The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-11
HAVANA BURLESQUES Us.
LAKES Fun OF THE "RAINY-DAY
SkIRTv Al TIL CARNIYIL.

The Cubans Have Kept silent About TIM
Apparel, but We're Astonishsd Over -
Sam small's Blast Over It-Carnivaa
Gave the Cnbans Their Opportunity.
HAVANA, March 1.-THE mos,independent osA
ture In Cuba Is the American woman tourist Thooo
Of the fair sex who have thrown their lot with
the Havsnese for any great length Of time have
found II necessary 10 observe somewhat the cuo
toms Of tho country, but not 80 the tours, who
blows in here FOR q few days Just 10 see the sightA
No sooner does She get ashore and into her trunks
than she dTagS out her rainy day skirt and hH
camera and sets forth seeking whom She may
devour accompanied or una ccompanied by man
as the situation from her own untrammelsd Amen-
can point Of view demands. Up and down IL
streets a'Oot and en- coChe, in the parks out 10
the cemetery across the hhrbor 10 grim old o.
banas and romantic Moro she goes with uttsr
uncOncern snap shooting everything that strikes
her vivid fancy as Of interest Ths Cubens,
accustomed p%cr'orCe to strange deeds on the part
Of the Americans, male and female, look on In
mild eyed wonder but without a word Of protsst-
strangely enough, too, for they rarely miss Q
chance to protest in the most formal and high
fown manner The first and only howl TO b
raised against the rainy day skirt which ocularly
was the Host radical Of the innovations brought
In by the Yankees came from an Amencan-ths
Rev. Sam ". Small, the erstNLile r~eyi,alist
The Rev. Sam is no longer a reyivnlist how
ever. lie is no longer even a reverend by pro-
iession. After the close Of the war during which
he acted A. Chaplain for the Volunteer Engineer
regiment stationed in Cuba during The early
part Of 1879 the liey. sam reverted To Journal
ism from whose devious paths he had formerly
been rescued by tie Rev. Sam Jones. Estab-
lishing himself as he head Of the Hdfdna Jour
nGI, the only All American paper in Cuba" the
et reyiyalist took up his pen and Tor several months
he cut n pretty wide swathe in the journalistic
field. The journal had no cable service and
only one reporter but everybody read II TO see
what Sam Small had TO say. lie wrote with
a rough and ready wit more Of less as he used
to talk when he was saving souls at crowded
camp meetings and when he got after anybody
or anything the fur flew, lie played tag with
Governmental policies md individual idioeyncrs-
sizes with such freedom and fuency that his edi-
toisl page became a treat 20 all those 10 whom
II had no reference.
One fine morning Sam liz on 10 the rainy day
skirt question and for several days there was
a marked paud:7 on the streets o. these modern
and most convenient arments. The tourists
who had just come to town put them away and
donned regulation petticoats for what he had 70
say on the subject eclirsed probably the opin-
ions NJ the strnightestlaced old Cuban heldnms
who even looked with horror upon tho freedom
INDUCED in bv American women. His old-fash-
iousd Georgian soul rose up In indignant revolt
against this new!angled practice and 10 busS
Into this outraged editorial expression:
The American woman who comes 10 Ha.
vana, even as n casual tourist, owes something
70 her own. reputation and that Of her country
-..A,a nh 49, hot 49, ,, ri
exhibit m" respect Is not to 80 ganivanting
around the streets NJ this city in an Alpine haS
a tight fitting Jacket, q bicycle skirt and walken-
fest shoes th0t would better suit a bod carrier.
Especially Should tho short, heavy cycle skin
be left off The Cuban gentleman Is not used
10 sec ladies' Of the better class diked on, In such
tough toggerv and the Cuban lady Of high degree
regards il "a n concession 70 the ideas Of the
washerwoman and tho audacity Of the street.
walker
The spectacle Of an American lady walking
down Ohispo street in that rig 10 equivalent to
seeing a circus suIe IN a sixteenth century
coat ~ mail parading Pennsylvania avenue
in washington when there is no circus in town
II The american woman desires a. save her eli
rem T,d,cul@, p",',oly from oyen insult and es
IN dest, well composed and elegant contingent
~ o great nation. HLc will conform moro h. tie Gus.
toms Of cuba in dress and department and not To
nv e. repeat here the license ~ he Central Park
bicycle path and toney Island beach Of Tie Inited
States"
While this editorial article had its temporary
tlAfAs ! 'Nl lNN lANl wv FllA ~ All VIC
eA. rcyiyalIsts sense q pruprety being mostly
tourists who como ord go. " a 'aw DE- ys there
were in evidence on tie s.reets The same mum
Der 81 abtcyiAlod skirts Tie Cubans said not
4 word, but they took n all IN nnd when carnival
time came they hod their opp rtunIty a. express
by aatire their view, on je subject ON last
sunday, Monday and Iue~lny, the opening days
u the catli'ai, there va, "a pI"'e>SI"u each alter
noon around tie Irqd. Thousands 81 people
were out On loot - horseback and m Carriages
Of all kinds Some were narhtd and in costume
and som" were mt and among the iurmeT NJ one
was more. c'n>pIp"1' ~ more dlplauded than
ISIS The rainy day -n!GI rHs glunDusly there,
cut OIL AZ the knegs, and 50 was the camera in the
shnpe Of cigar boxes. Every me in the party
had Il cigar box IN each hand and with joyful
impudence they held M the prrcerFion 10 take snap
shots, phui"Erapaing every ,ling IN sight, sticks,
stones, policemen, house, and what not II was
ncle7er bur ietque, good nhtnrcd wiz NJ and the
only ones who dld NJ enjoy II were the American
women who happened % be in the crowd with
short skirts md cameras
notwithstanding Tie icryor OF Sam Small and
the nhtura. ~pfc'u'lc" pi NE CuhHns 10 NE limo
vaIon, iiaYsu,. aGlyc all cities would seem To
be The place for the ~niny-day skirt and Il the
Ameiican tourist can TopuHfi1e them here she
VIII nave acc. AplI-hcd a real reform. Despite
everything ua' the americans lave been abs
To DO Hawai- . streets are dirty Much Of the
CITY j. MP, With either granite blocks OF az
phnit S. Tia wlcn II rains they are dreadiully
muddy and foul sn. ing. The germs Of all
sorts ~ lun'h,pme d. cn-c, IRE lurking In this
mud and 9TH ! woman with trailing skirts
cannot but picH up \ lot uf the Dirt no matter how
C'-r,n' she may. nv to be- THIS she carries 10
her home nrl when her clothes arc BRUSHED The
gem fly IN dust nh about The rooms IN Tho
uol0iIn % the physicians ,cycral ~ the women
VIII have bad yellow ''"cr ~" more than likely
10 have sweet II ~ in m" streets with their skirts,
at least they have not been nplr to trace It's origin
IT, my other sour = a. tn"r hive So rrucrally
When men have been afflicted with The disease.
RAINY dry skirts, a9lde r. M Dr,nr move comfort
adj" and Cchniy II wuru grucraliy her ~
women would certainly lessen lhc chances IL
spreading contagious Diseases