Morning journal and courier., 1893-03-04


tertain one another. This may arise from
the fact that Spanish women are well bred
And well bred women set some store upon
their own dignity and the home.
There being neither stoves nor srepIsoss
In Cubs, the question of cooking-srss be-
comes an odd one. In the cities all cook
ing is done on charcoal urns, In the larger
establishments theee often being arrAnsed
In the form of massive charcoal ranges.
But In remote country places q little pa
gods-like corner Is built next the houaa
or q detached structure, not unlike AZ,
American farmers large smoke house. h
seen. Here the fire Is built souAreiy
upon the ground, or upon, or within,
rude stone bases, and the smoke ascends
at win, usually finding vent underneath
raised roofs.
In this primitive cocIna or kitchen the
gusrda candela Qiterally candle, or FIRE,
gusrd) Is always smouldering. It Is
practically the fireplace back log" of our
olden days to the Cuban country home.
IL IL should happen to 60 out. which Is
seldom permitted, as unhappy eupersti-
tions attach to the fact, on discovery II
Is instantly relighted from aint-and-steel
sparks struck into punches of oorn-tassels
or dry and splintered leaves of the palm.
At the old Cuban town or Guiues
which is scarcely more than a village.
the loiterer has much to study and en-.
JOY. 1t Ia more Moorish than Havana:
more Doric than any village of the Holy
Land; and as pretty as q rose-embowered
garden. No hamlet in Europe that
have ever seen furnishes such quaint old
corners, or, when the eye and mind tire of
these, gives in every direction across it's
marvellous valley such enchanting pros
pects- The untold riches of the sarth far
and near have set their opulent seal on ali
things' and one can easily imsgine that
the hsndsonsst women in the world are
here housed. So, too, in GuInes the spap-
ish icea OF the constant seclusion of wo-
men Is less rigorous. Balcony and portico
swarm with the beauties, fair as the tropic
flowers among which they smile. They are
even upon the streets in dainty squads.
Everywhere are song and music and dor-
ers, and women and indolerce
Seated underneath the cool porch arches
of old Possds de Roig, what medipyal
sights and groupings are beheld! There
against the portals Of San Julien de los
Guiaes church is a group of ls1.aroni
bsskipg In the sun as typical of all that
Is desperate and dolorous as Rome, Con-
stantinople or Morocco can show. Here.
beside you, are Gitani flthier and more
Lisbon, Madrid or VallsdolId At the
mouth of that narrow csIle are a dozen
whites snd blacks as innocent Of clothing
or shame as the Ksnsker girls of the Sol
omon Islands. All about In hslt-cauaht
threnodies are sounds of music from in
struments made and played precisely as
when the same notes resounded among the
arsbesques and fret-work of the Alhsm-
bran Court Of Lions half thousand years
ago. Water carriers pass with pun
checns on their heads Just as they did
In the days of Herod in Egypt. While
through the mediRval vision set actually
before your eyes of to day, coming to q
later time and form, which yet seem but
relics of dead centuries, are the ancient
velantes, dragged sleepily along; cabAller-
os and senoritss on horseback, as though
q page of Don Quixote were furnished:
and hslf-nsked gusiiros with ox-bosts,
primitive as the porterage Of the ancient
Goths and Huns.