Shops.
You can get most things you want in Manila. The drug-stores are mostly in German hands, but there is one English one where the usual English articles can be got.
There is an ample supply of wines, spirits, and preserved provisions at the grocers, and the drapers keep on hand any quantity of silks, muslins, and piece-goods, with all the necessary fixings. French and German shoes are in plenty.
The goods in the jewellers’ shops and in the fancy bazaars are all of a very florid style, to suit the gaudy taste of the wealthy Filipinos.
Such piece-goods and haberdashery as are in common use are brought round to the ladies at their own houses by Chinese hawkers, who, having small expenses, sell remarkably cheap.
They are always very civil and attentive, and will gladly get you any article that they have not in stock at the moment.
Ladies save going about in the heat and dust by purchasing from these men.