Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-02
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the windows and doors. Everything Is
open and the people go on with their work
or play without mnding. Here, a family
is chatting or reading. There, some girls
are sewing while farther On the children
are playing, sprawling about on the floor.
his neighbors. If Sonora Smith has new
suite of furniture, Sonora Jones next door
Is bound to see it. and if Sonora Jones gives
a party all her friends know it. and they
have only to keep their eyes open while
walking the streets to count the guests
and know what they wear.
The people dress up for the evening dis
play. AT that time poor and rich put on
their clean clothes. and the windows are
filled with well-clad people sitting and chat
ting or looking out in the street. The chill
dren have on their best clothes and there
are many little ones playing about who
would not seem out of place on the front
steps of our White House.
The Girls Of Camaguey.
like the girls of Camaguey. They are
the prettiest 1 have seen in Cuba, although
IL may be that they look better from be-
hind the bars. They have olive complex
IONS dark soulful eyes, luxuriant black
hair which they coil on the tops of their
shapely heads, and lips as red as ripe
cherries and / doubt not more delicious.
The thing 1 do not like about them is their
use of face powders. They dust their COM
pexions with talcum or rice -four until they
are CHASTITY, and the darker the skin the
more 1t is sprinkled. There seems to be
no attempt to put on the powder evenly
and every one uses 1t, from wrinkled old
women to rosy-cheeked girls of ten or
twelve. ! am told that the custom prevails
not only for ornamentation, but also for
the sake of comfort. the perspiration COM
ing out freely in this tropical climate.
Love Through the Bars.
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there two and three-story houses. and
the swell people live upstairs They have
balconies extending out over the streets
and when the young people make love the
girls stand in the balconies and look down
upon their lovers in the streets below
There is no such counting as in the United
States, the young man being never left
alone with his sweetheart until they are
married. 1t is different IN Camaguey al
though the sexes are supposed to keep
quite as far apart before the wedding
What separates them Is the iron or lat
tice work of the windows. The lover stands
on the outside In the street and makes goo
goo eyes at his mistress through the bars.
Odd Street Scenes.
Indeed, the street scenes of this city are
stranger than those of any town in Europe
north of the Alps. Puerto Principe Is the
land of the COW and the cowboy. Men
who look as though they might have come
from the Argentine pampas, ride through
the streets on rugged ponies Each has
machete or sword at his belt and all
wear huge spurs. Great carts drawn by
oxen with down-hansing heads, yoked to
tongues as big as telegraph poles, drag
their creakfng way along. goaded by the
drivers beside them Goat wagons owned
by peddlers are common, and hay wagons,
bread wagons. milk wagons. all hauled by
goats. are everywhere seen Sometimes
one ong-bearded white or black animal
does the pulling, and sometimes two, but In
every case the driver walks along beside
and directs the way. There are also ped
dlers. who carry their wares in panniers on
horses. There are milkmen. with their
cans slung to each side OF the saddle and
fruit peddlers, who carry oranges, bananas
and pineapples about upon their ponies.
Let us stop one of the milkmen and get
a drink. How queer the milk tastes. It