Luisa Barrera Fashion New Heads For You and Me....................................... 30 New Styles To Come..................................................... 30 Regular Features NEPA Christmas Menu.................... „......................... 35 By Mrs. H. Lusonghap Guide To Charm........................................................... 36 Home Institute ............................................................ 44 Health Page .................................................................. 46 What Gift To Give....................................................... 48 2 ^OMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 Exposition Notts Plans lor the commercial and in dustrial fair which will he held in connection with the 1937 Philip pine Exposition from .January 30 to February 14 are progressing ra pidly, according to reports made at a luncheon at Exposition headquar ters by the men who are di rectly responsible for the success of the fair. The luncheon was given by Arsenio N. Luz, director general, to the directors of the va rious bureaus under the department of agriculture and commerce and the members of the committee in charge of the commercial and in dustrial phase of the Exposition. Under-Secretary Jose Camus, of the department of agriculture and commerce, reported that the plans of his committee call for one of the biggest expositions seen in recent years. Director Ililarion Silayan, of the bureau of plant industry, described the details of the expo sition plans including the arrange ments of the various “halls” which will house the exhibits of the main industries of the Philippines. He said that the exhibits will show the production of the raw materials used in the various industries as well as the process of manufactur ing the finished products. Director Quirieo Abadilla of the bureau of mines gave a brief re sume of the exhibits which will be shown in the Hall of Mines. Ma riano Garchitorena, chief of the fi ber inspection service, described the way the Hall of the Hemp Industry will look when completed, the exhi bits including samples of the va rious fibers, the products of the various industries using fiber as a basic material, and charts showing where Philippine hemp and its pro ducts go after being exported. Thos. J. Wolff, chairman of the executive committee of the Philip pine Exposition, suggested that the exhibits include a miniature plan for flood control, with a view to educating the public on flood con trol methods. He referred to the recent Cagayan Valley flood which left SO,000 persons homeless and caused untold deaths and damage to buildings and crops and added that such calamities as this demand that the government take steps to eontrol methods would be valuable in educating the public on the ne cessity and wisdom of such enter prises. A discussion of plans to insure a most successful exposition fol lowed. Among the steps decided upon to improve conditions on the grounds and insure the comfort of the thousands who will view the Exposition was the improvement of drainage facilities against any danger of heavy rains flooding the exposition grounds. JlIE progress made by the Phil ippines in the field of manu facturing, commerce and industry OUR CANDIDATES The following have been elected as candidates of the WOMAN’S HOME JOUR NAL for the title of “Miss Philippines” and Queen of the 1937 Philippine Exposition: 2. MISS LOURDES ALUNAN, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rafael Alunan. She is very prominent in Manila’s social circles and is vice-president of the ex clusive Kahirup Club. 2. MISS PILAR CAMPOS, daughter of Pedro L. Cam pos, president of the Bank of the Philippine Islands. She is at present a student in the college of law of the University of Sto. Tomas. 3. MISS ESTER TORRE MELLIZA, daughter of Serapion Torre, famed vernacular poet. Miss Torre Melliza is a student in Chemical Engineering, Mapua Institute of Tech nology. She was born in will be the theme stressed by the bureau of commerce in its partici pation in the 1937 Philippine Ex position which will take place from January 30 to February 14. Pro CHRISTMAS THOUGHT “J WOULD be the first to protest if we gave no gifts at Christmas. But let us be lavish only with the children, always remembering that a child is apt to find his favorite toy in some little device from the corner store, rather than the elaborate fire-engine or the mechanical doll that talks and walks. Let us be generous with those who have little rather than those who have much. Also let us remember that a personal Christmas message to some friend may mean more in ultimate values than anything else. “I love a Christmas tree, but I’d advise against worying about how many packages we can pile beneath its branches and to think of the star that shines upon its tip and of what it means—the star that shone over Bethlehem and over a Baby lying in a manger. “After all, a pot of gay Christmas bloom for some lonely old lady or a box of candy and a toy for some forgotten child may make the Christmas star twinkle ever so much more brightly than our most magnificent gesture in some other direction.” —Oscar Graeve. ‘3mula:Jlniidopyrin iGm.-Mtropin. methyl brom* 0005Gm:DiadhyltheiBitQO2Gu.-JladsaKoae6GtiZ MISS LOURDES ALUNAN One of our candidates. Molo, Iloilo, eighteen years ago. ducts of Philippine manufacturing firms from all over the Islands will be exhibited and sold at the Bureau’s pavilion. A new note in the bureau’s exbibits will be the spacious show windows which will be built along the entire frontage of the pavilion. The display in these show windows will portray the outstanding manu factures of the country and will give visitors at the Exposition a bird’s-eye view of the possibilities and new developments in the in dustries of the Philippines. The exhibits will be arranged by depart ments so as to facilitate the sale to customers and make the arrange ment more in consonance with the artistic theme of the pavilion. The exhibits will be designed to encourage manufacturers to improve products bv showing them the ne cessity of making quality goods for the market here and abroad. A sales campaign will be undertaken, based on the high quality and work manship of the articles exhibited. Descriptive literature will be dis tributed and radio programs ad vertising consigners and their pro ducts will be broadcast nightly. Pamphlets, folders and leaflets enumerating the services undertak en by the bureau of commerce and showing how the public may make use of such services will be distri buted. A brief outline of the plans for the participation of the United States Army in the 1937 Philippine Exposition indicates that the main features will differ materially from those shown in past carnivals, it was learned at Exposition Head quarters yesterday. One radical departure from the Army's participation plans in the past is the elimination of the fixed exhibits of the various branches of the service. In lieu of the fixed exhibits, troop participation will be increased. Troop. “F”, 26th Ca valry, from Fort Stotscnburg, rein forced by selected American per sonnel, who have had rodeo and circus experience will put on a nightly Wild West Show and Rodeo at popular prices. In addition it is planned to stage an episode from the Crusades, de picting an attack on a Saracon stronghold by the Crusaders. Other military features will be exhibitions by companies of the 45th and 57th Infantry from Fort William Mc Kinley and especial demonstrations by the 31st Infantry. Receipts from the Army show at the Exposition will accrue to the Army Relief Society. Exposition officials also announ ced yesterday that two more pro vinces have been added to the list of those which have decided to par ticipate ?in the 1937 Exposition. To date twelve provinces have al ready definitely decided to take part. They are as follows: Rontoc, Davao, Capiz. Romblon. La Union, Agn<an, City of Baguio, Rizal, Iloilo, Cotabato, Iloeos Sur and Laguna. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S flOME JOURNAL ’ 8 OFFICERS Mrs. PILAR H. LIM Mrs. SOFIA R. DE VEYRA 1st rice-President Mrs. F. C. CADWALLADER 2nd Vice-President Mrs. JOSEFA LL. ESCODA Secretary Mrs. GERONIMA T. PECSON Treasurer Mrs. JULIA V. ORTIGAS Asst. Treasurer SJatintial Jrhrratum nt Wnmi'it's (Chtlw nf tlif ipiiiliypttWH HEADQUARTERS: 1132 CALIFORNIA. CORNER SAN MARCELINO P. 0. Box 30 MANILA TEL. 5-77-31 MEMBERS Board, of Directors Miss BESSIE A. DWYER Mrs. N. ALMEDA-LOPEZ Miss ROSARIO OCAMPO Mrs. LAURA SHUMAN Mrs. ALICIA QUIRINO Mrs. ROSA SEVILLA ALVERO Mrs. PURA V. KALAW Mrs. JOSEFA JARA MARTINEZ Mrs. CONCEPCION F. RODRIGUEZ Dear Friends, I cannot let Christmas pass without greeting you and wishing for you the fullest happiness that the season can bring. I hope that the New Year will find you richer in your family life and with greater strength to cope with the pro blems that Time will bring in its wake. The spirit of giving still remains the guiding ideal of the Christmas sea son. Thoughtful remembrance still implies Christmas in its truest sense. This year, let us have these ideals with us, and in fulfilling them, it will bless us to remember those who are in direst need of our thoughtfulness: the poor and the needy and those who are ailing. In every community, there are children to whom Christmas is just a term. There are poor folk to whom this blessed oc casion is a source of sorrow and bitterness. Let us make Christmas real to them. With kindly thoughts and material donations, we can impart joy and cheer to those who most need them. And in doing these simple duties, we enter com pletely into the spirit of Christmas and do our bit in keeping it the most beautiful tradition that Christianity has bequeathed to us. At no time of the year is there more urgent need for peace and good will among men than during the Christmas season. Even warring nations, torn and bleeding from the cruelty of men, pause in their ambitious struggle for power to remember the glorious event of Christ's nativity. We in the Philip pines, who are in better conditions, should express our thankfulness through mutual helpfulness and good will towards one another. There is a gift which truly blesses both those who give and those who receive—and this is service. Sincerely yours, • WOMAN’S HOME* JOURNAL Manila, December, 1986 With HaChristmas is at hand, and gift giving is in order. With due thoughtfulness, we shall distribute gifts to relatives and friends and send messages of cheer and good will to whom ever will appreciate such. Even our enemies will share in the mellowing glow of peace which Christmas sheds yearly upon the universe. What shall we give ourselves and Filipino womanhood in general? Someone suggests that we give ourselves the invaluable gift of full citizenship. What, indeed, could be a better gift for ourselves this Christmas? Full citizenship, with all the joys and the tribulations that must accompany it, comprise a gift which we, in our mature readiness, truly deserve. Let us cast aside old-fashioned prejudices and inhi bitions and gladly welcome it. Willingly and competently, let us meet whatever demands progress makes upon us and step into our rightful place in the world today. This Christ mas, let us give ourselves the assurance of a future success and strengthen our determination to overcome the menace of the plebiscite in 1937. Let us close our doors to doubts and fears, the better to feel the rich warmth of hope and the beauty of courage. Full-heartedly, let us enter into th spirit of giving and bless ourselves and our daughters’ daught ers with the gift that counts—complete citizenship. * * * With the convention over, one thing stands boldly in our recollection. This is the social work method as a vote-getter for the plebiscite. We cannot think of a more ef fective way of insuring our success on April 30, 1937. Through this method, the one campaigning goes through a house-to-house survey which will reveal to her not only the attitudes of the women in her community about suffrage but the social problems as well. By seeking to relieve these problems, she intensifies the service objective of our struggle for suffrage and encourages a more permanent belief in the blessings that a successful ple biscite will bring. * * * This year’s celebration of Girls’ Week was notable in that for the first time the young girls were given an entire project to accomplish. If the girls were not very suc cessful, the fault is not theirs but in the novelty of the responsibility. One thing, how ever, was certain. Our young girls of today must develop a more intelligent sense of lead ership and cooperation. The past Girls’ Week gave them valuable training in standing alone. They trusted solely to their native resourcefulness for the success of an under taking. It also revealed the need for further training in the handling of responsibility. The young girls are the recipients of whatever success our present fight for political eman cipation may bear, and we appeal to them to rise above the weaknesses of their youth and to lend whatever support they can for the achievement of a significant end. They can prove that the principles of Girls’ Week are not entirely lost in them after the week is over but remain as the foundation for a more vital participation in national affairs. * * * The year’s campaign against tuberculosis reminds us once again that the white pla gue id one of our greatest enemies. It sneaks into the security of our homes, undermining the health and happiness of those who are dear to us. Fighting this dread enemy is a big order, for in one annual swoop it can fell 33,000. There are 2,000,000 people in this country who suffer its prolonged torture. But tuberculosis is not invincible. With the united efforts of the health officials and the rest of the intelligent population, this coun try can defeat it. Let us do our share in this mighty battle. With a little amount of money and plenty of willing aid, we can subdue the white monster and reduce its yearly toll of lives. Buy Anti-Tuberculosis Christmas Seals, one of which is reproduced on our cover this month. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 5 A Cljrwtmo IJnuji'r By James Hilton Let us pray to God, the Unconquerable Spirit in Man. Help us to rebuild the world for more splendid lives than ours; add wisdom to the ardor of the young, and loving kindness to the musings of the old; make our eyes aware of things that are too gentle to proclaim themselves; give us emotion far be yond the fret of nerves; free us from fear of our own brothers, and from the triple curse of greed, in tolerance and vainglory. Lift the dark cloud of war from our future, and grant comfort to all quite kindly folk who carry peace in their hearts amidst the stress of conflict; strengthen them also to endure what may befall. Bring down the tyrant, befriend the victims of injustice and equate the rewards of labor nearer to the needs of men; and accustom us to work, not for the snatched profit, but for the common good and for the planned destiny of manknd... Give patience to those who wait restlessly for this, and hope to those who have ceased to be lieve that it will come; and fill our hearts with faith in a Kingdom of Heaven which our children’s chil dren may someday find on earth. 6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 11)36 Motherhood Is No Longer A Gamble Says Sr. jteftriD Hanttri On this anniversary of the most glorious motherhood in the history of man kind, a famous doctor sends in a message of hope and issues a chal lenge to the feminine world. Motherhood is no longer a gamble. In the old days, a wo man who bore a child ran the risk of certain danger. Igno rance and carelessness were against her, and maternity was just a step into the grave. But civilization has changed all t h i s. Today, modern science has made maternity safe. The bearing of children has become a natural func tion that can be performed without danger of death or of lengthy illness. Even the poorest mother can step into a puericulture center or a hospital for proper treatment and advice, and the well-to-do mother gives birth to a child in comparative comfort. Something, however, which is more potent than ignorance is combatting maternity. This is the destruction of the tvill to have children. A greater danger than the individual death of mothers is work ing to destroy the race, to cause the death of future humanity that must go on with the work of building up a nation. In our country, this danger is being introdu ced, and we cannot afford to welcome it within our doors. It must sneak like an unbid den guest into the conscious ness of the modern woman and thrive on the selfishness that can be found therein. Economic poverty, danger of death, the improvement of ra cial standards are among the set phrases with which this selfishness is fed by propa gandists. With hardly a sec ond thought, therefor, mod ern mothers are conspiring to end birth, and subsequent ly, to end progress and strength in the nation. Maternity, of course, must contain some elements of danger. As a famous scien tist has declared, it is for this reason that maternity has al ways ben held in such respect by humanity. But since the “Everytliing in woman is an enigma, and everything in her is explained by the one word maternity.”—Nietzsche * * * “It has needed all the deviations of a civilization which is largely artificial and all the propaganda of those who are the enemies of the child for this elemental idea to be lost sight of by many modern women.” * * * “Maternity is a normal physiological function of woman and the natural end of her sexual cycle; it is necessary to her health and well-being.” * * * “Woman is organized for the purpose of maternity; sterility or insufficient reproductive activity unpsets her whole metabolism ... .maternity is the complete fulfillment of woman, and she must be granted the time of her fulfillment. Maternity cures most of her functional troubles, but for a woman to bo fertile, she must not have waited too long not only for the effects of the time, but for the more instant effects of voluntary sterility.” Dr. D. Petit-Dutaillis time of Pasteur, the danger of infection has been greatly diminished. The Paris Con ference on puerperal infection has revealed that with mod ern scientific methods, mater nal mortality has been re duced from a total of 28% to 1.5 % per thousand. Dr. Lee of Chicago considers maternal mortality in Western coun tries about 5% per thousand; 6.4% per thousand in the Uni ted States; a third less in England; half as much in Holland, Denmark, Japan, Italy, Switzerland and New Zealand. It will probably be reduced in the future to about 1% per thousand. (Guchteneere, pp. 125-130, London, Shed & Ward, year 1933) Contrary to common be lief, maternity generally en hances, instead of diminish ing a woman’s health. Pro pagandists and modernists who seek to frighten the wo-, men by asserting that there is a higher rate of mortality among mothers of large fami lies give forth statistics that are not entirely free from er ror. Very often, no account has been taken of poverty, ig norance, lack of care, and other factors present in the surroundings of lar^e fam ilies and these are the potent factors that influence the mortality rate of mothers and children. The researches of Bell, Jones, and Catell in a genealo gical study of population in 1918 carried out in places where causes of error are eli minated, have shown that if there is any connection betwen longevity and the num ber of children brought into the world, this relation is, if anything, contrary to what is commonly supposed. In Catell’s study on the families of American university gradu ates, it was shown that 45 mothers who had only one child lived on an average of 68 years, while 43 mothers Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 7 who had nine or ten children lived on an average of 78 years. Powys’ statistics which include various classes show that mothers of fairly large families lived longer on the whole than those who had smaller families. (Guchteneere, pp. 125-130, London, Shed & Ward, year 1933) The Commonwealth is com ing to the aid of the mothers. Economic depression, which is at the bottom of the maj ority of the suffering in large families, is being alleviated. It is not the number of chil dren which should be redu ced. Our country has resour ces enough to give life to an unlimited number of Filipi nos. It is the social ills—the slums, inadequate living con ditions, ignorance and indif ference to health—these are the real evils, which should be destroyed, and our govern ment is fast realizing this. Social justice which has to do with the improvements of the social of the masses, the creation of new industries, the introduction of measures fostering education and health facilities must tend to improve and encourage family life even among the poorest of this country. The sanitary measures instituted by the Commonwealth are al ready saving many lives, and DR. PEDRO T. LANTIN social improvement, although gradual, is sure to come. With such interest in pub lic welfare, the government has issued a challenge to the womanhod of the Philippines to do their share in building the nation’s populatry. This is their chance to prove them selves and to pass successful ly the test of courage and selfabnegation which a progres sive Republic must put upon them. The health centers, the dispensers of social justice and public sentiment should come to their aid in the per formance of the most glor ious task of which woman hood is capable. It is the sa cred duty of the women of the present and of the future to rise above the propagandist scare and selfish reasons and to enrich their country with the most precious inheritance of humanity. On this anni versary of the most glorious motherhod in all the history of mankind, I say to the wo men of the Commonwealth, Come forward and meet your test with courage, for motherhod is no longer a gam ble! We cannot be gods and destroy the future of new born humanity, but we can keep the miracle of birth going on in this earth with patience, and courage, and a little sacrifice. If You Can’t GET TO SLEEP Quickly at Ni^ht, Do This Try This Natural, Drugless Aid That Now Helps So Many “Poor Sleepers” Get To Sleep . . . And Gives Them New Energy Next Day SLEEPLESS nights! What penal ties they impose! IIow they sap your strength—unstring your ner ves—and handicap you socially and commercially! But now there is a simple way to foster sound sleep quickly, as soon as you go to bed. A way that helps thousands of “poor sleepers” got to sleep without tossing and turning each night—and brings new energy next day. One of its most unusual features is the fact that it is not a medi cine in any sense of the word. It is as free of drugs as the bread you eat or the milk you drink. Thus it fosters natural sleep. What It Is It is a delicious pure food-drink called Ovaltine—first created in Switzerland and now made in the U.S.A. Originally it was designed as a strengthening food for conva lescents, the aged, and for nervous, underweight children. Then physi cians observed that, when it was taken as a hot drink at bedtime, it also acted as an effective aid to sound and restful sleep... This is how its results are explained:— First: — As a hot bedtime drink, Ovaltine tends to draw excess blood away from the brain. Thus mental calm is invited—the mind is “con ditioned” for sleep. Second:—Ovaltine, on account of its ease of digestion, gives the stom ach a light digestive task to per form. Thus helping to do away with that hollow, restless feeling that keeps so many people awake. Third:—It has also been observed that Ovaltinc not only helps to bring sound sleep quickly but, in many cases, helps to improve the qual ity of sleep. That is why so many users report they awaAcn in the morning so greatly refreshed—look ing and feeling like different peo ple as the result of the sound and restful sleep they’ve had. Try It Tonight Get a tin of Ovaltine without delay. Mix 3 to 4 teaspoonfuls with a cup of hot milk and drink it just before getting into bed. See if you don't fall asleep more easily and naturally than you have, perhaps, in weeks and months... In the morning, take stock. See if you don’t feel much fresher than usual —and possess more nerve poise and energy, too. Thousands of delighted users have had this experience with Ovaltine —and it may achieve a similar re sult for you. Get a tin from your nearest dealer now. y 8 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 "Was It Star ixhis ^inir Wnthrr ^wateii In She Qlnlii?” DO YOUR CHRISTM A S SHOPPING EARLY! AVOID THE RUSH! TIES-10?o DISCOUNT! i/2 OFF ON