The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-03-16
5.ne Life A La Guiana.

t'' .r-fspludructo i ne oo'rHdl'J
a Jam. 10Th, 1899. In order
inside look at domestic ar
ala 0ubana, | invite you to
na. witt, me, in the typical casa
VI am myself guest. Be it
b h9oeyer, that we are not
''s .7se the hospitality of our kind
~ al. ng unseemly prying, or in
81 ,..atisons. We will note only
t.' .,. yhich lie so near the surface
SN .5ns may read them, remem-
,.fy country under the sun
WV .t..Iiar customs of its own.
sf ,.t, If our Cuban neighbors
~ .,.. t1 us, from the angle of
...r We were educated, our
S ....-r qUaily queer from their
.. md perhaps a judicious
buth might be of mutual
y hears in Cuba a Spanish
... .ns
miel, Ia ventana
.. a.cua p0r la manana -
ecL that music, honey.
the window are pleasures
.... ut be INDUCED in the early
.lg Dlsregarding the old
4te look from my case
..- Hy mid winter morning,
nmeter is already CLIMB
.. &C. eighties. The window
guiltless of glass, is no
-ua Deep as the house walls,
s and wide as the double
....>.s ugland barn, iron barred
n.tered within-it affords
...l .os of a work den" with
...er tur my easy chair, table,
.lmega and big bowl of
Cucl view is of the typical
.rr,.pl CONTAMINATION of square
cold as tombstones to the
..- .1 Spinde-le wash stand
... ted conner tables; and brass
..... ..u folded quilt on its bare
.s. If mattrass; yellow satin
usou damask counterpart,
pillows, hard as paving
u1rmous double door, ex-
h0or to ceiling and faced
oor. breast high, of lattice
pills f7n the marble paved, vine
7ldor which surrounds the
Us nom the window, into
-aedcn, is a never ending de
.l. are rows upon rows of bana-
-e- I ling their green umbrellas
a.. u.Nars and shrubs of countless
.. lb}Huth of pansy- bordered
L. .- Icy rosevines ON trellises
.-. .ln- occasionally clumps of
other homely vegetables,
H.- ind there among strange cacti
blooms tobacco plants scatter
arywhere, and over all the
Ntunt their magnificent
.. INST the azure sky. Set in a
r- towering groups of these
u. ot tropical vegetation, with
.l r,uud Trunks like colossal col
IS 0,el-d 10y art. The mistress of
os.-N- she planted them there with
.ea Ha. when she came here on her
.ar more than forty years ago.
NeJe knee high baby palms, and
.ll gsr fully eighty feet above the
. . Madame tells me that during
-.-t lys OF war. when the once
ieuts were threatened with
sic eked out a living, not only
.- na several Old time servants
NOT be discharged because
0HWhere else to go-but also for
cutrado families whom she
rm tn proceeds of the tobac-
scattered about the flower gar
aLu the tax on tobacco was so
aN the Spanish regime that it
plantations, there was never
tlg little that could be grown in
her surreptitiOus crops were
and brought in from $500 to
7-4. 1t happened that among her
adDs was an expert cigarette
s.. M he dried tobacco leaves, made
r shares, and disposed of them
Hfle could not have done.
D. artificial river, rushing with con
a almur through the garden, not
FINISHES necessary irrigation, but
s .aa reat fountain in the patio and
e- the bath in the middle of the
--r This bath is quaint enough, and
erstically Cuban, to demand a
seayu Built in fanciful, circular
u 5e Moorish temple, with lat
FL windows on all sides, topped with
l-o LASS and extending from floor to
l- is screened from public view by
'Ie.ises and clumps of tall bananas.
sdi of marble steps leads up to the
'a'ef marble floor. At one side of the
I'D space is deep tank of clear, cold
atp which the bather descends by
hight of marble stairs. There is
Rel- oath and all modern accessories
'es' Lot water, which in Cuba is
- Sod for the bath; and the water
hanged at will, the refuse being
gJrd over the garden.