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SHAMROCK'S ORDEAL
31 DAYS IN ATLANTIC STORM.
Sir Thomas Lipton's 23-metre racing yacht "Shamrock" arrived at Southampton from Long Island, New York, after an eventful voyage of 31 days across the Atlantic. A graphic description of the vessel's experience was given by Mr. A. H. Smart, a member of the crew, who
snid:
UNA AND THE LION."
FAMOUS CHELSEA FIGURE
ed
FOR SMALL SUM.
THE CHINA MATE.
SECCAO PORTUGUESA. IN JOCKEY'S BREECHES.
O SANTO CONDESTAVEL
GIRL RIDES AT NEWMARKET.
WALKING-STICKS,
A MODERN FASHION.
Walking down Bond Street the other day, it occurred to ma to count the number of men with and without walking-sticks, and al- who were obviously of the leisured though I confined myself to those
class, I found that only six out of seventeen carried sticks, says a
Estamos em 1 de novembro de Wearing the regulation Jockey's 1431. Expirava na paz do Senhor silk colours and breeches, Mies no convento do Carmo-em-Lisboa um frade. Os frades choravam a Betty Tanner, daughter of the New perda do Ilustre morto. O Rei D. market owner, finished third in the Joao I correu logo no convento | Newmarket Town Plate, ' prestando o seu presto de homėna-
Tids is the first time a woman gem e de grande saudade para com o grande companheira de has ridden in the race, which is writer-in-JhLouston Weekly todas as lides guerreiras. O prin- open only to children of New. cipe herdeiro D. Duarte pranteou a market residents. For this reason perda do grande heroi, uma das three other girl, aspirants were glorias de Portugal.' O povo não podendo conter em si a saudada bitterly disappointed at the last acorria gritando que morrera ojmoment. Santo Nuno. Enfim todo o paiz agitava-se pranteando.
Vamos om palavras. broves fé= cordar quem é este homem que deixou á Naçao Portuguesa
cm prantas,
Chamava-se D. Nuno Alvares Pereira, o Condestavel do Reino.
O seu noma teve a consagração
MAKING OF WOODEN
Tacked mountain
TOYS.
the away amongst dos seculos. Na sua alma havia a slopes of the Southern Tyrol, lies passes and wooded centelha sagrada de heroismo e a centelha excelsa da santidade. Foi the capital of Toyland-St Ulrich, heroi, foi santo. Depois de ter a village of many-windowed and ganhado grandes laureis de vitoria green-shuttered Tyrolean homes á Patria nas batalhas de Alju-steads. barrota, Valverde e outras e, a bem dizer edificando uma patria, recolheu homildemente no-con- vento do Carmo que tinha fundado pelo voto que fizera no campo de Aljubarrota e ali passou o resto da vida santamente. Renunciando a todos of bens que possuia sem reservas nada. para si, trocou a glorioso nome de D. Nuno Alvares Pereira pelo simples nome de Fr. Nuno de Santa Maria.
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This is the centre of the wood- carving trade, says a writer in the WestminsterGacette, a village where are wooden toys, dolls of every conceivable variety-boxes of the old famous landscape scenery and the familiar Noah's ark.
Thle, I should think, is barely half the pre-war average. Inquiring at several shops. I found that the sale of walking-sticks has certainly diminished. Some sellers said twenty per cent, others as high as fifty per cent.
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In the country, or, la country' towns you very rarely see a man carrying a stick nowadays, unless indeed some injury left by the Great War makes it a necessity.
The walking-stick.bas had no long history. Up to the end of the seventeenth century men of gentle men were similarly armed. In the birth wore swords. Even their foot-j year1701,owing toquarrels between these serving-men which had end- ed fatally, footmon were forbidden to wear swords and these quarrel- some weapons were replaced by porter's staves with large silver handles. About 1735 gentlemen began to discard swords in favour of sticks, and there was a craze for heavy oaken walking-sticks, with | large heads and ugly faces carved This latter is quite, a
good thereon. representation of a Tyrolean THE VICISSITUDES OF FASHION. in a square The next fashion was for long homestead, fixed
some carrying regular boat. There are wooden monkeys sticks, which climb sticks, wooden alpenstocks nearly six feet in soldiers with red coats and length,, On Dartmoor and in Cum- edificante da sua vida que bom tiny waists-in fact, all the cheap berland you may still see farmers traduz o seu acrisolado amor and absurd toys of our childhood and shepherds using five-foot days are made in this village. sticks, usually home-made, some of Quando sobreveîu # Patria.
