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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17
GENERAL VIEW OF
 HAVANA. CENTER OF FOUR CENTURIES OF ROMANTIC HISTORY

iitical stability and that . burden some American tariff would de- stroy her chief market for tha. product and place both the Cuban people and their government in Jeopardy of bankruptcy.
 Cuba'S story Is of peculiar inter- est now as a background for the center stage position in the con- mercial world which her financial, industrial and political troubles have placed her since the collapse of the sugar market and the conse- quent financial depression in the is- land. The story of her struggle for independence Is story of struggle against oppressive taxation. It Is the basis of the argument of Ameri- can business men against the 60 per cent increase in the tariff on Cuban sugar.
 Remote as Cuba seemed during those four centuries under Spain, the warp and wool of her annals and her destiny were from the start closely interwoven with those of the United States. through whose aid she finally awoke to full realiza- tion of her latent possibilities. To begin with, Cuba was among the discoveries of Columbus on his first voyage in 1492, and that great navi- gator went to his death believing that In Cuba he had found the main land he sought, the continent on which was later built our republic And Cuba, like the United States, was first settled by Spaniards. And 10 Cuba, as to the American colo nies. came the English to give the first impetus toward political free dom and modern progress. though with Cuba the leaven was weaker and slower in the working. To Cuba, too, came the Irish, the French to mix their strains with the original stock, though in Cuba, unlike America, the Spanish blood continued to predominate.
 In 1923 she took upon herself the same vexatious problem that for so many years plagued America when she began the African slave trade. She had her Indian problem, too. For a time she enslaved these ab- origines, but she seems to have solved her problem early by eman- cipating them in 1544.
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OLD CATHEDRAL. .HANANA- --@>-----==-==: HERE RESTED THE BODY OF COLUMBUS UNTIL AFTER THE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.

Spanfards born in Spain and the creoles. Separatists favored the same reforms, but went a step far ther in advocating complete separa- ti6n from Spain, some favoring in- dependence and others annexation with the United States. It was bloody and destructive war, and in- tervention by the United States was sought and expected, but 1t failed to materialize. The war ended with the rebels accepting the terms de- manded, including abolition of slavery and colonial autonomy. It was 1886, however, before the slaves were all emancipated, and In 1893 equal civil status for blacks and whites was declared.
 The Spanish constitution of 1870 was proclaimed in Cuba in 1881, but the changes effected were only nom- inal and superficial. The struggle kept on until 1t eliminated in the final insurrection of 1895. which ended with American intervention and in the Spanish-American war of 1898 How America cleaned up
 
