Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1920 — DAUGHTER OF AGUINALDO IN U. S. CAPITAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DAUGHTER OF AGUINALDO IN U. S. CAPITAL

She Meets Many Wives of American Statesmen and Makes a Hit. When General Emilio Agulnaldo was leading the Filipino army against the American forces twenty years ago he probably little dreamed that some day u daughter of his would visit the city of Washington and would tie given a great reception at the famous Congressional'Club I And that the wives of 120 members of the American Congress and two wives of members of the President’s cabinet would call upon her to pay respects! But all this actually happened when Miss Carmon Aguinaldo, his nineteen-year-old daughter, visited Washington recently. And those wives of the American statesmen expressed themselves as, both charmed and surprised at the refined, tactful, college educated young miss who greeted them. “Miss Aguinaldo was simply delightful," was the expression of one congressman’s wife. “She was very modest, yet she acted so natural and thor-

of the Former Leader of the Filipino Army. oughly at home that she captivated everybody." On another occasion w’hile in Wash-

Ington Miss Aguinaldo was given a real ovation by a Filipino-American audience when she recited “My Last Farewell,” poem of Dr. Jose Rizal, the Filipino martyr. Miss Aguinaldo is a student at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IIL While in Washington she was the guest of Mrs. Jaime C. deVeyra, wife of one of the resident commissioners from the Philippines. The Capitol building and the Congressional library appealed particularly to the young Fillpina, while the beautiful sights from the Washington monument thrilled her with delight When asked how she liked America, she smiled and answered : •‘lt is a wonderful country. I didn’t like winter at first, but since I have learned how to skate I am having fine times. All the Americans whom I have met have been very good to me. My friends In Urbana and my classmates in the university are Just lovely, but I cannot help feeling homesick at times because I am missing my father. My coming here was indeed a great sacrifice for him, for we are very close. lie is so good to me.” Miss Aguinaldo Is Intensely patriotic. She does not conceal her resentment when she hears or reads of a misrepresentation of the Filipinos, "it is unfortunate," she once exclaimed in a voice full of sadness, “that my country and my people are hardly known, much less understood, by the people of Amerlca." Politics Is* tabooed In any conversation with this Filipino maid. She evades the topic by replying that she is too young to express opinions on things political. “All I can say," she declares, “is that I share with my father in the desire for Independence for my native land. There is no question about our being able to govern ourselves." • Filipinos declare Miss Aguinaldo has a “genuine Filipina temperament”— that is, she does not believe in the occidental custom of “dates” between young men and women. She does not see anything wrong in It, she says, but it is such a violent departure from the custom in the Philippines that she cannot adopt it. “You might laugh at me,” she said, “but I cannot go out with one single escort unchaperoned. I simply can’t I wiM go back to my country with the soul of a Filipina." A newspaper in one of the large American cities that Miss Aguinaldo visited expressed the opinion that she would no doubt be greatly impressed by the sight of street cars and some'M the fine residences she would see, but the truth is the young lady was raised in Manila, where she has seen an upUpdate street car system all her life.

MISS CARMEN AGUINALDO,