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Identifier: philippinelifein00lero (find matches)
Title: Philippine life in town and country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: LeRoy, James A. (James Alfred), 1875-1909
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Publisher: New York : Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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rafts, thatcarpentry and its kindred trades may be said tohave been much developed in the Philippines.1Where the bamboo house is the rule for themasses, every man is more or less his own car-penter, and the business of building stone andwood houses has been largely left, especially inthe towns of size, to Chinese carpenters and 1 Sculpture and painting fall rather with the industriesthan with the fine arts in the Philippines; for, as inmusic, there is as yet only imitation of European pat-terns. Still, it is at least significant that even the rudehouse painter seeks to cover your walls with decorationsof a pretentious, and, as he thinks, most pleasing sort,and that almost untutored workmen will carve from apattern wood ornaments befitting a church, or chisel amortuary tablet in stone that is more than passable.The more pretentious efforts in recent years of Filipinoshaving some education in art merit no little attention,particularly the paintings of Juan I,una and ResurreccionHidalgo.
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3 t < o Typical Filipino Community 85 masons. Shipbuilding, to which the Spaniardsgave a great stimulus in the early years followingtheir conquest, when they used the Philippinesas a fitting-out place for efforts against the Dutchin the Spice Islands, is an industry well worthythe attention of the observer, who may find inthe results achieved by following very crude andold-fashioned methods, except in one or two largershipyards, the promise of notable achievement.The lumber industry, it is to be remembered,despite all the riches of the great virgin forests,is but in its infancy, and Manila is to-day sopoorly supplied with native lumber that for anypublic works demanding haste there is a callupon the ports of our own Pacific North-west. The local blacksmith and bolo-maker, as hegenerally is (for the bolo is the chief workingimplement of the Filipino in the thicket or thefield or about the house, as well as being, inanother form, his principal weapon), is but acrude worker in soft im

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