ALL BRASS GOODS! RIB BON REMNANTS! BAR GAINS! Stand on any corner in the shopping district and watch the crowd pass to and fro. The moods of the Christmas shopper are varied. From them try to glean what is meant by “CHRISTMAS SPIRIT!” One mother, her children now grown, was heard to remark, “I hate Christmas, it wears you out, empties your purse, and makes hypocrites of your neighbors.” Another remarked — “Christmas I Its a lot of rot and nonsense. If I had my way I’d abolish it altogether.” Christmas, as it has come to be with women like these and many many others, and Christmas as we are passing it on to little children in self ishly heaping them with toys and treats and the constant cry of “what do you want Santa Claus to bring you,” or “what are you going to get this Christmas?” is far removed in spirit and practice from that first Christmas morn, not so many centuries ago, when in a rough hewn manger cradle a gentle mo ther laid her first born son and pondered on that pro phetic vision of one who was to save the people from their sins. Today hate and greed, sus picion and prejudice, cruelty and waste, selfishness and blasphemous living are still rampant and the Skeptic shouts, and the Cynic wails —“Where now, is this Prince of Peace, and the goodwill among men! Mute, He lies within His vaulted grave”. “The stone the angel rolled away with tears As Suggested by the Poem—“To Jesus on His Birthday”—By Edna St. Vincent Millay. By Doreen B. Gamboa Is back up on your mouth these thousand years.” This is indeed a strange herit age for a Christian people to leave their children. But as surely as we have allowed Christmas to become commer cialized in our hearts and homes, just as surely will we destroy for ourselves and our children the spirit of that Christmas when the Star guided even the wisest to that lowly birth place of Jesus. “Let us go, even now, unto Bethlehem and see this thing which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us”, for we cannot give to our children that which we ourselves do not have. If the Christmas message is to be kept alive in the homes of the nations, we must tell it. What do your chil dren know of Christmas? Tell them again that beauti ful story of the Christ Child, how His coming was herald ed to the rich and poor alike and how the message was al ways the same, one of Peace and Goodwill. Tell them again of why that Christ-child was born, of what he lived and died for. Sing for them again the carols of the Christmas Season and while the emo t i 0 n a 1 effectiveness of the Story and Song is present, help them to interpret it in action. Only as the child gains a real experience with the spirit of Christmas will he be able to understand it. The real spirit can be express ed only in terms of giving oneself. It is not hard for a child to understand this in practice. Let the child earn the gifts he will give. Let him plan for them and choose them; let him make them. Spend less time in shopping and more time with your child in pre paration for Christmas. Help them to remember not only their own family and friends but the children of the needy whose Christmas will be espe cially meagre this year. At the close of this article is a suggestive list for the sorts of things children can make for family and friends and children outside their own circle. Then let the children take part in the home preparation, let them trim the tree, put up a green wreath or arrange the basket of poinsettias, let them help in the cleaning and baking—not as a duty to be tolerated, but as part of the joyous anticipation in the celebration of Christmas as the birthday of Jesus, a con tribution to family and com munity happiness. Lastly, help your children to receive gifts graciously. Not the gift alone but the giver is to be appreciated. “The intent of the giver above the value of the gift becomes natural to the child who is learning to understand the act of giving.” No gift is ugly, or unworthy, no matter how clumsily fashioned, if the intent is to please and glad den the heart of another. Its the value of the gift in terms of energy and effort, not in pesos, that the child needs to (Continued on page 5/) Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL PAR F U M OUElQUES FLEURS ASb 10 WOMAN’S HOM'fe JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 A jB>tnrg for Qlliriattnas By Manuel E. Arguilla NOON of December 24th. The sun shone down brightly upon the city, Hurrying crowds laden with packages filled the sidewalks. Shining beautiful cars glided slowly up and down the avenues, their squat black shadows creeping faith fully under them. All day the stores would be open and last minute shoppers will rush to and fro till evening. At the corner of Escolta and David at the foot of the cream-coloured wall of Heacock’s, sat three children. The wall does not jut out into the sidewalk, and as the chil dren crouched against it, they were protected from the feet of heedless pedestrians. Hard ly anyone noticed these three. And the few who did glanced quickly away. They were not a pleasing sight. The small est of the three was a girl, barely four years old. Her thin body was covered with a cotton dress cut out of flour sacking, the trade mark of the flour still showing in blue letters. She was very dirty. Her little face held no expres sion; it had not been washed for days and the eyes were bleary. Her hair fell down to her shoulders uncombed, dusty, brown and dry. The two other children were boys of perhaps seven and eight, thin as their sister and quite as dirty. They had on nothing but cotton shirts that reached to their hips. They squatted there against the wall, their emaciated legs, naked and bony before them. They did nothing but sit, their hands limp on the pavement beside them. They did not even look at the passersby. They merely sat there and the sight of them was not pleas ing. Twelve o’clock. The ice plant whistle blew over the city piercingly. The church bells rang and pealed. Auto mobile horns added their stri dent honking to the general clamor. At that moment, the eldest of the three children rose quickly to his feet. He aroused the other two, push ing the head of the little girl, and nudging with his knee the shoulder of the younger boy. Now they were all on their feet, the little girl rubbing her eyes with her dirty little knuckles. The eldest boy held her shoulder and pulled her to his side. He motioned to the younger boy to follow. The three crossed Calle David and on the other side a young man was waiting for them. He was not a very tall young man and his broad shoulders made him look shorter than he really was. He had a lean, sensitive face with small, deep-set eyes under well-shaped eyebrows. 1 A smile, half-mocking, half-ten der parted his finely-cut lips as he waited for the children to reach his side. Twice he had passed by the trio seat ed against the wall, each time regarding them intently, walking slowly. At the sec ond time he had crossed Calle David and on reaching the other side, he had sud denly turned around and whistled to the eldest boy. There was something furtive in his efforts to attract the attention of the boy for the young man could not help feeling sheepish about the whole business. He knew that he was being very fool ish. And he had almost given up trying to arouse them from their stupor when the eldest saw him, and got up. Now they were all three coming to him. He had half a mind to stride on ahead and let them follow after him as best they could. But he wait ed until they were by his side and then without thought, he bent down and lifted the lit tle girl in his arms. How she smelled! But the young man carried her up the Escolta, across Plaza Santa Cruz and into a Chinese eating place where the four of them occu pied one table. “What do you want to eat?” he asked, in English, not knowing how to speak in Ta galog very well, and then real izing how senseless it was of him to talk to them in Eng lish, he tried haltingly to ask them in Tagalog what they wanted to eat. The children turned to him their expressionless faces. Not a word escaped their lips, but each had clutched in a grimy fist the fork and spoon that the Chinese waiter had placed before them. The young man decided to take matters into his own hands. And he ordered lechon guisado, mami, pata jamon, camaron rebosado, and gulay. All very simple dishes but great ly filling. He tried to eat, but could not. So he got up and went over to the fruit stand and bought a dozen apples and a kilo of grapes. When he returned to their table, the children grabbed the spoons and forks they had laid down, but he told them to go ahead and use their fingers. They were soon through. They had eaten everything in sight. Now he gave each an apple and a handful of grapes. Then carrying the little girl' again, he brought them to Rizal Avenue. He bought each a dress and a pair of rubber shoes. The boys chose sailor suits with caps to match. The little girl had a red sweater and a pair of overalls. All this time they had not said a word. They merely pointed at the things they wanted. He took them behind the counter and with the aid of the salesboy, whom he found out was an Ilocano like him, he dressed the three children in their newly bought fineries. They emerged from behind the counter with not a word spoken. They looked up at him and their faces were (Continued on page 50) Manila, December, 19S6 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 11 The Isip family photographed one Christmas day in New York. CHRISTMAS is Christ mas everywhere. The feeling of joy and beauty which is essen tially of the Christmas sea son, pervades the Christian universe with impartial glow, enriching both the palm hut of the Orient and the snowcovered homes of the Occi dent. But the trappings of Christmas are different, and a Filipino transplanted from the native hearth to a foreign fireplace may well wonder at the difference which land and sea and weather could make on the celebration of Christmas. “In New York—and in the whole of the United States,” Mrs. Josefina Madamba Isip, Filipino resident of New York, discussed Christmas as she knew it abroad, “the Christmas Tree is an essential part in all Christmas celebra tions. Without a tree glisten ing with tinsel and bells and flickering with a multitude of colored lights, Christmas in America is inconceivable.” Mrs. Isip is the wife of the famous commercial artist, Manuel Rey Isip, here on a vacation, and ever since the birth of her daughter, Linda, the celebration of Christmas has been one of great impor tance to her. She went on to describe her own special Christmas celebration abroad: “Before Christmas Eve, we get a tall tree. We mount Sfiltpinn (UljrtatmaB Ahrnaii this tree in the center of the living room, then we have great fun trimming it in readiness for the Eve. Before midnight of December 24th, the tree is complete in all its glory. We postpone the main celebration, however, till Christmas Day, when the chil dren could most enjoy it. On this day, I give a party for Linda. I invite the children of my friends and ask them to take part in the party which would start at three o’clock. 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He dis tributes these to the awed children and wishes everyone a product of the a merry Christmas. When all the gifts have been distri buted, we turn on all the lights and unwrap packages. This puts everyone in a more jolly mood, for Christmas is made real for the children when they see the material manifestations of it.” Miss Filomena Alonso, of the Young Women’s Christian Association, knows a differ ent American Christmas from the delightful one that Mrs. Isip has described. (Continued on page -17) WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 ©V Jtt Storking WELL, then,” said the Christmas fairies, making up their lists, “What would you give an author who is writing a book?” “The gift of Solitude,” said one; “That among the humor ous multitudes of men he may pass unknown and unsuspect ed even by his friends who shall never guess the loving judgments of his heart. 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Yes, I give him the golden seed of Folly and pray he may be wise enough to cher Ice-skating or tennis is Vigorous! ish it.” “It is a fairy’s duty to be cryptic,” suggested a third. “I give him the gift of Grace: that, being (as you have made him) a fool, he may yet mock fools without unbearable of fense, showing by the tone of his mockery that he in cludes himself in the discip line. Without Grace he is nought but a clown driving ’jnis pate on stone walls; he must have the gift of elusive words that change color while you look at them; he must walk a mile for a cha meleon.” “The gift of Disregard,” announced a stern looking fairy whose coat was button ed up to his chin. “He must learn to pay no attention to what anyone says, not to be abashed by praise nor puffed up by the attack; these are the great faults of authors. Certainly he must never sub scribe to a cliping bureau.” “The gift of Patience,” said another, putting in a queer shaped parcel. “It looks a good deal like lazyness, and will often be so considered. But it means that he must let his work take its own time, never be hurried by landlords or editors, be not too depressed if it does not seem to spread and sparkle on the page as it should, be content to let it ferment and work inwardly until the time has come. This is a sharpedged gift and will not al ways be relished by our friend.” “You are too darned so lemn,” interrupted a young fairy with an Eton cut and so debonair a mien that even among fairies she was held FOR OCEAN PEARL BUTTONS Made in Manila COME TO OUR STORE AT 460 Calle Dasmarinas MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. iD to be a bit irresponsible. “For goodness’ sake, give the poor fish something he can cash in on; give him Mirth; the kind of laughter that started a star so distant that it hasn’t reached us yet; let him be inventive in laughter as scien tists are in physics; golly, there must be all sorts of un discovered merriment; I think its terrible to be still laugh ing at the same jokes that Chaucer started; give him the gift of the Absurd.” “Cash in on?” exclaimed a disillusioned-looking sprite. “Child, what makes you to think that a new kind of Mirth would be profitable? Give him Self-Forgetfulness, that he may enjoy the world with reverence and peace, and blot out for a while from his busy mind that hellish aware ness of himself. Let him have room in his heart to pity others and lie hidden in a dream.” They fell to wrangling as to which of their various gifts would be most valuable to their beneficiary. “These are all very intan gible presents,” said one. “I’d give him a sagacious pub lisher and leave the rest to luck, mice and oblivion.” “Besides,” remarked an ob servant fairy, “there’s a big hole in the toe of his stock ing, most of these little pack ages of ours will slip right throughout it.” ‘*Wed’d better mend it,” said a domestic-minded fairy, getting out her sewing bag. “Yes, it ought to be mend ed, that’s his particular weak ness, his—” “Gracious!” said Santa, coming down the chimney with a crash. “Don’t mend that! If it weren’t for that the poor devil would never write at all.” Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL (Thru Are Not jFnrmittrit THE orphans, the sick and the aged, the poor, the unemploy ed, the prisoners, and other unfortunate people in Ma nila have no cause to com plain that they are forgotten during the Christmas holi days. Organizations as well as individuals vie with each other in seeing to it that these people receive their share, even a little of it only, of the Christmas cheer which pervades the atmosphere at this time of the year. At the head of individuals who play Santa Claus to the under-privileged in Manila are President and Mrs. Que zon who have continued the charming tradition started by former Governor-General Murphy and his sister, Mrs. Marguerite M. Teahan, of entertaining the children in the different orphanages in Manila and in Welfareville on the grounds of Malacanang Palace. The children receive toys and bags of “eats” and are entertained with a musi cal program and a movie. A huge Christmas tree, with lights and all, is also put up on one of the lawns for their pleasure. Last year, Mayor and Mrs. Posadas also distributed gifts to some of Manila’s poor fam ilies. Mr. Rafael G. Mallouch, a business man. entertained twentv-five (25) destitute families in his home. Mr. Roberto S. Teodoro last year undertook the task of asking for donations for gifts from various firms, as sociations and individuals in the city, for about 500 poor children in Santa Ana, a dis trict in Manila. President Quezon commended Mr. Teodoro’s civic spirit and initia tive and advised other dis tricts to follow the example of Santa Ana. The organization which Mayor Posadas ditsributing gifts among a few of Manila's poor children last Chirstmas. plays the Santa Claus to per haps the greatest number of poor people is the Associat ed Charities. 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On the other hand, country swains and lasses stepping oc casionally or even permanent ly with the “upper-ups” never lose their “boorish rudeness”. A city lady, after spending a week-end in the country, told us: “The folks down there are like monkeys on trees: they stare at you with open mouths, poke fingers at your face, and talk and giggle among themselves about us very loudly.” One of her male companions nearly had a fist fight with one of “the boors”. On the other hand, perhaps the country folks who saw the complaining city lady and her companions, were equally so positive about distressing items in the city lady’s dress, gait, manners, and speech. Of course, we are more apt to sympathize with the visi tors. Just the same, it would have been for the good of all, if the visitors to Rome adapt ed the ways of the Romans! Dr. Paz Mendoza-Guazon sees in the greeting, Saan ka paroon? (Where are you Francisco R. Fernando going?) and Saan ka nangga ting? (Where have you been?) traces of the nomadic habit of our ancestors, “who as you all know, came from the south—the Malay settle ments and Java”. Frankly, we are not so historically minded as tfye doctor. We fancy that those greetings have no other background except the fact that in the country—where the greeting is current—there is no other greeting more handy or ap propriate. Country folks have nothing in mind except zvhere are you going or where have you been! One knows one an other’s personal and other af fairs so well, that the greet ing How do you do ? is absurd. Circumstances, therefore, might be responsible for the brazen etiquette of the coun try “where one need to shout in order to get heard”. It is very regrettable that we do not have an etiquette here that is universally re cognized. Our etiquette, like our dialects, are ununderstandable to one another. Each particular region has its own code of manners. The conflict, though, is not that of one region against that of another. In spite of dissimilarities, there are many accepted ways for all places. The conflict is more be tween the older and the youn ger generations. The older generation is more inclined to hold fast to Latin, while the younger generation is stubbornly for the AngloSaxon. Etiquette between men and women of the old school has more or less been constructed on the broad assumption that well-bred people should not mingle freely among them selves, that is, men and wo men together. Nunnery and spinsterhood being highly va lued, the more a woman ap proaches the looks and the shyness of a nun, the better bred is she. Spanish etiquette requires repression of language, of feeling, and of emotion, par ticularly on the part of the woman. Anglo-Saxon etiquet te is franker in all ways. On more occasions than one. we are sure, each of us feel perplexed as to how we are going to behave. Once, on crossing the end of Rizal Avenue, a young man held the arm of his girl companion. The girl disentangled herself. “Excuse me,” the perspiring young man said. “I didn’t know that your etiquette is Spanish and not Anglo-Sa xon”, he added with better grace. We, ourselves, remember the number of times we feel piqued for being at a loss as to which etiquette to use, the Spanish or the AngloSaxon. There is, to begin our catalogue of woes, the many times when we want to greet elderly home town folks, for mer teachers and professors, and one-time girl classmates yet have to refrain because to them belong the privilege of recognition. Nine cases out of ten, they seemly hold to the Spanish etiquette— they insist that I should re cognize them first. “According to the Eng lish-American etiquette, no man is supposed to be the first in intimating a recogni tion and to talk to a lady to whom he has not yet been introduced. This AngloAmerican custom was so funny to some Latin people that it had been the subject of a caricature in which a lady in a railroad car was de picted in flames and a gentle man by her side as saying: ‘I could help her, but I have not been introduced to her’!” Maybe, when it comes to etiquette, most of us younger Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 15 folks have been born too ear ly. The young women, parti cularly, how often do they fall victims to the calumny of their elders for being so out spoken with their men friends simply because they decide to accept school-taught Amer ican etiquette instead of hometaught Spanish etiquette.. To be sure, there is in American etiquette much that is too brazen when judged by Spanish norms. Consider, for instance, the entertainment to which a young man is enti tled to receive when visiting. We remember the painful chiding a lady cousin receiv ed from her mother of the old school for welcoming rather too frankly an altogether de sirable bachelor friend. Staunch supporters of Spanish etiquette maintain that for the warm, romantic Philippine climate, American etiquette cannot be implant ed without dangers. They hold that American norms of conduct, particularly those that deal with the relations between the young man and the young woman, are not only too intimate for the ra ther romance-too-inviting tro pical days and nights but are also so when we consider the average Filipino’s tempera ment : dreamy, sentimental, impulsive. Dating, a vogue, to Amer ican youths is not so much a vogue here. Even ardent sup porters of American etiquette —many of them—admit that “dating” as practised in America is a little going too far. Perhaps, a compromise be tween the old and the new schools of conduct is best. Perhaps, too, a recognition that rules of conduct are not hard and fast nor cut and dried would save many a well meaning soul from discom fiture or from embarrass ment. Tolerance, ever an un failing index of good breed ing, is required even in eti quette ! Fur (Sot ®a ifatte A HHerrij djriatmaa! By Cornelia Ramirez WHEN I wr.s a child I loved Christmas with a love clinging around memories of ap ples and oranges and nuts and candy and pesetas from generous relatives, and chic ken and ham and excellent cheese, and pan americano and hot dogs, and crisp new dresses, and tight, new shoes, and music and lights and in digestion. I loved Christmas. No longer does Christmas hold for me its former magic. I am not a child anymore but a woman and married. And the uncles who gave me pese tas ask me now for pesos. There are many persons I want to give presents to, but I do not have the means. It is well to talk of celebrating Christmas with the spirit but not everyone can think him self into happiness. After all most of us are at heart chil dren still and a tangible gift no matter how trivial expres ses to us more simply and di rectly than introspection, the spirit of the season. Happy those who receive but happier those who give. Least happy those who want to give and cannot. It is not true what they say in books. That with a thin purse and a stout heart one could give much. I love my husband and cannot bear to think of giv ing him nothing but a Christ mas kiss. I love my mother and the idea of sending her nothing more substantial than a eray little Christmas card makes me laugh. What would a simple, unschooled woman like her do with a square piece of cardboard? There is my Tata Eliong who has asked for a pair of shoes “number five, even if only the cheap kind.” I’d like to give it to him as it is the first thing he has ever ask ed of me. One time I was to him a child-niece for whom he bought ice-cream cones. Now I am a responsible woman on my first Christmas since my marriage. My husband’s little brother in the provinces—he wants shoes too, everyone seems to need shoes. He wrote: Dier Sister, plese to buy for me shoos and cap. The school is asking also 2. Give me and I will pea. I send here the measure. You brother, Gualberto. The “measure” he refers to is a cut out paper sole of his right foot. I have a brother who is a pre-law student. I want to give him at least a shirt. And Loleng, my school chum who never forgets my birthdays— I must send her a card at least. And Mrs. Ramos through whom my husband got his job, I should send her a card too, or some present able gift. And that reminds me: we have plenty of friends to whom we feel we must send cards at least. But even cards and stamps cost a few pesos altogether. What’s the use? Here I am, December chil ling my feet, with four pesos on hand and wanting a peso more to pay for my hus band’s wrist watch; the laun dry coming on Saturday, the light bill due to be paid next week to say nothing of the water bill coming at the end of the month. It is depressing. But I wonder. If I stop giving the laundry out next week—I think I’ll learn to wash yet, put off the payment on that watch for the next month, pawn those earrings grand mother gave me for a wed ding present, why I believe we could have a merry Christwas after all. I’m going to have a fierce time of it after wards, but I don’t care. 