. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. f the house are made of larger bamboo trunks, sixinches or less in diameter; the split trunks form the floor;the sides are of split bamboo material somewhat like that ofwhich we make our hamper baskets and split-bottom chairs;the roofing is of nipal, which looks much like very long cornshucks. In short, imagine an enormous hamper basket, big enoughto hold six or eight hogsheads, put on stilts, and covered withshucks: such in appearance i
. Where half the world is waking up; the old and the new in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, reported with especial reference to American conditions. f the house are made of larger bamboo trunks, sixinches or less in diameter; the split trunks form the floor;the sides are of split bamboo material somewhat like that ofwhich we make our hamper baskets and split-bottom chairs;the roofing is of nipal, which looks much like very long cornshucks. In short, imagine an enormous hamper basket, big enoughto hold six or eight hogsheads, put on stilts, and covered withshucks: such in appearance is the FiUpinos house. Aroundit are banana trees bent well toward the ground by the weightof the one great bunch at the top, and possibly a few bambooand cocoanut trees. For human ornaments there are rathersmall and spare black-haired, black-eyed, brown-skinned men,women, and children in clothing rather gayly colored — asfar as it goes: in some cases it doesnt go very far. The favoritecolor with the women-folk is a sort of peach-blossom mixtureof pink and white or a bandanna-handkerchief combinationof red and white. Bare feet are most common, but many. A FILIPINO a HOME Nearly all the native houses I saw in the rural Philippines were of this type— about this size, set on stilts, and constructed of similar material. Thescene is not quite natural-lookiag, however, without a banana grove and afighting cock or two
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