| Show PRETTY GIRLS BY THE ACRE I AIl About the Beauties of Our New Possession In the West Indies the Belles of Porto nicoHow They Look Act nnd Drosks A Great Dnll tit Son JunnA Look at the Governor General Houa find Hbuackceplna trellis Pnlacs Porto Rican Hounds Woninnl Work and WnrjetSorvnnt Olrl nt 4 Month Cattle DayTho Porto lilcnns and Hou omnld nt 10 nt Vruherwoman and Her Tub Cotmabltd 11211 by Frank O Caipcn Imrr ier l Jails Iorlo llloo July Ill IU1 1 lan a quarter of on ere ot VM clrli Ml HM thy were rlh sills woll i Md 1 inl I and I by and urge lUlU IS7T IIavo 1 Pon IM > tar The mot jiuiu were whlrlln about In ln l pmoo ol IH walls and I actually on 4 ill Iorlo Illean dandle aMl our Ir J military officers who heU the 111 ntlr arm It j nl a grand ball given by tile 1 en 10 of San Juan The theater 0 11 rmd for the ocoailon and the > i Juu Ittalir 1 li I bigger than Row n Million U to a building tf trek d stucco which belonged to Ik < ioi i llh government and which U I t < ueiiop rtyof Uncle Sam It has i iui as large I as a city lot Title mtbqtfa circle 1 wa floored over Inn eight t I that wllh the aimed 1 then was Pilot then a quarter of an acr of clear oIAa over Th IIIr WAR tBrPemtelinalnduleocnoanbuot relra 1146 Ward 1 l i kalls Tile three I gallfta which fun Around flit thAtr to dlM with ml whit ami blu > nrlpe ppangled with plate and American na were mrVwntrVi The box ward fllleJ with rich pOll Itlran and the Sills upon the floor re the daughter of Ilia Aell M pit or the Island Nu one wu SIMI m floor sit Insitation and like Ibnd add Mal dens present orl evrted tile PIT loP or Ih upper crust If 110 It Ivan Society Tin win were of the tame class and the wloe 94ki me a new Idea or the tem 1 of Hit ktibjKti whom Uncl IQ Sinn has outlets UIONU nil III1LLUS OF BAN JUAN I lih the correspondent who hat I ha-t xiltlng Utter horn to the effect ht lher U I colored blood In all Purge Ju i muld hot attended title ball I bive toer Soon l tltr tniii of the Ltiloi or Spanish The comples l Fu7 r wrn all darker than oiirn but I It 1 1 no trolls of the notice and I doubt If l those wai a woman In the room who ha1 P uch blood In her veins It was a Concision crowd and a re remarkably tfood looklnx P Hundred fit flit women were aa well dreoAod and en the whole far more decently dronied than the women you iwo at a Whlto Ilotif I rerrptlun There viere many short uleevm ihoolnx lump dimpled white 1 arm and bntutlful tirko The frowna ere nol cut so low u to ihow the swelling of lha t bolooln and I such ai were decollete wen IllleJ la wllh embroidery The colon wllh the eicepllim of iwrhnpi half a dozen anent of black lace were pulinon pink ikr blue still I while All were fn dancing danc-ing length nnd nearly all were well nlo line Take a Jump In your Imagination train the United Slatom 10 Iou filed lAd ld 11 with me In ono or the theater I bole and watch the crowd an X vivir II 1 last nltht I venture you hart never 67A a iretllrr slight What a lot ot Ututlti are Whirling about on the floor Wow uil I They are straight and iletv 1 drr and very one Is I a brunette Nol am of hm In I dumpy or overfiet Uh It I Just a food armful and they am all Kill = d exccedlnnly graceful r What 1illful hair they have and what a lot of lit u u I a > black aa the patent bather shoes or the men except when It hll been dusted with powder and Varied thereby for the evening to void Haw nell the hair Is l put up II It I aimed In a knot just luck ot Iho rown and It ruffed out a la pompa door < > o that nU makes tho dear little bud ot Ilia maldena look lamer TIIBT Aim MCI aiitLM Now cat your eye at the Inert Are lid y not fweett They an full of fun Ul rennrd They look like tile > girls fiell girls incident and pure ai 1 doubt ul I tbo x are dee how they laugh and kit uh their pirtnen tat how they I up the dance throughout even E Ith Is ant rh dancing that ill o the chance of being aJon wl It these WMUK for according lo Spanish nitm whrn they sit down