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Zurich Herald, 1956-08-02, Page 3Market Day In Portugal A pale piny, squeaking ball carted through oxen legs, on- * wooden carts and around earthen pitchers. A black sliawled woman chased it hither aiid thither. The piglet, for pig- let it was, gave up' when men and boys joined in the chase. The pig was for sale or bar- ter in the teeming market at Barcelos, the most famous mar set in north Portugal, Its wares mirror the 18th century pattern of Arcadian life in the rich Vlinho valley. The market covers a quarter of an acre on the Campo de Fira. Gay with flower patches, the open square has a Gothic fountain in the middle, and the entire eastern side is filled by the pink facade of the old Capu- chin monastery. The church front rising in the center with a baroque flourish makes a picturesque backdrop to the busy market scene. At the fountain a ballad (or Lada) singer and his woman ting songs and peddle the words an sheets of paper to men and boys. One imagined groups sit- ting under the grapevines in the openair cafes in the twi- light singing the songs. The chorus would be bass chords, since Portuguese women rarely join their men in these cafes. The breeze flutters the long streamers of oxhide hanging from tree branches. Women feel these apprasingly between thumb and forefinger before buying, as women in cities fin- ger velvet or silk. Other wo- men walk hither and thither with burdens on their heads - here a bundle of hay, a` basket of fish, small peeping chickens, with their beaks sticking up all. round the basket, a tall water pitcher, a basket of eggs. On the avenue of the vege- tables, men and women squat On the ground beside small mounds of oranges, lemons, po- tatoes, yellow beans in crocks, baskets' of young rabbits, chic- kens and eggs. Among all the noise and bustle a dark-haired baby sleeps in a flat straw bas- ket. In the pottery section great red earthenware pitchers, cas- seroles, and other cooking uten- sils are sold for a few escudos. English visitors are astounded At the low cost of these pots. Their surprise is sometimes mis- taken by the sellers who think the price is too high. In this ease they give a proud shrug of the shoulders.. There is ne bar- gaining here. That is the price, have it or not, as you wish. But the price was reduced, I noticed, when a needy peasant woman show- ed a few escudos in a grubby paten, writes Melita Knowles in The Christian Science Moni- tor. From the nearby potteries of V'iano de Castelo comes deli- cate china, as light and trans- ,ucent as Chinese rice bowls. SALLY'S SALLIES "On vacation I. get a kick out of this: I set the alarm as usual, then shut it off." But ,most of the pottery is strictly utilitarian, with the traditional designs of the mari- gold or the crooked heart, the cock or the fish. This coarse earthenware is made in little. huts at the roadside, the baking being done with charcoal fires in a bee -hive -shaped mound. There is a •great display of handpainted cocks, symbol of the Portuguese peasant "busy from dawn to sunset." I found it impossible to resist the larg- est rooster though it filled half a suitcase on the flight home. Towards noon an appetizing smell of risotto andonion floats over the market. The family stew is warmed on little stoves under the trees. Hungry boys dip into three-legged bowls with long spoons, and tear strips of dark bread from a large flat loaf. As the farm produce disap- pears the women make their way to the stands displaying straw hats, baskets and fabrics, ribbons, laces and other trim- mings. Dressmaking is done mostly at home by the women of Portugal. At the jewelry table, wea- thered hands turn over large gypsy -style earrings, and at the shoe stands suntanned feet are squeezed into a new pair of sa- bots. The women go barefoot , most of the time, only wearing a pair of clip -clopping sabots for very wet weather, or for fiestas. Graduallyas the escudos run out the families gather under the trees; the handsome carved yoke is put on the oxen; and they are hitched to primitive wooden carts. As the sun sets in a great red ball, the roads of the Minho valley are lined with processions going home. The boys whip up the long - horned oxen. The men ride in the carts. The women and ,girls walk alongside, each one with some new purchase on her head, a tall new water pitcher, brown bowls for the kitchen, a crock for rice or beans. And those flat baskets covered with clean white cloths - maybe inside a color- ed blanket, or hand-woven materials for a gay new skirt,. The women wave as we pass and call out a cheerful "Boa Nolte." Motor up Sleeve Handless persons, eligible for social aid in Western Germany,, are looking forward to pneu- matic -controlled arms. This new advance in humanity, perfected by the orthopaedic clinic of Heidleberg University, promises much greater ease of movement than artificial arms normally allow their users. Embodied in the new device is a small motor, driven by a carbonic acid -filled cell. The entire attachment is light- weight; it fits easily under the wearer's sleeve. The cell controls valves, which in turn react to movements of the shoulder stump or the stump's remaining muscles. This co-ordination gives extremely fine movements. And "hand" so actuated can make two move- ments simultaneously, if need be in opposite directions. Elec- trically -guided hands at pres- ent perform only one function at a time. According to German claims, patients should have no difficul- ty in using knives and forks, drinking from a glass, writing and even typewriting with their pneumatic hands. Commercial plywood as known today dates from 1905 when it was first made in St. Johns, Ore- gon. 1 121. 