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ISBON, capital of the Republic
E of Portugal, where a move to
restore the monarchy was re
3 cently nipped in the bud, has a
strange appeal for the seeker for
quaint and individual places. This
port of Portugal, which has very aptly
been called the kernel of the country,
saw the commercial pride of the Phoe-
niclans and heard the fervent prayers
of Vasco da Gama before he set out on
his perilous voyage in search of India,
the land which had lured navigators
for centuries.
Lisbon’s ancient name was Ulisipo,
which caused many Greek scholars to
try to connect it with the wanderings
of Ulysses, but the name probably
originated from two Phoenician words
meaning Pleasant Bay, which is made
doubly plausible because the mouth of
the Tagus just beyond the city widens
into one of the best harbors in the
whole of Europe.
The Romans knew Lisbon as Felici-
ras Julia, and it grew to be the second
city in Lusitania, that famous district
of Hispania in time of the Caesars.
Its temple and theater ruins attest its
occupation. Successively it has been
seized by the Alans, the Visigoths, the
Moors and the Crusaders. The kind-
ly influence of the English Crusaders
who mingled with the Portuguese
masses left its mark, and has shown
itself in the friendly relations that
have, practically ever since, existed
between the two nations.
Men of letters have sought out the
¢ity for its individuality and beauty,
which caused the ecstatic Byron upon
first beholding from the bay its ter-
raced seven hills to exclaim:
“What beauties doth Lisboa first un-
fold!
der image floating on that noble tide
Which poets vainly pave with sands
of gold.”
What the City Is Like.
Commercially the city has natural
advantages in its harbor, which can
accommodate the largest vessels, and
an advantageous position on the At-
lantic. At present its trade is con-
fined chiefly to exporting cork, wine,
olive oil and tropical fruits to and im-
porting coal, wood. corn, rice and man-
ufactured articles from England. Bra-
zfl and its own African colonies.
Along the Tagus vegetables, fruits
and flowers are piled in high heaps
to tempt the eager marketers, boats
of every description from the dingy
little fishing smack to the ladylike At-
lantic liner are loading and unloading
their cargoes, and the fish peddlers
who are to be seen everywhere in the
Lisbon streets are raucously bargain-
ing for their stock in trade with the
fishermen along the wharves.
Then house above house in ever-as-
cending terraces the city proper rises
above the water front, its white build-
ing gleaming in the sunlight. In the
hills near the city there is a limestone
as white and soft as chalk which be-
comes hard upon exposure, and this
has largely been used as building ma-
terial. Many of the buildings are
faced with colored tiles. and others are
washed pink or blue, but there is a
softness in the general impression nev-
ertheless, which is very pleasing. The
old tiled roofs which are warped and
curving, with their grass-grown fur-
rows are delightul.
Lisbon is interesting to visitors not
only because of its setting and its
architecture, but also because of the
conglomerate population within its
mits. Here may be seen represent-
atives of all the various nationalities
which, fluxed into homogeneity, char
acterize the urban population of Por-
tagal today.
Traces of Many Peoples.
The prolonged visits of the Phoeni-
clans, Visigoths, Romans, Moors, and
Spanish had little effect or infiuence
oh the stock of the Celtic-Iberian folk
fa the interior and mountainous dis
tricts of Portugal, while along the
coasts the cities absorbed all those
strangers into its urban life. The con-
caierors fell victims to racial absorp-
tion.
Consequently in Lisbon, often invad-
ed and brought under alien rule, are
found types which distinctly betray
their origin from one or another of
the shifting dominant races. Pure
Celts from the hills are met on the
streets, their pugnacious visages mark-
edly Bretonesque, their costumes like |
all Celtic raiment, and their side whis-
kers just as bristly. Traces of imports
ed negro slave blood are distinguish-
able, as also are Jewish types, des
scendants of the refugees from Spain.
One marvels at the strength of limb
and neck of the basket-peddler girls,
whose profiles, complexions, hair, and
stature find a parallel in the descrip-
tions of the Phoenician women of old.
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Striking Moorish types are also oft- !
en seen, dark-skinned, with the black-
bronze hair, large, brilliant black eyes,
and pearly teeth of their ancestors.
They lack, of course, the thick lips
and flat noses of the African types
from more tropical regions than the
Mediterranean coast.
But by far the greater number ot
people on the streets are “Portuguese,”
a race in which is combined something
from each of a long list of descendants
of successive invaders. They are
clean-limbed, regular-featured, medi-
um-sized people of fine appearance.
Their type is somewhat akin to the
Greek, but they are more swarthy and
also more urbane, even-tempered, and
cordial.
Portuguese of the upper classes are
among the most cultured and gracious
people of the world. Hospitality is a
characteristic, generosity also, and the
arts, sciences, and ethics of civiliza-
tion are appreciated and employed.
Portuguese men engaged in business
and commerce are cosmopolitan in the
range of thelr operations and in the
compass of their influence.
Ancient and Modern Mingle.
All the linguistic inheritances and
racial divergences of the Portuguese
have a direct influence on the life,
architecture, and economics of the city.
The most ancient of customs and the
most antique of implements are found
side by side with electric cars, auto-
mobiles, modern banking houses, luxu-
riously furnished homes, and ultra
styles.
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FARMER near Ithaca,
N. Y., wanted to have
his straw baled, provided he could find a place
to sell it. He drove here and there in his car,
making inquiries. No one wanted to buy. Then
he thought of a man some distance away who
used straw in considerable quantities. He
stepped to the telephone and called him up.
He sold him 15 tons, then and there.
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FREAK STORMS DUE
TO ELECTRIC RING
Physicists Advance New The-
ory of Magnetic “Rumpus.”
