Porto Rico is an ideal lazy man's country, and the overworked American will, undoubtedly, come to make it more and more his Mecca for rest and recuperation. Even the interior feels the soft, salt air from the ocean. The people are kind-hearted, "easy-going," hospitable, and fond of amusement. Every environment conduces to the dismission of all worriment, to rest, sleep, and a happy-go-lucky state of mind.
OUR NEW POSSESSIONS (CONTINUED).
THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.
"Most bounteous here in her sea-girt lands,
Nature stretches forth her hands,
And walks on gold and silver, and knows her power increased,
Nor fears the tyrant longer—'Our Lady of the East.'"—Stoddard.
The most important, and by far the most interesting, as well as the least known of America's new possessions, gained by her war with Spain, are the Philippine Islands. Comparatively few Americans have ever set foot upon that far-away and semi-civilized land, the possession of which enables America to say with England, "The sun never sets upon our flag."
FILIPINOS OF THE SAVAGE TRIBES.