Excerpt from An Army Woman in the Philippines: Extracts From Letters of an Army Officer's Wife, Describing Her Personal Experiences in the Philippine Islands<br><br>Our trunks have gone, and the Colonel is down at the boat on duty, while I am sitting, like Marius amid the ruins, surrounded by Japanese baskets and satchels. Nothing else is left in our rooms. We are engaged in laying a substantial pavement of goodly intentions; not to worry, to enjoy everything except leprosy or small pox, and to get the most out of our trip and our station in the Philippines.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.