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Doctor Grisdon and I will join you shortly.” Bart nodded. “You’ll help me, Brother Cheng,” he said confidently. After the door closed on Bart, I protested. “The boy is chasing a phantom. Either this girl will laugh at him or he will be disillusioned after five minutes’ talk.” Brother Cheng shook his head. “I have no worry as to that. They will take fire toge ther.” “But there is some hitch that even you acknowledge. Right?” “The girl is guarded by a dragon.” “A dragon?” "Her cousin, the Senor Fe lipe Mendez. He also would forget his sundial scars and step back thirty years.” “Mendez? The fellow who drives about in that two wheeled carriage? Black Vandyke?” “You know him.” “Why, he’s all of fortyfive !” “A proud man, doctor, and in his way, a good one. He has managed the Estrada af fairs honestly, Padre Nolas tells me, and has appointed himself guardian of Senorita Mercedes.” “You think he’d make it hot for our young friend, eh?” Brother Cheng nodded. “He has the traditions. Padre Nolas told me, if I remember correctly, that Senor Mendez has frightened away several young suitors by mentioning a duel.” I got to my feet. “Well, that settles it,” I said. “I’m going to cable Bart’s daddy to order him back to the Sta tes!” “A most unwise procedure, if I may be so bold,” mur mured Brother Cheng. I stared at him. “Surely, you are not taking sides with Bart?” By Frederick Hazlitt Brennan The story -told by Dr. Oliver Grisdon involves young Bart Nelson, a young adventurer who came upon romantic adventure in the Philippines. Shortly after Bart’s arrival in Manila, he took a journey northward. On his way, he came zipon a tall wall where unusual—looking black roses clambered. The roses, he found out, were guarded and cherised by a beautiful girl who at the instant of sight stole his heart. He asked Dr. Grisdon to help him find the girl, and the doctor took him to Brother Cheng, scholar and fount of experience. Brother Cheng related to B<art the strange story of the girl of the black roses. It appeared that the girl, Senorita Mercedes Estrada, was the offspring of a Spanish ancestor who had locked his doors to civilization when American victory changed the course of life in the Philippine Islands. The girl, therefore, was1 literally kept under lock and key and withdrawn from modern life. This story merely served to enhance the girl’s charm foi1 young Bart, and at ihe close of the second installment we find him pleading for aid in wooing the girl. “He is a pleasure, that young man. He is a witness to the imperishable: that chi valry which so many of your American men believe has passed entirely from the world. Forgive me, doctor! I am but a faint and faulty echo of the Great One. His Whispering Children still rove this earth and stir with their breath the white fire in young hearts. And must I quench this flame, this pre cious thing?” I was thinking of Jim Nel son in Fall River. “It means trouble, Brother Cheng. There is some other way we can help Bart,” I said. “Heh! There is no olher peace for that young soul.” Brother Cheng reached out a hand and his fingers tapped a silver gong. “I shall feed the white fire, my friend. Come, let us dine.” * * * Bart and I stood in the great hall of the Estrada house, waiting for Senorita Mercedes to receive us. The fierce white sunshine of Luz o n, streaming through a cathedral-like window beside the stone staircase, could not quite dispel the gloom. The walls, hung with shawls and prayer rugs like battle flags, were a dead mission white, after the old fashion. Bart, the young fool, smil ed reassuringly. “Aunt Nina takes siesta at this hour,” he whispered, “and she’s so deaf she won’t hear us talking. It’s all right.” It was not all right. For two weeks and five days Bart, with the connivance of Bro ther Cheng and Padre Nolas, had been Dressing his court ship of this Estrada girl. He was desperately in love with her and she, so Brother Cheng informed me, was about to succumb to the same madness. I had cabled Bart’s father, who had cabled Bart strict orders to return to the States. But Bart had laughed at our fears. “Why couldn’t we talk with Senorita Mercedes in the gar den?” I said. “IT’S not the custom. Visi tors are received in the little parlor. We should be there now.” “You go in there,” I mut tered crustily. “I stay right here.” “Sh-sh-sh!” I looked up. Through an arch at the turn of the stair case, I saw a girl in a sea blue dress coming down the stairs. “Miss Mercedes,” Bart said, and stumbled forward across a rug. “Good afternoon, Mr. Bart,” the girl said. In a twinkling I realized why Bart or any other man might want her. She was not (Continued on page 58) Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 17 THE Philippine Constitu tion upholds the eter nal principle of Demo cracy—the government of the people, by the people and for the people. However, in truth and in fact, our government is only half democratic—a government of men, by men, and for men and women. While in true democracies, like Great Britain and the United States, both men and women can vote, in the Phil ippines only the men can exerxise the right of suffrage. Only the men, the favored citizens, can vote and the wo men are deprived of the right of suffrage. Unless the wo men in the Philippines are given the right to vote and be voted on, democracy in these fair Isles will remain a misnomer. It should be the Choose ^our EMBROIDERY . . . years of wear depend on your choice. You can’t go wrong with “ANCHOR” products — the FAST color threads. 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Shall we falter in our solemn duty to work for our own political emancipation? Do we not look with envy at our sisters in China who have just re cently been emancipated? ■ The only answer to these y [uestions is: We, the Filipino !women, are for suffrage. We will vote, more than three hundred thousand strong in favor of this much coveted right. In this coming plebis cite, we are afforded a great opportunity to show to the whole world our real stand on suffrage. If we do not now live up to the Constitutional quota, if we fail to convince the world of our united strength, we would have lost forever this one great chance to avail ourselves of the right to decide our own des tiny. Well may the coming generation point to us with an accusing finger for having failed to d0 that which we should have done I am confident, however, that this will not happen. With the leadership of the educated women in the Phil ippines and with the coopera tion of the broad-minded men, I am sure that all the quali fied Filipino women will go to the polls to vote in favor of woman suffrage in the Philippines. Let us all hope for a bright future, but in so hoping, let us not stop in our campaign to achieve the goal of mak ing the Philippines a really democratic country run not only by men but als0 by wo men. When this happen, what FREE AT YOUR DEALER TODAY A FULL COLORED 1937 ART CALENDAR WITH PAD WRAPPED IN CELOPHANE WITH 3 CAKES OF LARGE SIZE PALMOLIVE SOAP AT THE USUAL LOW PRICE. NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR THE CA LENDAR—THIS IS GIVEN FREE WITH THE COM PLIMENTS OF THE MAKERS OF— PALMOLIVE SOAP Lincoln defined as the gov ernment of the people, by the people and for the people would be established in this country. Those of us who understand the significance of such an achievement should work to enlighten those who are either indiffer ent to, or ignorant of the value of woman suffrage. In this momentus ordeal, let us not forget the fact that any accomplishment is incom plete without the participa tion of women. Women of the Philippines, the time has come for us to show the world that we are ready to help the men to push the wheel of pro gress. This we can do only by having the right of suf frage. The coming plebiscite affirmatively, triumphantly for the greater glory of Fili pino womanhood and of this, our country.. 18 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 Arnutth ®lje Wnrlii Wttlj ®nlg $50 WAY back in the late nineties, Nellie Bly, the first to make America conscious of the wo man reporter with her stunts., proved that one could make a trip around the world in what was then considered the shortest time: seventy-two days, six hours, and eleven minutes. Her feat was re cently duplicated by the fly ing reporters who made a stop in Manila (one of them being a young woman. Miss Dorothy Kilgallen) and short ened her record to about one tenth of the time. To make such a trip around the world is easy nowadays with all the modern means of transporta tion at the disposal of the travelers—ocean and air lin ers, fast automobiles and trains, clippers—, but it costs a lot of money. We had with us recently a woman reporter in the person of Miss Gwyn Dew, who is proving that she can go around the world with only a typewriter and about fifty dollars in cash. If sounds im possible, but she confessed while she was in Manila that not only were her fifty dollars intact but that they had sur prisingly increased. There is no end to the Americans’ resourcefulness or ingenuity when it comes to getting what they want. This applies equally to both men and women, old and young. Miss Dew wanted to see the world, like many others bit ten by the Adventure bug, but she did not have money. Did this stump her? Not at all. She decided to make her trip pay for her instead of her paying for the trip, or, to put it in another way, to make her ability to write pay for her trip. Fortunately for her, the Detroit News, for whose women’s section she was writing articles on sub jects of interest to women— .'ashions, food, gardening, in terior decoration, etc., and other newspapers approved of her plans and promised to accept the stories she would write during her trip. She left New York last February 10, with only fifty dollars in cash in her pocket book, and proceeded to New Orleans and then to Texas to see and write about the Cen tennial Exposition there. She nearly missed her train to California, and in the hurry, s Stranded Cotton s g 420 Shades of fast Colours—They Boil! S 3 For details apply to the Sole Distributors § | OTTO GMUR Inc. | g 90 ROSARIO, MANILA § lost all the money, except forty cents, that she had. Luckily for her, she recover ed her money later. Then she went to Holly wood (as what woman would not?) and interviewed movie stars, wrote about their homes and their hobbies, and went on location with the company of “Under Two Flags,” starring Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, and Victor Maclaglen. Miss Col bert is “regular,” the said, .Miss Gwyn Dew and Ronald Colman is just as handsome in .real life as you see him on the silver screen. From Hollywood, she pro ceeded to San Francisco, where she took a "boat for Honolulu. She stayed in Honolulu for two months. Then she went to Tokyo, where she remained for more than two months. While in China, she had the distinction of interviewing the infre quently-interviewed and in accessible first lady of China, Madame Chiang Kai Shek, who was then resting in her summer home in Kuleng. It was while going to this place that Miss Dew met what she considered her most thrilling adventure. It had been rain ing for days and she was told that the roads were dangerous if not impassable but she de cided to go to Kuleng just the same. She hired one of those sedan chairs carried by two coolies and went down (or was it up she could not re call) a narrow path cut in the steep cliffs. The coolies had to walk slowly and very care fully but they made the trip in a shorter t,ime than usual. She shuddered while just tell ing of this trip, for one false step of one of the coolies and into the precipice she and they would have fallen. From Shanghai, she took a boat to Hongkong, and from i (ontiiiiied mi page 52) Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOUR*NAL 19 2U uteuia HAVE YOU SEEN: Romeo and Juliet, the most famous love story of the ages, starring Norma Shear er and Leslie Howard. The lines of Shakespeare resound for the screen from the lips of a sterling cast including John Barrymore, Basil Rath bone and Edna May Oliver. The loves and hates of the Montagues and the Capulets make an absorbing movie play, embellished by truly magnificent settings that re call the grandeur of the past. Norma Shearer imbues her most important role to date with rare charm and glamour, and Leslie Howard makes an appealing Romeo. Romeo and Jidiet is a picture of real magnificence and a local fan who was present at the pre view called it the “only per fect picture he has seen.” (Ideal) * * * The White Angel which reviews the life of one of the most remarkable women of all time, Florence Nightin gale, with Kay Francis in the leading role. The beginning and the highlights of a career devoted to the relief of man kind make up a moving screen story reverently told. The settings for the story were conscientiously finished to give as honest a replica of the world of the Lady with the Lamp as is possible to day. Kay Francis is breathtakingly lovely in this, her most ambitious role to date, and Ian Hunter gives able support. (State) * * * Valiant Is the Word for Carrie, starring Gladys George, is the story of a re formed prostitute who made health and happiness possible for two homeless youngsters. Two remarkable children, Jackie Moran and Charlene Wyatt, are responsible for most of the tearful and the happy moments in the picture. John Howard and Arline Judge are also in the cast. The Petrified Forest which offers a novel theme in volving a man disillusioned with life and a young girl eager to savor it. These two meet in an outlandish spot out West. The sacrifice of one so the other may gain her wish climaxes a story pre sented with intelligence and charm by its performers. Les lie Howard, who starred in the stage hit of the same play, adds another crown to his success in this movie. With him is Bette Davis, Academy Award winner and heroine of “Of Human Bondage.” (Ca pitol) leading men, among them Lio nel Barrymore, Robert Tay lor, Melvyn Douglas, Franchot Tone and James Stewart. HAVE YOU READ: Dr. Victor Heiser’s “An American Doctor’s Odyssey” ? Get the book and find some thing about the health fight waged in the Philippines oeDr. ige * * * The Gorgeous Hussy, term ed Joan Crawford’s most am bitious picture to date. The story concerns itself with life in Washington, D.C., during the presidency of Andrew Jackson. Joan Crawford as . fore you were born. Peggy O’Neale, a sort of pow-‘ Heiser, in precise langua: er behind the throne, is sup-i and u. matter-of-fact portraported by a sterling group of., yal, conjures up pictures of past times with an almost disturbing vividness. One can imagine the Philippines bound by traditions and ig norance, being forcibly guid ed towards the road to health by a crusader whose persist ence and courage were stronger than those possessed by most men. The tragedy of epidemics, the little subter fuges which people preju diced against science employ to avoid what mean “risk” for them, the failures and the successes that must accompa ny all worth while attempts are described with lucid sym pathy by one who has met with them. * * * Another doctor who was with us much later than Dr. Heiser, Dr. Rebecca Parish, has written a book about pla ces and peoples, but this gives portraits of them with out attempting to delve deep ( into their health psychology. The book, “Orient Seas and Lands Afar”, is essentially a travel book, revealing pictu resque peoples in their differ ent settings with an accuracy born of sympathetic observa tion. Dr. Parish has visited China, Japan and Arabia and a'l the other Oriental coun tries of importance, sometimes staying to lecture and heal, but more often just taking in the life of the place and in corporating this into her fund of experiences. Dr. Parish is well beloved here and best re membered by those who have come in contact with her gen erous spirit and sympathy for people. Io urho Gh£ d eb il i tated, have poor digestion, doctors recommend SCOTTS EMULSION because it is easily tolerated, improves the appe tite, and builds flesh and strength as j else will do. There is only one Scott’s Emulsion . •. refuse sub stitutes . . . build health and strength with nothing SCOTT’S EMULSION FORMULA OF SCOTT'S EMULSION:-Cod Liver Oil. 29.052%, Glycerine, 12.097%; 1% sololion of Hypophosphites of Lime and Soda, 56.937%; Excipient, 1.796%; Flavoring, .138%. Approved and Rtgiiltrtd by the Board of Pharmacy. 20 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 Sunn Aparrt 3lnlo Desde esta semana he comenzado la campaha ref erente a nuestro plebiscito por medio de conferencias en los barrios de este Municipio, repartiendo a la Junta Directiva de los sucursales de Club de Mujeres los ejemplares de propaganda que Vd. me ha enviado, lo cual si Vds. tienen mas espera/mos nos envie para distribuir en todos los barrios de este Mu nicipio. BERNARDINA R. DE LUSPO Presidenta, Club de Mujeres Mambajao, Misamis Oriental * * * 1 am very glad to inform you that we are noiv having our house to house campaign and survey. I believe that there is no better rvay to insure the success of the Plebiscite. I know it is a sacrifice to do this, but we do not mind it and its difficulties, specially in going to the barrios for our cause. I believe we would not be successful in our work if ive do not sacrifice a little part of our energy and time for the campaign. I divided the members of our club to work in different barrios and I myself go to the far barrios. BASILIA A. BESAS Jagna, Bohol * * * I am glad to let you know that the Junior and Senior Clubs have began the campaign and ive are doing quite well in the xvork. The campaign has reached the barrios, but it is not yet very intensive. I have asked our Vice-President, Mrs. Maria C. Parco, to lead this campaign, because I have Preserve Your Beauty Use the best quality FACE POWDER Avoid using in ferior quality face powder harmful to your skin. PALS made in the Philippines of the best quality ingre dients. It stays on skin and makes it scenting. It beautifies your complexion, too. On Sale At All Bazars and Drug Stores Everywhere been advised by our Principal that I must not directly or indirectly campaign for this Plebiscite as it might endanger my present position. JOSEFINA F. FULGENCIO Batan, Capiz * * * I am in favor of Woman Suffrage. It appears to me that the best way in which I may interest our women is to visit each of our principal barrios and ask the women who are qualified voters to select the campaign leaders. Likewise, I shall tell them the number of votes needed from each barrio. ELENA I. HUGHES Pantucan, Davao * * * This is to inform you that the women of our town are noiv fast awakening to the Suffrage Movement largely through the efforts of Miss Gracia Querubin, your provincial re presentative, and of Miss Julia Guerzon, president of the Junior Woman’s Club. The Bachelorettes, another group of the younger women under the presidency and leadership of Miss Ester F. Reyes have also promised and pledged their support to the movement. I have already distributed the ma terials you sent me. I hope you will send me more, preferably in the dialect. TEODORICO D. AYSON Sta. Maria, Ilocos Sur * * * This is to inform you that the Woman’s Club was prepar ing to campaign for suffrage when we heard of the' civil service rules regarding it. Since the president of the club is a teacher, she had to change all her plans for the cam paign. You know, Mrs. Lim, in towns like mine tohich are far from the city (and there are many of these in the Phil ippines) female teachers are an intelligent and influential group in their community. If they are prohibited from hav ing any say with regards to woman’s suffrage I think much good influence will be withdrawn. It is true that there are other intelligent tvomen in the community, but sometimes their contacts are not as wide as the teachers’. Therefore, I appeal for your help in securing permission from the Bu reau of Civil Service to allow female teachers to speak on suffrage and only prohibit them from working for any candi date during the elections. * * * I began the work by going to Naguilian where the vicepresident, secretary, and treasurer of the Provincial Federa tion reside. It is very fortunate for us that our Provincial Governor Juan Rivera is a suffragist and on one occasion when I had an interview ivith him he promised to co operate with us. PRESENTACION DUMPIT Bauang, La Union. * * * In connection with the discussion of plans for the na tional plebiscite on woman suffrage, please permit me to sug gest the issuance of special postage stamps for the purpose. I wish to tell you also that I will do my best to influence all the members of the Filipino Editors and Publishers’ Union of which I am the founder and president to help you in your campaign for the coming plebiscite. ADEUDATO J. AGBAYANI Editor, Ilocos Times * * * We are trying our best to carry out this work so that at present we are enjoying our life canvassing from house to house, explaining to the people the importance of this ques Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 21 tion. We even go out to the remotest barrios oj our town, crossing its mountainous and dangerous ways mainly to cam paign in order to cover the votes required in the Constitution. TERESA M. ROSALES President, Woman's Club Torrijos, Marinduque * * * How many municipalities in Occidental Negros have wo men's clubs? I am asking because I am interested to have all the ivomen voters vote “yes” at the Plebiscite. If you need my heln, I can accompany your representative in organizing the clubs in the towns. I think we have enough time yet to do it. We have to ask, of course, for the help of the provincial and municipal officials. MRS. E. INVENTOR DALIPE President, Woman's Club Kabankalan, Negros Occidental * * * As suggested by that office, the Woman’s suffrage calen dar was translated into the dialect and as soon as I can get enough money copies will be printed for distribution. The expenses for this will be my personal and voluntary contri bution. And as to your suggestion for house to house cam paign I have just began the same, but let me also suggest that a representative from that office be sent to visit us here. FELISA G. CORRALES Mambajao, Oriental Misamis * * * All Friday and Saturday last iveek, ive fired our real first shot for suffrage in western Pangasinan—Labrador, Sual, and Bolinao. Mrs. Sison was with me and five others. In all towns where I spoke, I was able to get the municipal presidents not only to promise that they ivill push the drive, but to pledge publicly that they will exert all their influence to help the women win. In most meetings, there were men who afterwards shouted, “we will send our wives to the polls now that we really know your aims.” MARIA C. MAGSANO President, Provincial Federation Dagupan, Pangasinan * * * That the cause of the Filipino Women is gaining wide spread attention among foreign women is shown by these ex tracts from letters received by the NFWC: “I am- wondering what the women will do noiv. How will they go about getting the 300,000 votes? Have you an organization ready to take charge of this undertaking? Of course, the Philippines are far away and conditions are dif ferent there, but I am so very anxious to be of help to you that I have been thinking of what might be done. “I make this suggestion, but, of course, you will accept it or not as your judgment indicates. In the great State of New York, where there is the largest population of any state in the United States, where there are many quite large cities outside of the City of New York (the largest in this country), we secured a referendum on woman suffrage. The entire world said that we could never win. There are many for eigners in our population. Every continent and race, every nation and opinion, I think must be represented here. “We did wtin, however, and the great thing ive did was to address a petition to the voters of New York. This was a petition of women to men and the women spent many months getting women's signatures to it. We secured, in New YorkState, 101,030,000 names. That petition was then present ed to,the Governor of the State and to the Mayor of the City of New York. (Continued on page 37) Choice coffees give you better value HASE & Sanborn Coffee act ually gives you more flavor for every penny spent. It’s reas onably priced, because we buy coffee in large quantities. 