narrative of village life in China with many sidelights on the customs, supersti ions and folklore of the people, characterized by a sympathetic insight MISSIONARIES who were motoring recently through Tondo, a district of Manila, in which there are many. small Filipino and Chinese shops, surprised to sce the word "on several—signboards. One of the women of the party expressed astonishment that the Filipinos had adopted English pro-faulty to such an extent as to use it in their signs. It was then explained that "dam mit" meant clothing in the Tagalog dialect.
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