Arizona republican., 1899-02-22

{ last real on favorite birds and go wild with excitement over the edifying spectacle of two miserable roosters clawing each other to death.
 The inveterate gambling propensity of the people also finds vent in dOmi- noes, chess, baccarat and a thousand other games of chance and skill, in which women may also indulge in the privacy of home-and seldom without stakes. The Cuban female goes into gambling with the same innocent zest which distinguishes her sister women of northern villages, who find their highest ambition realized in the Hone hand" prize of progressive euchre. In this part of the world every table in hotels, bar rooms, club houses and cafes is in requisition all day lCng and far into the night on Sundays for gam ing purposes In these January days it looks odd enough to eyes fresh from the snowy north to see the marble floors of all the nest cafes sprinkled with dampenedl saWdIrst with a view to coolness. like Bowery beer halls in the thirsty days of August. I have excel lent American authority for the state ment that the Cuban barkeepers out Herod Herod in the matter of manu- featuring cocktails with energy and dispatch. The native compounder seizes two glasses-one very large and heavy, the other small and thin With frantic haste he fills the former with Jumps of ice, the latter with the liQ- uorS, bitterS, sweets and whatever else may be required in the compounding of cocktail. Then, with a swinging movement which can be acquired only by long practice, he dashes the ice and fluids from glass to glass, as if his life depended on it. clicking the Crystal like pair of castanets, until all is thor oughly amalgamated in the big glass. Then, without losing a second of time, he filings the mixture through a strain CT into the little glass, which must be exactly even full; and then the recipi- ent is expected to dash it down his throat with the same furious energy, to smack his lips and say it beats New York "all hollow and call for more.
 The funiest thing in the line of drinking is to see the Cubans imbibe water from ''monkey-jug. or perone The vessel, by the way, which is found in every house and hotel bedroom. is delight to the foreigner, not only by reason of it's artistic beauty, but be- cause it keeps the water cool in a com paraItively iceless country. There are jugs and jugs, of varying shapes and l siZes-all of gray clay, moulded in | quaint design. The commonest are | round and slender, with two holes in | each near the handle, which is on top. | One hole is perhaps an inch in diam eter, through which to pour the water Into the jug, and the other, in a knob | which marks the place. is not larger than the hollow of a goose quill It is 1 the old story of the bung and the | 5pigot Filled with water, the jug is hung on peg or any convenient pro- lection, in a spot that is draughtv The of air cause the thick porous clay to perspire like a patient recOv aring from Santiago fever" and the 'esult is that the water is rendered cool md wholesome. The Cuban fashion of is not to touch the vessel with he lips. but to open the mouth wide, md, holding the jug up. to tilt it until l tiny stream trickles down the throat, describing a six-inch curve and strik- ng square on the root of the tongue
 Apparently the highest social insti- ution of Cienfuegos is the Sunday evening promenade in the plaza, and without it I really do not know how the 7oung people of the aristocracy would manage to mate and marry During Ill the week senoritas of the upper lass are kept under rigid restriction, lever permitted to walk abroad alone md constantly watched by parents and luennas, as if expected to rush to the ,ad if allowed the smallest opportu- lity. This system of eternal vigilance would doubtless become as irksome to he guardians as to the opening buds were it not so soon over. At the age if 13 a Cuban girl is considered quite Id enough to marry, and her parents iunt up a son -in-law without delay nless, as is more commonly the case, ome sub-rosa lover announces him. elf, or match, satisfactory to pater- amilias, was arranged for her with ( he son of a friend while the pair were ct in their cradles. The beauty and { harm of the fair Cubans are as evan- scent as irresistible while they last ( ike the lovely wild flowers of their ] sland, they mature very early, but \ ade as rapidly. The prettiest girl will | e plain before she is 30, and hand { ome middle-aged woman is not tc, be ound in Cuba-if anywhere outside i he temperate zone-Correspond t Record. I
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