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La Gloria a Health Resort 



It would make a curious and interesting 

 list to recount the names and maladies of 

 those wlio have come to La Gloria and have 

 been cured completely, or greatly improved 

 in health. Children born here of northern 

 parents are remarkably healthy, large and 

 strong, and grow, as the expression goes, 

 "like the weeds." 



In the eleven years of La Gloria colony's 

 existence, with an average population of 

 nearly one thousand, there has been 34 

 deaths all told (not including the mortality 

 amongst the few scattered natives) or 

 slightly 3 per 1,000 per year. Of these 

 deaths nine were of persons 70 years of 

 age or over ; 14 were directly caused by 

 chronic diseases or diseases contracted 

 prior to residence here, and five were of 

 children under ten years of age. 



From December 17, 1907, to July 17, 

 1910, a period of over two and a half years, 

 there was not a single death amongst the 

 colonists of the Cubitas Valley. 



When it is considered that very few of 

 the settlers here are of the farming class 

 inured to outdoor labor in the north, but 



are drawn mostly from the indoor workers 

 of the cities, it is certainly attributed to 

 the hcalthfulness of the climate that these 

 men could live here, often with very prim- 

 itive accommodations, enduring year after 

 year both unusual and arduous toil, taking 

 no precautions against the inclemencies of 

 the weather, not only without any ill- 

 effects, but with very material benefit to 

 their health in almost every instance. And 

 while this can be said of those who have 

 come to La Gloria to build themselves 

 homes and carve out their fortunes from 

 the development of the land, it is just as 

 emphatically true of the large number who 

 have come to our town to rest and recruit^ 

 during _ peaceful days, the broken health 

 which is the common result of the toil and 

 moil and feverish strife for existence in 

 the crowded and tmnatural conditions of 

 northern centres of civilization. — Cuban 

 American. 



The cornerstone of the agricultural 

 school for Santa Clara Province was laid 

 with appropriate ceremony on December 

 19th. 



The Providencia Sugar Mill n miles south ot H<i\diid which is diiiuidlh \isiteJ by thousands of 

 tourists. The Havana Central, in the tourist season, institutes an express service which allows an after- 

 noon exciirsion full of interest from beginning to end. 



The Cuban Xational Exposition will be 

 opened on January 28th and closed on 

 February 24, 1911. 



The exposition will be held on the pic- 

 turesque park and in the handsome build- 

 ings of the Quinta de los Molinos, which 

 have been complete^ overhauled and em- 

 bellished for the purpose. 



The provincial council of ^Matanzas has 

 appropriated $6,000 for the purpose of pre- 



senting a creditable exhibit from that 

 province in the exposition. 



The products of the fields, mines, stock- 

 ranges, industries, the various arts and 

 fancy work will be made the principal 

 features of the Exposition. All of the 

 cities, industrial companies and, in fact, all 

 the inhabitants of Cuba, whether native or 

 foreign, are invited by the directing com- 

 mittee to take part in the Exposition. 



