An Army Woman in the Philippines Extracts From Letters of An Army Officers Wif
An Army Woman in the Philippines Extracts From Letters of An Army Officers Wif
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The market is a raised stone platform, surrounded by a gutter and roofed with thatch, supported by tall posts. Inside, squatting on the stones, are the merchants, nearly all of them women. The "little brown sister" occupies a higher position in the Philippines than do the women of China or Japan. Here the women buy and sell, manage the income, and run the little tiendas (shops. ) They did not ask us to buy, but kept up a continual chattering with one another. Naked children ran after us, hailin...g us as " Americanos. ' ' We said ' ' Hello ! ' ' politely, wishing to help on the good work of making American citizens. Baskets of all shapes and sizes were piled about each group of shopkeepers, and over cords stretched along the little matting booths were hung cheap and gaudy American goods and really pretty native fabrics. Vege- tables, fruits, fish, and bugs were displayed in shallow baskets large green cucumbers (shrieking "Cholera!"), fine bananas, mangoes, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, papayas, pili-nuts, peanuts, mud-fish, black and snaky shrimps, 74 An Army Woman in the Philippines and "chow-bugs, " piles of dolce (made of coarse brown sugar, covered with chocolate and cocoanut), and all smelling to heaven.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The market is a raised stone platform, surrounded by a gutter and roofed with thatch, supported by tall posts. Inside, squatting on the stones, are the merchants, nearly all of them women. The "little brown sister" occupies a higher position in the Philippines than do the women of China or Japan. Here the women buy and sell, manage the income, and run the little tiendas (shops. ) They did not ask us to buy, but kept up a continual chattering with one another. Naked children ran after us, hailin...g us as " Americanos. ' ' We said ' ' Hello ! ' ' politely, wishing to help on the good work of making American citizens. Baskets of all shapes and sizes were piled about each group of shopkeepers, and over cords stretched along the little matting booths were hung cheap and gaudy American goods and really pretty native fabrics. Vege- tables, fruits, fish, and bugs were displayed in shallow baskets large green cucumbers (shrieking "Cholera!"), fine bananas, mangoes, cocoanuts, oranges, limes, papayas, pili-nuts, peanuts, mud-fish, black and snaky shrimps, 74 An Army Woman in the Philippines and "chow-bugs, " piles of dolce (made of coarse brown sugar, covered with chocolate and cocoanut), and all smelling to heaven.
What to read after An Army Woman in the Philippines Extracts From Letters of An Army Officers Wif?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Caroline Saxe Merrill Shunk to read onlineMoreLess
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