;>5G CUBA AND PORTO RICO 



of the Europeans and blacks. Both men and women are 

 often so perfect anatomically that the artist wishing to 

 create a "Mercury" or "Venus" need only take a cast of 

 such a body, without making one modification from neck 

 to heel. 



There is great love of the mother-country among all 

 classes. This is due to the liberty of the press and politi- 

 cal freedom. Laborers in Martinique receive wages of from 

 fifteen to nineteen cents a day; house-servants $1.52 to 

 $2.87 a month; mechanics seventy-six to ninety-five 

 cents a day ; and bookkeepers from $43 to $55 a month. 

 The women do most of the hard work. 



