Wedding

Dance
Author:

Amador T. Daguio

was a Filipino writer and poet during pre-war Philippines. He published two books in his lifetime, and three more
posthumously. He was a Republic Cultural Heritage awardee for his works. Amador Daguio was born on January 8, 1912
in Laoag, Ilocos Norte.[1][2] His family moved to Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father was an officer in
the Philippine Constabulary.
He graduated with honors in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary School as valedictorian. Daguio was already
writing poems in elementary school, according to his own account. He wrote a farewell verse on a chalkboard at least once
for a departing teacher when he was in grade 6. For his high school studies, he moved to  Pasig to attend Rizal High School
while residing with his uncle at Fort William McKinley.
Daguio was too poor to afford his college tuition and did not enroll in the first semester of 1928. He also failed to
qualify for a scholarship. He worked as a houseboy, waiter, and caddy at Fort McKinley to earn his tuition and later enrolled
at the University of the Philippines on the second semester. He experienced financial difficulties in his studies until an uncle
from Honolulu, Hawaii funded his tuition on his third year of study. Before his uncle's arrival, Daguio has worked as
a printer's devil in his college as well as a writer for the Philippine Collegian.
 How My
Brother Leon
Brought
Wife Home
Author:
Manuel Estabilla Arguilla
was an Ilokano writer in English, patriot, and martyr.
He is known for his widely anthologized short story "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," the main story in
the collection How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife and Other Short Stories, which won first prize in the
Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940.
His stories "Midsummer" and "Heat" were published in Tondo, Manila by the Prairie Schooner.
Most of Arguilla's stories depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union, where he was born. His bond with his
birthplace, forged by his dealings with the peasant folk of Ilocos, remained strong even after he moved to Manila, where he
studied at the University of the Philippines, finished his BS in Education in 1933, and became a member and later the
president of the U.P. Writer's Club and editor of the university's Literary Apprentice.
He married Lydia Villanueva, another talented writer in English, and they lived in Ermita, Manila. Here, F. Sionil José,
another seminal Filipino writer in English, recalls often seeing him in the National Library, which was then in the basement
of what is now the National Museum. "You couldn't miss him", José describes Arguilla, "because he had this black patch on
his cheek, a birthmark or an overgrown mole. He was writing then those famous short stories and essays which I
admired."[1]