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Title: Advance in the Antilles; the new era in Cuba and Porto Rico
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grose, Howard B. (Howard Benjamin), 1851-1939
Subjects: Missions Missions
Publisher: New York, Young people's missionary movement of the United States and Canada
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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mostleisurely mortal. You very rarely see him workingon the land, and most of it remains unworked. Itis said to be no uncommon thing to find a manowning hundreds of acres with less than an acreunder cultivation. A colonist once asked an intel-ligent-looking elderly Cuban why he did not culti-vate more of his land. What is the use? was hisreply. When I need money I pick off somebananas and sell them. I get for them twenty ortwenty-five dollars, which lasts me ^ long time.When I need more money I pick more bananas.That is the common Cuban view. His natural in-difference, combined with the exactions of Spanishgovernment, has kept his mind free from any anx-iety as to making provision for the future. Estate of Planters. Hiere is a marvelous con-trast between the country i)alm-thatched shack andthe palatial estate of sugar or tobacco planter.Something of feudal lord and vassal retainer stillpersists in this sphere, and here you see the Cubanat his stateliest and meet with his most gracious
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BULL-FIGHT OF THE PASTCOCK-FIGHTING OF THE PRESENT THE PEOPLE AND THEIR LIFE 87 hospitality. He is a grand seignior indeed, andAvith the Spanish grandee belongs to a class by him-self—a class growing rare. They have their vil-lages for the hundreds of workers, and a distinctcommunity existence. May it be long before for-eign capitalistic combinations destroy this personalrelation of employer and employed. Small Range of Play. Of small games for thehome there seem to be practically none. It is doubt-ful whether the boys and girls know the meaning ofgenuine play. If they have fun, it is in their ownway and eludes you. Nine tenths of any game issure to be talking, screaming, and gesticulation. Inthe villages you may see the children running insome kind of tag game, or throwing oranges atone another, or scrapping. Quite as likely therewill be groups of boys gathered together, and if youapproach unobserved you will see that they aregambling over some game like craps. Gamblinghas spread i

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