Show I 1 cuban cust customs OMS charles A dana la in a letter to the now new york says laya inba cuba is one ol of the fairest land lamia under tinder the hie light oi of the san and one of the healthiest there ii I 1 probably improbably no BO other country in the tropics where people ot of northern birth call am ii live yo more comfortably or more solely it is true there ili yellow lever fever iu iii Ilav aull ut at all times tanua still anil in the sum mer iner it becomes epidemic bat this thin is is the effect of local causes for a winter resilience residence tor for northern people nothing fin can be ba morn more delightful than the cuban caban climate clin nta through february of this thin year the average of the tho thermometer wui was about seventy and ami there was only one I 1 illy duy of rainy unpleasant weather still the climate is never dever it bracing ono one you in winter a white matt ami cannot ilo 10 of as ranch much hard work ad lie can in fit pennsylvania or iowa still ami in in summer lie he must rest 1 during ilia alio madille inn lillo of tile the ds day ili la it very attractive city of 0 detill it is in built buil t on cm the western of it long noil and narrow buy the declivity is in sufficient to in sure good the ilia streets ure are eal barrow row und the ha sidewalks urn lira orloo afteu 01 only aly wido enough for a single portion person the ilia houses are built of stone moll ami the older ones are generally of one story they are ara pointed painted light blue bine and yellow tile ho roofs in many cases are of red lilos filed in in tile intense sunlight of the day clay the ills general effect is bright and gay tile ilio public are charming with their handsome drives krivoa smooth walks fountains loun taina palms mud and baeres ol of tropical tro flowering shrubbery rubbery eb in the evening they mis are brilliantly lighted and filled with throngs of poo peo plo lo silting biffin wit walking fal king talking smoking Bin oking 10 listening I 1 to tho the nati music iii on enjoying the oft bolt delicious air the picture is liko like that 0 ot th tho ion battle a 1 I 0 of parla except ill that a 11 it N i bro aJor mure more varied losa less are crowded w bedana and leas iona noisy the cabs of navana are ara Vict victorias orlas with one horse carrying two persons por soca the horses are a small batile tough brood thoro there are thousands of these theeo cabs anil and no one has baa to wait to flad one the drivers aro are honest beyond the wont of their trade I 1 did not hear bear of an instance of one attempting to extort from a foreigner more thin than lite hia lawful fare the price of a drive to any purl part ol of the city whether thero there are ara ono one or two per sons sona in the cub cab is forty cents centa in ili paper or twenty cents in coin hotels in cuba aru are dirty thoro there ili is no clean hotal in havana und those most moat frequented by foreigners seem boom it if possible to be ba tho the littlest it is IB said that in visiting ailing vi any place where spanish is 13 the language the safe bate wy way is to go 0 to tho the newest hotel justion Jas Jus tiou LOW how ever requires leq ulrea me to say gay that the hotel Cabar cabarrovy rony at han ban diego is la tho the perfect tiou tion of neatness in most of its arrange men meats to as it iiii is of anoa in ia the table italo with one or two improvements it t would become worthy of 0 commendation the iho usage baago everywhere Is n to beg baria in tho ilia day say at from six to seven in the morning with a couple of fresh oranges and a cup of coffee with wilh milk and sugar augur breakfast a very sub substantial starl 1 I 1 kl meal with wino wine anil and it a dessert of sweat follows at about eleven and dinner at from six to haven bayou the 1 lie boat beat cooks cooka aro are chinese China ao there is in a great doal deal of dnita drink ing among the people 0 cin am is in the tha favorite liquor and large quantities of it are bold but I 1 did not sea BOO anywhere A drunken man smoking is ia as universal and constant ai breathing but I 1 saw no ladies smoking though no one retrains from smoking because they are present cigarettes are anro frequently used than cigars no apology is required for introducing thowana thou and no one asks his bis visitor or companion to join him in smoking because he ha as ai that the visitor lee baa his ow own a tobacco in his bia pocket and would light his cigarette it if lie he wished to ila do BO all the only places where ono cant smoke are the and the theaters at the opera I 1 saw BAW a man who had begun began to smoke in the tha parquet compelled to quit the indulgence but at the same bam time a cloud of smoke blown from one of the private boxes back of the proscenium excited no attention whatever in the ra railroad cars care everybody smokes without restraint I 1 and a special our oar tor for the pull P POBO age would bo be ridiculous there is one good carriage road in the island the government highway constructed evidently tor for military reasons reason extending westward into the vuel tit ti abajo the tobacco country and eastward into the tha sugar region but the country roads generally are of the most primitive description little better thin than cattle paths even about sin diego do de lost loa banos onu one of the moat agreeable spots in ill the world whore thero there are sulphur and magnesia springs ap ringa and where thousands of northern people a would be delighted deligh tod id to go every winter were it more a tessible jes sible there is is so no road on which an m ordinary carriage cm cia be ba comfortably driven if the tha island is ia ever to start out in the race of modern progress it must bogin by the construction of good country rods |