Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-04


great distinction. This, however, wholly
In the ethical sense. It innowise bet,crs
the quality Of your food; ministers TO
your bodily needs. OF clears the filth,
feas and cobwebs from your dim old
alcobas. An out oi-the.way inn In Cuba
Is shelter much inferior to night in
the open air. Mine host will dance all
around you with ineflable welcomes. lie
will call upon all the saints to guard you.
lie will protest cndlessly, MY house Is
thinel" Then he will go to sleep. lie
awakens Just before you depart and
showers blessings and bills upon you. II
in the meantime you have got anything
but quaint and laughable studies you are
in truth born diplomatic.
The country roads OF Cuba crook and
turn to avoid obstacles, Just rs the Cuban
will do six days laborto avoid one. Be
ware the panianosn is the warning
heard from every tongue throughout the
day. These 'pantanos" are sinks IN the
clay soil where ones animal plungcs
from perfectly solid footing fairly out OF
sight. The "pantanos" are bad enough,
but the descchos literally, fciusals;
avoidnnccs;l are worse. These are ways
cut around impossible places involving
serious riding through boys and jungles,
and not inirequeht goings astray in the
dense forests.
The fences ofihese remarkable roads
are curious affairs. Frequently they are
OF the Spanish hayonct, and the hemi-
quen with a broad leaf and barbcd point
six inches long, strong enough TO impale
your horse. Again strips OF stone fence
will be seen. Others are oil pima de
ration, or bastard pineapple tree. Bot
the larger number ATE OF phones botila.
Green limbs are cut from this, aud when
thrust in the ground grow Instantly and
luNuriously. Between tho branches the
vcjuco de angarilla, a hardy vine, T.
planted. This weaves itself through and
through the hedge In all manner Of Ian.
iastic and tightening freaks; and as II
heares lovely purple blossom, this
fence IS always stfikingly beautiful to
the eye.
One class you will miss in Cuba--not
only In shops, but everywhere else-is
the women workers. The most sensible
be found occupying places OF trust IN
American mercantile establishments and
Offices. In all Havana but one place Is
noticed where white women are en-.
ployed. This Is a modiste's on Gale de
Obispo. and these are a scraggy lot in'
deed. Women In Cuba are ladies', wash.
erwomen, or demimonde. Shopping Is
done by the fair senofas or senOrtas In
the afternoon, and one will then certainly
see beautiful women. They are neither
iippant nor triiling in their purchases as
in some countries. No salesman would
dare gossip with them, suggest for them
or chatiingly enter upon discussion oi
their affairs Nor do they inform shop.
keepers of their own or their ncighbors'
intentions. They seem to know just
what they want aud go straightway and
get II. The tufnouis are very gay;
thousands OF women meet, mingle and
pass greetings; but there seems to be u
general understanding that a shop is not
lust IN. place in which Ladies should en-
terrain 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 noriireplaces
In Cuba, the question of cookingiires
becomes an odd one. In the cities all
cooking is done on charcoal urns, in the
larger establishments these often being
arranged in the form OF massive char
coal ranges But in remote country pla'
ces little pagoda like corner is built
next the house, or q detached structure,
not unlike an American farmers large
smoke-house, Is seen. Here the fire is
built squarey upon the ground, or upon,
or within, rude stone bases, and the
smoke ascends at will, usually finding
vent underneath raised roofs.
In this primitive cocina or kitchen, the
guarda Candida literally candle, or FIRE,
guard) is always smouldering. II Is
practically the fireplace backlog" OF
our olden days to the Cuban country.
home. II II should happen to 20 out,
which Is seldom permitted as unhappy
superstitions attach to the fact, on dis
covery it is instantly relighted from flint
and steel sparks struck into buncher Of
corn-tassels or dry and splintered leaves
Of the palm.
At the old Cuban town Of Guines,
which Is scarcely more than village,
the loiterer has much to study and enjoy,
1t is more Moorish than Havana; more
Doric than any village OF the Holy
Land; and as pretty as rose.embow'
cred garden. No hamlet in Europe that
have ever seen furnished such quaint
old corners. or, when the eye and mind
tire OF these, given in every direction
across its marvellous valley such enchant
ing prospects. The untold riches OF the
earth far and near have set their opuleni
seal on all things; and one can easily i'm
agine that the handsomest women Ia the
world are here housed. So, too, In
Guines the Spanish idea Of the constant
seclusion of women 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. Every
where are song and music and flowers
and women and Incidence.
Seated underneath the cool porch
arches of old Posada de Rulg, what
medieval sights and groupings arr be
heidi There against the portals of san
Julien dc los Guines churches IS a group
OF lazzaroni baking in the sun as typical
Of all that Is desperate and dplurou, as
Rome, Conslantnuple or Morocco car
show. Here, beside you, are GiIan
tilthier and more persistent than ply
their black ants In Lisbon, Madrid ui
Nalladolid. At the mouth Of that mar
row Gale are dozen whites and black,
as innocent of clothing or shame as ID,
Kauaker girls OF the Solomon Islands
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