The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-07-06
THINGS AT CAPE NOME.

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certain Radcliffe cottage girl chaperon
, lives with her charges in a pleasant
: house on one of those streets behind
CHRIST church, which, as all Harvard
men will remember, are most easily
reached by the convenient little alley
which runs past that old burying ground
where repose the dust and ashes of
number of our Civil and Revolutionary
| war heroes. Somehow the Cuians got it
into their heads that these men had per-
ishcd in the struggle for Cuba libre. The
result was that that method of reaching
acme had to be abandoned Each in
oil '1dual senorita would otherwise have
insisted upon staying indefinitely to weep
over the graves of the dead They are
so sympathetic that when one OF their
number, whom most of them do not even
| know, received the other day a telegram
that her mother was i'll the whole Cuban
band was dissolved in tears. Yet from
all this lachrymal Indulgence a snatch
of gay music, a maZurka plaved on q
cracked piano by one of their number.
| will bring them back in a brief five min
utes.
And If they are indoent and nrocras-
tinating they are also furiously energetic
They spend hours in dolce far niente and
IN arranging their toilet for the slightest
festivity, according to a CAMBRIDGE let
ter to the New York Sun, bat they will
study on the stairs by the dim hall lanu
long after they are supposed to be in
bed, and they freqLelltly rise as early AS
in the morning to attack an Englisi,
lesson. Before the school sessions opened
they couldn't be gotten up before ..
what Cuban senorita hasn't told her
sympathetic chaperon about herself and
her family at the end OF fifteen minutes
acquaintance isn't in the least worth
knowing. One girl had invited her social
Achates to come and see her in Cuba
next summer five minutes after their first
meeting! Yet concerning many common
place things these damsels are extremely
| reserved.
AS for enthusiasm-wel their se1f;n-
PEELED Fourth of July tribute to Wash
ington shows what they can do IN this
direction. And they will raise vivas anv
time and anywhere for Alexis Frye. Yet
they say very little, considering that they
are country folk who have, MANY of
them, never before been more than a
few miles from home. About the e1abo-
rateness with which they are being en-
tertalned here Los Estados Undos is
vera MICA plaze''-that's about ali.
''Quanto!' said the senorita as She e,
tered the room and, without a moments
hesitation, walked up to pretty Amer
lean in a muslin gown Il Hka that
How much?'' The American was nm
used to such Ii Hung Chang interroea:-
tons, SO she merely remarked that bar
mother had bought the dress for her
This quite satisfied the Cuban girl. She
was absolutely unconscious that she had
SAID anything unusual or that her Amer
lean guide had eVaded any query Thew
nave almost all of them two months
salary to spend, and they want to gather
such lnforma zion as shall enable then,
to use it to good advantage. Hence their
naive questions Yet they never think of
telling their chaperons how much they
paid for their clothes
Surely one might reasonably have ex.
Dected that these languorous beauties
with their natural grace of figure, should
dance d1Vnely. But they. don't Their
Haoanera (Havana dance and their "a
peteo "a Kind of jig) are as ugly in move
ment as their dancers are awkward in
vain attempt to make the things BEAU
tful. The men lead badly and the girls
are not even little bit attractive az
they Jerk through the stiff measures. Az
for the music, it has neither rhythm nor
harmony. 1t is as slambangy as hur-
dygurdy overture in extremis Nor do
the Cubans seem to get a lot of enjoy
T'ent ont of these dances. They lood
though them all as solemn as the best
man at wedding and they speak never
a. word to each other as they perform
their marionette-like revolutions.
But they are gorgeous when they 20
to a ball! The girls spend two hours
and half on their toilet, and then they
come down with face and neck ghastly
white from powder. They can't under
stand why Americans neglect to avail
themselves of this aid. to charm. you
do look prstrS," one group chorused to
their 'chaperon at the last ball, but why
not some poder, just un poquito, only the
wee est bit? But she was firm as she
explained that in America we don't Use
tt like that, at least some OF us don't