The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-03-16


ache Cure will cure any Kind Of headache
in few minutes; that his Cold Cure VIII
quickly break up any form of COD, ana
SO on through the entire list of his rene
dies
Guide to Heath and medical advice abso-
lutey free. Prof. Munyon, 1905 Arch ST.,
PHILADELPHIA.
seldom do, however, beyond promenading
in the plaza or sitting idly in the moon
light chatting with friends; therefore arti-
fetal light, or the lack of it, is to them a
matter Of small concern The house is
furnished with rare magniteence, in the
Cuban style. Happily, there are neither
carpets nor curtains to harbor vermin and
exclude the air Cane-seated chairs and
couches, enough to accommodate an army,
are ranged III prim rows against every
wall; and here and there in the vast ex-
panse of each bare sala small square rug
is spread, witt tW0 lows of American
rocking chairs set Wis. avis upon it.
Every corner is religiously occupied by a
triangular claw footed table laden with
little wooden saints, glass balls, china
vases and other bric-a- brac; splendid paint
ings-m mostly scuptural subjects, suitable
for churches-adorn the walls; and there
are many quaint, massive, deliberately
carved pieces of furniture, brought long
ago from France or Spain, which in the
United States would be considered of
priceless value.
The patio, or inner court, is truly ga
Joy forever" with its tall fountain sprink-
ling the passion flowers that surround it,
and gold fish darting among the turtles in
its marble basin. The broad space is
unroofed except for the rose covered
trtllses and under the cool shadows of
its banana and pomegranate thickets,
great red ollas OF porous clay, shaped like
the oil jars of Egypt, contain filtered
water for the family table.
Most of these big casas have two patios,
The second used for stable-ya and ser
wants quarters. Like all Cuban kitchens
so called that of mine hostess is corner
of this back court, thanked by stamping
mules and horses on one side, carriages
and store rooms on the other. Its floor
of rough bricks is raised foot above the
ground, and there is no need of windows
and doors. for the entire front is open to
the patio 1t contains no article of furui-
ture, not even chair OF a table. A long
purpose-and when the servants sit, as
they are continually doing, their bare feet
and legs form black fringe along the
step formed by the slightly elevated floor.
An adobe bench, built against the farther
wall of the kitchen, is topped with por-
celain tiles and has several holes in it for
sal cooking fuel of the country, and is
very expensive, everybody must econo-
mize it, and therefore these odd ranges
serve the needs OF the country better
than any other kind. American stoves
would be altogether out of place on ac-
count of their wastefulness, as well as the
intolerable heat Gas stoves are out of
the question Gasolene and kerosene
might be made to answer, but not nearly
SO we'll AS the present method-to say
nothing of the danger in them at the
hands of careless servants. When a meal
is to be cooked, tiny charcoal fires are
kindled in two or more of the small de-
| pressions in the surface of adobe, accord
| ing to the number of dishes required and
! thus the most elaborate dinners of many
courses may be evolved over few hands
full of fuel, which gives out no heat be-
| yond the vessel that surmounts it, and
quickly burns out, leaving no ashes. The
| Cuban range is never used more than
twice a day-for the midday breakfast
and The late afternoon dinner. The early
morning coffee-''d ripped'' through a
cloth bag-is cooked over little clay pot
or in a French coffee urn, with an alcohol
lamp under it, on the dining room side
| board The Cubans take their coffee like
( their Portuguese cousins, the BraZilians,
/ who declare that it is not fit to drink I'M
! less ''black as night, bitter as death and
| hot as hell - The rule is half pint of brown
ed coffee, ground fine, to each pint of wa
ter, slowly filtered, drop by drop. For de-
sayuno it is drank with hot milk, a cup
two thirds full of the latter to two or three