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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



MARKET SCENE AT 11,011,0, 



Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



The market at Jaro, a suburb of Iloilo, is famous for its cloth of native weave. The finest 

 jusi and pina in the Philippines is woven near Iloilo. At the window of every other house on 

 the island a woman is seen at a crude loom. 



makes the stones in its bed so smooth, and 

 why the quartz pebbles are so white, 

 while other rocks are gray or black. Then 

 it is that pictures lead him to the story 

 of the mighty forces of water. He need 

 not begin by reading about detritus and 

 erosion. He sees pictures of brooks and 

 rivers, dashing down the hills near their 

 sources, flowing broad and free across the 

 plains, and lazily idling through their vast 

 deltas. 



He visits neighboring hills and sees 

 how heavy rains dig out gullies in un- 

 protected soil. Then he studies views of 

 wooded and denuded slopes, and of floods 

 caused by careless deforestation. From 

 these he gains ideas of conservation and 

 the wise use of our national resources. 



He has illustrations showing the skill and 

 value of the forest ranger, and becomes 

 careful in lighting his own camp-fires. 

 Best of all, he gets the idea of his respon- 

 sibility for the care of public property. 

 "What belongs to all of us is for me to 

 enjoy, but not to hurt," he thinks at the 

 close of a lesson. 



Again, the pictures tell him the story of 

 the great glacier that once covered the 

 whole northern part of the United States, 

 and how it ground rock to powder, 

 smoothed off* the rough edges, made our 

 lakes, and gave us our soil. From this 

 the teacher leads him to volcanoes, gey- 

 sers, and earthquakes. How fascinating 

 they are in the pictures ! He can take in 

 at a glance what could not be gained in 