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Instead, it changes color as you apply it to your own natural coloring, the one blush-rose shade so smart this year. TryTangec. It’s kissproof, stays on for hours and its special cream base keeps your lips soft, smooth, youthful. For those . who require more color, cs- / pecially for evening use, / there is Tangee Theatrical. iLntr By Luisa Barrera withering about such mat ters. About show of emo tions I mean. Indeed, Father had wondered why I some times referred to this piece of loveliness before me as the younger generation in the family, and from the way I said it you’d never dream I saw twenty-one only last May. The clock chimed the hour of five. My sister had stop ped pacing the floor and now appeared to be interested in her legs which, by the way, were doing more than justice to my best pair of hosiery. She looked up, met my eyes, and flushed. And suddenly I wanted to put my arms about her and tell her gent ly that if was all right: love could happen. But of course I did nothing of the kind. I merely said, “You are step ping out,” and waited. “Yes—no, I rpean a—a man is calling on me this after noon. You—you don’t mind?” “No. As a matter of fact I think that would be jolly for you.” She made several aimless figures on the floor with her feet. “He is very nice,” she said. Her voice was so shy and yet so bursting with sup pressed eagerness I felt ra ther ashamed. Of myself for not evincing more curiosity if not interest. “That makes it doubly jol ly,” I said, and went on with my writing. After some minutes she broke out, “I am going to marry him.” If I was shocked I didn’t show it. I said: “Oh, you are, are you?” She was hurt by my apparent indifference. In a fit to make amends I asked, “At your age why should you talk of mar riage?” I could have added I didn’t believe in it myself, that being, again, quite the thing for us wise people to say; but it seemed I had said enough. “I love him. I love him with all my heart.” Evident ly, that was enough reason. “Maudlin but interesting. I’d advise you to lie down. It will pass.” “Please. Please.” She was at my side in no moment at all. “Don’t make fun of it. Jig sixteen-year-old sister in love for the first time. I can’t bear—It means every thing to me.” “Which?” I asked inno cently. “This—this thing in my heart.” The statement coming from any one else would have sounded mawkish. Coming from this sixteen-year-old in love for the first time, how ever, it seemed quite the right thing to say. “You are not angry?” she asked timidly. “Why should I be?” f countered back. “I don’t know. Only you have been so uncommunica tive. Last night I wanted to talk—” “I know.” And indeed I really did. 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Time and na ture, however, cannot stop a woman determined to travel, and the convention was the richer for one dauntless re presentative from Pres. Que zon’s town. * * * Mrs. Bibiana B. Barateta of Tabaco, Albay, perhaps gets the prize as one of the most enthusiastic delegates You Cannot Buy New Eyes! To keep your Eyes bright and beautiful, cleanse them with MURINE daily. Re moves irritating dust and dirt that make eyes appear dull and lifeless. Sooth ing, Refreshing, Beneficial, Harm less. In successful use for over 40 years CHICAGO • ORMULA: Boric acid 12.6 grams; Potassium Bicarbonate 5.78 grams; Potassium Borato 2.24 grnms; Berbcrinc-Hydroclorido 0.28 grnms; Hydrastino Hydrochloride 0.001 gram; GJvccrino 3.3 grams; Merthiolnte (So dium Ethyl Mercuri Thiosalicylate) 0.01 gram; Aqua I'cstillata to 1000 Milliliters. this year. Th'is year’s con vention is the first that Mrs. Bareteta has attended, so she made the most of it by get ting acquainted with as many co-delegates as she could. She made up for lost time by aski n g questions, conversing with every woman she met, and generally enjoying her self. See you again, Mrs. Ba reteta ! * * * Did you know that the Sixth biennial convention was responsible for a sort of jolly family reunion? Mrs. Silveria de Fernandez came all the way from Lilio, Laguna; Mrs. Perfecta Fernandez-Kampitan, her daughter, came from Nagcarlan, Laguna; Mrs. Caridad Fernandez-Suarez came over from Zamboanga, and Mrs. A m p a r o FernandezGonzales one of the conven tion hostesses, lives here in Manila. And this family of delegates chose the conven tion time to meet and visit with each other. They must wish there were more conven tions to give them all plausi ble reasons for meeting in Manila. ❖ * * Delegates who came from farthest south: Mrs. Felisa G. de Corrales, and Mrs. Bernardina R. Luspo. Both came from Mambujao, Oriental Misamis. We hope they have reached home in safety. * * * Loyal and lone delegates: Mrs. Eugenio S. Vargas of Virac, Catanduanes, Miss So ledad Sanvictores of Malavbalay, Bukidnon; Mrs. Emilia B. de Crisostomo of Indan, Camarines Norte; Miss Feliza Garina of Caeaya'n. Ne gros Occidental: Mrs. Feliza de Goseco of Guagua. Pampanga; Mrs. Mamerta Mala of Jolo, Sulu. These worthy delegates have pledged to fur ther the campaign for suf frage in their respective pla ces and to head whatever movement may be required. * * * Bouquets for Pangasinan which sent in the most dele gates to the convention. The province actually sent 58 dele gates. NFWC Board of Directors President—Mrs. Pilar II. How to relieve that Cold Qtucklif! 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You will like Alka-Seltzer and you will like the relief it gives. At all Druggists Sole Agents for the Philippine Islands: Ed. A. Keller &. Co., Ltd., 178 Juan Luna, Manila Lim. First Vice — President— Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra. Second Vice—President— Mrs. T. C. Cadwallader. Treasurer—Mrs. Geronima T. Pecson. Secretary—Mrs. Josefa LI. Escoda. Members of the board—Mrs. Pura V. Kalaw, Mrs. Rosa Sevilla de Alvero, Mrs. Josefa Jara Martinez, and Mrs. Concepcion Felix Rodriguez. “Did You Take Your Alka-Seltzer?” 24 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL At the opening of the Sixth Biennial Convention of the NFWC held last month. Archbishop O'Doherty reading his invocation, Mrs. Lim and Vice-President Osmeiia, guest of honor. THE work on literacy and nursery classes is going still stronger in the provinces, or so the Tiwi Woman’s Club assures us. In spite of odds, the wo men of Tiwi, Albay, has been maintaining nursery classes under a private house. Bene fits and other such means of raising funds have been re sorted to. Result: the club is now ready to start work on literacy. The Federation has already sent in some ma terials to Tiwi to help them in the good work. Good luck, Tiwi Woman’s Club! * * * The women of Tiwi can get an inspiration from the sue cess of the Alitagtag Women’s Club. The president of said club, Mrs. Sofia P. Gutierrez, sent in the names of the illi terates who have been made literate through the efforts of the club. The list includes twenty-five literacy graduates of both sexes. To prove that the club does not intend to rest upon its well earned laurels, it has sent in a request for more mate rials and diplomas for the volunteex' teachers. Gladly, the Federation has complied with the request, and here’s hoping we bear from you again, Mrs. Gutierrez. * * Encouraging news was re ported from Tayabas by field worker Miss Felicidad Escano. It seems that the men, as well as the women of that pro vince are beginning to rally round to the cause of woman suffrage. One of the town councilors of Atimonan per sonally requested two women to talk in behalf of the wo men at a mass meeting held in the town. In another town, Unisan, where a woman’s club meeting was held in the municipal building, men and women attended. Mr. Vicente Tolentino, a citizen, promised unlimited support during the plebiscite campaign. Most of the men present at the meet ing were teachers who believ ed in the right of Filipino women to full citizenship. TESORO JEREZ-QUINA LEGITIMO Stop worrying . . . This health restoring tonic is indispensable for nursing mothers. It is highly re commended to im prove the nervous system, and is an excellent prepara tion for general debility, especial!}' for convalescents. GD GD Nothing like it for restor ing vitality Insist on this bottle REFUSE ALL SUBSTITUTES! Our helpers from the north are vying with those of the south for our attention this month. The Tamurong Wo man’s Club of Candon, Ilocos Sur, has signified its inten tion to join the Federation. The club has had a long re cord of service which entitles it to our notice.. It has help ed in building the school music stand, Concrete school well, Rizal monument in the barrio plaza, and now hopes to help build up success in the coming plebiscite. We welcome a new mem ber, and may your future be brighter than your past, wo men of Tamurong. * * * Good news this month: Two new federations have been formed in the provinces. We welcome into the flock the Negros Provincial FedeFor loss of appetite, TESOllO JEREZQUINA answers the need. It sti mulates and aids digestion. TESO RO JEREZQUINA is an ex tract fro m the juice of selected grapes and quin i n e. It stands out because it is the best. Try it .. today 1 Most in de mand through the year round Manila, December, 1936 Club ration and the Iloilo Provin cial Federation. The officers of the two fed erations are the following: Iloilo Prov. Federation: Mrs. Rosario Cajili Ledes ma—president. Miss Benita Lopez—vice president. Mr. Doloroso—secretary. Mrs. Rosita de Mesa—trea surer. Mrs. Adela Vda. de Mapa— honorary president. Mrs. Leontina Lopez Vito— honorary vice pres ident. Negros Prov. Federation: Mrs. Gorgonia J. Mirasol— president. Miss Felisa de Oca—vice president. Miss Lourdes Infante—sec retary. Mrs. Remitio — sub-secre retary. Mrs. A. Moreno — treas urer. Miss Estrella Lacson—sub treasurer. Board of Directors: All puericulture center pre sidents except 6 who will be appointed by the provincial federation president because these 6 presidents are men. * * * P.S. on the literacy drive: The Taytay Woman’s Club' will inaugurate the Literacy Class with Rev. Jose Gamboa as volunteer teacher. From literacy to athletics is a big jump, but the club of Taytay made it. It has or ganized an indoor baseball team with Mrs. Brigida J. Ulang in charge. The club also submits this jolly news—it has formed a committee on the local plebis cite campaign. Mrs. Guada lupe Gamboa is the chairman, with Misses Anita Mateo, C. Reyes, Mrs. Pilar Sanvictores and Mrs. Teofista Cruz, sub-chairmen. Mrs. F. A. Francisco, the club president, is willing to organize more clubs in the town of Rizal.' Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 25 No woman employed in the government is pro hibited from expressing her opinion on woman suf frage, Commissioner of Civil Service Jose Gil said in explaining civil service ruling, which is perplexing many women would-be-voters in the government em ploy; especially teachers. She has a perfect right to be a suffragist but must not electioneer or take part in bringing voters to the polls or write articles for or against woman suffrage. Women employees can, however, sit on plat forms where public meetings are held, march in pro cessions, or suscribe to campaign funds. No charges against women employees will be entertained by the bureau of civil service unless the employees are shown to have electioneered. THE youth of the land have rallied to the cause of woman suf frage. The first manifesta tion of such an important move is the organization of the Pro-Suffrage Youth League. The league has a membership numbering al most 5,000 university stu dents and professionals now in Manila. Mr. Perpetuo Ferrer, law student and edi tor, has been elected pres ident, Miss Evelina Kalaw, vice president, Datu Domocao Al. Alonto, second vice president, Miss Daisy Hontiv e r o s, executive secretary, Juan Palacpac, asst. exec, secretary, Cleotilde R. Quirolgico, treasurer, Elvira LagPicture taken during one of the sessions of the sixth biennial convention of the NFWC held last month. dameo, asst, treasurer. Miss Pilar Ravelo, Hilarion Dugenio and Vicente Barranco are the publicity directors. Director Lope L. Lendio of the National Pioneer Institute is t h e national campaign manager of the league. The Pro-Suffrage Youth League is a significant proof of the enthusiasm felt on all sides for the cause of woman suffrage. The leaugue is not able especially because it is composed entirely of young people and headed chiefly by men. It hopes to strengthen outside interest on the plebis cite through a national rally scheduled for December 20, 1936, and through district meetings to be held at difPicture taken at Malacahang (hiring the tea given by President and Mrs. Quezon in honor of the delegates to the last NFWC biennial con vention. From left to right: Minerva P. Guysayko, Judge Almeda Lopez. Mrs. Lim, Mrs. Quezon, Pres. Quezon, Mrs. Escoda and Mrs. Pecson. ferent places in Manila. It will send delegations through out the Philippines to cam paign for suffrage. * * * In Lucena, the capital of the province, Miss Escano was able to interest the muni cipal president and the muni cipal doctor in the campaign for suffrage. These important town officials are seriously interested in suffrage and, with the women of the town cooperating, may succeed in convincing the rest of the male population of Lucena that woman suffrage is real ly advantageous to their wives and daughters. In Pagbilao, the same in terest on the suffrage pro blem was manifested by the men. At a meeting held by the Woman’s Club of Pag bilao, fathers were present to represent the mothers who were absent for some reason or another. The masculine contingent was unanimously pro-woman suffrage and at tended the meeting with con tinued interest. * * * The Binnialey Woman’s Club of Pangasinan held a meeting reorganizing the club. In this meeting, Miss Elena Maron was elected president of the club, Mrs. Vicenta Go Sandoval, 1st vicepresident, Mrs. Carmen Ve lasco, second vice-president, Miss Rita Macasieb, secre tary, Miss Paz Soriano, sub secretary, Miss Bonifacia Ferrer, treasurer, Miss Luisa Velasco, sub-treasurer. At this meeting, several men represented their wives who failed to come and voted approval of every action tak en to further the campaign for the success of the woman suffrage plebiscite. At this meeting was presented the re port that the municipal coun cil of Binmaley acknowledges full support in whatever un dertaking the club must act. One important decision made referred to the publicity cam paign for the plebiscite. The use of plays and short skits about suffrage was unani mously believed the most ef fective way of presenting the cause for suffrage. 26 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 A CHALLENGE TO FILIPINO WOMEN By Teodorico Ayson NOW that the Plebis cite Bill has been approved and be came a law of the land, the question of Woman Suffrage can not be ignored any fur ther. Once discussed only in undertones in a few clubs and drawing rooms, it has now assumed national impor tance. It has invaded the halls of the defunct legis lature and the National As sembly—it has even been in corporated in the Constitu tion of the Commonwealth. It is the burning question of the hour. For once and for all time, this question must have to be settled. The suffrage provision of our Constitution is very ex plicit. Three hundred thou sand women and no less, with the necessary qualifications must have to register affir mative votes on Plebiscite Day in order to secure for ever women participation in future elections in this coun try. Our lawmakers have thrown the gauntlet right into the laps of our women. It is for them now to pick up the challenge and prove to the whole world their true desire to vote. The question at issue is not whether the Filipino woman has the capacity to vote or not. It is rather a question of quantity. The Filipino wo man has long ago proved to the world at large her capa city in every line of human endeavor. If we open the gol den pages of our country’s checkered history, we will find there, in black and white, vivid proofs of her courage, fortitude, and gallantry. In the bloody battlefields of the Revolution, our mothers have proved beyond the least sha dow of reasonable doubt her iron nerve and mettle. Now in these years of peace and pro gress, the Filipino woman is no less capable. In the fields of science, commerce, educa tion, social welfare, law, in fact in all branches of hum \n endeavor and learning, she is not far behind her brother in this country or in those of other lands. It is for this reason that the Filipino woman must have to answer once and for all that she, too, is willing to have the vote and willing to participate actively in the running of the government. Does the Filipino woman really desire to vote? This is the burning question of the hour—this is the challenge flung right into the lap of Filipino womanhood. It is for you to accept the chal lenge. What is your answer? When the day of the Plebis cite comes, it is highly impor tant, it is the duty of all wo men of this country to pre sent a united front. In union there is strength. There is a NOW OPEN G] The new and modem Dj N eating place in town S S UNIVERSAL HOTEL and RESTAURANT | “] Masonite walls and ceiling thruout glazen- K Ied floorings are combined to produce har- g mony of beauty and de-luxe H Centrally located within the main N business district, cool, and mod- tn ern conveniences. S The hotel apartment consists of “j private rooms with every modern N accommodations. K Special Chinese dishes, attractive N prices and excellent service are p] The Peace Mandate ceremony, one of the numbers of the program during International Session which closed the NFWC sixth biennial con vention last month. Seven countries were represented in 'this pageant. heap of wisdom in those five words. All women who are qualified to vote must register and vote afirmatively whe ther they like suffrage or not. Every woman must bear in mind that this is her last chance to decide whether she or her sisters will have the right to vote or not. And above all, she must not forget that she is not only deciding for herself, but also for a who for herself, but also for a whole race of Filipino women yet unborn. Will you sacri fice the right of suffrage of the future generations of Fili pino women just because it happens that you are oppos ed to woman suffrage for reason of prejudice or senti ment? Beware, lest you com mit this great injustice! It will certainly be a reflec tion on the brilliant record of Filipino womanhood if, on Plebiscite Day, the required quota will not be obtained. It will certainly be a great sur prise if not a great calamity if, the fair sisters of famed Maria Clara, cradled and edu cated beneath a most altruis tic American Democracy, will choose to decline the right of suffrage profered them. To prevent this disastrous ca tastrophe, fair Flower of this “Pearl of the Orient Sea”. WAKE UP! Your vindica tion, your salvation, is in your own hands. On Plebiscite Day, you and your mother, your sisters, and all your friends must have to go to the polls and there register your affirmative vote so as to help obtain the required quota of 300000 and secure forever, your right to vote in all future elections in this country, and to participate ctively in the running of the government of this Common wealth as a citizen, and not merely as a persona non grata inhabitant. MISSING PAGE/PAGES Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 35 From left to right: chicken morcon, stuffed fish and chicken adobo a. la L. C. S'. Center: sinigang de came. Nrpa (jHiriatmaa Uhuit Sinigang de Carne Beef meat with white car tilage and fat 2 radishes 8 big tomatoes 2 bunches of pechay 2 onions A piece of ginger 3 green onions % kilo of cooked chest nuts Cut the meat and the veget ables in pieces of regular size. Place the meat in a saucepan with ginger, onions, tomatoes and 1 tablespoon of salt. Blend well and cook until the juices of the vegetables are absorbed by the meat. Cover the meat and vegetables with boiling water and allow the water to boil. Then reduce the heat and add the radishes and the pechay. When these ve getables are cooked, add the chestnuts which have been peeled and blanched. Season with salt and pepper. Serve in a soup tureen. Stuffed Fish 1 large maya-maya fish Ginger 1/3 cup bread, cut into small cubes and soak ed in 1/3 cup unsweetened milk 2 tablespoons seedless raisin 2 tablesp sons green peas 1 onion, chopped 4 tomatoes, chopped 2 tablespoons lard 2 sections of garlic Clean the fish, then open the back with a sharp knife. “Sinigang De Carne” Stuffed Fish a la Nepa Chicken Morcon, or Chicken Adobo a la L.C.S. Pepino Salad “Bouquet De Ubi” Fruits in Season By Mrs. H. Lusonghap Director, “Lauriat Cooking School” Paris Cordon Bleu. Remove the meat without destroying the skin. Fry the meat of the fish with the gin ger over a low fire. Remove all the bones from the meat, then chop the meat. Saute the garlic in the lard, then add the onions, tomatoes (the seeds removed), green peas and raisin. Season with salt and pepper. Add the bread cubes and blend well. Stuff the fish with this mixture, being careful not to stuff it too full or too lose. Sew the opening. Sprinkle a little flour, all over the fish and Mrs. H. Lusonghap then fry in deep hot fat. When the fish is brown, pour out the remaining fat, add toyo to it and set aside for the sauce. Place the fish in a shallow baking dish and bake in a slow oven. Decoration 1 cup green peas 1 large green pepper, chopped 1 red pepper, also chop ped 2 cups ordinary rice 1 cup malagkit rice 1 dozen large shrimps, cooked 1 onion 1 can tomato sauce 2 sections of garlic Saute the garlic, onions, peppers, and tomato sauce in the lard. Add the washed rice and 2^2 cups of water. Cook a low fire, stirring the mixture frequently to prevent burning. When rice is cook ed, transfer to a large plat ter and form into a mound. Place the fish on the top of the rice and decorate with shrimps and green peas. Chicken Morcon 1 big hen Pork meat 2 cooked potatoes 2 hard boiled eggs 3 tomatoes 3 tablespoons lard 2 tablespoons flour Garlic 1 carrot, boiled 1 onion Chopped parsley Salt and pepper to taste Prepare the hen as for relleno, removing even the meat from the breast. Chop the meat from the legs with the same amount of pork meat, tomatoes, garlic, onion. Add 1 beaten egg and 2 table spoon of flour, season with salt and pepper to taste and mix well. Peel and cut the carrot into 4 parts lengthwise and the potatoes into 8 parts. Stuff the chicken with the chopped meat filling and the carrots, potatoes and hard, boiled eggs, alternating these ingredients and seeing to it that the last three are well distributed throughout the chicken. Wrap the chicken in a napkip or a piece of clean cloth. Place in a kettle of chicken broth (made by boil ing in water the discarded parts and bones of the hen) with a grain of black pepper, a piece of laurel leaf, parsley, carrots, and onions. When the hen is cooked, remove from the broth, unwrap the cloth and bathe the hen with 1 tablespoon toyo and 2 table spoon lard. Roll in powdered bread crumbs and bake in an oven until evenly brown. Decoration: Mash 2 kilos (Continued on page 51) 36 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 Miss McLean, standing, with Max Factor and a client. mt Waniij From Miss Cecile McLean, Max Factor Representative THE allure of Joan Crawford! The gla mour of Jean Har low! The subtle charm of Myrna Loy! Women the world over have admired, perhaps even some times