Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1912 — Filipino Sorrow. [ARTICLE]

Filipino Sorrow.

* > i'- f When I went down to breakfast the* - other morning at my hotel I found the attentive and unusually intelligent FlHpino waiter who ha* served me ever •Ince I attached myself to the hostelry squad. His eyes were bleared with salty tears and he looked down at the floor to avoid my glance of inquiry. “1 am a few minutes late,” I said to j the waiter. . And then: "You have , been crying. What troubles you?" Again he burst into tears, and, leaning his head against the wall, sobbed f as if his heart would break. “What on earth ails you?" I aaked, rther sympathetically. “Any of your relatives dead?'/ “No, no, senor, not that," and the waiter boobooed again. “Then out with it, boy!” I exclaimed, rather Impatiently; “out with it?* 4; “Oh, senor,” he stammered, “tha pancakes are cold!" Noble muchacho, that. Isn’t he?-* Philippines Monthly. " y