The Republican journal., 1899-07-06
oAv IN CIENFUEGOS.

..5~. June 5, 1899. During the
scially stated that in Habana
f' ... -v,nty women to one man
gf Vie soldiers stationed there
uueteen men being off with
'' .7 army, disabled in the hos
wing in their graves. This
l' .r4a vas even more apparent in
.u,>. and to this day the surplus
7 .-ro>t as numerous as in Para
... lopez wars. Promenading
s 15eufuegos on Sunday after
the local world, one meets
nal.d dressed ladies, and at
d. ...t rare intervals self con-
o. nuitestly much valued person
1si sex. Possibly there may
.....l conner of the world where
.uung, middle aged and old,
.nahe prerogatives of paint,
1. leltumery; but if SO, have
there. Travellers in tropical
rre learned to expect the
IA female countenances;
-.t..., say. to obviate the greasy
oy Precipitation in a warm
When the powder is piled on
81. -.e., Of men, drifted into hair
...... .sIsed in ears and eye brows,
...s 49,. r.o burrows down the checks
. streams Of sweat, the effect
d., this unnatural Wilderness
....s carmine, dabbed in vivid
...r.. .- 5ai cheek bones, imparts to
...-.- a appearance of galvanized
then the tooth pick-toed,
.-. . patent feathers of the
us scents, beside which
length would have been that
.r t.. lud bis ties of aggressive
.-..-,ee9l to swear continually to all
....-.- bects, complete a picture
rGag advertises unfinished
r. r.t Iu the upper story. This
..... .te8.ure usually makes Fmash-
-13 ana aim of his existence,
.-. Mr. aazas, church doors, and all
.., -eu,ed by his female adorers;
.ety ought to be exterminated
a. green, as a blight on the land
l, months ago, bread was SO
lpa that thousands died of
-a ut the times have never been
an -. loint that any scarcity of
!...saH Nas apparent, even among
s.a IT'S The Cuban woman, young
. -i~ it more indispensable
--r. .! toilette than mere soap and
t5.-. mail necessity to her attractive
s. 7 her religious duty to fos-
sIye Thus all classes and
- .eoeJded to the powder-putf,
at dame of fashion to the
'e orphan in the asylum
lep-ed visaged octogenarian
ked child of half a dozen
p ro into any Cuban school and
t.....-1,.rc ,,,J Al
4lIsbed, a powder box and
OF Aanois with which to
~ desk and tucked along
.-.E an the blackboards. In
naie clerks are employed,
g tobacco factories, where
e lndred girls are at work
-rc~, the same thing is true.
visited LA Corona, the
"u factory in Iabana. Ten
he breakfast hour OF the
ud when the hands of the
10 quarter to ten, every
work and reached for her
They are not paid by the
Ing to the number of cigar
In the opinion of them
eLing fifteen minutes was
'Ach to assume the CHASTITY
Wier, in order to make them
sG-able before going on the
particularly gay on Sun
~ueut clergy being so accom-
-l have the last service in the
'er, before Il A. NJ. That leaves
day, reckoned as the natives
1lenlsht, for cock fighting, gamb-
Z t- r4ei lavOrite advertisements. A
idul renders excellent music in
-4A and the broad, marble walk is
ny, >euoras and senoTitas, in their
s'.er and under drifts of powder,
IVA no NIlIe duIllllUS uldlc
f-ie stand in solid phalanx on either
eA' Is impressed with the extreme
VI '' -ae bellies, par etcellence-little
q Twelve and thirteen years being
->l.'sa Of manageable age, while
Df. d. .*enty- i've or Whereabouts, are
f" Boz the forlorn limbo of "back
NJ one could be satisfied with
.4f 7i eyes, these understood and
"aeFed Cubans might perhaps be
-eed tie most beautiful women in
"I' Their eyes are truly glorious,
81 ..ank and soulful; and sometimes
-4i' sIossy as the ravens wing,
le eyes to perfection. They talk
.4.!' ewes, flint, cajole and capture
,aem; but whether they could
average American forever con-