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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
Miss Mabel T. Boardman Tells of 
Trip to Philippines at Opening 
Meeting of the Club, Tuesday 
The Manchester Woman’s club 
inaugurated its official club year 
Tuesday afternoon at the Chapel. 
Mrs. Otis M. Stanley, the new pres- 
ident, presided very ably. 
The club had a most auspicious 
opening, being honored by the pres- 
ence of Miss Mabel T. Boardman, 
national chairman of the Red Cross 
society, as speaker. Miss Boardman 
gave a delightful. talk on her ex- 
periences as a guest of the famous 
party that went to the Philippines 
when Pres. Taft was Secretary of: 
War and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth 
was Miss Alice Roosevelt. Although 
many of Miss Boardman’s anecdotes 
were familiar history, however, com- 
ing from a personal member of that 
distinguished party, they took on 
new life and were deeply interest- 
ing and entertaining. 
Sr) as 
In part Miss Boardman spoke of 
the party’s entrance into Manila 
harbor and seeing wrecks of the war 
vessels of the siege of seven years 
past recalling forcibly Dewey’s con- 
flict with the Spaniards. 
In deseribing the Filipino peo- 
ple, she stated that they were small 
like the Japanese, and characteristi- 
eally childish in many _ respects. 
The women are very dressy and the 
Americanized Filipino cultivates 
the American dress. 
Miss Boardman described the de- 
hghtful round of receptions and fes- 
tivities arranged in their honor. 
Visits to the government buildings, 
the churches, ete., were made. 
Manila was en fete for them. The 
procession of Filipino children 
caused intense American pride in 
the educational up-building of these 
people. There are 500,000 Filipino 
children being trained by 9,000 
teachers. 
The industrial work on the island 
was also exhibited in the procession 
as were their bands of music and 
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their primitive fire company. Amer- 
ican fire engines were shown in 
contrast, but the American hurry 
and bustle as depicted by this appar- 
atus seemed not to effect the natives 
who are in many respects rather 
stolid. 
The home life and customs of the 
people were seen at close range in 
the round of luncheons and teas at 
which many of the native fruits 
were served. Bananas grow wild on 
the island. 
America is teaching her foreign 
subjects on the island the dignity of 
labor through the medium of nor- 
mal and manual training schools. 
Even the woman’s club flourishes on 
the island and this organization also 
entertained the Americans. The 
farewell ball at the governor’s 
palace was a notable function also, 
when the Filipino dances were 
greatly enjoyed. 
Other portions of the island vis- 
ited were Luzon, the sugar country, 
the Morro’s territory, the hemp and 
lake regions, Samar, ete. In the 
round of these visits, the program 
included visits to the great cathe- 
drals, banquets, the Morro’s ex- 
change, the witnessing of naval bat- 
tles and native sports with shields 
and spears, the review of troops, 
musicales and balls, out door theatri- 
eals and visits to the voleanic terri- 
tory of the island. 
Miss Boardman interspersed her 
talk with intimate stories of the 
comaraderie that existed between 
the former Secretary of War, now 
Pres. Taft, and Mrs. Longworth, 
then Miss Roosevelt, the latter being 
quite the life of the party with her 
keen sense of humor and fun-loving 
disposition. 
Miss Boardman paid a high trib- 
ute to the U. S. government in its 
efforts to elevate her subjects in the 
Philippines. From her personal ob- 
servation, she told of the great work 
that was and is being done along the 
lines of sanitation, education, im- 
provements and justice. The na- 
tives of the island are learning what 
it is to be governed. They are pre- 
cocious and are benefiting from their 
great advantages; still they are so 
peculiarly constituted, a  psple 
speaking sixteen different dialects, 
that they must still be governed. 
The Filipinos should be kept out of 
politics following strongly Kipling’s 
verses about ‘‘trying to hustle the 
East.’’ . 
An informal reception for Miss 
Boardman followed her address. 
The large number of both perma- 
nent and summer residents present 
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