Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-09
WHERE ALL rs REST.
Among tina Wiassme YiI!sse5 sf Cen
trail Cubs-A Land Where
There Is EeVsr
sRy Labor that Tirss-wo men, Songs ar d
Indoleucs by Day and Sweet
Music By Night.

interested me Qeep!y. Iley Sre CT nttle
| Importance as we measure things. There
is nothing about them in architecture
or human activities 20 make them worthy
| of account. They are seldom populous
them, enterprise, rivalry, aspiration, are
unknown. But on this great earth are
not other spots SO full Of simplicity and
ef0rtless rest.
There are just enough people in them
10 make human presenca an 6grees0le
consciousness. There is never any labor
done in any way thtt tires. n body
hurries. There is 10 frGttipg or tu2ling
aoout anything. No one is supposed 10
De IL haste. Nor could .ny suca notion
ever come 10 surprise and annoy Inc
min0. Every animate or inanimAte o.
j ct seems at rest. II you desire 20 set
= Cuban village in an uprosr of in
dlgnsnt w0nderment, ycu have only
to hint OF doing, or Of desiring some
tning done quickly. Even the winds that
0loW move n soft and soothing breezss,
eloQ lent OF listless dreEmiulness. The
oirus sing in suOdued notes as If haif
asleep. Universal siesss rssys upon
everything. The very dir wings nsrcoti",
sEd pulses balm, to TIE sepse and soul.
Despite your own contempt for Cuban
ln6n!tion, sftel little, your best forts
are overcome; you yield 70 the iesenslble
sirens OF sceue and scent and sound; and
the enthral!ment possesses you wholly.
Not one OF the Cuban villages ever
know Of I'll American tourist. la that
fact lines ir 1pite charm; for where that
all discovering Individual has not been
are lsnd and people sll ones own for en-
joymeut ana study. l relished this re-
hection keenly as my companion, kindly
old don, aud myself rode slowly from the
winding mouptain cn'zads into this win
some little village Of San Francisco de
Paula, romantic in situation, aud priced
for beautiful women and good bread,
both worth travelling q distance in any
country to eIjoy.
Toe village nestles within narrow
gorge-'ne msin street being formed by
the calz1ds itseli-snd tnen trusntly
struggles on either side to cockpit on
the one height an to queer old church
on the other. But down below, along
the street and about the ways ana paths
between the houses, are bowers Of roses,
splashiEg fountains and pretty girls H.
Vulnerable. 1t seemed @ very hiding
place for these Cuban beauties, and as we
.urned our ponies over to stout negress
at the reNtful inn the landlord, the don
ard myself seemed the only male portion
of the population.
The ONLY MIN IN TOWN.
The don rema ked upon the fact, dryly,
indeed, 10 pleasant prophecy, IS our land
iorn in ormed Us tnat baths were ia wait
i.lI - haS nd
dusty ride upon the cAlzsda wAs taken in
Osrhs heIn out O: solid stone in the pre-
cipitouS rock behind the inn, snd water
from everything springs spl.shed and
shOwered upon rs.
Ssunteripg about the lovely plSce we
CLIMBED the mountain to inspect the old
clurch, which, in this peculiar atmos-
phere, seemed to US from the valley be-
low q tremendous structure looming
sgsinst the steel blue Sky, but which on
approaching dIinoled to d little old
pile eff century-esten stone, with no
windows, with but one door and
with chime of bells NO bigger
than the bells ef our American cows rat
tie half-mUM d II clover at the flies in the
L eadows. But the climbing showed us
where there We're more en;raucIng stud.
l. s tnan the quaintest Of old churches.
Every hume In this villase nest was
ike bit Of old Doric Salem set In
frame of houeysuckla, jismine sid rose;
and every pillsred pOrIIco, wide and big
as the house itself, WAS a scene for
an artist and student OF
simple toll snd glowing besuy.
Here. too. was delightful surprise
IN the pleasing discovery thaE the deli
cate beauty, the Cuban woman, could 90
something in the nature of work. These
we're the sweetest OF Cubsns and every
one WAS as lazily busy as pre- ty. And
What bright, engaging groupings they
we're as we passed, making our sdmita-
tion as plain Ia our eyes and loiterings as
they showed US in their own eyes and
bushes that they We're glad thst they
pleased.
Yyu must know we we're chivalrous
csbalIeros, the don and myself, and that
no good women are Indifferent to true in
terests and admiration in enY country
So 1t was with no ruGeness on our part nor
alarm on theirs that we soon found 8 |
group Of some tWen-y senoTitss and
nicss, pre- sided over by two or
three pleasant yet grave aud
serious senoras, picturesquelg be-
slowed upon great f1wery |
uncovered portico, singing dainty |
snatches of Spanish ballads, bsndyiDg |
back and forth harmless ST., and full ss
the vines, of blossoms or the alert ag-
gressions and REFUSES of budding womsu-
mood. San francisco de Paula's homes |
are all diminutive factories Of the cool, |
light hat known in cur country as the |
''pslm leaf" the same being 9 |
leading article Of export from
Yacatan to the States, though it IL |
sad the Americans are only sent |
the inferior grades; and here these fair
maids, il setting Of architecture, OF |
quaint environment, and blossoms pref
tler than ever given us on the operate |
stage, were making their dainty and deft |
fngers fly marvelously. The ninss, or
little girls, split the leaf OF the already |
palma gusna, or fan palm, with
knives, each little one true
and dexserous in her work snd rarely |
msking wrong stroke or destroying q
slender strand.
Buying HAT.
We set the enllre coterls In futter by
for the mskiog for each one