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Title: Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grose, Howard Benjamin, 1851-
Subjects: Missions -- Cuba Missions -- Puerto Rico Cuba -- Description and travel Puerto Rico -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Young people's missionary movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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es and towns the Cubannegroes work in the manufactures and trades sideby side with the whites for the same pay and showequal skill. Social equality does not exist, but socialtoleration does, with friendliness and absence offriction; and this has worked for the good of all.One thing her people well know—that but forher races of color and her revolutionary leaders ofmixed blood there would be no Cuba Libre to-day.The colored people of Cuba, as everywhere, arereligious by temperament, and respond readily tothe preaching of the missionaries. In many placesa goodly proportion of the converts are of theirnumber, and have found place in the missionchurches. 3. Cuban Women Repressive Environment. The condition ofwoman in Cuba leaves much to wish improved. Theword degraded seems strong, but it has been ap-plied by a Cuban, Dr. Alfonso, Secretary of theSpecial Commission of Hygiene, and since 1903much interest has been aroused in movements in-tended to secure for working women better chances,
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TYPES OF CUBAN GIRLS THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE 75 and for all women a lite of greater development andhappiness. A special investigator has treated thissubject instructively, showing how through unfavor-able environment, evil conditions, and inveterateprejudices, the great mass of the sex has beendwarfed, repressed, and deprived of opportunity todevelop natural abilities. While a few daughtersof the cultured minority of Cuban aristocracy underthe old regime received a fine education in Europeor the United States, the masses of women weredoomed to a grinding struggle for existence or to ahome life without inspiration. Accepted Prpgram for Her. The Cuban womenin the past have known but one ambition—marriage.From earliest childhood the girls are taught to makethemselves attractive to the male sex; and as onemeans they must always appear amiable and sweet,and practise all arts of allurement. Those who canafford servants do not work, for any sort of workis degrading, and for a Cuban woman

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