The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-07-28


their dear Ruiz and their precious Rossi-
ia may, have persisted in the great deep.
1t really is a grave question though
whether the Cubans are not being over
entertained. In Boston, as in every large
city, there exists a small number of peo-
pie who. possessing plenty of money and
unlimite d social aspit atoms, seize every
oppoI tunity which may present itself to
| let their light sh ne before men that
the world. through the newspaper, may
see their good works and glorify the
mammon which is their pride. Some of
these sham philanthropsts are now food
ing the { flee with invitations for the Gu
bans. Send US down fifty good-looking
cnes for a tea l am to give on Tuesday of
next W Elk" discerning eye reads between
the lines of the graciousy- worded, deli
cately scented note. Well. the Cubans will
go if they are asked. Denying themselves
TO visitors and refusing invitations play
no part in their social economy. Thus it
may come about, if care is not taken, that
the teachers will feel when they come to
go home that they have been entertained
in America for advertising purposes only
SO far few specious Inequalities have been
accepted There are those in charge of the
social end of the trip who seem album
dainty able 10 sift the wheat Of true low
ing kindness from the chaff of vulgar de
sire for ostentation.
Before the Cubans arrived it was antic-
ipated that religious difficulties might pre-
sent themselves in the course of their
stay and everybody was plumed for the
fray which was prophesied as at hand
When Mrs Alice Gordon Guick we'll
known for her remarkab BILE work in conduc-
ting a highly successful non-sectarian
school for girls in Spain, was appointed
to act as dean of the woman's depart
ment the Roman Catholic press set up a
cry for her removal. This demand was
however quite without effect-as indeed it
should have been, for if the country had
been searched through and through no
other woman could have been found SO
capable as is Mrs. Gulick of discharging
acceptably the multtudinous duties OF
dean to a thousand women, scarcely one
of whom could speak English. But apart
from the fact that Mrs Gulick was kept,
the Protestants gave up everything. II
was, of course, well-known that the ma
jority of the Cubans were Catholics, and
that even the slightest disposition to put
them under Protestant pastors and mas
tiers would be resented. So the Appleton
chapel services were abandoned, the Phil
lips Brooks house was decorated with
dozens of 'salas Catolcas" signs-as if
the house We're more Catholic than any
thing else!-and no evangelical church
made even the slightest motion to bring it
self or any of its work TO the front.
Quite lately, however, il has leaked out
that rather a fair number Of the visiting
teachers are Protestants, after all. and
that considerable proportion of these
are Baptists This evening, therefore,
the largest and most elaborate single en-
tertainment yet provided for the Cubans
will be given them in Sanders Theater
and Memorial Hall by the Baptist socie-
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| freshments, a good concert and speech
of welcome by Mayor Champlin, who as
| il happens, is himself a Baptist. The
| situation is an interesting one, for if
there is any sect poles apart from the
| Catholic Church that sect is the Bap-
| list There are some who are disposed
| 10 wonder how generally the Baptists
| lavish hospitality will be accepted. Mean
| while the press is being abundantly sup
piled with data concerning the vast pre-
| ponderauce of Catholics among the visit
| ors and elaborate accounts of the good
which is being done by the young men
| and young women in charge of the "sa1as
| Catolicas'' are met on every hand.
The Cubans are not very good Catho-
| lies, though. There may be daily masses.
| but of what use are they If the teacher
| cannot be made to go to them At
| recent "benediction'' service Jone of the
priests who came over with the party
scored this laisser faire policy in religion
! with most tremendous energy. His ser
mon was in tempestuous Spanish and eX-
| ceedinglv difficult for an American 90 fol-
| low but that he was telling his hearers
| all about their sins of omission was evil
| dent to even the most dense. cuba Llbre,
| education, enlarged mental outlook-all
would count for nothing. he vehemently
asserted, If they didn't stop forgetting
| and that at once, to improve their reltg-
| ions privileges And the pathetic thing
abo1Ir this magnificent burst of impassion-
ed rhetoric was that not more than pal
try handful of Cubans were in the big
| church to listen to il.
At the very first. President Eliot re-
| fused for the universitys guests sohclta-
| lions to go here, there and everywhere Tor
The sake of attracting an audience and
generally booming up an unpopular ana
| uptnteresting cause. But now that inc
| wise president has gone to his summer
home there Is nothing 800 insignificant for
| the Cubans to be invited to attend. Next
| Saturday the poor senoritas are to be ed
| ucated i'm "the club Idea" along with
| few other minor branches. The club Ia
dies have discovered in Cuba a new and
! heretofore unexploTed field for exploitation
| and that they are bending themselves to
the task of preparing it for seed goes of
| course without saying. SO a party oil
| nftv Cubans will attend Federation
meeting at one of the beach hotels near
the city. and there will doubtless be
stirringly addressed on "the greatest
movement Of the century"
The College Club, really distinctive
organization. possessed of high ideals
along social lines, gave the Cubans what
was meant to be ap elaborate reception
on Wednesday afternoon last, but the
thundershowers made IL impossible for the
ladies to attend in as l1rge numbers as
had been expected, and the thing rather
Azzled. at least from the Cuban viewpoint.
In Cuba The gentler sex retites when II
| thunders, and although the storm had
been over a full hour when the reception
| began, the time spent in bed had meant
lust so much less leisure for the elaborate
| preparations considered a necessary pre-
lminary 10 such a function-and the Ia
dies would always rather stay at home
than 90 anywhere for which they must
| prepare In hurry. They come nearer
! taking solid comfort in the toFfet than
any people our country has ever enter
| tanned.
one Of the things the Cubans are de-
| teruined 70 teach Americans Is that they