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My people come from the southern Philippines. We worship one God, and Mohammed is his prophet. We make converts by the sword of force, rather than by preaching," replied Moro, his eyes looking strange and brave. "Tell me more about your religion. I have heard it is peculiar," said Filippa. "When we pray, we face Mecca, instead of Jerusalem or Rome.
When the American Admiral Dewey won these islands from Spain, our name was not changed. "And our Christian names of Fil and Filippa have the same sound, and almost the same meaning, as Philippines," added Filippa, her eyes smiling from under her cloud of beautiful hair, hair longer and richer than an American girl's hair, and eyes darker and deeper than an American girl's eyes.
"It is a peculiar but lovely Philippines that you live in ; so different from our country, but perhaps even more charming," I added. "Please show us an umbrella shop," begged Filippa and Favra together; for they had been whispering about what they would like to see. "This way, then," said her father and the Padre.
"You see our umbrellas are made in pretty colors," explained Filippa, who certainly showed that she would become a good housekeeper. "Now, would you like to see a chair-shop, where they use no saw or plane or nails?" asked Fil. "It seems nonsense, because our chairs at home are sawn from oak logs; and they are so filled with tacks and nails that they tear my clothes," I replied.
"No, they are making game-fowl fight," Moro replied. "They wager money on which will be the winner and put the other to flight. The boys and men get very much excited." "Father and mother and Fil have spoken to the Padre, and the barrio-elders; and everything is arranged." "But what is a 'barrio'?" I inquired. "It means a village, a ward," replied Filippa.
There is something good in even the worst of us; and, perhaps, something bad in the best of us! "I can testify that you Filipinos surpass my people in one thing," I said. "Thank you. What is it?" asked Fil's mother and father together. "Respect for parents and poor relations," I answered. "Fil and Filippa kiss your hand and bow, morning and night.
The wife of Columbus, Dona Filippa, was without fortune, and Columbus, having none himself, felt he must work for the support of himself and his family. The future discoverer, therefore, set to work to make picture-books, terrestrial globes, maps, and nautical charts, and continued in this employment until 1481, but without at the same time abandoning his scientific and literary pursuits.
This Filippa, once a washerwoman, had in her youth been chosen for her splendid health to be the foster-mother of Giovanna's father.
Filippa looked upon me with very happy eyes, when I said this; for a girl seems to know wiser ways of settling quarrels than do boys. A boy becomes excited; a girl thinks longer and acts more slowly. Certainly, Filippa's gentle ways and the expression in her wonderfully deep eyes had more power with Fil and Moro than would strife and force.
"I see now why Filippa is promised a Pina gown for our coming feast, or fiesta day, that you kindly promise to give in my honor before I go away. It certainly is a cloth fit for a queen," I replied. "Oh! when will the feast day come?" Filippa eagerly inquired. "Soon," laughed her mother.
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