Palgrave says of them: "Nowhere are family bonds closer drawn, family affections more enduring, than amongst the Malay races.... His family is a pleasing sight, much subordination and little restraint, unison in gradation, liberty not license. Orderly children, respected parents, women subject, but not suppressed, men ruling, but not despotic, reverence with kindness, obedience in affection, these form a lovable picture, nor by any means a rare one in the villages of the Eastern Isles." It may here be interesting to note the very contradictory opinions that have been expressed upon this subject. John Foreman. W. G. Palgrave. 'The Philippine Islands,' 'Malay Life in the Philippines,' p. 194. p. 146. "Home discipline and training "Children early trained by of manners are quite ignored, precept and example to good even in the well-to-do families. manners, show less disposition Children are left without to noise and mischief than is control, and allowed to do just ordinary elsewhere at their as they please, hence they age." become ill-behaved and boorish." As will be seen in my text, my own experience rather confirms Palgrave's opinion, and I should say that even the children of the peasantry would compare favourably both in manners and intelligence with the children at the Board Schools in London, and to say nothing of Glasgow or Liverpool. Amongst the Tagals, it is customary when speaking of or to a man to use the prefix Si--thus Si José, Mr. Joseph--whilst a woman is spoken of or to as Aling Maria, Miss Mary. The word Po is used for Sir. Thus: Óo-po--Yes, sir; Hindí-po--No, sir; Uala-po--There is none, sir; Mayroóm-po--There is some, sir. Cleanliness. The sense of personal dignity and self-respect, the dominant feeling in the Malay nature, is shown in the Tagals by a general cleanliness in their persons and clothing. They usually live near water, and nearly all of them can swim. The heat of the climate makes bathing a pleasure, and as the temperature of the sea or river is commonly 83°F., a prolonged immersion causes no inconvenience. On the morning of a feast-day the number of bathers is increased, and at the time of high tide, a very large proportion of the population seems to be in the water, both sexes and all ages mixing indiscriminately, the adults decently covered and all behaving themselves as decorously as the bathers at Brighton, Newport, or Atlantic City. They have not yet arrived at that precise stage of civilisation that develops the Rough, the Larrikin, or the Hooligan. Palgrave says: A Malay may be a profligate, a gambler, a thief, a robber, or a murderer, he is never a cad.