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lation - general practicioner, children's diseases and syphilis. (Sp?) Another, advertising in the daily paper says [[strikethrough]] gohor [[/strikethrough]] gonnorhea treated, without pain. The curse of the Arawok maiden seems to have invaded medical advertising. I can imagine what a furor such signs & advertising would create in the U.S.A.  To my mind this is just another ^[[insertion]] example of [[/insertion]] failure to Americanize the American possessions in the Caribbean
There are numerous boot blacks on the streets - mostly in the residence districts. They all yell "Brillo, Shine." The words to them not being synonymous so much as the brand name Brillo with the idea of shoe shine mixed in.
Next comes the venders of chickens. One day I was looking out of our window, on the street and house below. As I gaped at the passing scene, a chicken vender, of the usual type, with live chickens in a basket, on his head, came up the street calling his wares. The cook from the house next door

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rushed out and stopt him. With little or no ado she yanked a fluttering squawking chicken out of the basket and handed it to the vender with admonitions for him to hurry as the water was boiling and it was high time the ^[[insertion]] chicken [[/insertion]] soup was on cooking for lunch. One deft turn of the hand and the poor fowl's neck was wrung, and before one could blink again the feathers were off. It looked like a trick of from basket to soup in half an hour.
When we were going down to the boat I had my first view of the little put-put ferries that go across the bay in San Juan. They are very queer little contraptions and they look equally funny on the water.
There seems to be some relationship between the people who run Olimpo Court and the lady who owns the Capital hotel. When I mentioned the [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] sameness of names to Dick he remarked that very likely Evertson had made a mistake when he

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