Show tim tilt shops shop of cuba capital the shops and cafes of havana are arc surely more bright und interesting than those thosa ol of any other city among the shops you will find no great establishments ments covering erina i halt aero acre ot of ground halt half a dozen stories high and giving one it feeling of despair to enter but they are all on one cue toor high cool pretty and many ladies have a it habit of shopping aiom their carriages to which the pleasant clerks or chivalrous proprietors bring brine for inspection and put purchase chase any article d desired in america it is the endless effort of merchants to get goods of every possible description under one root roof herby here the shops as a rule are more characteristic and individualized one merchant deals in silks and trimmings another only in velvets velvety and velve teens another may show superb lines of linen mother another sells cottons and prints alone woolens can be found only at the merchant mer cliant in wools all manner of laces occupy the r attention of others and rarely wall you find the general notion store so common with us so too outside of the textile fabri fabrics cs these divisions are rigorously d A photographer is not an artist I 1 bronze goods do not include pottery the jeweler sells jewelry not watches and clocks the woodenware ironware and merchants are not each all the others and wine merchants do not sell soap edgar L Wab Wak emans cut cuba ia letter |