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The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring - un- der the title "About Agriculture" -a series of publications dealing with the business of farming. The articles, written by men who appear to know what they are talking about,' are hard-hit- ting and of interest to all who would like to see a betterment in rural -urban relations. As an example, 1 quote herewith some. paragraphs: from a piece titled "Shifts in Land Use and the Need Tor Planning" by Gavin Henderson, Secretary of the Conservation Council of Ontario. . .s e With a population of more than 30 million forecast for Can- ada by the end of the century, it is obvious that- we cannot af- ford to go on using up our best land for purposes other than agriculture in the mistaken be- lief that there is lots of such land available. * * 4' Except for the Prairies, most of the best farmland in Canada is situated close to the large cen- tres of population. With rapid post-war industrialization and urban expansion, competition for the use of this land has become very keen, and many thousands of acres have recently been con- verted to non-agricultural use. With . proper .planning, much of this land might have been say- ed, but so far we have no.-pio- gram of protection at all, not even of little pockets like the Niagara Fruit Belt which has special value due to climatic factors. * Since the war, at least one- fifth of this unique fruit -growing area has been taken over by in- dustry .and housing. It is only a matter of time before com- mercial soft fruit production in the Niagara Peninsula .will be a thing of the past. (In 1950 the net income to farmers and grow- ers in the district was $25,000,- 000.) The rape of the fruitlands of Niagara is the classic example in Canada of what can happen for want of forethought and planning. It shows, too, that governments are not yet suffi- ciently concerned over the prob- lem to adjust their policies to deal with it. In the location of new highways, for instance, lit - tie consideration appears to be given tb the real value of the. land they will displace, or to their ultimate effect on the ag- ricultural areas through which they will pass. �. * In a recent brief from the, Ontario Federation of Agricul- ture to the St. Lawrence Board of Review, it was stated, "The. Queen lizabeth Way, through the Countries of Lincoln and Wentworth, is responsible, more than any other single factor, for what will be the eventual destruction of the unique and irreplaceable fruit -growing area • on the continent." * * a Had the Queen Elizabeth Way between Hamilton and St. Cath arines been put above the es- carpment, the fruit belt itself would likely have remained in- tact. Admittedly the cost of con- struction would have been higher, but the ultimate savings would have been incalculable. 4• x* In a study made for Cornell University,' it was found that the value of aricultural produc- tion for ten years on land re- quired for sections of the New York Thruway was greater than the cost of constructing those sections. It was also found that construction costs of a similar road over tougher terrain in the same area, would still have been less that' the value of pro- ctuetion lost from the land taken. * * 4 What has happened in the Niagara Peninsula is happening IT in varying degrees. all over the country and in the U.S.A. South or the border, within the past fifteen years, about 17 million acres of the most fertile land have gone into home sites, indus- trial developments, highways and other non-agricultural uses. If withdrawals continue at the present rate for another fifteen years, a total of more than 100 million acres of land which was once suitable for cultivation, will have been permanently lost to agriculture. * * * We cannot stop the wheels of progress. We will continue to need space for industrial and ur- ban growth and for more and better highways. But in the pro- cess of expansion, let us not squander the true basis of pros- perity - the land which gives us our food. Wives, Girl Friends Sent Then to Jail When a lovely French girl re- cently heard her erring hus- band explaining in court that he could not afford to pay alimony, she indignantly decided to whisk the blinkers from the eyes of justice - and so ex- posed one of France's foremost criminals. Her husband, she asserted, wasn't at all' the hard -up busi- ness man he pretended to be. He was a successful and astute safebreaker with proceeds from his robberies stowed away in four safe deposits. The French Sllrete investi- gated her story, and as a result the man was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. A single act of infidelity had upset his pretty wife - and so terminated a criminal career he had pursued undetected for nearly eight years. When his midnight absences from home aroused her suspicion, Henriette began to check up on him with a wife's watchful eye and so discovered the startling truth. Cupid often traps criminals far more neatly than months of tireless police investigation. Even glamorous Venice - long a paradise of pickpockets -will be a happier place for this sum- mer's visitors as a result of the exposure of one light-fingered ace. When romantic couples alighted from gondolas, he would always be at the landing stairs to give them a helping hand in the moonlight. His other hand meantime deftly re- lieved the men of their wallets! On an average he lifted five wallets a day. Counting an average of $60 a wallet, and working only