envied, the beauty and charm of moving picture ac tresses when they appeared on the silver screen. How many women have wished they could look as attractive! But according to Miss Cecil McLean, personal represen tative of Max Factor of Holly wood who is now in Manila, any woman can be as attrac tive as any of the movie stars. The charm these movie stars radiate on the screen may be accounted for, in a large mea sure, to the proper and effi cient application of make-up. “Every woman or girl can learn to apply her make-up so expertly that, gazing at her, one gains the impression that her face is a perfect one. The screen stars know the secret. For instance: Loretta Young has what we technical ly classify as a long square face; Myrna Loy has high cheek bones; Sylvia Sidney’s face is heart shaped; yet, each of them looks on and off the screen as beautiful as the girl with the “perfect oval face”. There are tricks in applying rouge and lipstick which make the shape of the face seems perfect,” Miss McLean said. However, before learning the tricks of applying her make-up correctly, every wo man, Miss McLean continued, should know how to select the correct color harmony in her cosmetics. No two faces in this world are exactly alike in coloring and features; this is the reason why the colors of the cosmetics a woman should use should be those which blend with her natural complexion, or else they will produce an unnatural, grotes que effect for so long a time associated with the word “make-up”. Fiipino women may be classified in the brunette class as a rule, although many sha des of this coloring frQm very light to dark may be found among them. After makingup many Filipino women in the Max Factor booth at the Botica Boie for two weeks, Miss McLean has come to the conclusion that carmine rouge, crimson lipstick and olive powder are best suited to the majority of them. No woman should purchase powder, lipstick or rouge just because she is attracted to the nice shape of the box or to the beautiful color or just be cause her friend, Maria, also uses the same kind of pow der, lipstick, or rouge. Each item in her make-up accesso ries should be suitable to her complexion alone. Miss McLean then went on to explain that to them, beauty experts, in Hollywood, make-up serves two purposes: to enhance one’s good points and to hide or make less cons picuous whatever defects exist. Each feature of the face which adds to its beauty should be considered indivi dually and as a part of the harmonious whole. The eyes, the lips, the cheeks, each should be beautified. Any feature which is your best should be emphasized or ac cented. Thus, if your best feature are your eyes, bring out all their beauty by means of. correct make-up. It is the opinion of Miss McLean that of all the feat ures of the face, the eyebrows give the most character or in dividuality to the face and should be tampered with as little as possible. If they are thick they should be trim med enough to make them tidy. If they are thin and light, they .should be made definite by means of the eye brow pencil. According to her observa tions during her travels in the Far East, the greatest sin that Oriental women commit against beauty is using too much rouge. Another consists of using the wrong shade of powder. Women, she says, whether dark or light complexioned, should not use white powder as it gives them that white-washed appear ance. One mistake that most wo men make is forgetting to make up or care for their necks and arms and hands. The neck, especially, should be made up like the face so that it would not appear dif ferent. She has also observed that women, especially the girls, whether in China, Japan, or the Philippines, wear their hair in practically the same manner. One’s coiffure, Miss McLean pointed out, should suit one’s face and individual ity as one’s make-un should. If a woman could afford only a few items for her dress ing table, Miss McLean sug gests these essentials: 1. Powder, rouge and lip stick in harmony with her complexion. 2. Cleansing cream and astringent to keep her skin in good condition. The results of make-up are doubly attrac tive if it is applied on a good complexion. 3. Powder foundation to make the make-up cling last ingly and smoothly and MakeUp Blender. 4. Eye make-up, consisting of three essentials, namely, eye shadow, eyelash make-up and eyebrow pencil. As a patting shot, Miss McLean warned women not to apply their make-up in a haphazard way but accord ing to certain well-defined principles of art and cosmetic science; not to purchase just any shade of powder, lipstick or rouge but that which suits then natural coloring; and finally, not to make their make-up look obvious. Miss McLean, who is here in Manila on a two month visit, for pleasure and in the interest of the Max Factor products, is a niece of John Ford, director of such succes ses as The Informer (winner of this year’s Motion Picture Academy Award) and Arrow smith. She belongs to a fam ily that has always been con nected with the motion pic ture industry. In her younger days, she appeared on the screen in Hollywood. But, later, she turned to make-up work and has been connected with the Max Factor studios for twelve years. For several years, she worked in the make-up department at the Fox Studios. Miss McLean is known in Hollywood as one of the best artist of make-up and is at present the manager of a department at the newly opened $600,000 Max Factor Hollywood Studio with seven girls working under her. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 37 FROM APARRI TO JOLO [Continued from page 21) “There was a procession for woman suffrage and the petition was carried in a spectacular way in the procession through each one of the assembly districts. In other words, we did everything possible to make the voters know that we had secured this petition from so many women. I am sure we would never have secured the vote in New York had we not had that petition. “More, the winning of the State of New York, and especially the City of Neto York, had an enormous influence upon securing the vote in the whole country. Those of us who worked on this petition were convinced that this New York petition really won the vote for the whole country. “If Mr. Quezon is right that you require 300,000 votes to give you the suffrage, I would suggest that you have such a petition, addressed to the voters in the Philippines, and that you aim to get at least 300,000 signatures. This is a big task and it must be done thoroughly. No one gets a great many signatures to a petition by merely presenting it here and there to individuals. The women shoidd go from house to house, from door to door, and talk with the women, tell ing them what the movement means. The education is worth a great deal. “The work of circulating the petition would be done without pay, of course, but the printing of the petitions would cost money and stenographers who keep the petitions in or der and make their record may have to be paid. I wonder if you are greatly in need of money for your camapign. We have been suffering from the. depression for so long that it is almost impossible to get money here, but I would try to secure something for you (although I could not promise any sum) if you find that that is desirable. “Please let me know what you think about this peti tion. Be assured that, having given something more than forty years of everyday work to the great cause of the en franchisement of women, I am much interested in the out come of the woman movement in the Philippines. CARRIE CHAPMAN CATT President, National American Woman Suffrage Association, 70 East 45th St.. N. Y. * * * “Women are fighting in your country for equal rights at the ballot boxes, and equal rights under the law. I would like to do for you a series of short, vivid stories of the long and bitter fight that American women waged, and are still waging, for the same rights. These would be very inspira tional, as American victories in this field are outstanding. “When our government was set up, after the victorious revolt against the mother country, ivomen were too busy to see to their rights. They were fighting for their lives in a wilderness, surrounded by hostile Indians, bearing huge fam ilies of children, unattended by any doctors, making all their own clothes from the raw materials of the land, conducting all the industries in their own homes. “Even in Colonial days there were individual ivomen who protested against women being classified with idiots and the insane as far as voting was concerned. But an individual can do nothing. American women had no legal control over their x children, could not own property, if they were married, and could not obtain a divorce, no matter how much they were abused. “Nothing much was accomplished in this field, until wo men became determined that the shame of slavery in this country must cease, and that they must have power to vote before they could kill the monster. Women led in the bitter, dangerous fight—They were real heroiness, too. The most effective work against slavery was done by a woman, Harriet Beeeher Stowe, who wrote a dramatic novel of the horrors of black slavery in Free America. This novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, has gone roaring down the years as a reproach to our proud boasts of liberty and equality. Then, too, women led in the fight against liquor, and all the while they agitated for the power that was rightfully theirs. “For years, women struggled to amend our Federal cons titution in order to gain the franchise. Despairing of this, they concentrated on various state governments, and were more successful. Many western states became such, with the franchise for women incorporated in their constitutions. “Finally, in 1919, the Constitution was amended to give women equal rights at the polls. Its a dramatic story of achievement, and should be of much encouragement to women of other lands. IRIS BROWN Box 1585 Denver, Colorado HOSIERY Quality double-checked . . . and GUARANTEED Change of Address X x giving both the NEW and the OLD addresses. Any delay in changing and correcting addresses may result in loss of copies. Notify us promptly of any error in your present address, enclos ing if possible your address clipped from one of your recent copies. Missing copies must be reported direct to us not later than 30 days after date of issue, otherwise order for substitu tion copy will not be filled. Report change of address direct to Woman’s Home Journal, Inc., P. (). 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Slice it — arrange it attractively on a platter—and it is ready for your table. Think of the time saved — the fuel eco nomy! No need to spend long hours in a hot kitchen. A tin of Libby’s Corned Breef provides meat in a tempting, appetizing form to provide the rich nourish ment your family requires. Only the choicest of lean beef is selected for canning as Libby’s Corned Beef. Prepared under the most sanitary conditions in the world’s largest meat packing plant, you can be sure of the quality and fine flavor — un matched anywhere at the price. Keep a few tins of Libby’s Corned Beef on hand. Serve it often. It makes delicious sand wiches — is especially welcome when made into savory corned beef hash. Cooked Corned Beef Sold by all Dealers Tasty, Nourishing Meat— Cooked Ready To Serve Apples? make apple sauce, the best accompaniment for fried pork chops, here is the recipe: Apple Sauce Wash, pare, quarter and core sour, juicy apples. Place them in a porcelain kettle with just enough water to keep them from burning and boil until tender. Add sugar to taste and boil for a few minutes longer. Serve hot or cold. A few whole cloves or a dash of cinnamon or nutmeg or a little lemon juice or a few seedless raisin may be cooked with the apples. Baked Apples Select sound apples; core them and place from one tea spoon to one tablespoon of sugar in each cavity. Place the apples in a shallow bak ing dish, add water to cover the bottom of the dish, and bake in a moderate oven until they are tender. Baked apples may be varied by filling the centers with brown sugar and raisins, sec tions of bananas, marshmal low, marmalade or jelly, nuts, candied orange-peel or pine apple, preserved ginger, or left-over fruit juice. If you do not have an, oven, you can prepare the apples in these other ways: Steamed Apples Core the apples, fill the cav ities with sugar (brown sugar preferred) and put in a sauce pan with hot water about an inch deep. Cover and cook slowly, turning the apples over once. This will steam the apples and, if they are red, will preserve the color. These resemble baked apples and the same variations may be used. Coddled Apples Wash, peel and quarter me dium sized apples. Make a sirup by stirring together 1/3 as much sugar as water and boil for two minutes. Slip the quarters of apples into this boiling syrup and cook them gently until they are trans parent. The pieces of apple should keep their shape while they are cooking, so put only a few pieces into the syrup at a time. Carefully remove the pieces of apple when ten der and arrange on a dish, nouring the syrup over them. A most attractive dish may be made by cooking red-skin ned apples with their skin* on. If desired, a few slices of lemon or a tiny stick of cin namon may be cooked with the apples. Serve either as a dessert or as an accompani ment to duck, goose or pork. Applets V2 cup sugar 1 cup water A few grains of salt 6 medium sized apples Peel, core and cut the ap ples into eights. Boil in sugar and water and salt until tran«nprcnt. Drain and lay on oiled paper to dry them. Roll in powdered sugar. Al low to dry for 12 hours. Roll again in sugar and dry. Apple Butter Wash and cut apples into (Continued on page 45) Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 39 Cnnk NO Christmas dinner in Filipino house holds seems to be complete unless ham is served as one of the principal dishes. And the salty, smoked Chin ese ham is preferred by most persons, perhaps because it is cheaper. Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra, one of the authors of EVERY DAY COOKERY FOR THE HOME, from which the fol lowing recipe is taken, sug gests this method of prepar ing Chinese ham, which she has found to give the ham a better flavor and texture: Soak the ham in cold wat er, to which a little vinegar has been added, for 24 hours. Then scrub vigorously with a small stiff brush, changing the water frequently. Place the ham in a large kettle or can with plenty of cold water. When the water begins to boil, lower the heat and sim mer the ham until it is ten der. Allow 25 minutes to the pound. Take care not to make the water boil. After the ham is cooked, remove the kettle or can from the fire and allow the ham to cool in the water in which it has cooked. Skin and trim the ham to give it a nice appear ace. This is just a pre-treatment. The ham may be cooked in any desired way, baked, steamed, roasted, or fried. Steamed Ham With Pineapple Cover the ham with cold water and bring to the boil ing point. Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes. This operation is not neces sary if the ham is of mild cure. Drain, skin and score. Stick with whole cloves and place in a waterless cooking pot or a self-basting cooker. Pat 1 cupful of brown sugar over the surface of the ham and add the juice of a No. 2l/z can of sliced pine apple (about lVi cups) and Vi cupful of water. Cover tightly and cook gently until tender, allowing 30 minutes for each pound of meat. Baked Ham with Peaches Place a pre-treated ham, if smoked, in a double roaster, add 2 cups of grape juice, the juice of 2 oranges and 1 lemon, 2 cups of water and 3 large apples. Bake for about 4 or 5 hours in a moderate oven, allowing from 20 to 25 minutes per pound, basting frequently. When done, re move the skin, trim and sprin kle with sugar, stick in cloves, tipped with halves of candied cherries, return to the oven and brown. Remove to a plat ter and garnish with baked peaches, watercress and rad ishes cut in fancy shapes. Arrange large canned halves of peaches in a baking dish. Stick a few cloves in each and fill each cavity with Vi tea spoon butter, 2 tablespoons sugar and a few drops of le mon juice. Cover and bake in a slow oven until done and brown. Baked Ham Supreme 1 10-pound ham 1/3 cup sliced onion Vi cup sliced carrots Vi bay leaf 6 cloves 6 peppercorns Orange slices Cranberry molds Wash ham thoroughly and scrape the skin well. Put in a large kettle with hot water to cover and add the onion, carrots, parsley, bay leaf, cloves and peppercorns. Sim mer until tender. Cool in the water. Take from the water (Continued on page 52) 40 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 “At Uprnr” ©tt Nem Avar’s 0ay ONE of the charming customs abroad which should be en couraged here is that of en tertaining friends at a sim ple “at home” affair on the afternoon of the first day of the new year. Refreshments need not be elaborate. These may consist chiefly of a beverage, prefer ably a hot one, and some sandwiches or cookies. Or, you may serve a cold bever age, home-made orangeade or lemonade, for instance, pour ed out of your best pitcher into tall, thin glasses. Cookies go well with this. If you want to go “NEPA”, we have no objection. In this case, you should serve Fili pino “eats”, such as bibingka, puto, guinatan, pansit, suman, tamales. These refreshments are best served buffet style. For the your mother since a little girl has always used D-M-C threads, braids, pattern books ..because BMC remains THE BEST after nearly I Ito centuries. D-M C is a household word for ... . high qualify fast colours DMC DMC D IVI C re>| tf0Curr(l fmm gH Orf 9 benefit of those who are not yet acquainted with the in creasingly popular buffet ser vice, we have to explain that in this service, all the food and equipment are placed on the table and each guest serves himself or herself and eats standing up or sitting in a chair in the same or in an other room but not near the buffet table. The table in the illustration on this page shows how the various dishes of food, the silverware and the napkins may be arranged on the table. There are no definite rules in setting a table for a buffet service, but the following sug gestions may help the novice: 1. Place your table, prefer ably a long one, wherever you think best. If the room is small, the table is better push ed flat against one wall and the chairs are taken out of the room and put about wherever there is most space to enable your guests to move freely around the table while helping themselves to the re freshments. 2. One difference in the principle of buffet and ordi INSURANCE FIRE—MARINE AUTOMOBILE—ACCIDENT—PLATE GLASS WORKMAN’S COMPENSATION Atlas Assurance Company, The Employer’s Liability Limited Assurance Corporation, Ltd. Continental Insurance Co. Orient Insurance Company Insurance Company of North America E. E. ELSER, INC. GENERAL AGENTS Kneedler Bldg. No. 400 Telephone 2-24-28 Buffet Table Set a la NEPA nary table is that in the first, objects of utility are of first importance. Unless there be ample space for both objects of utility and objects solely for ornament, the latter are omitted. Thus, when it comes to choosing between a vase of flowers or a bowl of fruits for the centerpiece, the lat ter should be preferred if there is no space on the table. 3. One of the advantages of the buffet table is that it can be set with anything you have. Plates need not match each other. But if you have a com plete equipment that does match, then that is so much better. 4. In setting the buffet table, the important dishes of food are placed down the length of the table as close to the centerpiece as possible. The two most important items of equipment are placed in the center of each end—the silverware and the napkins at one end and the water or beverage service at another end, for instance. 5. Perhaps the simplest di rection for setting a com pletely buffet table is that it is exactly like packing a bag, that is, if your method of packing is by putting in each item in order to remember all of the things you need in the process of dressing. In set ting a table, then, you men tally help yourself and eat each course. On the rim of every platter there must be a serving fork and spoon and the right plates stacked close by, and a row of the right im plements next to each stack of plates. The table shown in the illus tration was coverd with Ilocano cloth. The centerpiece is a bowl made from polished WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 41 Manila, December, 1936 coconut shell filled with cos mos flowers. The napkins used were also of Ilocano cloth. RECIPES Lemonade 6 American lemons 3 cups water 1 to 1V2 cups sugar syrup Squeeze the juice from the fruits, cut into halves. Mix well with the sugar syrup and water. Serve cold. Orangeade 4 oranges 1 lemon 1 to 1% sugar syrup 3 cups water Follow directions for le monade. Pineapple Orangeade 4 oranges 1 pineapple 4 cups boiling water Sugar syrup to taste Add the juicy parts of the pineapple, shredded, to the orange juice. Pour the boil ing water over the fruit and sweeten to taste. 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For whiter, brighter teeth, sound and health; teeth, use Pepsodent, the “special film-remov ing tooth paste.” boiling the mixture for about ten minutes. Strain into bot tles and cork the bottles. Keep in the ice-box, and if this is not available, in a cool place, preferably at the banguera. To use, dilute 1 cup of this syrup with 3 cups of water. Calamansi Punch y2 cup calamansi juice 2y2 sugar sirup 2 cups pineapple juice % cup orange juice Mix together the lime juice and the syrup, then add the pineapple and the orange juice. Serve in glasses. 42 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 FIRST LOVE (Continued from page 22) fiding. She had gone to bed but not to sleep, for sometime after that I woke up and saw her sitting perilously on the window sill and gazing at the moon. Blest with what I considered an understand ing soul I went right to sleep again. “You were,” I went on, “looking at the moon last night. May I know why?” It then occurred to me that the question was not exactly the sanest I could ask, but if I found that lacking in sanity in her answer I found even less. .She _ said: “He was looking at it.” “He?” “Carlos.” Care for Your Teeth This Way— KEEP them clean, free from film and stain,—use only Dr. West’s Tooth Paste on a Dr. West’s Tooth Brush. Then you can be sure of immediate and satisfactory results. Dr. West’s Tooth Paste is amazingly efficient in its cleans ing qualities. Note how quickly it brightens your teeth — restores them to their natural beauty and Use Dr. West’s Tooth Paste on Your Dr. West’s Tooth Brush whiteness. It is economical, too —a large sized tube for a very modest price. Dr. West’s Tooth Brushes are famous for their efficiency, their quality and long life. .Shaped just right—with saw-tooth edges — their stiff bristles reach every part of every tooth—inside and out side surfaces and the crevices be tween the teeth. “And who might this Car los be?” “He’s the man I’m going to marry.” “Oh,” I murmured, “So it’s all settled. All you need now is someone to perform the ceremony. In a year or two I’ll be hearing you are a—a grandmother.” She blushed. “There won’t be any children at first,” she said. I got up with unnecessary haste. Her matter-of-factness at once embarrassed and frightened me. “Listen, dar ling,” I said, facing her, “do you know what you are talk ing about?” “Yes, why?” “Because I don’t. I can understand baby talk but ba bies—” The absurd thought that I hadn’t perhaps brought her up as well as I had pro mised Mother I would came to me. “Can’t you, won’t you try to understand? I have done nothing wrong. He asked me to marry him and I said I would.” “Oh, good Lord. And when will that be?” “You are to decide.” “I see. Couldn’t you just toss a coin or something—” “No. We want you to have the say in the matter.” “You do? Well, how nice. I am flattered to death.” Our boy just then entered the room with the Herald. He put it on the table and left. I turned to my sister. “Who is Carlos? When did you meet him and how?” She looked at me wonderingly. “How could you have forgotten so soon? He was introduced to you last night. I met him only last night too.” From sheer relief I drop ped down into my chair again. It wasn’t, thank heav ens, what I was beginning to suspect it might be. “Tell me everything, every little thing. I must know.” She smiled at me. “You are interested. I knew it all the while.” She sat on the table. “He danced only with me last night. He asked you for a dance but you said you were tired. He’s a journal ist and his parents reside in Saryaya or something. Any way, it’s somewhere in Tayabas and there are coconut trees around. Carlos is an only son, very much petted and he doesn’t like it so he stays in Manila most of the time.” She looked at the clock. So that was him. I mean I certainly met the fellow last night. It was not hard to place him. He had ap proached me sometime in the evening and asked, “May I take your sister for a ride?” I had looked at him long, re called he was the man my sister seemed to find agree able enough to dance with very often, measured him so to speak, and said, “Why not?” He had smiled.