The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-04-27

of some drug essence.
Just follow the old negress with the
large gold hoop in her nose, who was
transplanted to this is and from
Mozambique about a decade ago-fol-
low her as she goes strolling along,
jingling triangle as she begs cop.
pers on her way to the corner grocery
to get her sip of flrewater or a cup
of red claret AS she dawdles and
jingles she sings a common refrain.
so Says the Priest" This is almost
the only class seen drunk on the
streets.
The cart driver, an emigrant from
the Basque country Of Spain, will be
at the corner grocery also for his
thimbleful of 'Manzanilla," a kind of
apple toddy' made in Spain. Hanging
from rafter there may be a strange
looking object somewhat resembling a
large smoked ham, but it is in reality
a pigskin filled with ordinary wine.
The Chinese quarters reveal another
kind of "bebida," A large number of
Chinese remain in Cuba, where a liv.
ing may be had with small labor and
less capital. Some earn enough by
merely ringing the bell in a railroad
station for the train to leave Others
are storekeebers or truck gardeners
and others are doiNestics in well to do
families. Some of them, seen as beg
g&rs, look more than any other beg
gars as if quite deserted by "Ka," who
gave the seed of life.
In the Chinese stores there are tuck,
ed away quite out of sight many
black squat pots filled with a liquor
looking like ink. This is to be had
at any and all prices according to the
customers pocketbook AS Coolie
John travels to and from market this
stuff stepped in opium nerves him for
another trial at "rifa rifa," his own
pet gambling sport.
Because the hot "guarapo" is pure
and healthful one should taste it when
visiting a sugar mill or "ingenio.
"Guarapo" is the hot boiling cane
juice before it is made into graduated
sugar. Often a thimbleful of anisette
or kimmel is put in to remove its
insipidity. Invalids stand in the vapor
of this foaming syrup and drink il
hot daily as a supposed remedy for
many diseases of the body.
But the drink of all drinks in Cuba
is just coffee Even babies in swad,
ding clothes drink coffee and milk as
it is prepared in a native Cuban house,
hold-a cupful of fresh boiled milk
with just a dash of coffee The pure
bean is not even ground out on the
plantations, in some instances it is
merely crushed and put into a flannel
bag, boiling water then being poured
over it.
1t is something of a problem how to
secure fresh milk in Cuba, where il
has been known to curdle almost on
leaving the COW. The wall in many
households of early morning is "Ay!
oh! the milk it curdled. No coffee
or milk" The first born takes up the
cry of "Ay mama-ita," and the cnext
heir chants it to the rising gun till
all down the line goes a howl, for milk
alone is the common breakfast, par
taken of by all In the, cities and
towns to prevent this calamity the
COW and her calf are brought to ones
doorsill and there, the mill1man seated
on the very doorstep, the COW is milk
ed.
In Cuba the cafe is open on all sides
and within sit rich and poor day in
and day out slipping, slipping. No one
drinks in Cuba. Every one sips. No,
body could keep drinking all the time
but slipping has the advantage that
one can keep it up almost perpetual,
ly.
Chocolate may be found at some five
o'clock tea where the guests are of
mixed blood, but it is no false pre-.
sentation of this rich nourishing cup,
but the true "fabrica" made from the