_Londen.—A. ring of electric current
surrounding the earth in very much
the same way as the more material
. rings of Saturn surround that planet
is seen as the cause of the magnetic
storms that sometimes occur, upset-
! ting cable and telegraphic communi-
Yet so perfectly natural and unar- -
fected are the people that nothing
seems Strange or out of place. The
city is a mosaic of civilization; harsh
and glaring antagonisms have melted
into the picture.
Because earthquakes have shaken
the city disastrously in the past, an
architecture has been developed to re-
sist earth tremors. The best exam-
ples of such construction lie in the
business section of the new city, the
Cidade Baixa.
The business buildings which house |
trading California’s Law Fails
the banks, jewelry stores,
shops of all kinds, and offices are built
of light materials, with walls covered
with ceramic tile. Base stories are
frequently constructed of stone, but
one sees four and six-story buildings
lighter than the average two-story loft
building in America.
The tile covering is generally in
small sections, six to eight inches
square, and highly colored in most
instances—blues, greens, yellows, and
browns.
The use of tile wall space is a uni-
versal complaint with Portuguese arch-
itects, but it is a matter of law in
idshon—Hght materials above the first
story must be used.
The eight streets running north ana
south in the Cidade pour into the
itocio and the Praca da Figueira. The
tocio is a beautiful square, remark-
able for its pavement, laid in a mosaic
pattern which produces an optical il-
lusion responsible for its popular nick-
name, “Rolling-Motion Square.”
cation. This suggestion is made by
two English physicists, Dr. S. Chap-
{
man and V. C. A. Ferraro of the Im- |
perial College of Science here. They
have announced their theory through
the pages of Nature Magazine.
This current occurs, according to
their theory, in a stream of neutral
ionized particles shot out from the
sun.
tion and final granting of the license.
The law, which is turning Yuma,
Deno, and Tia Juana into Gretna
Greens for California, was playfully
called the “gin wedding” law because
one of its backers declared that many
young folks wed during gay parties
who would remain single if three days
were. given them to consider their
action,
Regiment’s Lost Medal
Found After 14 Years
New Haven, Conn.—Forty years ago
the Second Continental regiment, now
known as the One Hundred and Sec-
ond regiment, purchased a gold medal
set with diamonds and valued at
I $1,000.
As the stream advances toward |
the earth the magnetism of that body |
sets up electric currents in the stream :
in its forward surface.
then proceeds to envelop the earth,
possibly approaching as close as the |
The | Dest L. Isabell, James A. Haggerty
upper layers of the atmosphere.
The stream .
flow of the current ir a westerly di-
rection in the part of this stream |
around the earth then sets up mag-
netic effects that prcduce the maipr |
shenomena of a magnetic storm.
The authors of thi: theory point
out that one of its distinctive features .
is that the current is close to the
earth, only a few times its radius :
away. After the current ring is
formed, they say, it could persist for
several days, even after the flow of
narticles from the sun has ceased.
As magnetic storms are frequently
associated with sun spots, it would
seem therefore that the particles are
shot out of the spots, though this is
not mentioned in the announcement of
the theory. It is suggested, however,
that the stream approaches the earth |
with a speed of about 1,000 kilometers
(620 miles) per second. This would
take it across the 92,900,000 miles sep-
arating the sun and the earth in about
forty hours.
to Reduce Marriages
Los Angeles, Calif.—Youth of Los
Angeles will be served and served
quickly at the altar of matrimony
even if a trip out of the state ir
necessary.
Rosamond Rice, in charge of the
county marriage bureau, made this
discovery when she looked over the
statistics of her office for the montb
of July.
The report showed that 2,719 ap-
It was presented to Col. S. R. Smith,
who then turned it over to his suc-
cessor. Fourteen years ago the medal
was lost. Recently Col. James Gettys,
while looking over military papers,
found a notation giving the location
of the medal, which had been put in a
safety deposit vault.
The medal has been recovered, ana
it was presented in turn to Cols. Er-
and Louis L. Fields, past and present
commanding officers of the regiment
who served during the 14 years the
decoration was lost.
Boy Dies as Result
of Tiger's Mangling
Los Angeles.—Twelve-year-old Al-
rred Hill, attacked by a tiger at the
Luna park zoo, died in the police
hospital recently despite the sacrifice
of his mother, Mrs. Lynett Hill, who
gave a pint of her blood for a trans-
fusion.
Alfred was caught by the tiger ana
his scalp nearly torn off before a
trainer ended the beast’'s life with a
rifle bullet.
With three companions Alfrea
crawled through a fence at the zoo
and wandered through a jungle-like
enclosure, ignoring warning signs. The
lad climbed another low fence and
suddenly the tiger darted upon him.
| Bratislava Girl Admits
Killing Three Children
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia.—Under
arrest for murder of her new-born
baby, Veronika Molnar, a working girl,
confessed that in 1928 and 1929, as
© well as this summer, she had given
birth to illegitimate children and had
strangled each to escape the disgrace
of being an unmarried mother. Bod-
. ies of the first two were sunk in a
plications were filed in July of 1929, |
compared with 2,458 for July of this
year.
“Quite a few couples have canceled
their license applications,” Miss Rice
said, “Stating they intended to go to
Reno, Nev., Yuma, Ariz, or Tia Juana.
Mexico.”
All of the young people admitted
they didn’t like to wait for the end
of the three-day limit California re-
quires between the days of applica-
swamp and the third was buried ia
a garden.
Novel Aerating Process
Keeping nsn alive on the way to
market has been a problem in Chios,
where fishing is ene of the principat
industries. Now an inventive genius
has discovered a simple, though un-
scientific, way of aerating tlie water
in the tubs in which he shipped carp
fry. An arrangement of floats, which
is operated by an attendant, paddles
the surface of the water and thus
introduces a sufficient amount of air.
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