“Sweet of you to trust me, a stranger,” he had said. And then I noticed his eyes. They were very handsome, those eyes, and so very grateful I was suddenly twice glad my sister was my sister and not somebody else’s. “I have not seen all the eves in the world,” I said. “By the way, I hope the ride last night was enjoyable.” “It was. We went to some place I can’t remember what. There were boulders and we sat on one of them.” “The boulevard?” “Yes, I think so. There was a sea in front. We look ed at the sea.” “Only? Nowhere else?” Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 43 “Also at the moon.” “Oh!” “Also at each other.” “How sweet. I’m sure you must have made a very touching scene. Was there anything else you did?” “We talked.” She jumped down, flew to the sofa and curled herself in it. “He loves me. He told me so. And I told him I loved him too.” “In the spirit of fun?” “In the spirit of fact.” She remembered her dress and stood up. “And then he proposed to me. I accepted.” Very simple, don’t you think? “After that of course you returned to the party.” I was expecting most anything now. That, however, didn’t help. She was only sixteen. So very young and so very naive. I looked at her. Surely I couldn’t have failed her like that! And then I laughed. I had remembered everything but romance. Aside that I knew she was, on the surface anyhow, as tough as I. “No, we didn’t.” She was blushing again. “I—nestled in his arms.” “Pleasant occupation. I hope he didn’t mind.” “Please don’t be sarcastic.” She looked at me a little de fiantly. “I kissed him too.” “That was thoughtful of you.” I discovered myself aching for Mother. If she were alive I’d not feel so res ponsible ... And for the sec ond time that day I felt as hamed. It was selfish of me not to wiant to feel respon sible. “You returned to the party after that, didn’t you?” “Yes. And he is coming now. He is coming now. Oh, darling, darling, I’m so hap py I could sing. I’m going to sing. No, I’ll dance. You sing. Do you think I’ll make a good wife?” “When you get to be forty, why not?” “Can’t I be at sixteen?” “Look here, you are not serious about this, are you?” “I am. I am serious. I was serious last night. I can’t see why I shouldn’t be serious now, tomorrow, all my life. I love him.” “You don’t.” “I do.” “As you like. But it won’t last.” “It will. I told him that too.” “At sixteen one could be so drenchingly sincere.” “At twenty-one one could be so labouredly skeptical. But it’s only a covering. I know you know it will last, so there.” I was getting nowhere. Better to let the thing ride and have it out with Carlos later. I said, “What time is he coming?” “At six. He’s leaving at seven so I could catch up on my beauty sleep. He’ll insist I SAN MIGUEL BREWERY The home of quality products on that, I know he will. Oh, gosh, * I know him a lot al ready. He is so good. Do I look at all right? My hair—” “No, don’t retouch it. You look—well, you know how you look.” “Pretty, yes? I’m glad I am pretty. I never did care a hang before. And I’m glad I am alive. What if I wasn’t born at all! Or born too late. Or too soon. Or born some body else. A boy for instance. Or a cat.” “Or Carlos born a roost er.” She said: “Carlos couldn’t have been born anything else but Carlos.” I knew then that her case It is especially recommended for nursing mothers —convalescents — and the aged — It can be taken at any time—hut is most beneficial when served with meals and at bed time— a product of the was a violent one. No mat ter. She’d have to wait. Three years at least. Carlos must be around twenty. “How old is your crush?” “Twenty-five. He was born on—” “Never mind.” It was hearing six now. “I’m so excited,” she said. I had gone to the sofa taking along he Herald with me. She sat at my feet forgetting her dress. “It’s so nice to be in love. Tell me, is it not so? I know you know. Beneath your cold, cynical self you are soft and in love too.” I raised the periodical higher. “I’m glad you didn’t teach (Continued on page 49) “Reliable” No Better Tribute Can Be Given This delicious drink is a standard tonic beverage, with the blood en riching properties of the best malt and hops, from which it is brewed. These famous products are the source of minerals, carbohydrates, and vitamins — three of the most important nutritive elements for giving proper circulation, vitality and ernergy—, 44 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 HOME INSTITUTE: g’ljail We (fmw &mta Amag? SANTA Claus has fallen under suspicion. The saint of all the saints and near-saints on the Amer ican child’s calendar has sud denly been questioned by conscientious modern parents. “Has the old fellow, after all, been wholly a benefactor of childhood?” they are ask ing. “Despite his kindly in tentions he has broken a good many childish hearts and created a good many disillu sioned young cynics. Is it right to pass off even such a jolly old fraud in good earn est upon our children? When they see through the decep tion, what will happen to their confidence in us and in our truthfulness?” “Can’t some one advise us how to manage it so that our children may have all the Santa Claus fun without the disillusion, disappointment and distrust that sometimes follow after?” SpeciaU^incf. itrb cuts Jjcft, Magazine/ * New/paperz Catalog/ and College Annual/ FREE PRESS BLDG. del. 1-11 -1O 680 BILAL AVE. P O.box 316 Into a clinic of experienced practitioners — several psy chiatrists and a famous pro fessor of child education— Santa Claus was summoned. They have questioned the old rascal up and down and examined his heart and mind and character. And though on some minor points the doc tors disagree, they are unani mous in believing that even today he has not outlived his usefulness, but should go on with his work for years to come. One restriction they do place on him: that from now on he remain clearly an elf— a denizen of the world of fancy who never attempts seriously to cross the borders of our real world. In other words, these child experts would answer the worried parents: “By all means tell your babies about Santa Claus. Read them the Santa Claus poems and stories. Sing them the Santa Claus songs. Let them hang up their stockings and even go to sleep half imagining reindeer hoofs upon the roof. But do it all whimsically, ex actly as you tell them about Goldilocks and Cinderella, and Peter Rabbit and Mickey Mouse. Children will enjoy him all the more if they soon begin to suspect the make-be lieve and share it along with you. “When the transition comes, as it will very early—perhaps at about four years old, if you are careful to do your part— always meet the child’s new intelligence squarely. If he asks, ‘Is there really a Santa Claus?’ be ready to say: ‘Why, no, of course not. You and I both know that he is only a story-book man, made up to please very little chil dren.” “Then if you have treated the matter lightly and quiz zically from the beginning, there will be no rude shock, but only an expansive delight on the child’s part at coming fully in on the secret.” But our experts warm par ents against using the Santa Claus story as a dishonest way around difficulties. Dr. Patty Smith Hill says: “We cannot be too careful not to teach children things that have to be unlearned after ward. If we can be perfectly honest with children their problems and ours will be easier.” Meanwhile no one would take away from children any of their belief and joy in the spirit of Santa Claus—in the kindliness and good will, in the fun of giving and the happy suspense of the wish ing and receiving. * * * BE ARTICULATE MOST of us are not very ar ticulate, even with those with whom we live and whom we love. We do not speak of and show the affection that we bear for them. The feel ing is there; it is simply that we are rather a shy people or we just don’t know how to express ourselves or hav en’t been trained to give out ward manifestations of love and affection. Christmas and New Year offer excellent opportunities for us to express ourselves. But even then, some people rely on the stereotype greet ings on Christmas cards, on gifts, to speak for them. We complain that Christmas is' becoming more and more a very expensive festivity be cause 'of the gifts that we have to buy for our relatives and friends and even acquain tances. If we stop to consider, many of the people to whom we send Christmas cards, to whom we give gifts, would be content with mere verbal greetings, accompanied with warm handclasps or with kisses and embraces. g We also have NOVELTIES in BUCKLES g g and DISHES of genuine MOTHER of PEARL, g N Come and see them at our store No. 460 Calle Dasmarinas g a MANILA BUTTON FACTORY, INC. | iu Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 45 Many of us think that just because they are members of our family, parents, brothers and sisters do not deserve a greeting each from us. Of course they know that we wish them a merry Christmas this year and the years to come, but what harm is there in putting this wish into words ? It is the custom abroad, so we have read, for people in a gathering to join hands when the twelfth hour strikes on New Year’s Eve and greet each other with “Happy New Year to you!” Children should be taught at an early age how to ex press themselves so that they would never be at a loss as to what to say on every occa sion. More important still, they should be encouraged to show their affection for their parents and for each other. certain twelve-year olds may still cling to their dolls. All children like to play with toys at all ages and with these the modern world keeps them well provided. For the toddler, there are endless varieties of peg boards, form boards, fuzzy animals and rolling toys. Indispensable for the pre school child are balls and kid dy-cars of the common or garden variety. But equally indispensable are blocks. There are now many varie ties on the market, made in many shapes and sizes, in color or unpainted, available in graded units to suit the age of the child. After blocks, dolls are per haps the most universal play things. For the youngest, rag dolls are best adapted to the rough treatment they are likely to get—limp but sturdtaken to bed and slept on with impunity. Then as the chil dren grow older, they want to do for dolly the things that grown-ups do for baby. A fascinating outfit for the would-be mother consists of a nurse’s apron and cap, toy thermometer, stethoscope, and bandage. Another con sists of all the paraphernalia for bathing dolly. Toy trains, cars and boats are perennial, but this year’s output are streamlined. As boys grow into their teens—too old for toys—they begin to have hobbies. There is an outfit for each interest, in chemistry, in painting, in photography, etc. Here is a word of warning: After giving toys to your chil dren, allow them to use them, to play with them. Toys are not meant to be displayed in WHY NOT COOK ... (Continued from page 38) quarters, without paring or coring. Place in a preserving kettle with just enough water to cover. Cook over a low fire until tender. Press through a coarse sieve. Measure the strained pulp and to every cup, add % cup sugar and the grated rind of i/2 lemon. Cook slowly until thick and of spreading consistency. If spiced apple butter is prefer red, add ground cloves and cinnamon to taste before the desired consistency is reached. Did you know that apples may be used in making frit ters just like bananas or camote? Here is the recipe: Apple Fritters 1 cup milk (V2 cup eva porated milk plus Yz cup water) 2 eggs More HALF Christ children, for it. (I' this tinu\ childrefT sometime^ fact that* plan than* for, and t-i look forwa’ for thing* them har for som / out h?7 with / more/ r I 46 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 HEALTH PAGE llsyrliiatrg Atth {Himtal ijjjgmtr PSYCHIATRY is a special branch of medicine. It is the science of behav ior of people. It is that branch of medicine which deals with nervous and men tal disorders. It analyzes pro blems of friction, discontent and unrest. It is especially interested in problems of de linquency by analysing the driving forces beneath the behavior of the delinquent, and in salvaging the indivi dual. The general field of psy chiatry is the treatment of individuals who are not suf fering from marked mental disorder and who are not sick either, but who wish to un derstand them ^1 vpq— By Dr. Cesarea Goduco Psychiatrist Insular Psychopatic Hospital additional s e 1 f-knowledge might correct distorted atti tudes and remove unneces sary inhibitions. The latest development in psychiatry, like other bran ches of medicine, emphasizes prevention. Nervous and mental disorders, especially disorders which bring indi viduals to physicians for va rious forms of invalidism as nervous indigestion, palpita tion, exhaustion, etc., can be prevented. They are disord ers which may express them selves in various anti-social acts which produce eccentric, mands to those of the group, to control the facile develop ment of phantasies and to face openly and intelligently the inevitable conflicts which every individual meets. Nervous and mental disord ers may be attributed to the influence of the home, the school, the economic and so cial environment. Admitting that all men are not born equal, that each one starts off with his own individual bio logical endowment, yet it is a fact that the later balance of the individual is determined by the moulding influences to which he is exposed and 4 help parents meet the pro blems of their children in the nursery and even in the school period. The psychiatrist is also needed not only for in sane or delinquents who are in the Psychopathic Hospital and the Bureau of Prisons, but for people in our midst whom I referred to before as individuals suffering from mild but disturbing disorders. A word about the psychia trist may be illuminating. To be able to handle these cases of mental disorders, the psy chiatrist knows the mechan isms of human nature, by which it maintains its equili brium and responds to the stresses of the environment. He has preliminary knowles for a • ' ^nature to ^thods of frinal imJvidual to jesses and n early exkis immunj>r worse. |t is interiu rbance of <n in relacts or en\ He lays standing J;he in-' ’comes \s of ■the \n\e J ;e -es. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FILIPINO CHRISTMAS (Continued from page 11) “I spent my American Christmas very quietly,” she told us. “Early in the even ing of the 24th, we had a celebration in the Interna tional House in New York. All of us students formed in groups representing our dif ferent nations. Each group was assigned a door through which it would enter the hall. We then lined up, and holding lighted candles, marched to the fireplace. There we seat ed ourselves, and took part in a program of story-telling, singing and reciting of poems about Christmas. This cele bration made us feel that we belonged somewhere — that all of us people away from home belonged together in sympathetic sisterhood.” This was before midnight. Afterwards, Miss Alonso went to St. Patrick’s Cathe dral with some friends to listen to the midnight mass. From there, she took supper in the home of her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Seril, and round ed up her Christmas celebra tion with throughts of home. “I was terribly homesick,” she confessed, “although the cards and the gifts which came from the Philippines helped to dispel this feeling somewhat. In spite of the charm of Christmas in Amer ica, my mind and heart were somewhere else.” In retrospect. Miss Alonso thought of Christmas abroad as pictures made real, paint ings glorified in books and magazines and which, for one season, took on life for her. We cross another sea and go farther into the Occident heading straight into now war-torn Spain. Dr. Norberta Lapus, who spent two Christmases in Madrid, re members the celebrations there as simple affairs, not there as simple affairs, not un like those in the Philippines. “In Madrid.” Dr. Lapus tells us, “there is the misa de gallo and the midnight mass —important features also of ORGANIZATION DISTRICTS For The Campaign For Woman Suffrage 1. Cagayan, Isabela and Nueva Vizcaya 2. Ilocos Norte, Ilocos Sur Sur and Abra 3. Pangasinan and La Union 4. Antique, Capiz, Iloilo and Romblon 5. Leyte and Samar 6. Bohol and Cebu 7. Occ. Negros and Orien tal Negros 8. Occ. Misamis, Or. Misamis, Agusan, Bukidnon, Lanao and Surigao. 9. Cotabato, Davao, Zam boanga and Sulu 10. Albay, Sorsogon, Cam. Norte Cam. Sur and Masbate. 11. Cavite, Bulacan, Rizal, Manila, Laguna. 12. Batangas, Tayabas, Mindoor and Marinduque 13. Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and Pampanga 14. Zambales and Bataan. the Christmas season here. 1 did not attend these, however. I spent my holidays in the residence of a friend. On Christmas Eve, she gave a party, and this helped me from getting homesick.” Dr. Lapus spent one Christ mas season in Geneva, Swit zerland. She stayed in a hos tel run by an American lady. On Christmas Eve, the hos tess organized a get-together party for all the residents in the hostel. There was a fine American dinner, a short pro gram and a ball afterwards. “We all crowded around the fireplace, for it was bit terly cold,” reminisced Dr. Lapus. “Those who could dance left the fire once in a while, but those who didn’t (like me) kept close to the warmth.” In the morning, several of the hostel party went out to ski, but Dr. Lapus did not enter into such strenuous spirit and was content to take a walk in the snowy moun tains of Switzerland. Christmas is Christmas everywhere—in winter-ridden Switzerland and sky—scrap ped New York, in devout Spain and sunny Philippines. The trappings of the season may be different, but the spi rit is the same. A Filipino Christmasing abroad can readily testify to this. ELECTROLUX THE SERVEL A Gorgeous Gift for Christmas EXQUISITELY Beautiful —as a GIFT should be; every modern convenience which modern women demand; a dependability in operation which will never embarrass; economy in operation to make its use actually a saving in the home; no need for expensive repairs as there are no moving parts to wear out. These are the features which combine to make the new ELECTROLUX a gorgeous gift this Christ mas. They are features which have brought hundreds of Manila women to our store to select the size which they desired for their homes and these women are enthusiastic in their praise of ELECTROLUX service. Any Electrolux owner will gladly tell you about the many real advantages to be secured from the Electrolux; only the Electrolux can give you these advantages because it is entirely different in principle from any other—Electrolux is MODERN. Come in and let us arrange to install one as YOUR GORGEOUS GIFT to the home this year. MANILA GAS CORPORATION Display Room 136-138 T. Pinpin 48 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 Mfyat (Sift (faint? IF I had a thousand pesos or more to spend for Christmas gifts for the persons on my list this year, my shopping would be very easy as I know exactly what to buy and where to buy them. First, I would take all the kids at home—younger broth ers and sisters, nephews and nieces—and ahijados of “toy age”, to one of the stores spe cializing on toys and turn them loose there, with the ad monition that each choose the toy he or she wants most. In addition, I would buy for them (ZWZ— TJOUSEWIVES have learned it is more economn kal to buy soup in the Campbell tin. Uniform in quality and flavor—always appetizing and nourishing, Campbell’s Soups are ready for serving in a few minutes’ time. Leave your soup-making to Campbell. Take advantage of the 21 different kinds you’ll find on your dealer’s shelves. Soups enough candies and cookies to make them quite sick. For Father who likes to read at the breakfast table and smoke while he reads in the evening: a newspaper rack (P5); a box of good cigars (from P4.50 up); a dressing gown or a lounging robe (from P5 up) ; a good floor lamp; or an ash tray on a stand. For Mother, who is always catching a cold: a shawl with wool threads woven into it; a dozen real linen handker chiefs; a bottle of first class Cologne water; or a porcelain powder box. For my young man: a ciga rette case with a cover that rolls; a silver buckle with his monogram; a bill fold with zipper closing; a tie rack cap able of holding six dozen neckties; a charm for the chain of his watch (if he uses this kind of a watch) ; a chain and ring for his keys in sterl ing silver; a pair of military brushes with , silver backs; or a box containing a wooden bowl with shaving soap (enough to last him for six months, we were told), tal cum powder and after-shav ing lotion, from a London manufacturer. For my frivolous younger sister: half a dozen No-Run panties; a dozen of those amusing linen printed hand kies now featured in a depart ment store downtown; an en ameled vanity case or a pa tented one which does not spill its powder; an atomizer with a cover that prevents the eva poration of the perfume; a pair of slacks with beret and blouse to match; a cluster of real-looking grapes or flow ers for her dress; or a box of three bottles of nail polish, each in a different color. For each of my brothers who are now in college: a do zen assorted polo shirts (of which they seem never to have enough) ; a fountain pen and pencil set; a watch to be worn like a fob or on his la pel; a leather jacket as softas silk; a silver frame for the picture of his current girl friend; or a camera. For my eldest married sis ter who has stopped caring how she looks: a manicure set; a large bottle of hand lotion; a box of three cakes of very expensive, fine soap; a box of exquisite powder, not in white; three pairs of the sheerest stockings of a wellknown manufacturer; a hand bag of real leather (colored) ; or a set consisting of comb,brush and hand mirror for her dressing table. For my sister who loves to cook: a set of glass cooking utensils in a well-known brand; a double boiler with a cover of heavy chromium; a cake plate and spoon in fine china; a large wooden salad bowl with fork and spoon to match; vinegar and oil bottles in green glass with silver or naments; a coffee-maker in glass; a rack for toasted bread; or a self-basting roas ter. For my sister-in-laiv who loves her home: a set of Can non towels; a very modern table clock with dots instead of numbers on its face; a pair Manila, December, 1936 of classic lamps for her dress ing table; fruit bowl and can dle holders for her sideboard; a hostess tray; a smoking set in chromium (the ash trays may also be used as coast ers) ; a glass or porcelain flo wer bowl; or one of those breath-takingly lovely (and expensive, I suppose) porce lain figurines, so realistical ly colored and molded you can expect a bee to alight on a rose, for instance. For my sister Erlinda who always likes to dress up: a fancy bracelet; costume je welry ; a monogram pin made of wood; three different kinds of leather belts; half a dozen nosegays in different colors; belt and buttons that match; a pair of doggie pins; or a huge dress clip made of glass or wood. For my “he-man” brother: a pipe rack; a tabacco seal skin pouch; a humidor; para phernalia for cleaning his pipes; several brands of pipe tobacco for him to try; lea ther band for his wrist-watch. For my brothr-in-law who has no vice: a thermos jug with glass and tray to match for his bedside table; a pair of book-ends; or one of the most talked about books, The Last Puritan of Santayana, for instance, or the thick An thony Adverse, as a joke. For my cousin Pacita who always looks at the labels of things: a set from any of these famous houses: Coty, Primrose, Yardley, Max Fac tor, Elizabeth Arden, Cutex and Houbigant. For my friends, well, I would buy the same things I mentioned above for members of my family. Any of them has tastes like those of one of my relatives. Not having a thousand pesos to spend, I guess I will just buy the usual gifts: not very expensive, not original, but will be better than none. Handkerchiefs (three or six in a box), stockings (a pair for each), neckties for the boys, toys from the Jap anese store.... WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL FIRST LOVE (‘Continued from page 43) me to be cold,” she went on softly. “I don’t want to be cold to him ever. I’m so thankful to the Lord I can feel. So thankful I can love. Oh, gosh, what if I wasn’t capable of loving! What if on seeing him I felt nothing. —But I did, oh, I did! I felt it then as I do now. And there’s no need to hide the fact. I want everyone to know. The whole world... I’m so happy. It’s like an ache, this happiness—” For perhaps the twentieth time I went over the head CORONA MANGANESE MINES, INC (In Process of Incorporation) To cover 20% of its capital stock of 1*500,000 divided into 50,000,000 shares of P0.01 each. 