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EVOLUTION OF DRESS AMONG THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS | |
| Before the missionary suggested dress, the primitive, natural, and healthy covering of the native of Oceania was generously bestowed by nature, and consisted of a scanty collection of leafy sprays and flowers. In his neat, but unhealthy, European clothes, the native finds himself at a disadvantage. He cares not whether they be clean or dirty, wet or dry, and the inevitable result has been that diseases and lung troubles have become very prevalent | |
STOLIDITY AND PENSIVENESS AT HOUSEHOLD DRUDGERY
| Rice is the staple food of most of the Philippine Islands' native dwellers. Having collected a pile in her flat, rush-woven basket, the girl, whose Mongol features wear a lack-lustre look, rests awhile, what time her pensive-seeming sister crushes the grains to flour with a rocking movement of the upper stone. Years of drudgery and the sameness of their life produce these dull features |