The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-21
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Havana Lister I'm the Denver Republican.
Life I'm this island. whether In January
~ July. In an unending strung tn MAIN
tain an agreeable temperuture. The
Cubansa achieve this important object ny
never exposing themselves IN the sun, ait
ting indoors or i'm shaded piazzas, riding
I'm covered victorias, providing themselves
with large parasols, placing awnings ovcr
the sidewalks and even stretching canvas
across the narrow streets. Curiously
enough shade produces GOODNESS, as Cuba
enjoys constant winds, blowing softly hut
steadily by which the people are famed
and cooled. Ia direct conflict with the
sums rays, these brcezcs amount tn moth
ing; il In the shade which makes them so
shine in Havana is like going from
"a New York sidewalk into a eel
lar. Nobody walks i'm the daytime.
Rickcty, tumble-down victorias ARE, sd nu-
merous that there always seems tn he N
vehicle i'm front of every fourth or fifth
house. The housekeeping drivers must he
aroused with blows and endcaring cpl
thets when one desires to use N victoria
for shopping. sightseeing, making calls,
ar even going from "a hotel tn IA cafe only
two blocks distant.
During my years residence i'm Cuba i
nave been astonished at the number and
variety of cooling drinks I'm ordinary use.
On entering u cafe ~ Cuban will
~ order u glass of cocoanut milk. ar O
glass of cocoa and gin or tarnarind water;
ar pcnales and water, which Is merely the
white of an Egg and sugar made into "a
cake of frothy li1htness and dissolved in
glass of water. The number of drinks
made from water having the sting taken
out OF il with wine, alcohol, fruit or sugar,
Is surprisingly great, and the amount of
good they do In cooling humanity is inn
Did Sol prcscribcs the style of architec-
tnre as well as the mode of life tn such an
extent that were the Cubans not Chris
tians, they would doubtless he sun wor-
shippers. Cupid, too, has "a hand i'm this
Cubssn town resolves itself into a beauty
show. Az soon as the SUMS rays slant
enough to throw the streets into shade,
the girls, wearing their lightest costumes,
lounge i'm picturesque attitudes i'm the
, T,na asi%ir TO en'o %S s .he p s.ss.sr sssne Th "me
windows are cupid's own. They are as
large as stable doors while the cool mar
wide AS ordinary sofas and n foot or two
above the Here the large
length. resting their bodies on the window
frames, displaying their high art shoulders
and perhaps an inch or two
fest an entire surrender tn dreamy
Incidence and chronic anguor killing
time with an ease AND grace that deiiss
though SO near the bellies are yet distant,
for they are Gagged. Whether with or with
possibly Ornamental bars, which give their
seats "A prison-like aspect. Every after
noon witnesses an ama,ory campaign that
which the slaves of beauty walk up and
down the opposite side of the streets, like
ton and possible smiles of the fair ones,
and the smittcn swain seeks an occasion
TO look his desire that his ensiaysr grant
ner of u smile, after repeated success i'm
the preliminary skirmish, will suddenly
approach and dart to one side, and
fiattcning himself up against the WALL,
will edge up close to the cornor OF
the window bar where senorita is sitting.
Nor il he e~mpty-handed, but presses
through the bars a box of onbon into
the dimpled hand stretched out to receive
whispers i'm her ear a sentence or two,
which causes her to smile and nod her
head, while she replies to II question adj
dressed to her hy some member OF tho
family. He will continue Whispering to
her for some time, while she joins i'm the
of pretended interest that am actress
might envy. One never sees n woman
reading i'm Cuba, and for that matter no
amusement. Every club has it's library,
but the collection of books is slender and
i snski x%"" TSe "s wo% %"sss a %"r s sI" sa%e.
or chat among themselves and
often they are content to Toll laxily, as
they fan themselves with that graceful
mastery of their huge fans pecui'ar to
Nh - 9IlAH ~ -,
only women to be seen in Cuba who pos
scss energy, arr, the ballet-tlancers i'm the
thcaters. But inactive as they are, their
listlessness does not exceed that of the
men, as no one allows himself to- he dis
turbed with work. by 3 o'clock i'm the
evening the main streets of "A Cuban town
hum with activity. On the clear and cool
evening air the aides come out in full
force, accompanied by their husbands,
mothers or on their way to the
thcater. or to- sit i'm one of the parks and
listen to the music of the military hand.
Here the bcauN and bellies meet again,
and exchange shots with the missiles
of the eye. Al the band concerts
the SWANS edo not bear as assid-
uoisly as in the afternoon, while the senior
ita never fails to look c~harInin0ly uncoi
scio,s that a young man has aiken seat
exactly opposite, although the swain staxes
at her intcntly as il he feared that she
would suddenly vanish and he was r-
solved not to lose the last sight OF her. Al
length the concert concludes, and the
| grand rush of adics and gentlemen Ia
their carriages begins, during which the
timid maiden may perhaps drop her hand
by her side to have IL pressed just u little
by somebody. or tn have a note left in II
b. the bold wooer, who squeczes through
the crowd tn do So. The thin and withcrssd
men with dark skins and hair almost in
variably black. who have dyed their sys-
TENS with incessant coffee drinking, and
tanned themselves with sunshine and to-