IN AND ABOUT THE CITY. 
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THE FRUIT SELLER. 
with two quarts of water, adding vanilla for flavoring. Sweeten to taste, 
and when cool strain through a fine sieve. Chill before serving. Gara- 
pina is made from the skins and cores of pineapples, which are washed 
and placed in a stone jar with water to cover them; the jar is covered 
with a netting and allowed to stand outdoors to ferment for four or 
five days; the liquid is then drawn off and sugar and water are added. 
The milk of the cocoanut is a common and popular beverage, being simply 
poured out from the green nut; even when the nut is plucked from the 
trees on a warm day the milk is found to be cool and refreshing. Other 
fruits used for drinks are the guanabana or sour-sop, and the anona or 
sweet-sop; these are the green prickly-skinned fruits with white flesh and 
black seeds, which are seen displayed on the cafe bars. The drink called 
ensalada (salad) is a beverage composed of various ingredients, the choice 
of which is determined by the fancy and skill of the composer. It is not 
unusual in a Havana cafe to see a person order simply a glass of ice- 
water and sit down at a table to drink it; a Cuban law requires ice-water 
to be provided free in every cafe. It is quite proper for ladies to go into 
the cafes of the better class," in those adjoining Central Park, after the 
park concerts or during the theatre intermissions, one finds there a gay 
