He took his family with him, and while he devoted his attention to organizing system out of the chaos that he found, Mrs. Taft’s sympathy was aroused at the appalling infant mortality in the Islands and she concluded to make that her own problem. She eventually persuaded the native women to accept medical attention and proper food for their babies. With Mr. Taft’s help, official organization of the work followed and the charitable association called the “Drop of Milk” was established, which distributed sterilized milk and thereby accomplished great improvement in the condition of the Filipino children. Mrs. Taft had her reward for this interest while on a visit to Manila some years after the expiration of her husband’s governorship. While he stood in the great hall greeting all of the governors of the provinces who had come to meet “Santa Taft,” scores of the native women were clamouring to see Mrs. Taft and to show her their children, whose lives her work had saved. Both Governor and Mrs. Taft spared no pains to win the confidence and the devotion of their people, and she taxed her resources and ingenuity to plan festivals and entertainments for the natives. The Venetian Carnival given at the Governor’s Palace in Manila, and the Annual Carnival of Flowers, so beautifully worked out, were the results of their joint interest, and they added to the esteem in which they were held when they both learned the famous Filipino dance, the rigadoon, not unlike the minuet, and introduced it at their entertainments. Some of the stories that found publication at election time and also during the inaugural festivities are worthy of repetition because of the qualities of the character of the new President that they reflect. A local paper contained the following: “In the peaceful and benevolent assimilation of the Philippines nothing has ever been so potent as the personality of Mr. Taft, the former Governor General. Taft was just the sort of man the Filipinos needed to reconcile them to American rule. His big human qualities, his strength, and even his corpulency, endeared him to the natives. “The simple-hearted children of the Orient had been chilled by the dignity of the Spanish officials. But Taft, with his loud hearty laughter, his cordial handshake, his beaming face, travelled about the islands creating good-will wherever he went.