Going over one of the largest thent beautifully finished and que ameaçava
Warehouses of the village was to polished and pointed with steel me an entertainment much enjoy spikes. ed. We peeped into a dozen rooms containing nothing but dolls, some
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In one room we saw nothing but dolls heads. In another were hundreds of wooden legs, each painted with a black stocking and red shoe. Even the attics and the cellars of the building contained boxes and bins of a variety of wooden toys.
With very few exceptions the population of the place, men, women, and children, earn their living at toy-carving. The children commence at the age of six or seven, and at fourteen are quite proficient in the art.
A remarkable discovery follow- the sale of an article of Dresden" china at a sale at Chesterfield-gardens, Mayfair. The article realised 150 guineas, but it noticia do cerco was discovered by the purchaser Ceuta e o humilde Fr. Nuno de Mr. Albert Amor, the antiquary, Santa Maria sendo consultado por that the figure is perhaps the finest ordem del-rei sobre a melhor forma specimen of Chelsea-ware ever de prestar socorro, ofereceu-se farge, and some small. We started with a band playing made, and is "Una and the Lion," como soldado, dizendo: and cheering American crowds. valued at a sum running into thou idade a a profissao nao tinham This was about the only bright sands of pounds.
esfriado nele os desejos de cum There was nothing in the cata-prir a sua obrigação na milicia que spot in the whole trip, for the same evening a very different band logue to indicate that the figure respeitava ao bern da igreja; que Began to play when a gale.came was any other but an ordinary sem largar duma das mãos as con- along: Various gear was carried specimen of china. The entry tas, devaria na outra a espada que away, and while we were reefing was 45 follows"Lot 629. ainda guardava para sustentar & the mainsail the mizzen went by A Dresden china group of honra de Deus e que não poderia the board. We had to cut it adrift female figure with lion, with pink
mais honrada que to avoid knocking a hole in the hull, and gilt decoration, on scroll From then on we lived in a sort of shaped base, flowers in relief, and acabando naquela empreza Hightmare strong winds
and the apple-green and gilt stand for defensao da fé e gloria da patria" Em Macau instituiu-se, ha ja um heavy seas, which ripped gear some thirty-one inches high." out of her, or flat calms. "Una and the Lion" has been ano, o culto do Beato Nuno e no At the height of a heavy gale, considered by the leading autho- domingo passado houve procissão the sea running was truly awful. rities on China to be a splendidem sua honra que representou uma I've never imagined anything like specimen of the "Red Anchor" grande manifestação de crença it. "Shamrock" was simply lost in period of about 1760, and it has religiosa. the trough of the waves, and yet been reviewed by Chaffers and O Santo Condestavel com as suas Ive heard people say that Atlantic Litchfield in their works on China, excelsas virtudes tem de ses, mllers are never more than 30 feet It is not clear how the figure came preciso que seja, o guia de todos high. I wish they'd been there.
into the collection of 7, Chester Portugueses. E essas virtudes, With the fear of death on us five field-gardens, the contents of amor da Patria, o amor da Familia, of us were hauling at the trysail which mansion have beeno amor de Deus, vinudes estas que sheet when a solid green one broke sold "by direction the engrandecem que fortificam teem aboard. I get my knee smashed. executor," or how it escaped the de ser e hao de ser as virtudes de The others were washed over the notice of all the experts, except todos nós se quizermos ser bons side, but hung on and were washed one, Mr. Amor, who secured the portugueses. back. Half drowned-I had fainted prize at a small outlay. "Usa and and been hauled out of the way--the Lion" was originally in the they set about clearing the wreck T. J. Thompson collection and later passed into the possession of Lady Lionel Phillips.
age.
Prestamos hoje. homenagem ao grande vulto português que tem a consagração dos seculos.
Amemos Q Beato Núno. Rezemos-lbe. Imitemos as suas E so assim · seremos
During the past few years Chel- virtudes.
This little spot, hidden between the mountains, suppites a goodly portion of the world with the pro- ducts of its industry. The art was introduced into the valley in the early part of the last ible amount of the soft, fine- century; probably the inexhaust grained wood-so easy to carve of forest trees is the reason of the never-failing suppy of the wooden
toys,
However, the people of St. Ulrich do not confine themselves to cary ing toys. Wooden saints for churches and crucifixes of all sizes
Very beautiful varnished canes of
malacca came in about the end of
the eighteenth century. They had turned ivory heads. The crook- headed stick came later. Very fine specimens were made in the early nineteenth century, with heads of horn or ivory, banded with gold on which were shown the owners' crests. The "nice conduct of a clouded cane" was part of the education of every dandy in the days of the Regency.
