The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1897-03-20

ISLAND or JAIIAICA.
THE CoLORgoP-oPLg GREATLY OUT
KUEGCa TIE WHITES.

Tho Latter Are Bc;ng EapiaIy Crowded
Out Tropical Fruits ard Vegetables.
Character In n Barber Shop Signs of
Progress From the United States.
/ found myself in a great, shadowy,
roomy hotel, with hard wood floors and
f,rlones Ct yeranda, giving OH "a garden
which bad run somewhat to seed, hut
contained several palm trees and an as-
sortment Of lizards, green and brown,
i'll agreeable confirmation of the propin-
guilty Of the equator. Roundabout this
hotel and its environment wo wandered
till lunch was ready. There were
oranges. bananas and several other fruits
which l do not specify only because |
am still unable to rocollect their names
AS to their flavor, I can only say that /
do not care much for it rs yet. There
was one that tasted like butter and an
other that had the consistency Of cream
cheese and the taste of strawberry jam.
On the whole, the flavor of these
southern products strikes the northern
visitor as insipid and too sweet and
makes understand why Englishmen
always banker after e~urries.and the like
sharp condiments in the tropics. but no
doubt we are sophisticated and wrong
and ought to like what seems to us in
sipidity. Meanwhile the oranges, ba-
nanas and pineapples are all much bet
ter here than they ever are after endur,
ing export.
AS for the breadfruit md yams. of
which we also had specimens, they are
q mixture Of the potato and the sweet
potato and are less captivating, thar
either. They have almost no taste at
all, and / should suppose that one finally
would come TO regard them In much the
same light as bread, something usefully
filling, but without character enough to
inspire either loathing or devotion.
With the aid Of sauces and g~ravies. how
ever. they go down very well.
The bill of fare included, likewise,
fish which was good and meat which
was not very good. 1t has to be eaten
too soon after killing to have lost its
toughness. But one does not expect to
eat much meat down here. Vegetarians
tblO III tACl1 III ~ wv hiOpAtbf Viz
pecially that superior order of them who
favor that part Of the vegetable kingdom
which grows above ground. The coun-
try. women, who walk 10 to % miles a
day in the sun with burdens on their
heads which must sometimes weigh not
less than so pounds, and who are never
in the least tired-these ladies'. it ap-
~on ra live ON f~rit on1 MN Npllu md
find them all sufficient dict.
After dinner I went into a barber
shop and submitted myself to the min
%instrations of an artist there. The shop
was at the rear of the little structure
which bore the sign. The front part OF
it, il remember right, was devoted III
part to the sale Of tobacco. On three
sides OF the room were windows protect
ed by wooden gratings painted red and
blue. Through them / saw bits Of in
tense blue sky and green fronds of palm.
On q wall just outside the sash a lizard
ran and hoped, and the eternal buzzard
alighted on corner OF q roof within my
range of vision. Close beside me q young
darby, with q countenance of illimitablc
dLultDllliJt t1DOEOu oiulOubAy OA al
instrument in the nature Of q hand or
gan, but the works were in full view,
and, In the opinion Of several bystand-
ers, seemed to vie In interest with the
tunes. This music took the place of
the traditional BARRIERS conversation,
though that also was abundautly avail
able ON demand and was indeed carried
o,, NTH vp,xnh 1tuarstu hofxpnan thu Unri-
ous employees and some visitors who
appeared to have come in for that pur-
pose. 1t sounded like a mixture of 1tnl-
ian and French, and may have been
Jamaican popular English, for aught !
know. 1 could not understand it.
l accepted all these details as being
fypically tropical, but. on the other
"a Rochester. On the wall were a large
itbngrapr Of Brooklyn bridge and a
,ortrGit Of President Cleveland. ,Elec-
ricity. too, has got tn Kingston, and
e wires run through the branches of
20 mangoes and palms. The house III
hich have taken up my abode is fit
I'd throughout with electric bella, bat
am harry to add that none of them
orks. In one Of the larger shops. |
ink. there is an elevator, the only one
the island.
[ SAID just row that the white people
* ont Of place. That fact, so far is
Judge, is the moral Of tie story here.
90 leland belongs to The ccloEed folk,
4 tao others ere gradually being
oYde,i OCT. Tho proportion is already
dat 80 to / against the latter. and,
lie TIE colored race gees CT multiply
-, the whites ere packing tier trunks
Il moving out. Is this movement to be