Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-07-12

EAg ~ older are true to their Span
W III ish origin. / think Of one in
particular 1t is in the heart
OF the lower city-away from the
fashionable Prado. Instead of making
every inch pay in small rooms and cor
ridors, it is built around a spacious
patio, or central hall, running up two
or three stories and buttressed with
massive pillars The corridors are
merely balconies carried around the
four sides of the patio on each floor.
Instead of glazing white walls here are
wainscots of Spanish tiles in delicately
modu4ated yellow and blues, writes
correspondent of the Outlook
The American legation has long
been housed in an edifce with such
noble court; but now that the legation
must be moved, there is difficulty in
getting in new building, as dignified
and appropriate architecture, no mat
ter how great the advantage of modern
conveniences, and more appropriate To-
cation Our consulate is we'll lodged
on the top floor of the new Bank of
Cuba building But, though such a
modern place is efficient in labor saw
ing. as one looks at the homely stories
superimposed on the really fine facade
of the lower stories the effect is only
one of an architectural alteration.
In this hot place much attention is
necessarily given to cooling off, The
tiled floor of your room helps to that
end. The room itself, with a ceiling
twenty feet high, helps. OF course a
bath helps, and the best hotel know
advertises every room with BATH
Even a cigar-albeit a hot and not a
cold thing-helps, one reason being.
fancy, that it costs about half as much
as in the United States But, most of
all, pima fra helps-a pineappleade,
to coin word. There are other seduc-
tive drinks; for instance, orchata
(mil.i of almonds) and naranjada
(orangeade) But the pima fra caps
the climax
Cheap Transit.
Another way to cool off is to drive.
or even better to take one of the trans
go to the end of the line, and come
oack. AS few lines are double through
the same streets the journey presents
the greater interest, going out through
one set of streets and returning by an
other. The tram system offers sur
prisingly quick and cheap transit to
most of Havana and it's suburbs For
instance, you go from Jesus del Monte,
the highest point south of Havana,
through the city Vedada, the fashiona-
bic resort of the sea, distance of
some ten miles, for cents And at
Vedada there are suburban residences
worth seeing They are often embow-
cred in gorgeously Towering vines,
even better worth seeing.
Tie harbor unites the strenuous
with the serene Unloading and load
ing means lot Of labor And yet the
labor seems to go on unnervously, per-
haps because Of the tropical climate,
which discourages overexertion.
Alongside there is one of the good
old buildings characteristic of Cuba or
Spain, we'll adapted to a southern eli
mate, with dignifed proportions, with
two high ceilinged floors, with balloon
les and broad windows. The building
is painted cool gray.
little further along the new Ha-
vana jostles the old in the shape of a
structure several times as large, with
at least three times as many floors,
not as high between joints, and with
narrower windows, some arranged in
groups of two or three and with hot
looking mahogany colored shades, the
building itself being painted a warm
olive.
Furthermore, instead of the usual
fat roof, appropriate to the tropics,
this particular roof is surmounted by
a red dome over which sways a gilt
end doubtless disguised Diana. Now
there are reds and reds. And some
rnay be a grateful color feature even
IN the South
For instance, take the soft reds of
the tiled roofs of the dock sheds, or
the marvellous reds, as time has de-
Veleoped them, splashy and well-nigh
iridescent, over there on the long Ca
bana wall, fascinating old wall in any
light, and, like the hills along the Nile,
apparently preserving sunset colors at
MONDAY.
Sailors Are Spanish.
Are you a Cuban?" / asked of the
sailor who was taking me about Ha-
vana harbor.
lie answered my question with an
other: Can Cuban sail a Eoat?"
Then he added, mo, senors we have
to como over her from Spain to sail
the Cuba1s' boats for them And there
are many of us in Cuba for that and
for other labors more than hundred
thousand. Some come from GaIicia.