The Republican journal., 1899-01-12

was down in bed and could not walk until
| after she had taken your medicine and now
she goes where She pleases and helps to do
her work
Every suffering man or woman should
write for a free copy of Dr. Pierce's great
thousand page illustrated Common Sense
Medical Adviser. It will be sent paper
bound for the bare cost of mailing, RI
one-cent stamps, or in heavy, handsome
cloth-binding for 81 stamps.
bull fighting, dancing and riding are the
customary diversions on Sundays and
Saints days and the latter comprise
nearly every day of the 800.
The pink, blue and canary colored viii
las of the Eedado are nearly all set back
from the street, with verandas in front
and surrounded by gardens, in agreeable
contrast to the city houses, flush with the
sidewalks, their windows bullying in the
way of pedestrians. Every garden has its
dwarf oranges, low trees covered with
scarlet blossoms, and oleanders pertaining
the air. The celebrated baths, at present
quite deserted, are the queerest | have
ever seen-nnlesS it be the Mexican cen
otes. A long, high coral reef has been
| cut and followed into a dozen separate
wells, just where the surf comes tumbling
against the shore. These cavities are from
! twelve to fourteen feet square, and six to
| eight feet deep. In each of them is a hole
| opening to the sea somewhat larger than
/ the port hole II a ship. Through this
opening the water finds entrance and
| A wooden roof stretches above these pits
and each is partitoned off by itself above
| the water, thus converting it into an ex-
| celent private bath room, open to the
| wooden floor and flight of steps cut into
/ the rock by which you descend into the
wells. The sea flows IN and out incessant-
/ ly the bottom is rough to the feet, the
sides rugged. Crabs come crawling into
/ the huge tub: seaweeds float in at the
window, and YOU are troubled by the fear
| that shark may desire to pay you
visit Vet the whole effect is unique and
4 utilS ulLuI' L GU udNc an unrestricted
/ view of the ocean, blue as the sky that
leans to meet it ut the horizons rim.
! Trade winds blow in soft and cool, and
/ thewater itself, though stimulating and ex-
| bilerating, leaves none Of that singing SEN
sation upon the skin that salt water often
| produces. The roof is fifteen feet above
high-tide; bat in stormy weather the
| breakers often surge over it, and many
I times the wooden structure bad been
swept away. To rise at five O clock in
the morning and spend half an hour in one
| of these odd crannies of the coral reef is
the best possible preparation for a Cuban
summer day. Parties of gay young Gre
| oleS used to come out from the city on
ponies, horses and riders caparisoned as
if for the circus, bells iingling and whips
cracking. There is another glorieta down
near the baths, and several places where
an excellent breakfast or dinner may be
obtained The fashionable hotel of other
days was kept by an American from
| Louisiana. 1t is a long, ne-storied casa,
at the junction of two unpaved roads. A
wide piazza runs around it, into which the
| great windows open from floor to ceiling
1ou enter the establishment through
brick paved court, in which carriage is
always standing. But that is no indca-
ZION of a horse on the premises. 1t is the
fashion in Cuba to keep your carriage in
the entrance hall, whether you possess a
horse or not; and those who do not own a
carriage frequently hire one for this pur-
| pose. At little tables in the coach house
the guests of this hotel take their meals.
Another Vedado hosiery is called the
Lay house, in honor of its builder, Col
Lay of the Confederate Louisiana Zouaves
The newest hoteii is managed by French
man-and very well managed indeed. 1t
! is one stored wooden structure. with a
! flight of stairs leading to the surrounding
veranda. The cool, brick paved space be-
meath the house, which we should call a
cellar, serves for dining room and office
! Here | had an excellent mid day breakfast
of several courses, with claret, and after
cafe noir, and such salad as only French
man can make, and dessert of pineapple,
soft enough to eat with spoon, Zone
never sees decent pineapple in the Unit
ed States)-all for lot of Spanish coin
which in our money would amount to
about fifty cents.
Marianoa is seven miles from Habana
in the other direction, and reached by
railway from the Jesus del Monte station
1t is a conservative English road, with