The Seaforth News, 1956-08-09, Page 3Market ay In Portug
A pale pink, squeaking ball
darted through oxen legs, un-
der wooden carts and around
earthen pitchers. A black-
ehawled woman chased it hither
and 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-
cet in north Portugal. Its wares
mirror the 18th century pattern
of Arcadian life in the rieh
!Ilinho valley.
The market covers a quarter
of an acre on the Campo de
Eire, 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-
shin monastery.
The church front rising in the
renter with a baroque flourish
makes a picturesque backdrop
to the busy market scene.
At the fountain a ballad (or
%oda) singer and his woman
sing songs and peddle the words
on 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
rase they give a proud shrug of
the shoulders. There is no 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
palm, writes Melita Knowles
In The Christian Science Moni-
;or.
From the nearby potteries of
Viano de Castel() comes deli -
:ate china, as light and trans-
,ucent as Chinese rice bowls.
SALLY'S SALLIES
'On vacation 1 get a kick out
of. this: I set the alarm as
usual, then slut it off."
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But most of the pottery is
strigtly utilitarian, with the
14.ditional designs of the mari-
gol'd'or the crooked heart, the
cock` or the fish. This coarse
etrtlienware 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 and onion 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 'pa of sa-
bots. The women g� -barefoot
most of the time, only 'wearing
a pair of clip -clopping sabots
for very wet weather, or for
fiestas.
Gradually as 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.
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today dates from 1905 when it
was first made in St, Johns, Ore-
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PIG WHO CAME TO DINNER -A 100 -pound pig has no qualms
about skowing up for chow when a cow feeds her calf. Some-
where along the line, the little runt got confused and every
time the cow comes on the scene. the free -loading pig Is right on
hand, The farmer has tried to discourage the little thief. but
both cow and calf have resigned themselves to his presence.
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, I quote herewith smile
paragraphs from a piece titled
"Shiftsin Land Use and the
Need for Planning" by Gavin
Henderson, Secretary of the
Conservation Council of Ontario.
*
With a population of more
than 30 million forecast for Can-
ada by the end of the century,
if 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.
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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 sav-
ed, but so far we have no pro-
gram of protection at all, not
even of little pockets like the
Niagara Fruit Beit which has
special value due to climatic
factors. * 4' *
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.) * e: 9
The rape of the fruitiands 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-
tle 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.
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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?'
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Had the Queen Elizabeth Way
netween 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.
hi 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 rougher terrain in the
same area, would still have
been less than the value of pro-
duction lost from the land taken.
* * *
What has happened in the
Niagara Peninsula is happening
In varying degrees all over the
country and in the U.S.A. South
of 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.•
Iler 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 Sflrete 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 roup l es
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 live
wallets a day. Counting an
average of $60 a wallet, and
working only a three months'
season, Carlo is estimated 10
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 car and several flashy girl
friends. While snatching wal-
lets, his luck never failed, But
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 20 -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
jewels.
Electric Fans For
Contented Cattle
The United States Department
of Agriculture has great news
for steers and makers of electric
fans.
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 beefcattlecooled
by a 42 -inch electric fan for 70
days gained 2.32 pounds a day
per steer - over a pound more
than untanned 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 untanned 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.
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LESSON
R. Barclay Warren, B.A, Me.
Suffering as Christians
1 Peter 1:3-9; 5:6-11,
Memory Selection: Casting an
your care upon him; for Ise
careth for you. 1 Peter 5:7.
Everyone has a measure of
suffering during bis 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 ago
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
sameexcessof riot speaking evil
of you." But Peter said, "If any
man suffer as a Christian, lei
him 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 be
triumphant in suffering. Such e
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'e
word.
MATERNALLY YOURS - W i t IC
tender, loving care that is unl
versa! in all mothers, "Astra," e
giraffe in the Rome, Italy, zoo,
gives a cheerful but wet "good
morning" kiss to her two-day
old daughter, "Maya."
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.