a three months' season, Carl° is estimated to have made $30,000 a year. Far from the scene of his criminal activities, he owned a block of flats at fashionable Juan les Pins, sported an ele- gant ear and several flashy girl friends. While snatching wal- lets, his luck never failed. Rut when he tried to snatch a dia- mond necklet as a bauble for one of his pretty pets during a fashion ball at San Remo, he came to grief. His girl friend read a descrip- tion of the missing jewels and claimed the reward offered for the necklet. In the same way, :a 26 -year- old playboy stole hearts and other treasures along the French Riviera and none of the society women guessed the true occupation of the laughing $3,000 -a -month spender. Wives of rich industrialists offered to divorce their hus- bands and devote their lives to making him happy. Beauty queens fell for his stories of family wealth derived from ura- nium. mines in the Congo. But one day he was unable to re- sist giving a girl friend some of the trinkets he had stolen. When she sent a bracelet to a jeweller for . repair and clean- ing, he recognized it as stolen property. Later the handsome thief was identified by a Tan- giers • jeweller as a man who had sold him stolen gems - and ultimately the philandering playboy confessed to the theft of $300,000 worth of stolen j ewels. Electric Fans For Contented Cattle The United States Department of Agriculture has great news for steers and makers of electric f ans. It was found that there is noth- ing like a fan to put beef on con- tented Herefords. It appears that the cooler they stay, the bigger they get. This was the finding of a re- cent Agriculture Department ex- periment in California's hot Im- perial Valley in which it was dis- covered that beef cattle cooled by a 42 -inch electric fan for 70 days gained 2.32 pounds a day per steer - over a pound more than unfanned Herefords could manage even in a day of furious cud chewing. Not only that, but the fanned cattle - seven of them alto- gether - ate less: only 924 pounds of feed for each 100 pounds of weight gained. The seven unfanned Herefords had to munch 1,330 pounds of hay and such to gain that much. Fanning is considered without a doubt the best thing yet found by experts who are looking for cooler cattle. Not even Water sprays, air-cooled buildings and cooled drinking water are as good, they say. If put into wide use, fans might well usher in a new com- fort for cattle and a beefed-up prosperity for the cattle industry. Fan manufacturers and hard- ware stores would also prosper, and who knows, maybe it would even fire off a fresh new crop of cowboy songs. Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking S3Sv2:13:4;MS1 33tL3 J.331?JS*CiN VW3?.l ON BA 1 NBd': 1fl 9V1; VfO 9 V 3 V aOO -1 • d •.?J3 S1J3�3-S©� OS ;1010© [11.1 1IJ 3 id O 3 1 3 a s<;S 3 d S 3 S 1V ":D31ON3C7;;.Sfl 3/1 Ov':`M1`V2iO2If1V a3. Vrd 'H3J fldo NDAYYC1100I LESSON tt, Uarelai Warren. t6.I,. O.D.. Suffering as Christians 1 Peter 1:3-9;'`5:6-11. Memory Selection; Casting .all your care upon him; for by eareth for you. 1 ;Peter 5:1. Everyone has a measure of suffering during his lifetime. One lady I visited was very bit-• ter about her suffering. As she lay on her bed year after year and watched others walk by her window she complained, "It isn't cricket". Her attitude aggravated her suffering. It made it more difficult for the others in the house, too. My next call was on a lady dying with cancer. Strong drugs were given her to dull the pain. But her attitude was so different. She was thankful that years age she had surrendered her life to Jesus Christ She was trusting in Him now. She was thankful for friends and all God's good- ness. Why the difference? The one was concentrating her thought upon herself and her illness. She looked at God only to accuse Him. The other, though suffer- ing more intensely, had confi- dence in God's goodness just as she had when she was well. The experience was a trial of hex faith. She was true in the trail. There are other forms of suf- fering, too. Marital unfaithful- ness and children's selfishness will cause severe heartache. Neighbours may "think it strange) that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot speaking evil of you." But Peter said, "If any man suffer as a Christian, lel hint not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf." He also said, "If ye suffer for right- eousness' sake, happy are ye." If we live by the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ we can las triumphant in suffering. Such a victorious life is a witness to others. Some, when afflicted, have decided in a passive sort of manner, to make the best of it. One lady later determined to make the most of it. She began a telephone ministry. She called the sick and those in trouble of any kind and in a cheery voice gave them a message of comfort from the Bible. She helped to spread the sunshine of God's word. MATERNALLY YOURS - Wit tender, loving care that is un5' versa) in all mothers, "Astra;' .ts giraffe in the Rome, Italy, zoo, gives a cheerful but wet "good morning" kiss to her two-day old daughter, "Maya." . t�'.. � vt?cti Jry\W.xc:wvap�wepPl si5:. f�.h'OSAw.�...R` • _ ,�. a. n.,:. STAR ATTRACTION -Antics of the keeper keep rail -jamming crowd in stitches at Brookfield Children's Zoo, as the hapless individual tries to keep two jumps ahead of the chimpanzees. Chimp on ladder, is going to add keeper's hat to the sweepings When keeper leans over to pick up the hat, chimp will dump the bucket. When keeper sweeps up bucket's contents chimp will reach for hat . . Ws perpetual motion.