Unofficial letters of an official's wife [by] Edith Moses.

AN OFFICIAL'S WIFE

general that anything Samson would do to bring
about peace would be considered in the proceedings
against him.
April 20, I90oI.
TO-DAY is Sunday, and I am resting. We are
lying off Tacloban, and the Commissioners
have just gone on shore. No doubt, when they
come back, they will tell us it is the finest place they
have seen.
TACLOBAN, April 2I, 190I.
THIS morning the launch carried us all ashore.
We found it a charming place. The town was
decorated in palms and bunting, and with elaborate
arches. On the top of one arch a large eagle of
painted bamboo flapped its wings in a most lifelike manner when we passed under it. It is needless
to mention that several bands were in attendance.
In almost every street there were rows of banana
trees, brought in from the jungle and stuck in the
ground to decorate the town. There are charming
drives over coral roads, hard and smooth as macadam. The colonel has a very nice house, as neat
as wax, a garden, a lawn, and a summer house.
After luncheon we went back rather early to the
ship, for the wind was blowing and the waves were
high. The Commissioners went off toward evening on a gunboat with General Hughes to CatI37