they mutt nil I their place I fly their married III 1 11 I anmdlot herill or aunts uho act as QZII ow tl > o dn to I over nd we ran oh 1To them at Mgt NV flat retails eye fear h4I 9 They am large tuck 1 and 141114 olth lone I lulu and rather J leavy troviii which are acctnluittd by their rode J brunette face EXlUHTB WITH TUB TAN Notice now they Unit their fans iery 114 has one and she keepi It always unmlan AShe tans herself three times JMthtnulth a twist of Iho wrist ttrowi ihe folds of the fan touillier > let twist and It U I open In the op PU way and she U I fanning herself moil coquettishly ThemI girls could teach ui a treat deal 1 In fan lantuasa They carry beautiful fun ljonve art madt i > f unlalwooI tome of Ivory and many are covered with line lace I and leaned beautifully embroidered and pointitd The rn hro all owtt from Spain and they are exceedingly cheap You cm buy for M a fan which In New York would cost IM and then are many IM fan being used by this crowd In I the hill Over then on the opp me P dt of the room li I one which Poems lo have been mad for the occalon awl 1 hlch I venture never law Spain It Is j dainty little thing and to I wif4 1 iWII by one 0 r the preitleit of the Porto lllean bellel III is I of milk In the color of the Amellean IMC 10 made that lh red while and blue flashes out at every o A 41 Al A Au oz j s ok ls It A SAN JUAN BELLE twist of her Ivory wriit You can see that the better claps of Porto Illcani ara very patriotic They art glad they are American and will be Hood citizens citi-zens iirr oun DUMMRit anas IIIVAIII Ai I looked at IhcM tretty Iorlo gjrvtty Illcim girls kr thought ot the emotion they ould create 1 among our ounlf mn when they visit the fashionable woJlnlt Iliac 1 or the UnIted Stilt They will bo formidable rival ot th American ummer Klrln Ilnretofora many of them have taken their outings In Iurol but now they are talking Comfort to Hi United States Thy art taking leexui In Unicllh and already leteral I ot them have found husbands mon our army orllcen 1 underitan hat they like Yankee beaux better than 1ortu Illcani and that they will prefer American husbands becaut Amerltan whei have moro freedom and boor finite J HiHukln a of cue IIO our young men 141le w m a a great advent 0 r the NIi bu Accord loieStuother etlef Spain which prevails In Porto lieu a young man cannot engage In con > rr > atlon with hit sweetheart upon the street He dar not call upon her expecting to find her alone And In case there Ia I Another man paying attention lo tier ho to I n1 out > l posed tu Interfere Tilt Americans will riot regard in rul ut Hi anlih etiquette and ut present Iht chances seem lo bo all In their favor SOCIAL LlI IT IN BAN JUAN I WAS purprlicd to POO < 10 nmny women wo-men ut till bull 1 did not think t there fyd nr veto ao many pretty little I nn the Island III U only at such times wo lee the better bet-ter classes or Porto 1IIu women They seldom me upon the streets They do nol ha out of the window or over the balconies as tho Mouth American Klrli do and In Abort they an very ox lumve It II l only a f w If Ihn that till out to walk In the place when the llltnry lxinil Hiy 1 1 land you might be for mouth In 1urto 1 Him and not know that It hid n four humlrod I believe the betterclam 1 Iorto Itlcini are very friendly toward the Anierl ran is This feeling hn been materially battered by tile conduct of > onie ot our army imclln and eppeclilly l bJvf06Z n ImlOrant and his wife sits front U arcuntome1 lo entertaining and during her star here ihe five re eplloni and dinner every week To her reception the Porto mean were retail lo come and here they met the I wive ot lhoofli I Nil ot our army a M l navy and the ufll for themselves Oilier American who wire In Ban Juan were Invited and In this way pleaiant 1 relation have been etlabllihed TIIU WIIITU IIOUBR OI SAN JUAN It mlhtr UI FIRM to Allow Our i IroVOrnu mentral at Porto 11I0 I stuck ter onCesIng It Vlould do much