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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1957-01-17, Page 7Wedding Day hi Brazil The guitar nestled close to his chest. His hand caressed the strings that sang the things his beartcould not say in words. Upward, his hand followed the straight neck of the instrument: He began to hum. Words tanned in his mind and came out in song. A finger slipped_ from the strings and 'rested against the opening, of his worn shirt. He found a hole in the Cath. "Perhaps I ought to buy an- other shirt before the wedding. A man should have things of his own. Not only a toiling raft with a sturdy mast, a ,patcl.rd sail, a basket for the fish, an& a violao," He laughed good - humoredly. "Not even a bed hown! Only my boat, my guitar, and my knife. Before the wedding, perhaps I will buy another sll.rt and an- other pair of trousers. Marilia likes a man to look clean." Languidly his fingers strummed the strings of the guitar. The sound of lazy, sad minors surg- ed above the angry rush of the waves. "Marilia has never said a word about a man looking new and Important with a clean, shirt on. Perhaps she did not want to worry me. She knew I have but one shirt, one pair of trousers." He laughed a low, intimate laugh, "Perhaps I have always seemed clean to her. The foam of the waves is better than the soap the women rub On their clothes. Still, 1 like the smell of things clean. I like the way. Marilia's kitchen is. I have never seen the table bare, as in the hut of Cravina, with the marks of Juca's fingers showing on the wood. Marilia's white cloth' with lacy endings makes the kitchen a place where a prince would come to eat. When a man sits at a table that has a cloth like Marilia's, a man ought to have his fingers clean. "She has knives and forks, too. Cravina says it is because Marilia thinks herself above the others of the village, but I know It is because she likes her fin- gers always to be clean. Then, • too, Marilia has often been at the house of Dona Vera. My woman must have gathered some of her good manners from the PIPE ..THIS PIPE — With a pipe fashioned from a calabash, this dreamy -eyed Balubq native en- joys a casual smoke. By rolling tobacco cigaret - fashion and pushing it into a small tube in the end of the fruit, the Belgian Congo natives transform the calabash into a highly service- able pipe. ' fine ladies of Olinda." His voice hummed slowly the melody of the strings. "Perhaps I should buy a pair of shoes, too. But only for the, day of the wedding." He spread his free toes in the sand, "Never have I walked with anything tight around my feet. Nor a hat above my forehead. I ., like to leave the head bare, un- der the skies, so that I may feel the drops of rain coming from the clouds.,A man does not make a sacrifice, in all his ways be- cause he is going to marry him- self with a woman, even if the woman is as good as Marilia. Shoes perhaps, but a hat I will not buy. From "White. Shore of Olinda," by, Sylvia' Leao. Fascination Of Deep Sea Shells I have often been asked, "What is the best time to collect shells?" There is no "best" time anywhere. Shells are to be, found at all seasons in all latitudes and as some species are to be found at one season or even during a short period in one season, and are absent at other times, the collector should endeavor to hunt shells at all times. Veryoften some species of shell will be abundant for a day or two and then completely vanish. Neither is there any one stage to the tide which is the "best" for collect- ing. Some shells are to be found only at low tide, others at high tide, others at the turns of the tides. ` Also, many species of shells are nocturnal and only appear very early in the morning be- fore they have hidden away, or late in the afternoon when they begin to come forth from their hiding places. If you are lucky enough to live within reach of the shore, or spend your summers by the sea, or go to Florida, the West Indies or California or some other warm place for the winter, you will find the "shelling" is a most fascinating occupation. A great many shells live In the short, dense sea grass that car- pets many mud flats and shelly, sandy bottoms. Here is where you will find the ark shells or blood clams, many species of periwinkles and Nations, a num- ber of nice bi-valve shells, and if you are collecting in a locality where they occur, Murex and Cymatium, as well as the Astraeas Or star shells, the dial shells, and if you are lucky, the strange carrier shells already described. A great many desirable species of shells rarely venture into shoal water but inhabit the sea at depths from one to hundreds of . fathoms. Of course it is quite out of the question for the or- dinary collector to capture these very deep -water shells, for heavy dredging equipment and a good-sized vessel are needed to accomplish this. But it is a fairly easy and not an expensive un- dertaking to dredge in moderate depths of from ten to twelve feet to forty or even one hundred feet, and a vast number of shells inhabit these depths both in the, north and in the south. But if you really love shells or are interested in them and are serious about making a shell col- lection, youwill not mind the drudgery, time, and patience necessary. In fact you will come to enjoy the work, for there really is an immense amount of satisfaction in seeing the dirty, unattractive - looking s h e 11 s, gathered here and there, and everywhere become transformed into lovely, colorful, clean speci- mens such as you see in the ex- hibits in museums. From "Shell Collector's Handbook," by A. Hyatt Verrill. e THREE ON AN ELEPHANT The mahout keeps a regally be- decked pachyderm on a steady