Show CUBAS BALEFUL MOON the fhe story of a woman toman who wall changed chancell from a beauty to a hide creature th the ugliest woman I 1 ever saw said the raconteur to a new york commercial reporter was a cuban and she was so ugly that it was really painful ts look at her it takes the exception to prove the rule said his vis a vis tell us about her she was a woman of the humblest lass class and it was at havana that I 1 first saw her tethered to a goat that she was herding among the stubble of the sugar cane her husband was a charcoal burner and when I 1 first saw estella I 1 wondered how any man living could have married such a character love goes where it is sent said one of the after dinner crowd yes and the charcoal burner married for love but he never would have won estella if a dreadful providence had not favored him the cubana ha had d once been the most beautiful girl in havana and as good as she was beautiful her eyes were big and black her skin a glowing olive andberg hair a mass of blue black silk that is what an old dame told me with much lingo her father was a bodi gero a man who kept a wine cellar the girls mother was dead one night her father went home drunker than usual and turned herout her out of doors brute exclaimed one of the party with that quick sympathy that the sorrows of beauty always arouses she did not go to her lover nor did she fly to the refuge of some roof where she had bad friends she simply billowed pillowed pill owed d her head upon the gray donkey that had been her friend and play playmate mate from childhood where she slept against arr a dinst the tumbled in thatched roof of the pen in in the chaparala cha paral prayed to the black madonna and slept soundly like a child in the moonlight and the brigands brigande bri gands came and carried her off to their fastness suggested one of the party nothing of the kind when hr her pillow billow lowthe the little donkey rolled over in the morning she arose another person she ran into the house and her father screamed sancta marial and drove her out as a stranger she had slept in P the cuban moonlight the fairest moon light in the world bat as deadly i aa the shadow of the tree her fai drawn out of the shape re e mb A human being it was wai the ported mask that I 1 saw tures of an imbecile ecila heras her thedroe thed roi her from him with ou curseri at view with whom she had nr her at once and they told ml nah made her a d good dood husban husband I 1 i r ia auban ddn mo calling her young daugh daughter terin in the house housa when the full moonlight is floo flooding cling the balconies with its silver light and the light seems made for lovers to wander in for everybody there knows the sto story ry of estella there was a long silence then one on of the listeners said 1 I dont believe in that theory of the moon it makes a pretty story but its too romantic 11 its a matter of history take it or leave it said the raconteur blowing blue rings of smoke upward a sign that he had finished his exercise |