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Show TBEVERAGESJN CUBA .rirtdred Different Kinds of "Re-frescos" "Re-frescos" Are Used. 0 nfjrrnriics of Man Are Supposed to Be He.'pcd, If Not Cured, by Various Concoctions, Either Hot, Cold or Tepid, but Never Iced. Eitana, Cuba. The old colored . r'.'Hjk in Cuba when she goes to ruar-Jt:r. ruar-Jt:r. can pick out the pork obtained : i om pig.- which have been fed on . -ir cane alone, and she refuses to purrhaao any other. No one can cheat her into buying alcohol made from any a'.ir KOiirce, either. Some foreigners ntj not know real aguardiente, pure vmi undefiled sugar cane made, but . does. She bathes h ;r face In it, iips it, rubs the baby with it, puts a iroj) ot it in the baby's hot soup, raaJios a cross on the forehead as a Through Open Country in Cuba. -harm against evil spells with the aujrclirnto and thanks heaven for the- ever present remedy. It restores torr spirils as efficaciously as French does her Spanish master's. Should a wound be received a rerne-1y rerne-1y is at hand; the sore is bathed in aguardiente, a little is t.iken for "!) tnomaeh's sake, and all is well, Agii:tr.i:!;ente is as close, even much :'icf.-i'r at hand often than is water, and 'it ii the remedy of all remedies for ever? ill flesh is heir to among the -suajitniy of natives. Sometimes it is used :o spice a hot cup of tea made from ihe leaf of the orange tree or a dH;;flh?d hot tea called tila. All the 'nfl rarities of man are supposed in Ciiiji to be helped, if not cured, by a driii.U of some kind,' hot or cold or tepid, tep-id, but iced, never. What a flying in . the- facn f Providence to a Cuban it : le .flrink, iced anything! Tea as 'mown in other countries is slightly .ssteemed and seldom used. As to water, yes, it is used as a ilrivi'k in evAry house. But it is natural natu-ral water. A "tineja" for water stands jja f-rery home, enclosed by slats of m-ihogany or carved teakwood and ivory, according to the owner's wealth, and )l the large porous earthen jar .witJim in water, but iced, never. - In .the ipoorer houses swings the "porron" somewhere in the circulating ajr. II. is a porous earthenware bot-i.l bot-i.l e-. You drink from it directly by throwing back your head and poising 3t. deftly aiming the stream from the :r;ghi. spout for there are two, one -0 tlrinb from, the other to fill it by .sr3-2jgbt down the throat. No water .ever tastes better, even from a cocoa-nut gourd, but practice alone can rasio perfect in dexterity with the ' ""porro" Tamarind "13 cooling to the foreign ' "oJood. It. is served as a crushed pulp miiful with sugar and water. Perhaps Per-haps you prefer a refreshing drink ol erjssbed pineapple but pineapple in l:s native juicy, normal state and su- : periorSrjr. There are a hundred "re-j'rsiscoi" "re-j'rsiscoi" of juicy fruits ever at hand, Irom the anon, the custard apple plant-vd plant-vd in tie Garden of Eden by Mother .a.turo. to the chirinioza, the paiayu aa4 scores of others. Their names may be unpronounceable to the Granger, but are glibly rolled off by the residents of the Garden of Eden, -S3 every native calls his beloved is- |