. Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico . great hall and fronts on the street, while thefamily rooms are ranged about the patio. So alsoare the kitchen and the stables, if horses are an enclosed veranda runs around theinside, and the dining-table is set there. When therewas no general drainage, the cesspool was in thecenter of the patio, so that, as Steele suggests, ifthere is any disease bred from it all can have afair chance and no favors shown. Into this wenteverything liquid, including stable drainage. Nowonder yellow fever raged and that General Woods
. Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico . great hall and fronts on the street, while thefamily rooms are ranged about the patio. So alsoare the kitchen and the stables, if horses are an enclosed veranda runs around theinside, and the dining-table is set there. When therewas no general drainage, the cesspool was in thecenter of the patio, so that, as Steele suggests, ifthere is any disease bred from it all can have afair chance and no favors shown. Into this wenteverything liquid, including stable drainage. Nowonder yellow fever raged and that General Woodsoon got after the sanitary conditions—or ratherfound there were none. Parlor Arrangement and Furniture. In the par-lor you see two long rows of rocking-chairs, exactlyopposite each other, with a rug of carpeting or mat-ting between. The males must sit on one side andthe females on the other. The parlor is a room ofstate, cool, airy, cement or marble floored, withabundance of bric-a-brac, few pictures on the walls,and furniture cane-seated and wood, with no. COURTING IN CUBACOURTYARD OF A WEALTHY CUBAN HOME THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE 83 stuffed sofas or chairs, or anything soft and warm;the reason given being that insect life renders itdifficult to keep carpets and coverings from is a piano in every home of any pretensions,and the children must learn to drum it after a fash-ion. Family Scenes. If the parlor seems somev^hatstilted, if books are conspicuous by their absence,there is nevertheless an air of comfort and genial-ity. And when a family group is seen within—mother and children, probably, for the father is sel-dom at home when he can be at business or club—you look upon a pleasant sight. Courtship. A word should be said concerning theCuban young man who is in love, and the customsof courtship, for both parties to it merit sexes are carefully kept apart in their educa-tion and socially, as in France, and the young girlis never allowed to go o
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