Evening star., 1898-06-11

ing on the bag of bread which he brings
along for sale.
But the ''panadero'' is a sweet and sa-
worry spectacle compared with the butcher,
the 'carnicero.' who dragS reeking car
casSes into town, wobbling gruesomely in
cart, or more frequently hanging from
hooks in frames horseback. All the
"mataderos,' or slaughterhouses used to
be outside the city limits, with troops of
wild dogs and turkey buzzards fighting
and snarlinG over entrails and garbage.
Then there is the chicken vender who
brings his cargo of fowl to market in great
wicker coops, slung across the back of his
beast, he himself sitting, as usual, astride
between There is no society for the pre-
Ven1ton of cruelty to animals In any Spanish
country, and every man may do what seems
to him best with anything he owns.
The Cubans, as rule, are remarkably
atsteinious, and those of Spanish birth,
especially of the poorer class, eat little and
drink less. But there is one timing in which
they have weli-nigh reached perfection and
lhh Is The alt of connecting soft drinks.
If they may follow out their inclinatio and
sncle 1t custom, they begin the day with
cap oil black coffee or chocolate. the latter
SO thick that it may be eaten with Il fork
and perhaps accompanied by :. small roll or
tain biscuit. During the heat of the day
the natives drink sparinSy, buI after the
cool bree2aS CT eVenin., nave set in the
cafes are crowded win The seekers after
"refrescos," or cooling beverages. A "re-
fresco' is literally Il ''reiresh.r," generally
In shape of 'limonada - limeade e~-o or
nai an njada''-orangeade, while the fayorite
with the fair sex is the ''orchata''-sweeten
ed and diluted milk of almonds-and drink
made by dipping into water snail rolls COM
posed of the white of egg AMI sugar, anI
called "panales.''
Content With Little.
Ihe lower orders content themselves with
a mild tipple of barley water-''cebada''-o
ia chicha. which is water with toasted
corn and sugar in it; '.zambunbiI' is dil-
uted cane juice-as "aguardiente" Tor fire
water) is the same juice distilled vulgarIy
known in English as rum. Another drink,
a sort OF sweet beer, is made from ferment-
ed pineapple rinds, and is very delicious
Ica IS used in Havana but sparingly as Of
course, 1t Is all artificial, or imported at
great expense; and water, particularly at
the present time, is very precious COM
mc6ity.
1t is a safe rule, and one which cannot be
too strongly recommended 10 those of our
army likely to visit Cuba this summer not
TO take anything stronger than coffee or
chocolate before noon. or. better. nothing
stronger at all. In Cuba and Puerto Rico
the people rarely indulge in anything
stronger than the vino Catalan at balls
and parties, champagne. Though they
drink early, some of them. and many of
them often, it is chiefly of harmless bever-
ages. In the French and English islands
there are many who begin the day with a
I'tOdLul anu gin COCKTAIL as an eye OPEN
er, follow it with native rum at intervals
and end with ale or beer and brandy. The
most healthful drink, the English West In
diah VIII tell you, is rum not less than
three years old. 1t has no "perncous eff
fects, he says, if sufficiently matured, and
it is tradition in the islands that rum
VIII not improve with age, even unless 1t
is kept in the wood
There is wide range to the tropic tip-
pies, the basis of most of them being the
distilled juice of the sugar cane and there
are delicious punches" innumerable One
of the most nectareous of these concoctions
is the "cashew punch which is made by
mixing the fragrant juice of the acaiou
with sugar, "quantum suf.;'' rum, GUAM
tum ibet, and served with a grating of
aromatic nutmeg floating atop. II IL a
drink too good for the gods, the West In
dians say, but just the thing for bibulous
man. In the olden time, when every plant