HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1957-01-17, Page 7WeddIng Day
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The guitar nestled close fa his
aheet, Ills hand caresse& the
strings that sang the things his
heart could not say in words.
Vpward, his hand followed the
'straight neck of the instrument,
!de began to hum. Words farmed
in his mind and came out in
%orig.
A finger slipped from the
artrings and rested against the
opening e his worn Win. lie
found a hole in the e..ath.
"Perhaps.! ought 1 buy an-
other shirt before the wedding.
.f, man should have things of his
own. Not only a toiling raft with
a sturdy mast, a patdad sail, a
basket for the fish, .an a violao."
He laughed good hurnorgclly.
"Not even a bed 1 own! Only my
boat, my guitar, and my knife.
Before the wedding, perhaps I
will buy another slant and an-
other pair of trousers. Marilia
likes a man to look clean."
Languidly his fingers strummed
the strings of the guitar. The
round of lazy, sad minors surg-
aed 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 1 have always
fseemed clean to her. The foam
s)f the waves is better than the
wan the women rub on their
clothes. Still 1 like the smell of
things clean.1 like the way
Marilia's kitchen is. I have
never seen the table bare, as in
the hut of Ceavina, with the
narks of Suca'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
i cloth like Marilia's, a man
ought to have his fingers clean.
"She has knives and forks,
too, Cravina says it is because
Maxilla thinks herself above the
Others of the village, but I know
A% is because she likes her fin-,
erg always to be clean. Then,
)100, Marilia has often been at
*he house of Dona Vera. My
averoan must have gathered some
elf her good manners from the
PIPE THIS PIPE — With a pipe
fashioned from a calabash, this
dreamy -eyed Baluba native en -
toys 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• clay 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.
Who to leave the head bare,"un-
der the skies, so that 1 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.
F'ascination 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. Very often
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.
It 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 flatsand shelly,
sandy bottoms. Here is where
you will find the ark shells or
blood clams, many species Of
periwinkles and Naticas, 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, yott will 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 11s,
gathered here and there, and
everywhere become transforrned
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.
frHIREE ON AN ELEPINANT — The Mahout keeps a regally be-
decked pachyderm on a steady course as Indian Prime Minister
Jawaharlal Nehru, left, and Tibet's Dalai Lorna, centre, find out
the meaning of the Phrase "elephant walk,' The stroll took
place around India's Presidential Palace in NOW Delhi.
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TROUBLE-SHOOTER — Year-old Janice Brazeau has a profes-
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set with a screw driver. Even•if set were working, you couldn't
get a prettier piciure.
Sat On Spy To Prevent .Capture
killed. Standing up, she blazed
away at .the oncoming Germans,
about :400 in all,
"Rah!" she called. "Run! It's
Siodr ;31..Ast chance!"
.AatiAwo armoured cars con-
verged towards thein he man-
aged lo reach ..a farmhouse and
wormahis way into a pile of lcigs.
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
ef them promptly sat down on it
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 Anastasio 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
betaleen 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
she 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 ad 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 Rolfe and Danielle Wil-
liams (real name Bloch) — by
order of the German Secret Po-
lice. "All three were very brave
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.
Violette Bushell—English f a -
then, 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 irk,
French Forces in England, mar-
ried him. and borne him a
daughter.
When he was killed at sE1
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 Execiftive. as a F. A.
N. Y. officer. It was one of the
MAN TRAP — Bachelors beware!
Tread ever so lightly on this
snare and voom! — 13 jagged
teeth spring into your leg, ren-
dering you helpless in ihe 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
tmdertake.
• Not by the wildest stretch of
imagination could the slightly -
built shop -girl have foreseen
the role she 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
car 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 ethers
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
seen 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 de. 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 an
round there now. She limped off
to an apple tree, an easy target.
It was a miracle she wasn't
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