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Show Counter Jumpers of Havana. Many salesmen here are clad only in patent leather gaiters, silk hose and pure hnen trousers and sliirts ; but these are 1 spotless. Indeed, the Cubans are the cleanest people regarding their dress I : ever knew. A stevedore will load mo l lasses on a vessel a whole week and you can hardly find a spot upon his white suit when Saturday night conies. Somehow your sense of propriety is not offended when you see cash boys, errand boys and helpers of all sorts in skin tight, lightly woven cotton shirts, and as airy breeches and slippers. Often, too, for a change, here w ill stand three or four negroes, packers or boxers or something of the sort, with bare feet, spotless white trousers trou-sers held by a gay sash, and with naked, gleaming waists, arms and shoulders. But they all fit marvelously into these shop scenes, and nobody faints away but an occasional visitor out of those few ! wonderful American women who are j naturally horrified. Edgar L. Wake-I Wake-I man's Letter. |