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About 1880 came the vogue of the crutch stick. Those who are old CDough will remember the "masher" of those days with his wide trousers, his high collar, crutch-headed stick, and wonderful way of "shooting his cuffs."
BIRDS' SPEED LIMIT.
The speed at which birds fly is an old subject that has been in- vested with a new interest since mechanical fight has become an
accomplished fact, says a writer in Open Air. But it is the motor car rather than the flying machine which has enabled us to estimate that speed with greater precision,
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wave sea china has afforded several ins-homens de fê, e boms portugueses, that she has carved elephants all got up and fitted ahead of the
You can judge something of the weight of water when I tell you that that same smashed the lifeboat and the main boom gallows-this latter, a solid piece of ash 6ft. long by about foot square. One more wave like that and "Shamrock" herself would have been matchwood.
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After that, by the use of oil bags, we eased things up a bit, and since then, although we've had heavy seas and strong winds, we've had a fairly uneventful run home.
The Injuries to the men proved to be less serious than was at first feared.
CLEMENCEAU WANTS TO BE REJUVENATED.
THE "TIGER" TO UNDER- GO MONKEY GLAND TREATMENT.
Most of the women do the paint-e ever believed it to be. Thus, a few days ago, a yellow-hammer ing, though one woman told "me her ilfe, and has no idea how to writer's car for a considerable carve anything else. Her art is distance. But although we accele- purely mechanical She was taught rated to 25 miles per hour, the bird by her mother, who learnt it from continued its easy, looping flight Fernando Dias Costa, her mother.
quite unconcerned,p. digno, sub-Director de Fazenda.
Faleceu em Macau no dia 9 do corrente, a Exmo. Sra. Da. Carolina Dias Costa, irmã do nosso Exmo. amigo, Sr.
tances of" discovery" in the sale room, Towards the end of the season in 1920 there were a number of vases, catalogued separately at Christie's. They were splendid specimens, but their antecedents
One of our most esteemed were known to only one. expert, Por ter seguido uma norma da
naturalists gives a similar instance who carried off the prize at about familia, nio, fês circular expressoS
regarding the heron, a bird whose six thousand guineas. The pur de convite para enterro que se
flight appears to be positively chaser was Mr. Amor, who had realisou na manhã do día seguinte de forças, mais doentlo. Ha dois sluggish, so slow and measured are found the famous " Dudley" vases mas mesmo assim compareceram dias que nao comia. /.
its wing beats. Yet, although this which had passed through the imensas pessoas que bem revela Como se sentiu cançado dirgiu- observer, on overtaking a heron, collection of several noble owners, a simpatia que aquele Sor. vem se para o Blake Pler e sentou-se dmve his car-up-to-20-miles per and were on the point of being dis-gozando na Colonia.
fum banco a descançar. Ja nao hour, the bird, flying parallel to the persed. The vases, which were Apresentando a expressão mais chovia. Cá fóra, o movimento road and low down, kept well valued at two or three times the sentida de condolencias, a este estonteante dos veiculos,a ahead despite its apparently amount realised at auction, now nosso Exmo. amigo e a sua Exma aglomeração de gente, fizeram-no languid motion. Another motorist grace the matchless collection of esposa, deixamos aqui consignado um tanto meditativo. Fito os tells us how an owl, among the Lord Bearsted.
O'Dosso preito de saudade.
oltios medrosos a tudo isto, weakest of filers, oa getting into avançou muitos passos e embre- the glare of his headlights, put up a speed of 4b miles per hour without
WANDERLUST AT TEN.
BOY WHO RAN AWAY.
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any indication of effort in its downy wing strokes. The celebrated
O sucesso elegante da semana nhou-se no vai-vam de corpos è de fol o casamento do Sr. Frederico cousas. W. Roza, irmao do Sr. Carlos Roza,
Passavam por elesem o ver, sex. com a Sra. D. Elfrida Osmund. reparar na Sua miserla on ornithologist, Gatke, who devoted
Realisou-se na Catedral da transeuntos,
fifty years to the movements of Imaculada Conceição e a éle con-
Continuou caminhando até migratory birds through Heligo- Public interest is roused in Paris
blue correu tudo quanto de mais chegar o Sincere. Que deslum land, tells us how the by the announcement that M. Cle- menceau is proposing to undergo when I was hungry, sir."