 and put 1t on truly modern basis during her military rule of the is- land from 1899 to 1902 and again during the occupation from 1906 to 1909 Is familiar history to every one It was Americas final recog- hilton of common bond between herself and the island people at her gate.
 Cuba last came conspicuously in- to international limelight when she promptly followed her foster moth CT into the World War and trained her little army for service abroad.
 Today we are faced with the questions presented by the Cuban Commercial Mission. We must de eide whether we shall continue our historic tie in the spirit of the past by liberal tariff laws and continue to develop our prosperous trade re- lations with Cuba or whether by i'll
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posite, a vision of disorder. feasting her eyes upon the girl
 There was murder story, of which word, andS society wedding to dis cuss.
 'The Chases went" said Julia, dip ping her bread in her coffee, her eyes on the paper. Isn't that the linn it."
 Why, Marian Chase was a brides maid, Julie.''
 "Yes, I know. But I didn't think the Byron Chases would go to Maude Pennelrs wedding! But of course she's marrying an Addison that
 helps Mrs. Byron Chase, lavender
 brocade and pearls" read Julia.
 Well. Maude Pennell is getting in,
 all rtght!'' .,,
 Emeline asked Among the unknown
 members of the city's smartest set she had her favorurtes.
 "'Mrs. Joseph Foulke Coutts'. .''
 Julia read obligingly.
 |" Red velvet robe trimmed with fox"
 "For heavens sake, Julie - with l that red face!"
 And Miss Victoria Coutts in pink
 silk-sheis had that dress for a year | now" Julia said. well, Lord!" She
 yawned luxuriously. 'I wouldn't marry Roy Addison if he was made
 If money-the buml" She pushed
 the paper care1essly aside. What
 you going to do today, Mai" she ask
 "oh, go out" Eme1ine answered
 vaguely, still reading a newspaper paragraph. "Gladys has had to pay over a quarter of a million for that | feller's debts!' said she, awed. Well, that's what you get for mar
 rying a duke,'' Julia answered scorn- fully Lets pile these. Ma. and get dressed"
 They went into the bedroom, where | the gas was lighted again, the bu- reau pushed out from the wall, that | the mirror might catch the best light, and where, in unspeakable confusion, | mother and daughter began to dress
 Julia put on her smart little serge skirt pushing it down over her hips
 with both hands. Then she fixed her | hair carefully. adjusted her hat, tied on a spotted white veil, and finally | sh5rtwaist, which mother and daugh- ter decided was dirty, but would do.
 Rings, bangles. and chains followed a pair of long limp gloves, final powdering, and a ruff of pink feath- CTS. Julia was not fifteen and look | ed fully seventeen. to her great. de light. She gave herself a, sober ye; | approving glance in the mirror; the | corners of her firm yet babyish mouth l twitched with pleasure 1 She locked the doors, set an empty milk bottle on the unspeakably | dreary back stairway, and flung the soggy bedding over the IoOI or lne l bed Then mother and daughter sauntered out into the noontime sum- shine.
 It was their happiest time. as free | and as Irresponsible as children they went forth to meet the days adven- | lures. Something was sure to happen the "crowd'' would have some plan 1 they rarely came home again before | midnight. But this sunsh Iny start | into the day was most pleasant of all | It's freshness, its potentialities ap- healed to them both. It was a Feb ruary day warm and bright, yet with 1 a delicious jingle in the air. (Continued Monday)
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The sixteenth and the early part of the seventeenth centuries were a period of tyrannical oppression and unjust taxation for Cuba, ac- companied almost continuously by wild romantic violence. Brigandage reigned ashore, smuggling and pi- racy on the sea. There was an al- most unbroken series of ipsurrec- tions against Spanish tyranny and of struggles between factions. It was during this period that English and French pirates began and con- tinued their reign of terror on the Spanish Main. The disastrous eco homie rule of Cuba was a breeder of privateering and smuggling.
 In 1T62 came Cuba's first real tentative step forward. In that year the British stormed and captured Havana. The city was returned to Spain in exchange for the Floridas year later, but the progressive organizing genius of the British had left its influence. They had opened and developed the port of Havana and given a new impetus to Cuban commerce. They inspired in Cubans the desire for political free
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The Story of Julia Page
 By Kathleen Norris


