Arizona silver belt., 1888-05-19
SIGHTS SEEN IN CUBA.
Notes of an Observer Who Accompanied
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 the Senatorial Party.
 Upon the second day of our stay in Havana the senators were invited to the homo of the captain general, tho invita- ton being sent through the American consul, Gen. Williams. In accordance with the invitation, tho party of ''dis- tigridos viajeros Americanos took car riages about midday for the home of the great dignitary in the suburbs.
 We made a funny string of dilapidated victorias, multitudinouay patched and mended. and measly little horses, which, in paarancc, beat the mule i'll sorrow full abstraction and utter hopelessness. We went in a hclter skelter way up the Prado, past the Camro Marte, and out the Paseo Tacon to the noted gardens and country house of the Spanish ruler.
 In the tropical gardens are worlds of fruits and vegetables, many of which we never sec in the north. Why, to see them once leaves your mouth a little like that of hungry dog eycihg forbidden bone In the same gardens there may be cocoanuts, dates, lemons, oranges, Times, sappadillOs. zapotas, manlmees, pomegranates, bread fruit, bananas, tam arinds, pine apples, mangoes, alligator pears, star apples, grape fruit, guava, custard apples, yams, rose apples, citrons, and 50 on ir an endless list, ..
 Tho worknien were negroes and few coolies, slaves Or ex-slaees, and some were nearly naked and all naked to tho waist. In the workshops again ob- served a curious thing, and that is the tendency to mako all motions away from the body. They sharpen pencils, whittle, hew and saw never inward CT toward the body. It looks odd to sec them saw with tho stick fixed in position and the saw held perpendicular in front of it with its back to the body, and thus raised up and down. Vixen a person wishes to beckon another. he holds up his hand with palm outward, gives a sharp ''p-s-s-t, which is the universal haiIing signal in Cuba, and then waves his hand outwardly in exactly the opposite motion to what we would make.
 While we gathered at the stables the captain generals daughter had her spleE- did saddle horse, of puro Andalusian llood and brought over from her home, brought out and shown off for Us, while a groom clung to him desperately to keep him down out of the clouds.
 Finally we returned to the house and proceeded informally to the dining room, where all were seated around single long table except the captain general himself, who remained standing behind his daughters chair during the meal. Our party was good deal embarrassed by this, for, as we just filled the chains, it looked as though we had crowded out our exalted host.
 We then concluded that it was through point of etiquette or ceremony that he did not sit at table with us. So anxious were WIG that one of our ladies asked his daughter, and she explained that at such affairs her father rarely seated himself. He liked to stand and overlook tho table, and sec that the servants neglected no one. He never ate at such entertain ments, a3 he has Q weak stomach for in duIgences, and takes only very plain and simple food regularly.
 The servants were in gorgeous livery; the wino was superb, so that some of tkc connoisseurs of OUT party felt their eyes sparkle and the refreshments simple in character and plentiful.
 When 1t came to the champagne the captain general mado Q speech, which WAS translated by the consul general, and AIG. Sherman responded, the consul gen cr2l again tTanslating, and ell drank standing. Tho speeches were the usual conventional exchanges of compliments and good wishes, but the consul general told us afterward that tho captain general spoke with moro warmth and evident sincerity than was usual with him on such occasions.
 Before we left an invitation was gwen to come again in the evening, when there would be music and dancing. 4 large number of our party accepted, and our young ladies were much admired, and made a great impression. The Spaniards were greatly pleased at the ladies coming and dancing. and our young man showed SoIIe of the senoritas a thing or two in wal.zilG.
 The more we saw of Cuban women the more unqualifedly we acknowledged their wonderful beauty. We hardly saw al IIOIlGly Nt1lll III IldNdUtt, t4Iltl we SiLW some beautiful beyond description. There is a sameness about the beauty that might in the collective grow little monotonous, but an individual instance is incomparablc.
 Even if the face is not otherwise fine the lustrous eyes can light up and glorify it, and the eyes of the Cuban women are like stars of the summer night, and the velvety black masses of hair bound about their heads and thrust through with a gold bodkin, after custom immemorial in old Spain. truly woman's crown of glory. Thc sensuous perfection of their forms in soft and graceful outlines, the witchery of the dark eyes and alluring lips full and rich, the sly grace of the fan or cigarette, the dainty, arched feet, with geld embroidered black stockings, and that most beautiful of all ornaments for the head, tho mantilla, have often been celebrated in song and story and poetry, but they never received any more praise or admiration than they deserved Cuba Cor. Cincinnati Commercial Ga Zette.
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