THE CUBA REVIEW 



15 



Mr. George M. Bradt, Publisher of 

 the Havana Post. 



Old Things and New in Cuba. 



"The oxen still tug at the wooden plow 

 in the fields, but the latest patent in 

 agricultural motors pufifs past in the next 



Colonists' Homes in Cuba. — Mrs. Graves Gar- 

 den at Omaja, Cuba, showing windmill, grape 

 arbor and water tank. The well is 21 feet deep 

 and the water is good and plentiful. 



Part of Havana's Old Wall Xcar the Arsenal. 



enclosure," says the Havana Post. The 

 volanta has fled to the mountains be- 

 fore the advance of the touring car on 

 the wide white highway. Tlie country girl 

 still owns a mantilla, but she wears a 

 hat on Sundays because the foreign ladies 

 she sees smiling at her from the sleep- 

 ing car windows — do they not wear mar- 

 vellous hats? In the country town the 

 old people prefer the sweet tingle of the 

 bandurria, but the mayor's son, who at- 

 tends school at Baton Rouge — he plays 

 the mandolin. The "guajiros" who lounge 

 in the corner cafe will sing you a Cuban 

 ditty on request, but the phonograph in 

 the back room has a disk of "Waltz Me 

 Around Again, Willie." 



A Convert to Cuba. 



U. S. Congressman George A. Bartlett 

 of Nevada, recently visited Cuba and has 

 this to say: 



"I have a word to tell about our stay 

 in Cuba on the return trip. Before see- 

 ing that country I was bitterly opposed 

 to annexing it. but now I am a convert. 

 I believe that the beautiful and fertile 

 island of Cuba should be part of the 

 United States territory. Havana is a 

 dream — bewitching, captivating beyond 

 language to describe. 



