Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-16


story houses in Gonaves, nearly all built u
wood or brick. Almost without exception,
they have wide galleries running around the
house are always tastefuly, sometimes-to
nv eyes-rather Enthusiastically, but never gau-
Oily, painted-every thing about them, both
as regards style of architecture and decoration,
and internal arrangement, beraying the evil
dences of the ancient French civilization and
domination. The lower story of these houses !
is the store. They are wide and lofty, and
clearly kept, generally paved with brick or
flags The dry goods stores-l am now writ
ing of the wholesale stores only-display their
merchandise on low stands, usually not more
than foot from the floor, and in the centre OF
! the room, or on boards extending from the
boxes they came in. In the provision stores
YOU see piles OF soap boxes and other merchan-
! disc The offices in the stores are not like
| ours at home-little rooms partltoned ot-Dut
| high ratings painted green, which serve both
| to make a separation and permit ventilation.
On the second story are the parlors, dining
rooms and larger bedrooms, the servants
rooms being generally in a separate building
in the yard which is surrounded by high walls
or a high fence The residences have seen,
of this class, give evidences OF good taste and
moderate wealth, having handsome furniture,
fine pictures, and being papered, and kept with
commepdable taste. Carpets there are none;
probably there are not a hundred yards OF car
peting in Hayti. There is an insect here
which destroys them in a short time, IN addi-
ton to the great pest # our housewives at
home-the moth-which is very destructive in
the tropics. Books and clothing suffer greatly
from the ravages of this insect.
| have often heard housewives in New Eng
land say that house is not furnished without
carpets. 1t is maxims like these that bring on
"panics." just imagine what difference it
would make in the household account If car
pets and similar nuisances-crinollne and the
ever-changing and expensive fashions were
abolished, and women were to dress plainly
and with some little regard to the divinely-
fashioned forms of their body Here the
women of all classes wear very little clothing,
| not more than three remoyes-Surely that's
delicate enough ?-and yet these dresses look
at least as modest and pretty, as far as their
features and color permit Caucasian to think
anything about them good looklng-as the
costly robes of the peacock-sklrted bellies OF
Beacon street or Broadway. L know 1t Is
very heterodox opinion-every months fash
! ions scout it-but still think that God has
more taste than the French milliners, and
the more l see of the female form divine
honi soft que NAL q pense-the more am con-
firmed in my belief.
A house without carpet looks, in my eyes,
much better than with one. 1t Is housellke
= and cheerful and clean And then it gives one
- no duAlSll--ll uOCS uOI lSHuliC OiAS D SOAo1oHH
care nor the frequent exclusion of Gods holy
sunshine "for fear of taking out the eolors."
And then again, it does not require little host
of satellites to keep it in order; and which, III
their turn, make household slave OF every
t other New England wife. But to return-as
this is no place for an essay on the prevailing
G sin of New England women, which,.as re-
:, preventative term, might be termed carpet
oatory.
A. 7 +l,o 10 e hull int pc
J. is Frenchy all sorts of quaint ROOFS and win
dows in the roofs, and old fashioned gables are
l seen in every part Of the town.
THE RETAIL STORES
The one-story stores-the retail stores, are
= kept exclusively by women, chiefly mulattoes
and exist in great numbers III every part OF
the town. The wholesale merchants are
!. whites or muatto men, Those around the
!, marketplace-a large open square-and near
:. it, are the largest establishments OF the kind.
The dry goods folks display their calicoes and
prints ON boxes and boards, and also perpendicu-
" larly, each peice, upright on shelves. On
( market day they also appropriate the covered
pavement in front of their store.
- The lesser stores have wonderfully little III
4 them and are very small, generally six feet
~ deep, partitioned off of house with front o
~ twelve feet. Bread, fruits, Goldfish, pork, to
al bacco spirits and soap are the principal artl
" too much crowded with fifnitu fe Yet ON ON
81 often finds suite of rooms almost luxurously
w furnished and paved with marble slabs, il
houses whose outside view would induce on
Is to imagine them the abode of poverty. Mar
of bic paved rooms are quite common in the cit
of les Of Hayti.
he NO CHURCH.
+ The public buildings are hardly worth no
is ticing, excepting the Catholic Church, which il
g hitting monument to his late stupid Majesty
it Faustin the First, "by the grace of God and O
w the constitutional law, Emperor of Hayti." |
e, is large, wide, lofty building, slated witt
" English states. is partly built of wood, part
D. ly OF brick, and has verandah all around it
tie or rather covered walk. When they buid
v Drlck house IN Hayti they are obliged to cree
g. a framework first which runs through every
part Of the wall and binds the brick-work firm
ly together This is to give security agains
e. earthquakes, which, if this precaution were no
lie taken, would toss down brick block as easily
d. as Frenchman shrugs his shoulders. Thu
he tavorlte to whom Faustin gave the job Of erect
ing this church knew so little about architect
at ural science that he could not build it plumb
e so that after the roof was on the walls gave
,e decided indications of falling.
o. So he was forced to put huge props Of tim
m Der on both sides, to keep them from tumbling
lie But the masonic appendices were not ye
n complete. When they fired the cannon in the
ID is one block above the market square,) the
a bricks III the front part gave notice OF thei
of intention to retire from the church Pecheu
v miserable! THAT means unlucky darkey,) he
ID was forced to take the bricks down to clap
board up the frame. AS it now stands, it ha.
the appearance of huge barn, with the enc
Id wall half sliced off, A little onesided cupoa
Il out OF all proportion with the edifice, complete.
Or the comlcallty OF this extraordinary work.
a Inside If has nOthinu IN radaan, fTbe
S. floor is dirty, for it is mpayed, and the earth
e. is uneven. The altar is rallied off, and inside
d. OF 1t the ground is paved with large square
2, stones, such as they have on some OF the
Is wharves of Boston. r-.,t
e. The life-size images-there are four or five
of OF them-are very rude devices, and poorly
t. dressed. The Virgin Mary, however, accom-
r. modatng herself to the recent interesting con
dition OF the Empress Eugene, wears a white
hooped skirt the only one, as far as / have
lie seen, in the Haytien Republic Although
1t therefore, the momentous question PROFOUND
10 ed by the little girl when she saw Uncle Ton
at the National Observation-Disclosures that black
man would be allowed to 20 to Heaven with
$ red flannel shirt on!' may be considered al
Al still open for debating societies. it is satistac
tory to know that the Queen OF Heaven is q
,s patron OF the present eXpansive-not to say
Is expensiye-fashon. (Wonder who widened
: the straight and narrow gate to let the lade:
,s in?
The altar-decorations. pictures, and Other
church-rigging are in keeping with the build
+ ing There are no seats in the body of the
N church, but numbers Of cane-bottomed rush
;. bottomed, and wood-bottomed chairs, (many OF
tI,.s, t,,.,s H.. l.. In.