. Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico . totheir great good. The play can go on all the year,stopping only for rain, and clubs have been organ-ized in the larger centers, with Americans at pres-ent as leading players. Porto Rico has importedmany worse things than our national game. Gam-bling is a common habit with all classes, and gamesof chance are always popular. Fondness for amuse-ment is prevalent, and Sunday is the great day forsport. Saloons still Absent. The people are partial tothe theater, and every town has one. The danceis also a favorite pastime. Dice throwin
. Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico . totheir great good. The play can go on all the year,stopping only for rain, and clubs have been organ-ized in the larger centers, with Americans at pres-ent as leading players. Porto Rico has importedmany worse things than our national game. Gam-bling is a common habit with all classes, and gamesof chance are always popular. Fondness for amuse-ment is prevalent, and Sunday is the great day forsport. Saloons still Absent. The people are partial tothe theater, and every town has one. The danceis also a favorite pastime. Dice throwing is a sim-ple mode of gambling, and a game like dominoes isseen in the drinking resorts. Saloons of the Amer-ican pattern are not a Porto Rican institution, and itis hoped will not be imported. The Porto Ricansdrink, but not in our customary treating way, andthey very rarely become intoxicated. It is said thatthe Porto Rican regiment that has been drilled to ahigh state of perfection is superior to the Ameri-can, because the men are so much more sober. That. BLANCHE KELLOGG INSTITUTE, SANTURCE, PORTO RICOINTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS, EL CRISTO, CUBA THE ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE 191 is a reflection which Americans ought to take toheart. Field for Schools. As for childrens c^ames, thereare none practically. Many of the cl illren of thepoor have never seen a doll. Our simple gamesare unknown to them. One result is that withoutinnocent play the children soon become corruptedand mature. The missionary kindergarten couldhave no greater field for usefulness than in PortoRico and Cuba, and the same is true of the manualtraining and domestic schools. A school of playought to be established and courses be put in everycurriculum. As with Cuba, Porto Rico is markedby an unusually large proportion of children to thepopulation, and this affords the chief opportunityboth to the educator and the missionary. Enlarged Agriculture and Commerce. Americanindustry and commerce have given emphatic illus-trati
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