THE CUBA REVIEW 



AND BULLETIN 



"ALL ABOUT CUBA" 



Copyright, 1906, by the Munson Steamship Line. 



STREET VENDERS OF HAVANA WITH THEIR CURIOUS WARES. 



Wanderings in Cuba 



To those who have wandered there, Cuba is a land of the lotus. To the northern 

 dweller racked by climatic tortures, the more intense because always sudden and 

 severe, and harassed by the fierce, strenuous, unjoyful existence, the modern 

 j-ftruggle for wealth only too often entails, Cuba is a fair island, a land of 

 sirens which beckon him to her shores for needed rest and enjoyment. He finds it 



"a place 

 Blest by Heaven's especial grace, 



a pleasant shore. 

 Where a sweet clime is breathed from a land 

 Of fragrance, quietness, and trees and flowers 

 Full of calm joy it is, as we of grief. 

 Too full of joy and soft delicious warmth." 



Scenes more strange than those which India offers meet the eye on every side. 

 The whole world of nature is strange. The small-leaved forests of the continent are 

 replaced by taller, more leafy and graceful scions of the vegetable kingdom. The rich 

 and dainty plants whose acquaintances we made only in heated conservatories and hot- 

 houses where they were most tenderly nurtured and shielded from every chilling wind 

 and where at the best but stunted specimens survived, are here in Cuba, springing up 

 in every hedge and wayside, rude and healthy hoydens wath a vigor of life and growth 

 that sends their branches far up above our heads. And what a novelty and balm the 

 very air is to northern frost-irritated lungs and bronchial tubes. Breathing is a pleasure, 

 for the bland airs steal over the system with a serene, soothing and healing influence, 

 and the feeling of security is always present that every day will be a pleasant day. 

 Morning after morning one wakes to another day of sunshine. Rains may come, and 

 showers spring up from nowhere and gently fall, w^hile the whole sky is radiant. Just 