course as Indian' Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, left; and Tibet's Dalai Lama;_ centre, find out the meaning of the phrase 'elephant walk. The stroll took place around India's Presidential Palace in New Delhi, TROUBLE-SHOOTER' — Year-old Janice Brazeau has a profes- sional air -as she probes the inside of Daddy's tubeless television set with a screw driver. Even if set were working, you couldn't get a prettier picture. Sat On Spy To Prevent Capture Violette Bushell—English fa- ther French mother—had been a slip of a Brixton shop -girl. Early in the war she had fallen in love with Etienne Szabo, a gallant young officer of the Free French Forces in England, mar- ried him and borne him a daughter. When he was killed at El Alamein she joined the A.T.S. to dedicate her sorrow to the service of her .country, helped to man an ack-ack battery on the. Mersey, then, on account of her knowledge of French, was Invited to enrol in the Special Operations Executive as a F. A. N. Y. Officer. It was one of the MAN TRAP — Bachelors beware! Tread ever so tightly on this snare and vooml — 13 jagged teeth spring into your leg, ren- dering you helpless in the face of husband -hunters. The fiend- ish device, being pondered over by Chris Cominel, was once used to ensnare poachers on an Eng- lish estate. most dangerous jobs a girl could undertake. Not by the wildest stretch of Imagination could the slightly - built shop -girl have foreseen theroleshe was to play in Ger- man -held Normandy just after D -Day. Her second mission there was a parachute drop on June 7th, 1944, to join a Resist- ance group and help sabotage in every possible way the Ger- man defences. With the chief of the local Maquis, "Anastasie," she had to contact groups in neighbouring sectors for a concerted plan of operations. It meant a perilous ear journey :over guarded roads which were being used by the Germans to rush up reserves— and there was a price on Anas- tasie's head. At Salon -la -Tour they ran 'into an ambush. Anastasie leapt out with his Tommy -gun, Viol- ette with her Sten, while others in the party scattered. Then followed a desperate running fight across' fields which R. J. Minney describes graphically in his story of her life, "Carve Her Name with Pride." Bullets rained on them from about thirty Germans who were soon joined by the advance guard of an S.S.'Panzer division sweeping the villages to clear the road, Violette received a wound in her left arm; then was brought down by an ankle which had been injured during her training jumps. Anastasie picked her up, but she strug- gled to get free. "Don't be a fool," she :said. "We can't both be saved. 'You won't stand a chance if you're caught. Besides, you've got work to do. Go on. Get outl" "She beat his shoulders with her fists, kicked ` and wriggled, brought them both down into the standing corn. Bullets were pinging all round thele' now. She limped off killed. Standing up, she blazed away at the oncoming Germans, about 400 in all. .,"Run!" she called. "Run! It's yourlast chance!" As two armoured cars con- verged towards them he man- aged to reach a farmhouse and worm his way into a pile of logs. The farmer's two daughters, who knew him, came out and quickly piled more logs on top of him. Seeing a foot still exposed, one of them promptly sat down on 1t to hide it, a ruse which eventu- ally enabled him to escape. Violette, her Sten gun maga- zines -empty, was cornered and seized. As she kicked and fought back with her fists, two German soldiers pinioned her and half - dragged her—exhausted and in great pain—to the heap of logs where Anastasie lay hidden. "I like your spirit," the young armoured -car officer toid her. "You put up a wonderful fight— right up to the end." He took a cigarette from his case, stuck it between her lips, but she spat it Out. "You dirty cowards," she raged. "I don't want your cigar- ettes!" Then she demanded that the men let go her arms so that Axe could light a cigarette of her Own. As the two armoured cars turned into the village street hundreds watching from their windows saw her go by, shouting death and damnation to her cap- tors: "Your fate is already seal- ed. The end is drawing near. It won't be long now. Then you swines will get your desserts in full!" During months of captivity— at Limoges, Fresnes, Ravensbruck and elsewhere—Violette main- tained her attitude of defiance. Questioned and tortured at the Gestapo H.Q. in Paris, she stead- fastly refused to betray her Re- sistance colleagues. At Torgau prison labour camp she planned to escape with a masterkey that a man in the precision tools section made for her, but she was searched, and the key was found. Punishment: ten strokes and solitary confine- ment. At Koenigsburg, where she had to fell trees and clear the ground for a new airfield, she endured three bleak winter months of privation, and often for insubordination and con- tempt was beaten and denied her scant rations. Eventually, at Ravensbruck in February, 1945, she was taken out and shot in the back of the neck with two other prisoners-- Lillian risoners—Lillian Rolfe and Danielle Wil- liams. (real name Bloch) — by -order of the German Secret Po- lice. "Ali three were very brore and I was deeply moved," said camp commandant Schwarzhu- ber in a report made later under oath. She was only twenty-three, the first British woman to be awarded (posthumously) the George Cross. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING AGENTS WANTED GO INTO BUSINESS for yourself. Sell exclusive houseware products and ap- pliances wanted by every householder. These items are not sold in stores. There is no competition. 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