The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-12-07
These Bargains
Will Not
Last Long.
ReynoIdsvilIe Boy
Describes Puerto Rico
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other end, and it was necessary for us to
travel clear across the island The ride
was picturesque, from the narrow
guage railroad with little engine to the
ever changing scenery, which is magntf-
cent Ex-President Roosevelt visited it,
looked upon it with rapture and said,
This, surely, is Americas Alps"
But the people appeal to you more than
anything else. This island surely is the
land of the ''Manana," which means
tomorrow, because the people always
promise to do things by saying, ''Manana."
The people here are a mongrel race,
being intermingled with Indian, Spanish
and negro blood, with more negro blood
than anything else. 1t is very hard to find
pure Castilian blood in any family on the
island But that does not seem to mar
their tempers. They are hot headed and
quick to fight, but it is just like a rush Of
blood to the head, over in a minute. They
ape the Americans in every way possible
and the whole town seems to judge one
down here and if you are found wanting
they soon tell You about it, They are like
the Southern negro, happy all the year
around. The people do not do any more
work than just enough to keep body and
soul together. Every Sunday morning it
is very easy to find four or five dances
going on among the better class as well as
in their own homes, and it seems impos-
sible that so many people can dance in the
rooms.
The school children here are much more
easily controlled than those in the States,
and they all seem to have inherited the art
Of fattery from their Latin ancestry.
They all have an intense desire to learn,
especially the English language. They arc
generous to fault They bring in oranges,
bananas and all kinds of tropical fruit
You can get oranges very cheap, from to
% for cent, varying in different parts Of
the island, and % cents for bunch of
bananas is munificent price.
Aguadilla, the name of the town that we
are located in, means fresh water"
because this was where Columpus landed
strips. 1t is Il beautiful little city of about
$1,000, but it docs not cover as much area
~ Reynodsville, because Il great number
OF the poorer classes live in small one
fUomed matched huts and from ten to a
dozen people seem to thrive there. The
Tsc Death rate is very high from
tuberculosis on this account. Every town
uown here hasa large central plaza where
ie people congregate every evening In
ihe larger towns they have band concerts
twice week, and we have the pleasure Of
listening to q few in San Juan. 1t was a
picturesque sight. Men in white fannels
and linen and the women in all the latest
styles and all colors of the rainbow. 1t
certainly was an animating sight, with
their unceasipg promenading from one end
Of the plaza to the other The bands
played the popular airs and the selections
that received the greatest applause were
I'M 1.-THE Merry Widow" / would like
4 take you there for the finish Of the
tho program. would like to be able to
thrill you as their last piece thrilled u.s.
Tneoonoert was over vt looop. m. Just
before their last selection everything was
"a seething cauldron of talk, SO it seemed
to me, when suddenly the band seemed to
ssy;
"o'say can you see by tho dawn's early
light
,:s'AAat 90 proudly we hailed at the twi-
lights 1nst eieamlng;;
The promenaders became still and all