File:America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty... (1898) (14741553786).jpg

Identifier: americaswarforhu00inga (find matches)
Title: America's war for humanity, related in story and picture, embracing a complete history of Cuba's struggle for liberty...
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Ingalls, John James, 1833-1900
Subjects:
Publisher: New York, Thompson
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ur out into the streets. They form a motley, yet effective featureamong the wayfarers, with their cotton suits, big pink checks, or of the colorof lemon, lilac, chocolate, yellow or green—combinations which harmonizecharmingly with their rich dusky skins under the mellow light of the after-noon. The Malay girls are usually very pretty, with languishing eyes, shadedby long lashes, and supple figures, whose graceful lines are revealed by theirthin clothing. In fine weather their bare feet are thrust into light, gold DEWEYS BREAKFAST. 271 embroidered slippers. In wet weather they raise themselves on high clogs,which necessitate a very becoming swinging of the haunches. There is not a bonnet to be seen. Women of the better class affectlace and flowers; those of the lower, wear their hair flowing down their backsin a long, blue-black wave. All classes, without exception, wear over the stiff starched kerchiefs,which decorously cover the bosom, a crucifix and a relic of some sort in a bag.
Text Appearing After Image:
CIGAR FACTORY IN MANILA, WITH NATIVK GIRLS AS OPERATIVES. Jewelry is profusely worn. Every woman sparkles with bracelets, earringsand chains. Many of the males are similarly caparisoned. The reason isnot far to seek. Thieves are many and houses are insecure. It is better tocarry your property about you than to have it at the mercy of the robber. Dinner is at half-past seven. After that meal the crowds tend to accu-mulate in the Luneta, a long, grassy space between the ancient city and thesea. Here, against a background of venerable moss-grown wall, are stationed 272 AMERICAS WAR FOR HUMANITY. a multitude of vehicles filled with bejeweled and beflowered ladies, illuminedby rows of petroleum lamps, while on the middle space of grass two streamsof men flow up and down, listening to a military band—men in brilliant uni-forms, or in white trousers and jackets and bright waist sashes and wide som-breros. The peasants mix freely with the upper classes, brightening thescene with their white

Note About Images