NOX-CHRISTIAN PEOPLES OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1253 



industrial. Boys are taught woodwork, 

 at which they excel ; stone splitting and 

 cutting, at which they are very skillful 

 (see pages 1242, 1244, and 1246), and 

 iron work, in which they are very much 

 interested. Girls are taught to weave and 

 sew. 



Neither in Lepanto nor in Bontoc have 

 educational results of any material im- 

 portance been obtained as yet, but the 

 recent adoption of a sensible policy in- 

 volving the laying of great emphasis on 

 industrial training leads me to believe 

 they may be looked for in the near future. 



There is one quite successful school 

 among the Ilongots, and here again in- 

 dustrial work is the principal thing taught. 



If nothing more were accomplished 

 than to persuade these especially filthy 

 little savages to clean up, the work would 

 be worth while. As a matter of fact, they 

 display a wholly unanticipated degree of 

 intelligence. 



No educational work has as yet been 

 inaugurated among the Kalingas or the 

 wild Tingians of Apayao, but good 

 schools were long since established for 

 the civilized Tingians of Abra, who have 

 already greatly profited by them. 



The Bukidnon people of Mindanao 

 were most anxious for schools, and one 

 of the potent arguments used in persuad- 

 ing them to come down from the hills and 

 to settle in organized villages was that if 

 they failed to do this it would be impos- 

 sible for us to provide schools for their 

 children. Every little Bukidnon village 

 has built a good school-house and a dwell- 

 ing for the schoolmaster, and the children 

 are making extraordinary progress. 



In a number of cases it has proved bet- 

 ter to establish boarding-schools for the 

 boys and girls of a non-Christian tribe 

 rather than to attempt to send school- 

 masters into extremely isolated places, 

 where they would find it difficult to se- 

 cure proper food and would suffer greatly 

 from loneliness. Such a school has been 

 established for Tagbanau boys at Abor- 

 lan, in Palawan, and should meet with a 

 large degree of success. 



THE WILD MEN TAKE TO BASEBALL 



In a previous article I have referred to 

 the beneficial results which have followed 



from the introduction of field sports 

 among the adult wild men of northern 

 Luzon, but I have not previously men- 

 tioned what I believe to be the fact, that 

 baseball is one of the really important 

 things which the Bureau of Education 

 has taught the boys.''' 



It is really wonderful to see how they 

 take to the game and how it brightens 

 them up and increases their activity and 

 alertness. Keen interest is taken not only 

 by the boys themselves, but by their fath- 

 ers and mothers, in competitive games 

 between different settlements. These 

 games serve to bring the people together 

 in a friendly wa}^ and result in endless 

 good (see pages 1252 and 1255). 



THE WILD MEN PROTECTED EROM 

 DANGEROUS INTOXICANTS 



Prohibition of the use of intoxicants 

 other than those which he himself manu- 

 factures and has always been accus- 

 tomed to employ is one of the greatest 

 boons conferred on the wild man by the 

 government. A Filipino seldom becomes 

 a victim of alcoholism. He may take an 

 occasional drink of vino, tuba, or beer, 

 but he almost never drinks to excess. In 

 this regard the wild man differs radi- 

 cally from him. 



There are tribes among whom it is 

 hardly good etiquette to leave a fiesta 

 sober. Only fermented drinks are made 

 by these people, the chief materials used 

 in their manufacture being rice, corn, 

 the juice of sugar-cane, and that of sev- 

 eral different species of palms. These 

 drinks are for the most part compara- 

 tively mild, and must be guzzled in large 

 quantities in order to produce advanced 

 intoxication. 



When these people, accustomed to 

 nothing stronger, drink bad ino or worse 

 whiskey to great excess the results are 

 shocking. They promptly get so drunk 

 that the whole universe apparently seems 

 to reel around them. At all events, they 

 obviously think that they have to hang 

 on to the grass in order to stay on the 

 ground ! I have repeatedly known indi- 



* See "Field Sports Among the Wild Men 

 of Luzon," March, 191 1, National Geographic 

 Magazine. 