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(P....) which is 25% of the total amount of the sub scription, upon signing this application, and I agree to pay the balance as follows: 1. 25% sixty (60) days after this date. 2. 25% -ninety (90) days after this date. 3. 25% one hundred twenty (120) days after this date. This is only an application for reservation and is not binding until accepted by the Board of Directors. Signed at .......................................... this ........ day of 25% Down Payment ., 193... Name ................................................ (Mr.) (Mrs.) (Miss) (Print name here) Address .................................... I line .1 was reading. It couldn’t register in my head somehow. My thoughts were only of her. Sixteen and in love. Only a child. She still had to grow up and learn many things. She was silent. Probably had already withdrawn into her own world. And then she was saying: “Shop at Aguinaldo’s. School opening sale. I must go there and buy socks, handbags, school dresses. It’s so excit ing to shop, isn’t it?” I put the daily down, my lips ready to smile knowing ly. But they never did. The OPEN To Receive Subscriptions From Dec. 8, 1936 49 tortured look in her eyes stunned me. Her face was expressionless and so very still. Her whole body was still. “What is it?” I said. “What—” I turned the pa pers. My eyes fell on the Aguinaldo advertisement and then on a picture above it— the picture of Carlos. Jour nalist dies in automobile crash, the Herald read. With greater, more care ful, interest she went on, “To morrow, yes, tomorrow I shall start shopping. You will too, won’t you ?... ” OFFICERS & DIRECTORS Judge Delfin Jaranilla President Atty. S. Capule Cruz Vice-President & Manager L. D. Cross Secretary-Treasurer S. J. Willimont Nicanor Roxas Members f: t A. x X 50 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 1936 A STORY FOR .... (Continued from page 10) expressionless. He held the little girl in his arms. “What is your name?” he asked. She looked at him in sil ence. He felt so discouraged he did not even ask the two boys. They went out of the store and entered another. Here they bought toys. Trumpets and pistols for the boys and a small parasol, a fat doll and a bag of assorted toys for the little girl. The afternoon was half gone when they emerged into the street. He laid down the little girl and stretched his arms behind him. “Where do you live?” he asked the eldest boy, won I COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES Department of Commerce and Communications BUREAU OF POSTS MANILA SWORN STATEMENT (Required By Act 2580) The undersigned The WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL, Inc., publisher of “WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL” published Monthly • in Manila, P. I., after having been duly sworn in accordance with law hereby submits the following statement of ownership, manage ment, etc., as required by Act 2580 of the Philippine Legislature: ' Editor, Minerva P. Guysayko.................. 1132 California, Manila Managing Editor, Minerva P. 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No. 525 Notary Public Page No. 19 My Commission expires on Book No. Ill December 31, 1936 Series of 1936. dering, when the boy did not answer, whether his Tagalog was wrong or the boy was dumb. “Where are your parents?” he tried next. All three look ed at him with expressionless faces. They did not even shake their heads. “Do you want to see a mo vie?” No answer. He took them to Palace Theatre. It was evening when they came out. They went to another Chinese eat ing place and ate. Inside the . Bulacan, Bulacan . Bulacan, Bulacan • Mary Johnston Hospi’al, Manila ■ 133 A. Mabini, Manila . Malacafian Palace, Manila ■ 55 Octavia, San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A, .c/c National University. Manila • c/c University of the Phil., Manila .Easy Street, San Juan, Rizal .149 Solis, Tondo, Manila • Phil. General Hospital, Manila • Phi). General Hospital, Manila .1132 California, Manila . .c/o University of the Phil., Manila . .509 Alvarez, Manila . .404 Colorado, Manila theatre they had eaten all the fruits he had bought, but they finished everything he ordered just the same. He was able to eat a little him self. They walked down Escolta, the little girl in his arms. He was getting used to her smell by this time. All at once the boys started blowing their trumpets. He was almost startled, but he looked down at them and felt very glad. He hoped they would speak, but they went on blowing their trumpets. They crossed Jones bridge and walked down to Intramuros. The little girl was drows ing on his shoulder. He show ed the boys how to load their pistols with the powder caps and soon they were shooting at each other. Not a word had been spoken by either one. He took them with him inside Sto. Domingo church. The boys sat beside him quiet ly. The litle girl slept under his arm. They sat there and waited for the midnight mass. It was a long time waiting and the boys soon fell asleep, the two of them leaning against him on one side. During the mass, he sat there and wondered what he would do when it would be finished. It was over at last, and the young man waited until all the people near him had gone. Then he rose to his feet, being careful not to waken the three sleeping children. A whiteand-red-garmented sacristan was going about at the altar putting out the candles. The church had grown dim. The young man straightened his tie. Then he turned his back on the three children, and for getting to make the sign of the cross he strode out into the early dawn. This is a true story. Years ago I once saw three such little children on Escolta on December 24th. Since then I have thought about them often. .. What a pity I had no money on that day! THEY ARE NOT ... (Continud from page 13) tution for women are also re membered on Christmas day. The day is visiting day and their relatives and friends go to see them and take foods and gifts with them. The officials plan an elaborate program, of entertainment for the inmates, with the in mates participating in most numbers. Usually a movie is shown in the evening. Then too the menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner are especial. Organizations, business firms, and individuals send gifts to be distributed among the pri soners. Tobacco, we learned, is the most popular among men, while “eats” is among women. Even policemen, bootblacks, newsboys, postmen, garbage collectors, street sweepers, are not forgotten. Traffic policemen, especially receive plenty of gifts from motor ists. A publishing house has for years taken care of the traffic-policemen’s Christmas fund by conducting a cam paign among its readers. The Y.M.C.A. entertains the city’s bootblacks and newsboys. When postmen, garbage col lectors, street sweepers are forgotten, they usually ask. There are always people in every community who be cause of circumstances cannot celebrate Christmas as they would wish. Not only or phans, the poor and the un employed, but also those who cannot be with their respec tive families. There are teachers, for instance, who come from other provinces and cannot go home during the holidays. They should be remembered too. A family in our home town has made it a practice to in vite every year teachers from other towns or provinces to be their guests on Christmas day. Another family in an other town give a luncheon for all the beggars on this day. Perhaps right next door to you lives a family who can not afford to celebrate Christ mas. Why not invite them to your home and share with them whatever you may have in the house on this day? Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 51 f SAVINGS ON ANY Your Favorite Magazines are Now Offered 1. Woman's Home Journal, 1 year . American Magazine, 1 year Collier’s Weekly, 1 year . 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Decorate the top of the ham with cranberries. Sliced Ham With Raisin Sauce Take a slice of ham, about an inch and a half thick, leav ing a good bit of the fat on. Put in a covered dish or cas serole, then add to it the sause made this way: Steam x/2 cup of raisins in 1 cup of water until they are plump. Add % cup brown sugar and 2 or 3 slices of orange. Cover the casserole and simmer slowly over a slow fire until the ham is very tender. This will take about 2 hours. Turn the ham once in a while and add a little water and orange juice, half and half, occasionally. The secret is to cook the ham until it is very tender. Slow cooking will do the trick. Keep the casserole covered. Serve with sweet potatoes or serve with pineapple fritters and any vegetable you like. Baked or roasted potatoes go first rate with ham. Ham in Tomato Cups Mix together 2 cupfuls of diced cooked ham, or 1 cup ful of ham and 1 cupful of chicken or veal, y2 cupful of diced celery, % cupful of chopped stuffed olive, 1 table spoon of chopped green pep per, and % cupful of diced pickles. Add y2 cupful of Bring Out the Beauty Hidden in Your Skin There ie no excuse for any woman having a ekin that is blemished, sallow or unlovely when she can so easily mak« her complexion young and beautiful with puro Mercolized Wax. It is the most na tural way to restore the lasting loveliness of any skin. Mercolized Wax discards the old wornout surface skin and reveals the flawless beauty of the girlish underskin. The skin comes off in such tiny flakes that the actual absorption is invisible. When the underskin is revealed, the im provement in the texture, softness and beauty of your complexion will delight you. Bring out your hidden beauty with Mercolized Wax. At all drug and department stores. mayonnaise to moisten,. and serve in tomato cups on a bed of lettuce. This recipe will serve 6 persons generously. Sugared Ham Clean ham and soak in cold water for 24 hours. Remove the skin and pinch all around with a fine skewer. Cover with clean water to which 1 cup of cooking wine and 2 bay leaves have been added. Bring the water to the boil ing point and let the ham simmer in it for 2% hours. Remove the ham from the pan, dry it with a clean towel, trim nicely. Pour over the sur face of the ham, % cup of cooking wine and sprinkle liberally with brown sugar. Place directly over the gas flame until it is evenly brown ed.—Mrs. Sofia R. de Veyra. CHILDREN LIKE THIS ANTISEPTIC CLEANSING DENTAL CREAM Dentists recommend Kolynos because of its antiseptic cleansing properties. It in stantly destroys the dangerous mouth germs that cause pain and decay. It cleans every tooth surface, every tiny crev ice. And keeps teeth white, clear and sound as no ordinary AROUND THE WORLD ... (Continued from jxtge 18) there, another boat for Ma nila. She was in Manila for about seven weeks and dur ing this time she accomplish ed the following: interviewed the difficult-to-see Dayang Dayang Piandao; visited a rope and a cigar factory; at tended the reception and ball given at the Manila Hotel by the members of the National Assembly in honor of Pres ident Quezon and saw the stately rigodon being danced and the metsiza dress in all its glory; went up to Baguio and saw the fgorrots and a gold mine; visited the Calamba Sugar Estate. She also in terviewed the flying reporters and the first passengers in the Philippine Clipper. Asked for her observations during her travels, she said tooth paste can. Have your children use Kolynos morning and night. Just a half-inch on a dry brush is enough. It tastes good, protects the delicate gums and enamel and keeps the entire mouth sweet, clean and refreshed. that she found people doing practically the same things the world over. The women, for instance, whether Chinese, Japanese, or Filipino, are as interested in fashions, movies, dancing, parties, as the Amer ican women. The houses in which they live, the foods that they eat, the clothes that they wear, may be different, but fundamentally all women are sisters under the skin. She was glad to hear of the NEPA movement. They have the same kind of movement in Japan and in China, she said. She hoped the Filipino women would continue to wear their native costumes, even at formal affairs only. She confessed that she was not very enthusiastic over our fight for suffrage and said that if she were a Filipino woman she would be content with her lot. She was told that Filipino women, even without the ballot can and do exert a great deal of influence outside of their respective homes. She thought this should be enough. The reader may wonder how Miss Dew managed to have her traveling expenses paid with her fifty dollars. It was simple: All her tickets were bought from only one steasmhip company, so she could stop in any place for any length of time and take any of the boats of the com pany to another port. She wrote her stories and for warded them to the news papers in the United States and then waited for her' checks. When she got one or all of them she moved on to another place in her itiner ary. Miss Dew typifies the mod ern American girl—indepen dent, able to take care of her self, and not afraid of hard ships and any emergency that may arise. She fell ill in Shanghai, but she did not bo ther her newly made friends. She went to a hospital to re cover, then proceeded on her journey. She had this, how ever, to say: Wherever she happened to stop, her com patriots as well as the natives made her stay pleasant. And for this, she is gateful. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 53 Ah Nnurtfiljittg Ah fitoakn Anh IE33H These are days of economy! Housewives are interested in get ting the most out of their money. And yet, they know that their fam ilies must be supplied with good, nourishing foofls. In this respect it is interesting to study the findings of scientists. Measured by the caloric standard in proportion to price, ordinary bread if it is made with quality in gredients such as high grade flour and yeast, is the greatest of all foods. It contains proteins which are the tissue builders, an abundance of carbohydrates and a portion of fat which produces energy and heat. Scientists and dieticians have measured the energy-giivng value of virtually all kinds of foods by the caloric standard. By simply eonnarinff costs with the caloric Give a Nole-Kalos Set the Gift that scents through holidays! ‘This Christmas value of foods, the housewife can furnish the family with necessary food energy at a minimum cost. The entire scheme is to- buy by calorie measurement. In other word, buying by the hundred calo ries. A few common foods and their respective energy-giving va lues per pound are: Bread.................... Beefsteak .......... Eggs (Ub|) .... Potatoes.............. Comparing the caloric with the price proves beyond a doubt the economy of yeast made bread. Now, how many calories do we need each day? That varies ac cording to age and occupation. The average workman, experts say, requires between 3.000 and 4,000 1128 calories » 623 739 369 content NO Lt-Kalos offers Europe's latest exquisite creations, each ready to tell a tale all its own ... SHANTUNG unfolds the romantic story of legendary China, all for Pl 2.50 the Xmas Gift Set. ... MONIQUE promises a breath-taking glimpse into the “chic” of Paris, only for P9.00 the special Gift Set.. . other perfumes have equally fascinating secrets to whisper ... Presented in Beautiful Crystal Flasks and Gorgeous Cases Sold at all Leading Drug Stores and Bazars Distributed calories per day. They further state that about 3,500 is a good average for the workingman who uses con siderable physical energy. Professional men, clerks and per sons engaged in light occupation, when furnished with 3,000 calo ries per day, should have an abundace of energy. The average house wife is well nourished if she gets 3,0000 calories a day. Of course, no one desires to con fine all their eating to breed. That would be monotonous. But, three or four extra slices of bread per day would go a long ways toward balancing the diet of the average person. Thus, bread offers the economi cal housewife a splendid opportun ity to serve a law priced, highly nutritious food. Naturally, the bet ter the loaf, the greater the whole someness. Housewives should be sure that the breed they buy is carefully made with quality ingre dients, such as high grade flour and yeast. The latter is especially im portant as bread made without yeast is not as digestible and thus the body loses much of the bene fits that this valuable food should supply. 5-lb. fowl quarts boiling water onion, sliced teaspoons salt tablespoons flour cup cold water Chicken Fricassee with 1 1% 1 2 6 % Sweet Potato Biscuits Cook fowl whole in boiling water with sliced onion until tender. Add salt when half done. Take fowl from broth, remove skin and take out bones, leaving chicken in fairly large pieces. Thicken gravy (there should be about 1 quart) with flour rubbed to a smooth paste with cold water. Bring to a boll; add chic ken meat. Serve with Sweet Po(Continued on page 57) BOTICA BOIE 54 WOMAN’S home journal Manila, December, 1936 A Holiday Sweet to Please the Children HOW the little folks enjoy the delicious fla vor of Sun-Maid Seedless Raisins! At Christmas time—or at any time of the year— these tasty morsels of sun-dried grapes are al ways welcome. They are healthful, too,—full of rich fruit sugar—nourishing—have a mild ly tonic effect that is beneficial. You can let boys and girls eat as many Sun-Maid Raisins as they wish. This delightful fruit is never harmful. Use Sun-Maid in Christmas Cakes, Candies and Dulces gUN-MAID Raisins are especially favored during holiday time in the preparation of fruit cakes, homemake candies, cookies and other sweets. The delicate fruit flavor of Sun-Maids adds greatly to the richness and goodness of your Christmas dain ties. Be sure to get Sun-Maid Raisins—in the pack age with the distinctive “Sun-Maid” trade-mark. Buy the small packets for eating—the 15-oz. package cooking and household use. NEPA CHRISTMAS MENU (Continued from page 35) of boiled and peeled potatoes, add pound of butter and salt and pepper to taste. Form the mashed potatoes into a rectangle on a large platter. Cut the chicken into slices and place on top of the mashed potatoes. Decorate with parsley and green on ions. Adobo de Polio Prepare a young chicken in this manner: Clean it very well and cut the legs and the wings at the joints; cut the breast into four pieces. Leave the wings whole. Submerge the pieces of chicken in vine gar with 4 sections of garlic, mashed, 1 laurel leaf and a few grains of black pepper. Grate the meat of one co conut and extract the milk without adding water. Set this aside. Boil the chicken in the vine gar and spices where it has been submerged. Add 2 table spoons powdered red pepper. Cook over a low fire until tender and the vinegar has evaporated. Toast with a little lard until brown, then add the coconut milk. When the coconut milk boils, re move the chicken from the fire. Serve with Pepino Sa lad. Prepare two young, fresh pepinos in this way: Peel and cut into thin slices cross wise. Remove the seeds and extract all the juice by press ing between the hands. Blanch in hot water 6 large tomatoes and remove the skin; cut into slices and remove the seeds. Marinate the pepino and the tomatoes in vinegar with par sley and salt and pepper to taste. Before serving, drain off the vinegar. Place the adobo lengthwise in the center of a platter. Place the pepino and the to matoes at the sides, alternat ing with each other. Decor ate with parsley. Bouquet de Ubi Boil the ubi. neel. and pass through a shredder. Measure. To every cun of ubi. add % cup sugar. V> cun thick co conut milk. Mix well and nass through a wire strainer. Cook over a low fire, stirring constantly to avoid burning. Remove from the fire when “WAS IT FOR THIS...” (Continued from page 8) appreciate; the worth of the gift is to be valued in good will, and kindly feeling, not in lustre and elegance. Share with your children what you know of the beauty and significance of Christmas and if perchance you have forgotten what Christmas means follow the Star again to Bethlehem and share your journey with your children. In turn, help your children to share the spirit of this day in gladsome giving with those who in their turn can share it also with others and in such a way will we greet each other with, “A Merry Christmas, friend, neighbor, strager. Peace be with you and your household and goodwill among the nations” Suggestive List of Gifts Which Children Can Make Scrap books with picture cut outs. Home made Christmas cards, with water color pictures on Manila paper. Handkerchiefs, pin cushions, oilcloth doilies. Decorated match boxes. Stocking dolls. Doll clothes, cloth and crepe paper dresses. Fruit and candy jars filled with homemade jellies and candies. Flowers, Poinsettia wreaths, popcorn decorations. Baskets filled attractively homemade candies, pop corn balls and fruit. These can be made by little children, the older children can make their own lists and will be able to use their school seat work activities as basic ideas for Christmas gifts. thick enough to be formed into any shape. Beat together lightly 5 eggs and 2 tablespoons of sugar. Make tortillas by dropping 1 tablespoon of the egg and sugar mixture at a time into a hot carajay with a little lard. Form small balls of ubi and place 1 ball in the center of each tortilla to stimulate a flower. Arrange on a platter to form a bouquet. Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNtJl 55 PSYCHIATRY AND ... (Continued from page 46) stable, -simple, the father of nine children, a farmer, came to the hospital with pains through the chest and arms, not dependent on exertion. He had spent several weeks in bed at his physiciari’s or der. Physical examination showed him to be essentially normal. Investigation reveal ed that the pains were sharp, were brought on always by worry, and subsided when he was distracted from his worry. They developed in a setting of mounting financial burden of several years’ du ration, reaching the climax with the destruction of his last crops by flood, the death of his livestock by disease, and virtual starvation facing the family. In this situation he became worried and de pressed, slowed up, became sleepless, lost weight, and then suddenly developed the pains, which were the first warning that he could under stand that things were not going well with him. With supportive treatment, stressing his physical inte grity and a working out of his immediate problem through relief, he gradually regained his emotional poise and habitual optimism, and the pains disappeared. Such a case represents a distinct episode in a stable individual, characterized by melancholy, worry and ap prehension, insomnia, weight loss, slowing of the bodily functions, in general, with physical complaints reactive to heavy strains. Such a stable person is likely to be impressed by physical com plaints as real, whereas the other features are disregard ed, or interpreted as coward dice. Case II. A stable, intelli gent young woman for five years has been complaining of fatigue and pains through out her body. She has been the object of much fruitless medical manipulation, each year seeking a new cure and keeping the family finances demoralized. Physical exa mination showed her to be completely normal. Briefly, the patient’s trou bles began when her hus band, a traveling salesman, decided to quit traveling. The husband had frequent outbursts of uncontrolled tem per. As long as he was tra veling the wife had escaped this unpleasantness to a great extent, and she fed her fancy with the picture of the ideal she held for him. Now she was at grips with the real ities of the situation. Even 5 Round Trip Tours, Scholarship, Cash and Other Prizes For You in This Ad Appeal Contest Based on Advertisements Found in The Philippine Women’s Magazine! In the December issue of the Philippine Women’s Magazine which will be out cn Decem ber 15, the advertisements listed below will appear., The contestants will simply match the right ap peal with the right advertisement, by writing the number of the appeal listed on the right on the blank before the proper advertisement on the left: Part I Advertisements in the December issue of the Philippine Women’s Magazine ------------Manila Steamship Co. ----------- Compahia Maritima ----------- Botica Boie ------------Inaec ------------Heacoek’s ----------- Manila Gas Corp. 