Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1898 — The Charming Philippine Women. [ARTICLE]

The Charming Philippine Women.

Capt. Lee Linn, former editor of the Wabash Courier and later of the Tribune of that place, and now with the United States army at Manila, writes under date of Sept. 2, that he will be regularly assigned to duty at Manila, which city he describes as a place of 250,000, though so cramped up and so dirty that it would not afford decent living room for 10,000 Americans. The native women, he says, are inexpressibly homely, and as if this were not enough they are inordinate chewers of the beettie nut and expectorate like a westerner with his mouth surcharged with dog-leg tobacco. They wear little or no clothing, bathing publicly with no other garb than a vacant smile and a horn comb.