The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-04-29

SidiiuittlHti. III HIS IpcNlil9 Cllstil Ill tnt
courtyard, consumes surprising quan
titles of swect-mcat~.
The women who are not pretty some
times walk out in the daytime The
women who are not ugly never 90 out
doors until after dark. The pretty
woman Of Havana has learned that the
sun is not good for the compIexi II
that bad complexion is the end OF
beauty.
Once week every Cuban family
| cleans house. Not servants. but the
Sonora and Senoritas themselves. do
the cleaning; and this even in the best
and richest of families.
If the Cuban is q business man; he
invariably lives in rooms over his shop
or office. If he keeps his own votura,
it stands in the courtyard, and the
horse is stabbed under the dining-room.
The houses are all constructed alike,
the grandest and the poorest. Stone
floors, half doors between the rooms
that Is, glass doors reaching only half
way to the ceiling; for ventilation, Of
course. Colossal mahogany wardrobes;
ceilings never less than twenty feet
high; beds canopied with netting to
keep insects out.
The most laughed-at man in Havana
to-day is the military governor, General
ArOlas. At the same time, the most
talked-of woman is an English girl,
Miss Elsie Tobin. The governor has
lived through sixty winters Miss
Tobin has seen only nineteen summers.
December is about to marry April
Nearly every day these two ride along
the Prado, on horseback; the general
in uniform, the English lass wearing a
military jacket, part of the uniform of
Spanish colonel. AS they pass the
cafes, the governor legion of soldiers
litter and wink, and say to one another:
"Old Spain aspires to the hand of young
Brittanica.'
Filibusters still land supplies along
the coast. Their methods have been
reduced to science. Until favorable
weather for sailing, they hide their
ships among the Florida Keys. On
some dark night, when they knew that
all American war-ships are in shore,
they sail without lights for the Cuban
coast. Before coming in sight of Moro
Castle they hang out lights. 1t is yet
early in the evening. They send up
couple of rockets,-a signal that pilot
is wanted. The pilot appears; he is
sorry, but cannot take them in till
morning. The apparently innocent
merchantmen replies: "All right; we
will run around the point and anchor
for the night" The pilot sheers off,
and the ships are beyond suspicion.
They round the point, and so get out
of sight of MORO, douse the lights, and
speed down the coast. Not ten miles
from Havana the apparently innocent
merchantmen runs into 4 small deep
cove, throws planks from the ship to
the shore, and unloads a cargo of gen.
eral supplies for the insurgents. Then
they speed back to the point off MORO
Castle. drop anchor, and hang out
lights. The pilot appears early in the
morning, and the merchantmen is towed
into the harbor, where he states that
he has dropped in for any chance cargo
! + the United States.
Since the central relief committee,
headed by DIR. Louis Klopsch, has been
here, the reconcentrados are not so
much in evidence. But there are still
thousands of them to be seem Ii you
walk in the gutter at night, you STUN
BILE over these unfortunates. The gut
ter is their favorite sleeping place.
They huddle in heaps in doorways, and
fill all the free benches in the Prado.
The widest sidewalk in Havana meas
urcs not more than two feet The
usual width is one foot, just wide
enough for one person at time. Take
a walk with your friends, and you go
Indian file. If Il friend wishes to walk
by your side, he must take to the gut
ter. On Sundays the streets are fall
of people hurrying to the bull-fght.
Game-cocks can be seen fighting in half
the courtyards OF the negro section of.
the town. The amphitheatre where
the bull-fght takes place is on the OPP
posite side of the harbor. The ferry
boat is similar to those around New
York, but much smaller. The bull-tight
is a purely Spanish sport. Cubans want
to abolish it from the island. Disgust
ing sight. AS saw it recently, it was
not a bull-fght. but buil-butchering!
People who have not visited Havana
think of the harbor of the Cuban capt
tai as place that is as calm as lake
by day and the resort OF mandolin par
ties on moonlight nights. AS Il matter
of fact, the waters are seldom calm. \
stiff breeze usually sweeps in from the
ocean, white-capping the bay rather
disagreeably for people in small boats.
phS o's9 ShipS Stshhoo Noiii1 w thS
wharf, he who wishes to 90 down to the
sea in ship must first. 90 to the ship
in small boat. Many tourists who
are bad sailors have felt the beginning
of prolonged siege of NAL de mere
while going from Havana wharf, in the
small boat, to their ships. As for the
mandolin parties at night-welI, the
mandolin is thing of poetry, but the
waters of the harbor are not in accord
The water is filthy; for the harbor bed
is composed o, fifty feet of sewage, the
accumulation of centuries. Moreover,
no small boat not in government en-
ploy is allowed to leave the wharf after
dark. The reason for this law is that
there are many people IN and about
Havana who would be willing to risk
going to sea in small boat rather than
stay longer in city where they know
they cannot get a regular passport and
leave in the aytimc.-G G'lson |THets
IN Upme .Ionrnu|.