26 THE STANDARD GUIDE. 
The rooms of Havana houses are very large and the ceilings are high, 
eighteen feet being the average. In high-roofed houses there are some¬ 
times no ceilings, the apartment being left open to the ridge. The floor is 
of tile or cement, without carpet, and there are vast expanses of vacant 
wall space. Upholstered furniture is unknown; cool cane and wicker pre¬ 
vail. The rocking-chair is universal—in the house, in the office, in the 
committee rooms of the Senate. 
The typical hotel bedroom has a tiled floor without any carpet save 
for a narrow rug in front of the bed. The ceiling is from 18 to 25 feet 
in height; the windows opening from the floor are almost as high; there 
are slatted blinds on the outside and solid shutters on the inside, with per¬ 
haps one small pane of glass. The bed is canopied with a mosquito netting 
which may be a handsome specimen of lacework; the mattress is very 
thin or wanting altogether. A swinging slat screen permits leaving the 
bedroom door open. 
HOTEL BEDROOMS. 
