The Washington times., 1901-12-02
A MERRY CARNIVAL
OF RATS AND ANTS.
GIRLS EXPERIENCE IN NEGROS.
VIII BE GInd to Leave the Philip
pines-ROdents shared Her
Couch and Destroyed what
Finery Insects Missed.

| NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dec. IA Smith
College graduate of last iune. Miss Bel
sta NJ. Hull, of this city. has just writ
ten another letter from the Philippines,
| where she and other graduates CT Smith
| College, the Harvard annex, and similar
institutions are teaching under Govern
ment supervision, and her more recent ex-
| periences are more thrilling than those
recorded in her first letter.
The letter is dated Vallaloid Occidental
Negros. P. l.. October u. 1901. She says
that from her experience there is not a
United States greenback in that island.
"One thing she continues. that 1 shall
be glad to escape from, besides the bad
smells and bad morals of these islands,
viii be the dirty money The change
for good so bill weighs as much as a
locomotive. If l had fully realized the
disadvantages in these islands before
leaving home. | believe l should have
hesitated about accepting this position. -
Bound to stick 1t Out.
This Smith College girl, nevertheless,
says she will stay it out until her two
years have expired. She tells about her
she now lives. This is what she says:
ut is simply running over with rats
stood it until felt them tugging at the
straps of my army cot, when l concluded
that it was time for me to move out
unless l wanted to find myself in some
rat hole in the morning. / took up my
bed. so to speak, and walked. After To-
eating myself in the main room. | again
attempted to gain a little needed sleep,
when to my horror the ants ran up the
legs of my cot and then crawled all over
me and bit.
But that is. not a circumstance to
having a rat run over your body. | woke
up last night in the midst of a fearful
noise. 1 thought insurrectos were trying
to break in TO murder us. but found that
it was only the rats holding high carnival
and the cat adding to the tumult by
growing and throwing herself against
a closed door.
And then I felt n rat running right up
my body outside the blanket from my feet
toward my head. That was more than
could put up with patiently. for, like
the major in the Pied Piper of Hamlin,
anything like the sound of a rat makes
my heart 60 pit-a-pat. So this morning
/ bought a box of rat poison (price so
centsl, and If there is not another smell
added TO the natural ones of this country
it will be because rats go way off and
DIE.
When l went into my room to dress
this morning l found my tooth mug and
brush on the floor, the cake of soap chew
ed up, a candle three-quarters eaten.
while the calendar pad on my Cornellian
calendar was pulled right off in order
that the rats might get at the paste.
,,,.I
But that was not the worst. At least
half the roses on my commencement hat
were eaten OFF and the hat otherwise
ruined. What do you think of that for
pests? And if I should stop to tell you
OF the lizards that crawl all over the
walls and the coclToaches that get into
the trunks and chew up the clothes and
Of all the black. red and dappie grey ants
that get into everything you would be
glad that you are a resident of a temper
ate zone.
Besides all this, 1 have recently dis
covered nice. large white worms with
brown heads in the biscuits that our
trusty cook buys from the Cinnamon. but
/ am becoming so accustomed 10 filth and
pests that I merely put aside the part
containing the worm and go on with my
eating without remark