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To 6tu<ly the advertisements in the Magazine, single copies may be sent by mail to any address upon receipt of twenty centavos for each copy. Each solution must be accompanied by P0.80 in money order or stamps for half a year subscription to the Phil ippine Women’s Magazine. New subscriptions and renewals sent in after November 1, 1936 may be used for this contest. One year’s subscription is good for two solutions. The threo-yenr subscription at the economy price of P3.50 is good for six solutions. Solutions may be written on this advertisement, in type-written form, or in legible handwrit ing The second part of this contest will be based on advertisements found in the January. 1937 issue of the Phil ippine W omen’s Magazine, and will again be published not only in the Magazine but in this paper, Jan. 9. Provin cial entries will be date! according to their postmarks. *nie Board of judges will be composed of prominent and competent men and women in the advertising and educa tional fields. Their decision will be final. The names of the winners will be published in the February issue of the Philippine Women’s Magazine. All solutions fox PART ONE must be sent to Philippine Women’s Magazine, c/o Philippine Women’s University, Manila. short respites with visits to relatives were not possible be cause of her husband’s de mand that she always be at home when he was there, and he was always there. He was willing to spend all his money on medical treatment for her, but so far was unwilling to make any effort to change his own ways or to let her have her own recreations. In this case is seen the de velopment of physical com plaints as a substitutive re action for chronic disappoint ment and strain. This is the sort of reaction which tends to become fixed through ha bit formation and demands vigorous personality and si tuational adjustment. Appeal 1. Fear of colds 2. Convenience for women 3. Literary 4. Natural flavor 5. Reliability 6. Novelty 7. Speedy travel 8. Health 9. Service 10. Gift suggestion 11. Economy 12. Vanity (Pride of ownership) 13. Companionship 14. Building instinct 15. Reliability 16. Originality in apparel 17. Vanity 18. Feminine fashion 19. Service 20. Fear of skin diseases 21. Building instinct 22. Beauty (Personal appearance) 23. Security 24. Convenient travel 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. Economv Health ‘ Building instinct Elizalde service Educational Feminine fashion Convenience Student bargain Gift suggestion Service Reliability Freo on comfortable and fast inter-island steamto submit the first five 56 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL THE holiday season calls for many dinner par ties to which you may be invited. Should the din ners be a little bit formal, are you so sure of your table man ners, are you so familiar with the uses of. all the silverware at your place, that you can use them correctly? One of the problems which trouble many people, even ve teran party-goers, at a dinner party is whether to shift or not the fork from the left to the right hand. Frequently, there is a dif ference of opinion as to which of two long-established meth ods is the correct one. Often there is something to say on both sides, but inevitably the convenient away is the more widely accepted. The differ ence between the American and the Continental (Euro pean) methods of handling a knife and fork is an example of this. Americaris usually handle a knife and fork in this man ner: A piece of meat is cut with the knife held in the right hand, and the fork, tines down, in the left. Then the knife is laid on the plate and the fork is shifted to the right hand. The third motion consists of carrying the piece of meat to the mouth with the fork, tines up, in the right hand. Continentals do it this way: The meat is cut in the same manner, with the knife in the right hand, and the fork, tines down, in the left. No shift is made; the piece of meat is pierced with the fork, tines remaining down, and carried to the mouth, with the fork still in the left hand. Both methods are correct, but with the second method several awkward and unneces sary motions are avoided, and the whole action is made more simple. Many Americans who have learned the Euro pean way find it so much more convenient, and they are training their children to eat in this manner. The Fork The wrong fork bugaboo is dispersed immediately if you follow the simple rule of start ing with the utensil farthest GRACIOUS LIVING Are Unit A 3fark fitter? from your plate and working toward the plate. Hostesses arrange their silver to correspond with the sequence of the courses. Knowing their world so well, they realize that the moments a guest spends searching for an appropriate silverpiece may be more felicitously de voted to conversation and to general participation in the hospitality. If you encounter one of those recalcitrant ladies who arrange their silver according to what they think is artistic, somettimes adding a few ex tra, useless pieces just for looks, you’ll have to bungle along as best you can. Don’t worry; everyone else at the table will be so busy figur ing out his own collection of silverware that no one will have time to notice it, if you make a mistake. CHRISTMAS THOUGHT “J AM thinking of you today, because it is Christmas, and I wish you happiness. And tomorrow, be cause it will be the day after Christmas, I shall still wish you happiness; and so on, clear through the year. I may not be able to tell you about it Qvery day, bcause I may be far away; or bcause both of us may be very busy; or perhaps because I cannot even af ford to pay the postage on so many letters, or find the time to write them. But that makes no difference. The thought and the wish will be here just the same. In my work and in my business of life, I mean to try not to be unfair to you or injure you in any way. In my pleasure, if we can be together, I would like to share the fun with you. Whatever joy or success comes to you will make me glad. Without pretense, and in plain words, good-will to you is what I mean, in the Spirit of Christmas.”—Henry van Dyke. GALISATUM Dandruff_____________ Formula approved SCm.; Menthol IS Gm. ; Reiarcmol SOGm , Acd Salicylic a* rd* 2406"* i Sulphur 120 6m.', Etcipiem tooo And what of it, anyway, if you do pick the wrong imple ment? Doubtless the one be side it will he approximately as useful for the next course, and if it isn’t, a servant will quickly supply you with an other. The fork is held in the left hand, with the handle scure in the center of the palm. The first finger points down the handle. Thumb and foreigner are closed firmly around theund the handle. Tines down is the correct position when the fork is held in the left hand for cutting meat, or for transferring the meta to the mouth. Tines up is the position in which it should be held in the right hand for eating eggs, vegetables, and other soft foods. Don’t use your fork as if it were a shovel. Don’t pile .Hongkong- foot. Eczema. Dat Manila, December, 1936 more food on it than you can take conveniently in your mouth at one time. Do not point with it. And do not wave it about as you talk. Fingers or fork? is a ques tion that is easily answered by the rule that moist, greasy, or sticky foods are eaten with a fork, when they are not eaten with a spoon. Dry foods can be taken in the fingers. Amog these are olives, celery, cookies, cakes without icing. Relishes Olives are held in the fin gers and nibbled, and the pit is placed on your bread and butter plate. Neither green nor ripe olives are put into the mouth whole, and the pit taken out when the meat is consumed. Cupping the hand to receive the olive pit is af fected, awkward, and unnecessarily conspicuous. Never spear olives with a fork . Radishes and celery are eaten in the fingers. The Knife The knife is held in the right hand in the same man ner that the fork is held in the left. The index finger points down the back of the handle and does not touch the blade. Don’t cut up all the meat on your plate into small pieces before beginning to eat. Eat each portion as you cut it off. Constant use of one’s knife and fork suggests that one’s mind is too much occupied with food, and not enough with being sociable. So we should lay the knife and fork down occasionally, while we join in the conversation. Once in use, the handles of the knife and fork must not touch the table again; they should rest on the plate. This is a sensible rule because these utensils, propped on the edge of the plate, are apt to be knocked off by accident; besides, a drop of gravy may run down th handle, making it unpleasant to use again and threatening the cleanliness of the table cloth. When you pass your plate for a second helping, it is best Manila, December, 1936 57 to place the knife and fork snugly together side by side on the plate so that they will not be knocked off in transit. To lay them on the table cloth would be most untidy, and to hold them suspended in the air is ridiculously awk ward. When you have finished the course, place your knife and fork together on the plate, parallel to each other, the handles turned slightly to the right. Since the knife has been held in the right hand, it is natural and convenient to place it on the right of the fork, with the cutting edge turned toward the fork; the tines of the fork are turn ed up. Arranged this way, there is slight opportunity for accident when the plate is re moved from the table. Desserts Substantial desserts, parti cularly those with a syrup or juice are eaten with both fork and a spoon. Fruit compotes, strawberries, meringue, short cakes, are among the desserts WOMAN’S HOME JOURNA^ A ^niiu'hHS Spirit By Pedro Padilla I was born in mountain fastnesses to keep company with their sombre solitude. But soon I knew the meaning of stag nancy, and so escaped from this graveyard home. I descended upon the valley of a thousand noises to pick out a place among men. Here everything moves fast in the sun; even faces grow old in their youths. Soon I discovered the rumbling of civilization, and felt grim discordance within men's hearts. I felt the harshness of their methods and the oppression of greed and ill-will. 'j nat s why I turned back to my mountain fastnesses and their silences, to their primitive folk and uncultured ways, that I might bask anew in calm contentment. But alas! The old place is no more; wilderness has be come cultivated gardens; trees have been felled down; and rocks, blown to million fragments. Imposing homes now stand where my people have pitch ed their tents. The rivers, once clear and crystalline, are now dark with the wastes of civilization. So now I am a homeless spirit. eaten in this manner. You will find the double silver ser vice especially convenient in removing the stones from stewed fruits, such as prunes and peaches. Fruits should not be eaten carelessly and untidily in the fingers, with the juice falling where it may. Fruits with stones, like ap ples, should be eaten with a knife and fork. Implant the fork in the side of the fruit and use the knife to peel the skin, starting from the top and working toward the cen ter of the plate. Cut it in quarters and remove the core before cutting off a mouth ful which you eat with the fork. Oranges, if they are cut in halves, are eaten with an orange spoon. If they are served in slices, they are eaten with a small knife and fork. AS NOURISHING ... (Continued from page 3) tato Biscuits laid on top of gravy. Serves 6. Sweet Potato Biscuits % cup mashed sweet 2/3 cup milk 4 tablespoons melted butter 1% cup flour 4 teaspoons Royal Bak ing Powder* 1 tablespoon sugar % teaspoon salt Mix mashed sweet potato, milk and melted butter. Add remain ing ingredients, sifted all together, to make soft dough. Turn out on floured board and toss lightly until outside looks smooth. Roll out % inch thick; cut with floured biscuit cutter. Place on greased pan. Bake in hot oven at 450° F. about 15 min utes. 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HAWAIIAN Send P.25 for Introductory lite, ilating ihadc detired, to tole Philippine ilgtnli: Condiment Mfg. Co.. 121 Rotario. Manila. TATTOO' South Sea Colour for Lips dent days in Charlottesville, Virginia, and a girl.named Alice. “Miss Estrada, allow me to present Doctor Grisdon.” She extended her hand and I, who damn all kissers of hands as asinine poseurs, bow ed and kissed hers. “You are very welcome, doctor.” The words were spo ken carefully and with a faint accent. Young Bart was staring at her like a man liivng his great dream. “Do you blame me now, doc?” “No.” “Isn’t she the most beauti ful girl in this world?” “Mr. Bart, please—” “Forgive me, but I do mean it.” Her very blush was nostal gic as she turned to me and said: “I tell him it is such a large world and he is so young.” “There isn’t any world be yond your sight,” Bart said. There was a brief interlude while she scolded him and he apologized and they gossiped about the luncheon they had had together the day before —all in a mood of reserve ’on her part and deference on his. It seemed a little un canny to me, watching them: the girl in her quaint frock and Bart wearing the clothes of any modern young Amer ican visitor to Manila. Senorita Mercedes belonged to an other time and a different manner and an older code... “Shall we go to the terrace, doctor?” “Eh? Oh, yes, of course. An old dog likes the sun.” Bart grinned happily at me. “You must show Doctor Grisdon your laboratory. She has done marvelous things with flowers, doc. She’s grown a new rose-window or chid. And she’s bred a guava that has a flavor like nectar!” The girl colored in abject embarrassment. “He is over praising me, doctor. I am only a—an amateur. Is-that the word? Padre Nolas is res ponsible for all my small suc cesses.” “You see? Back home a girl who did such things would have stringy hair and a sticky ego.” “Please, Mr. Bart. I beg of you...” She led us onto the terrace. Its red flagstones were mossy and cracked. We seated our selves on wrought-iron chairs. Bart pointed out the green house laboratory, an impro visation from a stone stable. But Senorita Estrada chang ed the subject to Brother Cheng. “It was good of him to call,” she said. “He has left his smile in our house. It was a great gift to hear him talk.” Bart looked at her reverent ly and said: “Doc, Miss Es trada wants to visit Manila. Tell her how horrible that would be.” I hesitated. “You see?” said Miss Es trada. “Doctor Grisdon does not think as you do.” “Manila would sicken you,” Bart said. “But I should like to go to a dance. And—and perhaps see the cinema!” Her voice was graspy with excitement. Bart looked grim. “There is your promise, remember.” “I promised no one. It is only that Aunt Nina and Cousin Felipe oppose my wish.” Bart appealed to me. “She must never leave this place. Never. Am I right?” “What does Brother Cheng think?” Senorita Mercedes broke in, eagerly: “He favors my desire. He says I have not lived in this world. Not yet. You see? And—” The major domo appeared. “Yes, Ra mon?” “Senator Mendez. He is here.” The girl, her face tighten ing into a mask, said rapidly in Spanish: “I cannot see him now, Ramdn. Tell him—no, wait. I’ll speak to him.” Then, in English: “Please excuse me.” We were scarcely to our feet when Senator Mendez ap peared on the terrace. “Good afternoon, cousin,” he said. “Oh—h-how do you do, Cousin Felipe?” I watched Mendez’s sad black eyes take note of Bart and me as he advanced, bowed and kissed Mercedes’ hand. “Doctor Grisdon; Mr. Nel son; allow me to present my cousin, Senator Mendez.” Manila, December, 1936 Mendez bowed stiffly. His lean narrow face, exaggerat ed almost to caricature by a pointed beard, belonged in a portrait. “How do you do?” I said. “Glad to know you, Sena tor,” Bart said, and blunder ed—he offered his hand. The gesture Mendez ignored; he had turned back to Mercedes. His attitude was eloquent of an emotion almost historic nowadays—the poignant pain of unrequited love, nursed, brooded upon, cherished. “How could you, Merce des?” he said, in a precise Castilian. “Aunt Nina wrote me, but I would not believe it! Surely these men are here without an invitation?” “They are my guests, Cou sin Felipe.” MENDEZ again addressed the girl in Spanish. “I must insist that they leave. Get rid of them, I beg of you.” I looked ostentatiously at my watch. “We really ought to be getting back to town, Miss Mercedes,” I said. “I’ve just recalled an appointment at the hospital.” Senator Mendez, realizing for the first time that I knew Spanish, flushed. “Doctor, a word with you? You will ex cuse us, cousin? Thank you.” I followed him into the house, while behind us I heard Bart questioning Mercedes. Mendez led me into the re ception parlor and came to the point at once. “Allow me to apologize. I have been very rude. But we are of the Estradas and it is not allowed for Senorita Mer cedes to receive guests. It is a family matter, Senor. Do you understand?” It was not my quarrel. I had opposed Bart’s adven ture. The dark, fanatic eyes that were fixed on my face warned me that Senator Men dez meant trouble. And yet I found myself disposed to argue. “Miss Estrada is of legal age, and this young man should be acceptable in any circle. I will vouch for him.” A polite shrug. “Forgive me. I do not make myself clear. Senorita Mercedes has no knowledge of the world. She is to be protected. I have Manila, December, 1936 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL 59 that honor.” He bowed, and on the wall above his head were a cuirass and the crossed spears of some conquistador. I looked at him and realized that talk between us would be quite useless. He was of the Estra das. His olive-brown, humor less face was preoccupied with unhappy love and honor assailed. He waited politely for me to speak, but I could think of nothing to say. The ludicrous pause was broken by the en trance of Senorita Mercedes. “I am sorry you must re turn to Manila so soon, Doc tor Grisdon,” she said. “Mr. Bart is waiting for you in the car.” “I’m sorry too,” I said. “And I also, doctor.” The girl ignored her cousin. Angerspots showed in her cheeks, and her eyes were black. I thanked her for the visit and we exchanged strain ed pleasantries to the door. Senator Mendez waited in the hall until the door was closed. Bart, looking very sore, was slumped in the front seat of my car. “Well,” I said, “it appears we have been given the bum’s rush.” “That crazy fellow! If I could have got Mercedes out of the way I’d have slapped him over!” “Yes — and been challeng ed to a duel.” “It’s time someone put him in his place. He thinks he owns the ranch.” I started the car down the red clay road. “He’s her cou sin, Bart.” “Second cousin. That doesn’t give him the right to boss her. We’ll show him!” “Of course you’ll hoot at me—but my advice is to back out of this. Mendez told me he intends to protect Mer cedes. And that means pro tection against any fancied slight or affront to her honor, with Mendez to be judge and jury.” “Don’t worry, doc.” Out of the corner of my eye I saw that he was grin ning impishly. “I am wor ried, son,” I said. “I know Mendez. He follows the high falutin code of the Dons. And he has no sense of hu mor.” “Yes? I’ll bet he laughs himself sick when he hears that Mercedes has been to a dance in Manila!” “You’re joking.” “Am I? Tomorrow night, at the Manila Hotel. I’m counting on you to chaperon us, doc!” J WASTED twenty minutes trying to argue this out. Going to a dance in Manila was Mercedes’ dream of the fairy ball, Bart said. He had opposed it until Senator Men dez horned in. Mercedes, an gered by her cousin’s inter ference, had renewed her entreaties. She was on the side of rebellion. “Mendez will look upon it -I-:-:--:-SAN MAURICIO-PITISAN MINING CO. (Under Process of Incorporation) ROOM 300, PADILLA BLDG., RIZAL AVE., MANILA TEL. 2-93-74 CAPITAL STOCK: A/t AAA A A DIVIDED INTO 50,000,000 SHARES AT P.01 rSIIII mill Illi EACH. MINIMUM SUBSCRIPTION P100.00 of A <7 V V | V V V • V V 10,000 shares (one unit) Property: 198 Hectares adjoining San Mauricio Mining Co., and near Santa Rosa, ParacaleGumaus, Gumaus Goldfields Detach this Coupon: -APPLICATION IJ BOARD OF TRUSTEES: Hon. Pedro Gil, President Dr. Cesar Jalandoni Dr. Jose Mirasol Dr. Jose Locsin Sian Mr. Ismael Golez, Sec.-Trea. 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I found him seated in the huge oaken tub in the center of a bare loft room at the rear of the restaurant. Tick Kong, wear ing a rubber apron, was scrubbing Brother Cheng’s back with a long-handled brush of hog bristles. My friend, a towel draped around his middle, was dictating a letter to Rabbi Hiersholm. The rabbi, a fugitive from Russia, attached himself to (Continued on next page) $ ❖ (Mr., Mum, Mr».) 60 WOMAN’S HOME JOURNAL Manila, December, 19S6 CORRECTIONS The title of the article on new coiffures on page 30 should read: New Heads For You And Me. The first paragraph of same article should read: “This New Year, let us give ourselves new heads—therefore new faces. There may be nothing wrong with the old ones, but anyway, let’s look different just for a change.-------- ” * * * The members of the NFWC board of directors whose names appear on page 23 are the new ones. There are nine members in the present board of directors, five of whom were re-elected, as were also all the officers, in the last election held during the Sixth Biennial Convention. THE BLACK ROSE (Continued from page 59) Brother Cheng’s household many years ago. He acts as a sort of secretary-amanuen sis—a timid little man with dyed whiskers; hair in ring lets and a velvet skullcap on his head. “Doctor Grisdon, my friend, only one hot bucket today. Tick Kong will swear it!” I ignored this standing joke between us. Ordinarily, I would have felt the water and accused Brother Cheng of fudging on his cold bath. But I was in no mood for jokes. “For the first time I have caught you in a bad error of judgment, Brother Cheng,” I said. “You’ve got Bart into serious trouble!” Brother Cheng was unper turbed. He said: “Rabbi, you know my heart in that mat ter. Finish the letter in your most excellent style.” Rabbi Hiersholm bowed and went through the doorway. Then, to Tick Kong: “Enough. Heh! You have skinned me alive. Open the window and permit all my friends to come in.” “They will dirty the water, Revered One.” “Heh! Have I not dirtied it first?” Tick Kong, sighing, opened “THE true Christmas bill-of-fare can’t be bought, cooked or photographed. It is made of the most precious elements we know in this queer twisted world of ours, and they don’t take kindly to statistics. “It should have content, laughter, surprises, hos pitality, faith and courage in its composition, and every course should be seasoned high with love. Gather these things about your Christmas table and nothing else will be important. Try to manage with out them, and silver candlesticks and maids in gray moire, caviar and terrapin, pleasants’ breasts under glass, asparagus from Florida and ices from the ca terer won’t make a feast.”—Mrs. Kathleen Norris. the latticed teakwood screen. Rikki, the pet lemur, and Sarah, the one-legged para keet, followed by a half-dozen sparrows came in to play about the tub. “Heh! So Bart is in trou ble?” Nettled, I described in blunt terms the scene at the Estra das’ and its sequel. “The boy is right and you are overfearful, my friend. Bart has made his choice. He is no longer with us, but has stepped into the sundial’s sha dow. He embraces an almost forgotten hour when love was worth many a shining hazard. What right have you or I to say it is not so? Heh! He has looked at Senorita Mercedes with wiser -eyes than yours.” I sniffed, remembering that I should have to face Bart’s father if anything hap pened to him. “Senator Men dez does not look at it so philo sophically. If Bart takes her to a dance, Cousin Felipe will react as any hidalgo of the old regime.” “Good!” “A duel? Good?” “Is it not of a pattern? Noble thoughts and violent ac tion, my friend. Was that not chivalry? 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