 (Continued from Yesterday.)
 EmeEne. usually rolled over to smile at her daughter when she heard the door open, and Julia would De component parts of a substantial meal. Julia loved the cramped, clean. .odorous shop that smelled of wet wood and mixed mustard pickles and smoked fish. A little cream bottle would be filled from an immense can at her request, the shopkeeper's wife wiping it with a, damp rag and bony hand And the pat of butter, ana the rolls. and the sliced ham, and the cheese-Herr Bauer scratched their prices with a stubby pencil on an oily bit of paper, checked their number by the number of bundles, gave Ju1a home for a, delicious lettering break fast with her mother. EmeHne still in her limp, lace-trimmed night gown, with a spotted kirnono hanging loose ly over It. and her hair wildly tous- led ass at the top her head, pre- sided at a clear end of the kitchen table. She and Julia, occupied only two rooms of the original apartment now; a young lawyer, with his wife and child, had the big front room, and the dtning-room was occupied by two mysterious young men who came and went for years without ever be- traying anything of their own lives to their neighbours. Julia only knew that they were young, quiet, hard x, it's.
 But she knew the people In the front room quite well. Mrs. Raymond Toomey was a neat, bright, hopeful little woman. passionate1y devoted to her husband and her spoiled, high voiced little son. Raymond Toomey was a big, clustering fool of man, handsome in a coarse sort of way, noisy, shallow and opintonated. Whenever there were races, the Too meys went to the races, taking the precocious 'Lloydy," in his velvet F'auntIeroy suit and tasselled shoes and taking Baby" shivertng little times Mrs. Toomey came out to the kitchen in the morning, to curl her ostrich feathers over the gas stove, or jjein Mrs. Page in a cup of coffee.
 God, girlie that goes to the spot" she would yawn, stirring her cup, both elbows on the table. we had a fierce day yesterday, and Ray took a little too much last night you known how men are! He had a stable tip yesterday, and went the there's no such thing as a tp!"
 And sometimes she would put a little printed list of entries before Julia and say:
 'Pick me a. winner, darling. Go on just pick any one!
 Julia soon reached the age when she could get her own breakfast, and then, mingled with a growing appre- citation of the girls beauty, her moth CT felt that gratitude always paid by an indolent person to one of energy. She knew that her child was finer than she was, prettier, more clever, more refined She herself had never had any reserves; she had all ways screamed or shouted or cried or run away when things crossed her,
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Tn 1925, however, reaction set in, just as 1t had a generation or more before under the British rule of the
 American colonies. The captains
 general of Cuba received arbitrary
 powers and a new reign of tyranny and discord began.
 In 1884 the Spanish constitution was proclaimed in Cuba without the governors consent and was prompt | ly suppressed The climax of this period came in 1S44 with a bloody persecution Of the negroes for a supposed plot of rebellion against Spain involving the alleged ambi- tions of Great Britain and the Unit ed States to annex the island. From 1920 on Cuba had been get ting more and more involved in in ternational affairs concerning par ticularly Spain. the United States,
 England, France. Colombia and Mexico.
 In 1850, during the time that
 the slavery question was embroil- ing the United States in dfscord. Cuba became involved seriously in the same problem. During that year proslavery interests in the United
 States advocated annexation Presi- dents Pierce and Buchanan vafnly sought such union. From 1S49 to
 1851 there were three abortive fili-
 clustering expeditions to Cuba from the United States. From 1850 to 1868 there was a steady conflict be tween the liberals and the reaction
 aries, centering around the conniv- ance of the captains general in He gal slave trade.-
 Then as the slavery question had
 culminated in war in the United
 States it reached the same climax in
 Cuba only a little later with the Ten
 Years War beginning in 1868, the
 rebels combining two factions
 against Spain. The reformists de
 manded action against corruption
 and unjust taxation and slavery and
 recognition of equality between the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17
BRIDGEPORT'S TAX EXPERTS IN
 NEW OFFICES

An office has been opened in the Johnson building at 1O97 Broad street, by Albert P. Walsh, w. J. Griffin and John J. O'Rourke, all for merly connected with the Internal Revenue Department, who will spec ialize in income and state tax work. Beside the above three they will have a staff of specialists in the above work and also a corps of expert &C., audits in all forms of tax work.
 It was originally planned to open the office after the first of the year. but du etc the many calls for advice little earlier and have also decided now to open an office in Ansnia at PA Main street. MT. Walsh will be in charge of the Bridgeport office with MT Griffin in charge in Ansonia, while MT. O'Rourke will have charge of the extension work around the state,
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but she saw Julia daily displaying
 se1f-control and composure such as
 We're 7a u subtieties @ in Julia; her sweet firm young mouth closed over
 the swift-coming words~she would
 not say, her round, round blue eyes
 were wiser already than her mothers S eyes.
 The girl had grown very handsome
 Her joyous. radiant colouring was
 contradicted by her serious expres-
 sion, her proud, unsmiling mouth.
 Her eyes were dark, her colouring softly dark; she had the veivety,
 tawny skin that usually accompanies
 dark hair. Yet her hair was a pure and exquisite gold. She wore it
 fluffed over her ears, cut in a bang
 on her neck. in rather absurd and artificial fashion. But the effect of her grave little face and severe ex-
 pression, with this opulent gold, and very ptquant. Even powder, earrings, and clubbing" her hair did not rob
 Julia of the appearance of a sweet, wilful, and petulant child. Besides the
 powder and earrings, she indu1ged in cologne, and rings and bracelets; she
 wore little corsets, at fourteen, and laced them tight.
 Julia's mind, at this time, was a cucfous little whirlpool She had the 1atural arrogance of her years; she felt that she had nothing to learn. She had an affectionate contempt for her mother, and gave advice more often than she accepted it from Eme-
 line. Julia naturally loved order and
 cleanliness, but she never came in contact with them. Emeline some times did not air or make her bed for weeks at a time. She washed only such dishes as were absolutely | necessary for the next meal. She
 never sent out a bundle to the 1aun- dry, but washed handkerchiefs and some underwear herself, at cratic l intervals, drying them on windows,
 or the backs of various chairs. Eme- line always had pair or more of
 of cold suds in the bedroom, and oc- castonally carried a waist or a lace petticoat to the little French laun-
 dress on Powell Street. and drove a
 sharp bargain with her. Julia ac- cepted the situation very cheerfu1ly. their lazy, aimless existence, and to Julia, at least, the future was full of hope. She could do any one of a
 dozen things that would lead to fame and fortune.
 The particular day that opened for
 her with two hours of quiet reading
 progressed like any other day The mother and daughter arose, got their
 breakfast in the kitchen, and sat long
 over 1t, sharing the papers. the hot
 ly the little French loaf Ju1ia's nightgown was as limp her moth CTS, her kimono as dirty, and her
 feet were thrust in fur slippers, ori-
 ginally white, now gray. But her
 fresh young colour, and the rich loops and waves of her golden hair her firm young breasts under her
 thin wraps, and the brave blue of her
 eyes made her a very different pie ture from her mother. who sat op-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17

