Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-04-27
some S|DELIGHTS ON CUBA.
JOSES AND CARMENS ARE IN
PLENTY THERE.
The English Speaking Cook a Rarity
Freedom Under Cuban Flag - The
American Flag Also Floats There.
CUBAN PRESS VALUES ADvER-
TISING SPACE.

exorbitant fees; and finally when one
wished TO leave the island he must
not only pay a good round sum for the
privilege OF going away, but if he
left his wife behind, he WAS required
to present at the passport bureau her
written consent for him TO leave with
out her.
A modified passport system was in
operation in Cuba until the American
occupation, when on the recommen-
datiou of General Ludlow, January
3, 1899, passports and all inquisitorial
requirements as to travelling were
abolished. Today one comes and goes
under the Cuban flag as freely as un-
der the Stars and Stripes.
The visitor to Cuba during the
tourist season-from October to May
--sees many people he has heard
about, famous or otherwise, and meets
old aqcuaintances and sometimes
makes life long friends. This is es-
pecially true of men or women who
belong to some fraternal order or
club, or Federation of Clubs. These
usually wear button or pin, the
insignia of the fraternity and when
some other member of the same
lodge sees it ON the wearer, he
liiibtulAlti1 EANNo tAAN AoAA'bNNN -
makes himself known.
We don't belong to lodge" or
any order in the strict sense of the
term, but through wearing d. \.
Il. pin we made a number of friends
who were ID. 4. RS from Vermont
and other states in New England, and
a few who were members of the League
of the American Pen Women, and
Federation of WOmen's Clubs. The
ID. A. II. has a Havana Chapter that
is doing good work there and all
visiting Daughters were welcomed
everywhere.
Among people talked about as the
press tersely has it, who were visit
ing Cuba during February and March,
was Colonel Mann, the owner and
publisher of "Town Topics, and the
"Smart Set" Colonel Mann was a
guest at the Inglaterra Hotel, and was
conspicuous figure in the dining
room at several little dinner parties
and suppers after the Jai Alai game.
Another guest all winter season at
the Inglaterra, scarcely less promi-
nent in the literary world than the
Colonel himself, was Mrs. Dean, who
is known as a writer for Town Top
les. She subscribes herself THE
Widow and there is scarcely a reader
of this New York social magazine who
has not read columns above the sigma
ture 1.-THE Widow Widow Dean, -
as she is familiarly known, has a son
in the Army, Captain Dean, ON duty
at Cienfuegas. During her sojourn in
Cuba "The Widow" wrote several
articles on Cuban social and political
life on the Island. She has a facile
pen and the articles were copied by
the Cuban press.
Cuba is a great place for parasite,
both animal and vegetable. The trop-
ical climate, the rich soil, the pro-
longed dry weather, the almost con-
tinuous sunshine may account for
this. Fleas are thick everywhere, and
they are of the Irishman's S flea type,
when you think you have them, they
are gone. They jump.and hop about
ad libitum and people get used to
them, or don't seem to mind them.
Lizards are almost as plentiful as
tleas, and they are quite as ubiquitous.
Walking along one sees these tiny
little Lizards in the flower gardens,
on the palms, on the sidewalks and
they infest the tents at Camp Column
bia. They resent BILE the chameleon,
and are pretty little creatures and
harmless. Tiny green frogs are also
plentiful. They are frequent visitors
to the tents at Camp Columbia and
some of them come with such regu
larity that they become pets.
Our first experience in this line
was to see a tiny frog which we
thought was a china paperweight re-
posefully holding down package of
stationery. We attempted to remove
the paper weight in order to get
some paper for our correspondence,
when the creature showed us he was
very much alive and began to blink
his eyes and swell out his throat,
showing resentment as the intrusion.
Frogs by the dozens find their way
into tents and often into houses in
Cuba, and their presence is taken
as n matter of course. The little
Lizards even invade the sanctity of
ones sleeping apartments. Imagine
our surprise and almost terror at ris-
ing one morning and finding a liz
zard quietly looking down at us as
he crawled up the inside of our mos
quito canopy, as though he had a
perfect right there. The tents are
floored and raised about six inches
from the ground, but this does not
deter the frogs and Lizards from
taking up their abode therein.
(Coufinuad