"I took loaves from hakers' carts selecto existe na nossa sociedade, bramento! Que belas eram as throat, a warbler of comparatively
Tambem nao foi menos con montras!
Havia vitrinas chelas feeble wing power, sets forth at the Voronoff gland treatment for
This simple explanation of how corrido C elegante o enlace de bolachas e frutas secas. O dusk from Northern Europe and Rejuvenation.
he overcame his commissariat matrimonial da Sra. D. Esmee de Passos invejou contemplando. gets to its southern home at day- at his time of life, and recall the seven roving
People are saying how risky it is difficulties when on one of his Souza Alvares, gentil filha do Justo dum portal, uma vella break. In doing so it covers 1600 adventures was falecido Dr. Eugenio Alvares, com estendeu-lhe a mao, rogando acographical miles in a short deaths of star patients recently given to the Willesden magistrate o Sr. Paulo Xavier, conceituado esmola. Este gesto folo espanto spring night at the miraculous But Clemenceau has not had a bad by ten-year-old Willie Bailey. empregado da firma C, E. Warren do pobre faminto Exclamou, velocity of 180 miles per hourt innings, anyhow. He is over 82 whose father, a tram driver, of and Co. years old his birthday was on Gullsborough-road, Willesden, ad- September 28), and he still seems mitted that the boy was out of quite sprightly.
control.
How, at his age, he stood those Magistrate: And what makes years as Premier and War Minister you roam away from home like from 1917 to 1920, without cracking this?
CRONICA.
Havia mais desgraçados! Não ora That diminutive duck, the teal, ele o unico desherdado? Perqus most difficult of marks of the wild nao podia ele tambem? Acago fowler, has been carefully, timed nao era um pobre, um pária, um on the police trap method to make invalido merecedor de do? Ja the amazing sprint of 190 miles an umcançado enconstou-se junto hour up wind, and that without any da porta da loja. Pensou apparent distress. Careful observa Era uma destas tardes chuvosas E. da confusão de pensamentortions indicate that if we add the risque Watches un pobre pedir a quelquer portigues que af speed of the bird we sine fore e frias aqul de Hongkong. Cortava salu enfim uma resolução: a de speed of the wind to the normal Indoors, and something makes me invalido. A fome obrigou cameter passasse umgesmola
at the correct solution. Therefore,
up is wonderful. He was not Boy: After I did it the first time micrely the most energetic, but the I couldn't help it, sir. I can't stay
most optimistic man ́In France.
'Get Rid of the Tarmant of
Recordendo mendigo.
He did not get his nickname go off. The Tiger," for nothing. He has Magistrate? What an extraor-resolutamente pernas a caminho. Nessa, ocasino o humilde autor accenting the up-wind flight of the had an exciting life. And now, in dinary thing. We had better send seu andar era cambaliante; desti cronica retirava do edificio teal, 'swift, falcon, or spine to be his eighty-third year, he feels the this child to the Remand Home percorridos alguns passos parou de Slecere embebido nuns pro-150 miles per hour,& very moderate need of rejuvenation 1
for a week whilst we consider what junto duma parede a tomar o folego blemas financeiros e topou com a estimate their velocity accelerat- can be done for him. He only mal segura pelo pescoço magro · SEste, envergonhado estendeu a equal to 200 mifles an hourf
ed by a 40-mile wind would be retomou a marcha lenta: A cabeça Passos. looks like a baby.
pendida sobre o peito, o corpo mao esqueletică pedindo parola, fanatomska TA ossudů bailando, tremendo de frio Sendo satisfeito o sen justo pedido, densro da fatecomendado regular conforme extempobromatost No need to keep on anffering the Aatiff neck is soon eased and rheums Passos assim se chamava o pobre historia sua tornient and pain of shoomatism why the pain in tine and shoulders imerso em seus peores, direito reproduzir
que acabo de Chamberlain's Pain Balm may be easily disappear when Chamberlain's Faina rus de grandes movimentos que é obtained at sswill, cost; Rüb is on Balm la rab: edios tâp paling anot
Contemplativo e mared nuns. vigorosaly. 118 tu very pondrating and forty goon to the skin, penetrates quickly teen's Road: Ressa tarde pensamentbe mortificadores de o noothing and quickly scatters congration 39 tre 18 3 rest of pala, contioring wan' fandbre sem belo bol acariciador que 6 ser pobre, fiquel pens
d the prascure that causes pain. Bold pressure and the pain is gone. Seld and come nas saudosas tardes do cado, ne Passos, and recommended everywhotos gale Troedermizded every whore, rhwng 10 Pri
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