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A KIOSK WHERE COOLING DRINKS ARE DISPENSED. 
throng of handsomely dressed men and women. There are in the cafes a 
large and varied assortment of sweet cakes and a variety of ices, made 
from the guanabana, melon, orange, pineapple, and other fruits. One 
ice cream is named jai alai, after the famous game. Ices are usually served 
with barquillos or long rolled wafers. Sweets and cakes are displayed in 
great profusion in front of little shops everywhere throughout the city, 
and sweets sellers go about the streets bearing trays of confections on 
their heads. 
Coffee is served in all cafes. Cubans burn the coffee bean to a cinder; 
they say that this process destroys the toxic qualities. Milk is boiled 
and salted to keep it fresh. The waiter brings the coffee-pot in one hand 
and a pot of boiling milk in the other; the combination of charred coffee 
and salted milk some persons like at first taste; some learn to like it; 
some experiment with varying proportions of coffee and milk and never 
quite determine whether they do or do not like it. 
Wine is drunk with meals as commonly in Cuba as on the Continent. 
It is mostly of Spanish vintage, for over 90 per cent, of that imported 
comes from Spain. Although the island is admirably adapted to the 