SEyITH the nid-winter season w close by, with it's dances and dinners, the well dressed woman is devoting more attention to the accessories of the evening cos tune. And this season there are many new accessories of engaging design.
 Take for example, one of the latest fads-the fan. In the up- per sketch is shown beautiful fan of amber frame, founced with black Chantilly lace. At first it may seem absurd-but one may be comfortably sure that not only will it cause futtering gossip, but will be in perfect taste as we'll Of course, it is taken for granted that discretion will be used, for it is quite essential that is is carried only by rather will
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considered and burdensome enacAs ments we shall cripple this gian. and send him back to his siumbers, Spain crippled Cuba by unjust tax ation. Shall we, who freed the little island from that burden. turn about now and destroy her by the same process? It Is in Havana and the country roundabout chiefly that visiting Americans today caA see concrete memorials of the historic incidents which awakened this young giant and have so closely bound Cuba's destiny to ours.
 Diego VelasQuez, in 1515, founded on the south coast of Cuba a city, which he called San Cristobal de Ia Havana, after the name of tribe of Indians he found there Four years later, however. the colonists ton and, crossing the island to the north shore, re-estabiished the city where 1t now stands. Ever since lt has been the center of the islands history. although it was not until 1856 that it became formally the capital of Cuba
 In Morro Castle, guarding tha eastern entrance to Havana harbor, one sees the lonely old watch tower that back in the early days of the
 sixteenth century stood guard on the hilltop of Morro so that the pi- rates could not take the little coES 1 munity unawares.
 Later one sees Engfand's fleet of 200 ships lying In a semicircle on the entrance of the harbor. Whea the commander of the castle could no longer hold out he exploded . mine and nearly wrecked the old fortress rather than surrender. A | little further within the harbor lies La Cabana, the largest and most l impressive ancient fort of the vest
 ern hemisphere, built in 1763 shortly after the British evacuation. When Spaln's army retired from Cuba in 1899 both Cabana and Nor
 TO were filled with long lines of ! cells In which thousands of political prisoners had spent years of con- l finement.
 Up to the departure of Spain's
 army from Havana in 1899 sections
 of the old city wall several blocks
 in length, extending through the heart of the town. still remained in- 1 tact Only one small piece re-
 mains today, however. of the work
 that was begun in 1883 and not completed until 1740.
 Near the landing place at the foot 1 of O'Reilly street still stands tho
 fortress La Fuera, on whose draw.
 bridge Mime. de Sota stood In 15SS
 and watched her husband sail away
 to the conquest of Florida, an expe-
 dition which ended in his death ana
 burial in the Mississippi River,
 which he discovered.
 Then there Is the Cathedral of Havana, in which rested the bones
 of Christopher Columbus until at
 the request of the Pope the Spanish
 forces were allowed to remove them
 to Seville, Spain, on their departure
 in 1899
 These are only few of the mou-
 uments that remind Americans of
 the various turning points in Cuban D
 history in which our race and na- ton have a peculiar interest, rang
 ing all the way from those old for tresses reminiscent of the first in-
 fusion of Anglo Saxon ideas and
 ideals into Cuba to the spot in Ha-
 vana harbor where sank the Maine, to San Juan hill and to the neck of kSantiago harbor where Hobson sank 1 the Merrimac.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17
By GARRETT SMITH

