An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . battle at Jaro, I went out to live for awhilein the quarters of Captain Walter H. Gordon, L,ieuten-ant J. Barnes, and Lieutenant A. I^. Conger, i8th U. I soon realized that the war was still on, for everyday and night, the rattle of musketry told that some-where there was trouble. One day I went out to see the fortifications desertedby the Filipinos. They were curious indeed; built asan officer suggested, to be run away from, not to bedefended. One for
An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . battle at Jaro, I went out to live for awhilein the quarters of Captain Walter H. Gordon, L,ieuten-ant J. Barnes, and Lieutenant A. I^. Conger, i8th U. I soon realized that the war was still on, for everyday and night, the rattle of musketry told that some-where there was trouble. One day I went out to see the fortifications desertedby the Filipinos. They were curious indeed; built asan officer suggested, to be run away from, not to bedefended. One fortification was ingeniously made ofsacks of sugar. Everywhere was devastation and wasteand burned buildings. The natives had fled to distanttowns or mountains. All this sounds bad and looked worse, and yet it takesbut a little while to restore all. The houses are quicklyrebuilt; a bamboo roof is made, it is lifted to the desiredheight on poles set in or upon the ground. The walls areweavings of bamboo or are plaited nepa. The nepais a variety of bamboo grown near shallow sea one of these rude dwellings is completed, it is. ILOILO AND JARO 59 ready for an ordinary family. They do not use a singlearticle that we consider essential to housekeeping. Someof the better class have a kind of stove; its top is coveredwith a layer of sand or small pebbles, four or five inchesthick ; on this stand bricks or small tripods to hold thelittle pots used in cooking. Under each pot is a tinyfire. The skillful cook plays upon his several fires as amusician upon his keys, adding a morsel of fuel to one,drawing a coal from another ; stirring all the concoctionswith the same spoon. The baking differs only in therebeing an upper story of coals on the lid. ^ It has been said that fools rush in where angels fearto tread. Two or three of us American women, eagerto learn all we could, because we were daily told that thewar was over and we should soon be going home, wererashly venturesome. But w
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