Show GAY YOUNG MAN IN CUBA I He Ke Is a Limited Class But Gives Great Trouble to Authorities I It is quite the fashion in Cuba for lor the young man of a certain class to affect I an oddity of some sort s rt If It there is a lit little littie tIe tle brown bro 11 mole on his cheek he lets the hair grow long and silky from this his single f spot and shaves the scanty beard b rd from all aU other parts of his face As a result one sometimes sees a man with two or three such odd little patches pat hes like oases in a desert they serve to attract atten attention attention attention tion and attention pleases the vanity of the Cuban young man however it may be obtained Others O hers allow the nails on one or more fingers to grow long Usually ally aiL all the little linger finger is chosen for or colt cultivation cultivation and an the young man takes every care and caution not to break or bruise the nail Presently it grows out aut long o oa of at ata ofa a sickly gray and rounds at the tho point like a quill Indeed one hears of or cases in which the finger nail nall is carefully split on the end and used for a pen and a document is shown at Havana which is said to have been written by a govern government ment meat employee with his little finger finler nail It is the young Cuban of this class who causes trouble in the cities He has bas much dignity to support and an idea of chival chivalry ry taken from French novels He Ho is 19 out walking of an evening and he meets an acquaintance on en the sidewalk The side sidewalks sidewalks I walks of Cuban cities are nar narrow narrow narrow row barely wide enough for one man to walk comfortably If two meet ore one must i step off into the street or in at a shop doorway If therefore two bloods of the proper timber Umber meet neither will step out for tor the other There are high words then knives then a very little blood and the police Police court records show that many of the cutting cases occur just in this way and it is always hard for the Americans to understand them so mixed up are arc they with Cuban honor honar |