TAD group of Cuban gen. - tlemen presented them A A selves a little over twenty
 years ago to the officials at Washington and announced that they were 8 commercial mission, sent by their government. to plead a tariff law that would financially cripple their country. we would have been as amazed as would have been the men of a previous genera tion had such a mission presented itself from Japan. Yet such a mis- sion came from Cuba recently and was received by the State Depart ment with the consideration due representative of one of America's s best international customers and most harmonious neighbors.
 Cuba in lesser degree parallels Japan as a sleeper who awoke sud- denly to a state of surprising ac- tivity. Japan was a giant who had slumbered in ancient barbarian for thousands of years. Cuba has proven herself a little giant whose sleep of medievalism lasted four centuries.
 The history of what went before Cuba's awakening, during those 400 dark years of Spanish misrufe, is 8 closed book to most Americans, though one of the most romantic pages in the worlds annals.
 Whatever may have been the TO- nance in Cuba's existence under Spain, It is story of misrule large ly through oppressive taxation. hampering her economic ceveIop- ment and fomenting political dis turbances.
 Although couched in very diplo- matic and carefully phrased lan- guage, the Cuban Commercial Mis- sion's case, as presented to the Sem ate Finance Committee through the State Department, was plea for the United States not to repeat through III considered tariff legisla- ton the mistakes made centuries ago by Spain. The mission pointed out that sugar Is Cuba's main de pendance, not only for economic and industrial welfare but also for po-
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lowy person, gowned in k chnging silks or satins. S
 For the more conservative, Y( the jade and black fan of N sequins is suggested. This N fan carried by Gloria Swan
 son, starring in the Paramoun picture, "Her Husbands Trade mark" lends a pleasing yet bril- liant touch to any costume.
 Another clever innovation il fans, acceptable for the eveninl costume, is the tiny fan show in the sketch with the gown. Thi is of orchid tu1le, and is finishe' off with long hues of orchid os trich feather, as is the tassel a the end of a long silk cord.
 Miss Swanson, ever an enviabl type for the designer of Spanis costumes, is in possession of thi
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entrancing gown of black velvet and dull silver lace, decidedly reminiscent of Velasquez paint ing. The skirt is built on boUffant lines, and is set to tight bodice, which has round yoke fitting over the top of the arm and so forming covering for the sleeves. Regardless of the class in which this gown belongs, it has an un- even hem, and is slashed at the left side, thus leaving reason for trimming the edges with dull sil- yer galloon. A further Spanish touch is furnished by vivid red rose.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17
ANNUAL DANCE
 OF SERVICE CLUB

The members of the Service club will hold their annual Christmas ben eft dance Friday evening, Dec. 30, in the ball room of the BrookIa wn Country club. Tables for bridge are being arranged for the guests who do not care to dance. Bolton and Cyrpriano's orchestra, with George Bronfin at the drums, will furnish them usic.
 Miss Doris Wheeler, president of the Service club, is chairman of the General committee. and Mrs. Brad
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ford Warner is in charge of the deco rations which will consist of Christ mas greens.
 Thep roceeds of the affair will be used in thee haritable work in which the members are now engaged. Dur
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office and recently appointed post master of Ansonia, was given a brfar- wood pipe, a gold watch chain and Masonic emblem by his fellow work CTS. last evening.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17

Lorraine Mercitas Clark. daughter of MT. and Mrs. Fayette c. Clark. of 21S0 North avenue, whose wedding to Erwin Emil Maurer of Yonkers, N Y, at 6:30 tonight will be one of the first elaborate weddings of the holiday season.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17

Miss Christine Newman, a student at the Burnham school at Northan1p- ton, returned to the city yesterday to spend the Christmas vacation with her parents, Mir. and Mrs. c. M. New man of S25 Laurel avenue.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-12-17

Albert W. Jeynes, formerly regis tered mail clerk at the local post