Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — Their Form of Salutation. [ARTICLE]

Their Form of Salutation.

Some experience of the tint days of schoolteaching in the Philippines are described by Alice M. Kelly in the Manila Times. She went among the Igorots In November, 190 L The natives were frightened at the sight of an American woman, and not even prized dainties like sardines could bring them to her. They spoke no English or Spanish and she had not a word of Igorote. But she resolved to break this silence and catching one old man who could not run aha repeated over and over again, “Good morning, Mrs. Kelly,” till at last, to escape, he repeated the words after her. Not long after she heard that Americans were being greeted, regardless of sex, with a cheery, “Good morning. Mrs. Kelly.” And, oddest of all, in a court room several Igorotes solemnly walked up to the Judge’s beach and bowing deeply, said, “Good morning, Mrs. Kelly,” evidently well satisfied that they had done the correct thing.