The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-09
CUBAN TEACHERS HOMECOMING.


The newspapers containing accounts OF tho
arrival In Havana Of the Cuban schooltcachers
have reached New York. The wanderers GER
talnly received a warm welcome home, tho
whole city turning out to do them honor. They
mad only kind words for their recent hosts.
Ihey spoke enthusiastically Of the treatment
accorded them In the United States. Tho
cuban people were really anxious 90 have the
teachers, get back and to hear their views about
the Yankees. The intrauIgeant element was
away q little afraid that the purpose Of the
whole trip was 10 get the teachers UP here and
make Yankees of them They had a vague
ItSI that after seeing this great county, vita
llits wealth and culture and material grandeur,
the teachers might be swept OF their feet and
p W MADE Americans in spite of themselves.
hHeh ule homecoming tourists were once
more within the shadow Of llavana's MORO tho
susplclouS ones scanned them for outward
Signs OF The possible inward ira information.
changes there certainly were, especially
among the women. They We're rugged out in
Ihe latest ge wgawsofia nkec fashion, bent above
an eHe on giving thelr stay -at-honle sisters a
pahg No matter how patriotic a woman NAV
pc. she owes her first allegiance TO fashion.
English women wear Partisan gowns. even
though their husbands refuse 10 take them To
me Paris Exposition But no reporter was
sharp enough TO entrap any Of, the Cuban tour
ists lhto ADMISSIONS that could by any stretch
OF thelmdgliatIun be deemed unpatrlotlc. Tbs
sehoritas were too cute for them. only the
rlgOrs OF winter mind you, in Augllst-and tbs
ehactlons Of American fashion had caused the
changes. Listen To La LuChd's report OF this
pnuSe OF the homecoming,
Almost all the women Qame dressed a la
Americana, because Of the harsh winter. They
were. Respondent in little hats " gray cloth
which were very beComin To tho young and
pretty ones. or many we asked If so soon they
had become AmeriCani2ed and they answered VA
mat from gratitude to the nited states and
from the exaCtiOns Of American fashions they
wore these clothes, that while their Cuban
hats had been rciegated. their hearts we're still
entirely cuban, that now, after knowing Il great
Tree people they were were more than ever
Cubans and lovers Of .ndc pendenCe."
! offset any bad effect that the American
clothes might have. the women teachers for
the most part had Cuban flags in their hands
or wrapped around them, and 80 when they
marched through the streets they were Cheered
with the noisy patriotism Of which the Cubans
have an ineXhaustible supply
No change was noticed in the men teachers.
The principal dinere nee between "A Cuban andan
American man. so far as clothing goes, Is in
the cut of the trousers The Cuba ms stick to tho
balloon pantaloons ~ the Spaniards and the
French aud six Declarations Of Independence
and u lifetime within the shadows OF Bunker
Hill monument cOuldnever change them. They
are welded TO these boomers and when the
last reform shall have been accomplished
when the Cuban custom houses shall be honestly
administered and there il not u stenchin Havana,
when idleness shall be- a crime and honest work
a dignity. bloomers will doubtless still DO worn
by los CdbdHeros Cu6Gnos.