lo leach the Porto tllcana American t eye and to bring I them I Into accord with up dene Hi Henry did not entertain en-tertain much during his toy but this Ml probably becautt his 1 Ite Was not very violl The government page 1 Is I well AlIrl ed 10 rrllon II It you know tile hon or tile captain general hlch lame Into our benign through the war III Io I An Immenet building nt two stories having I Judge at least two ICO room A number Ol theme fare now devoted to offices hut then to I Ion I almost 1 al-most an much room an In the Whit iou and 6en iiitti has Several magnificent parlors Ijilmir i the pales 1 you go In Ito > e I-to M n tw of our essidtorme and walk up a M 110 mtAI by It Irk or Wine pOll a mirror draped wllh to Arrest can Him to the Second floor Thl la I the living putt of the palate 1 Turning lu the left you Ant enter the reception room which li I as large 1 as the ordinary parlor l and thence pun vn Into the drawing room whtih U I about fifty feet long tnentynit feet wide and twenty twen-ty feet high It ll I floored with whllo and black marble Jim wall are fm cited 1 In lllnc and gill and the room Is I almost Covered 1 with large I mirror The drawing room like the ret of the gained ll I furnished just oa II wine when the Spanish left It Uncle Dam bought the furniture Including Hit plano I I the billiard table and the carriage car-riage and hone which our governor general drives The inlace In fact look more like a Spanish dwelling house than un Ami rlcan one The chain are of Aulrlan bentwood lid they an > arranged about marble tablet In HiiinUli style 1 Upon name of the nail art pictures ot Vpanlih n7 painted In oils and fix you go out of Hit draw Ing room Into the music room you i bronie ilaluei of Spanish knlihla Imam nn on pedeetali of black marble I particularly examined the piano It wa made In llarcelona and ll li I said I that It originally rout 11000 lieon1 the music room bi l title billiard room vhero tho Spanish otnclal cracked crack-ed Iht hory bain which our ofllclali crack now The room line window looking out upon the palace pardons Iho bay and Morro rustle From It you can see flit Coca lllaiica another government building which stands upon up-on the foundation of n I Use In which glance do Leon llted several 1 hundred Yearn ami The palace Itself was I M > gun In the nlxteenlh century although It wa not finished until 1SI IIOV Till PORTO HICANr UVI U neemi itrange lo I American to have h a 1 > 4lloro and 1 plln room a n Ui pei md floor Thin tr the us uork In moil of the intend of lito ito Itito Tho rich people 1 of Han Juan all life III 1 Ih roond oIorl of their houses the lower flooril being hthU tit the poor out In nit country the houei r the hheet farmer H ov e norhouee gran eel r flribbres nlh Ihn and you have 10 co UI long Iftela to at 10 the front door Th metmor country house has no glam 1 In fix I window but only hullo which upen and Close 1 It u built A till 1 k large living room In 1 the renter and 1 bed runm opening Into this on each Mf Then li I often a wing containing n kitchen wllh a water clookt nil Inlnr It llath room nn Almost unknown and the sanitary condition of e > rn the belt house are led l The furniture la I commonly of bent woo 1 the chair being arnnged etimy about the table There to I often a wl k or aofa still name rocking chain but no Attempt art made at oitiMmenta I lion In the way of eoiy nookt or of wall decoration The bed l room an Ailed out with Iron bed covered either with cAnj or with wire eprlnge upon which thin comfort an tprmd for mattresses Thn mallreeiea art usually not long enough to nllow your whole body 1 In He on lh m without touching the wlroi In my hole her In Han Jilan the iprlngi either wealth the nwh of my hl l or If I protect my hteli my shoulder hate to lutrer by the sharp wIcr ldi bv tween tlw mattmi and the tuiotv Till LADIES AID SOCIETY OF SAN JUAN The Iorlo naHn 1419 are now cn oporollna III 1110 win Of the army Mad navy > lllcef to