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...Your remark [TIME, Sept. 6, p. 6]. "fat and lean Filipino females . . . ambling about naked" is not only bad diction but creates an entirely erroneous mental impression. Filipino is the masculine gender and the word applied to "females" should be 'Filipina"-further there are no adult Filipinas who amble about naked, particularly in the coastal towns, and my experience with these natives since 1900 is that even the so-called wild or "head hunter" tribes of the interior are quite modest...
...slight diversion it might interest your readers to know that bathing in the Philippines is conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers...
News dispatches from New York announce the opening of the national headquarters of the "American Association for Adult Education" after two years of preparatory work by the Carnegie Foundation. The association has a twofold significance...
...second place this association, which specifically includes individual students as well as institutions, begin its active career at the same time the National Student Federation of America is in the act of transforming its paper existence into a formal organization. The adult student federation "has been formed to serve as a clearing house and guiding force for adult educational activities... it will arrange educational meetings and issue publications...it has already established active relations with similar bodies in Europe." These aims are strikingly parallel to those of the U. S. F. A., and as such they are to be commended...
...express to you my great appreciation for your courtesy in showing me the remains of the mastodon which you are recovering from the old swamp near Johnstown. The specimen is an unusually perfect and complete skeleton of this interesting, extinct form of life. The individual was an adult in the prime of life, full grown, but not aged and decrepit. Presumably it was bogged down in the swamp and died there...