Irnpniv ill con dlllon of the tutor women of Porto HI A ladlel I aid society has tn n organ 11 oil This lickgriely to I fronpectarimin and II to I ulloortad by Junior unlrlhu lion On or Its rhlof omft to I ties 1 Col J II Jeff its we PrIdent Ih Irldnl Wrill I 1110 wit or Iho Rovernor general It hap ofl1coAk Just outside or Tort Hun ChrlilaWI anl hold meet Into twice a week lo whlrh hundred nr the poor women of Porto Him com for aid U hall now about five hundred work women on Hi Hit They nn paid for making clothe which an given Awe Such or Ihe bear HI are unable lo work They receive from II tells cent for making dreteei and an very glad lo get work nt these wage Many of Jim work women an bo widow 1 of nmreri who lost their lives during he war Home of them can em brolder beautifully and the Iadlei Aid iiKlety 1 take order for embroidery and drawn work paring Ihtae women what they receive wllh list excel lion t ID I er cent for the treasury of The poclety Thli drawn work la I beautiful and ex redlngly cheap and any of our women who are benevolently 1 Incline I rnlih Kit beautifully embroidered iiilow rite or napkins and libl i lothi hand enhlefi and other things by pending loney to ihe lAdlea Aid I xKiely of lien Jun The women have already eiUbllihed n fre medical Hflnary They also give many of the poor people llckeli I to y ryl the Y k M C A soup kltrheni where a poor loan can cat a dinner for nf vents WOlnNS WORK AND WAOIS IN PORTO IIICO Hpcaklng of the poorer women then U I mile chance hen for n girl to mk her own living Outside of School tath Ing I or ailing ni governess there are no opening whileser Woman an nol mplo > ed In the startie Porto I ItIcts hk not up tu this dale a ferrale typewriter unit the work In I the iHtetonlce and late iraph illlro Is I done by men I leThe 11I mn In the dIIIklnlt Ali Apirt I The tno l of them use hand iiwlng inn htnei anl I am told that tile ew Ioullrull with the nodl Th vlame ate lOch however that the Amlrnn dmk coul notme upon then Hewing women the-n ho come Into the bound and low all duY from 11 In the morning until 6 at nUhl in paid IS cent a day Including their breakfast and dinner Toil cn ct a Arm drom mad for nlo and a ladys linen night dn > u Including flit material lucked at Ihe > oke and trimmed with lace and Insertion wllh buttons AI desired com only 41 cents This represents more than one days work Linen U veiy cheap here kind Ihe t American women who Mill Porto tile nt themeUr out with linen un drrclolhri gelling them for about one third the price they liar at home All kind of servants a ro ery cheap especially women lenanl 1IIJ get from II lo IJW a month and for thin turn they will do anything They are willing lo work nnd ntter strike Home of them are white anti I memo colored Not a few come from the neighboring Island of HI Thorn Home speak a Illllt English and Ali al n rul nn clean and nice looking Ordinary rant r-ant glrll get from C to T Peioa I a month or from SILO to 14 M You cm hire a first elm cook for from II to II a month nnd much a cook will do the marketing WASHING AND WABHKIlWOMnN The cook however 1 will not wash and TO III Iron This an a rule t li done by pro rotational waherwomen who carry the clothe to tile itream and wash them In cold 1 water Then li no such thing aa n clothei 1 line on Ihe Island thInj iioihlng like I an American washboard or washtub The clot It to or i dried on Ih tells or hunK on cactus bushem or wire fences They I are iprlnkled while I dry Inc and usually come bark beautifully while The Porto mean wahlub in I n box I maile of line i about a yard long half u yard wide nnd about six 1 Inches deep It has sloping olden still I the woman wo-man pull the clothes In It dill i It In the water and ruda them between her hand nllh soup Homellnu Slid Ills the tub aaulnit a giant 10 that half of U li I In the water and then kneeling twilde I It on tile edge of the stream ihe rub and irruhi to wash out the dirt rjlANK U CAUIUNTiit |
