Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-08-12
TIE WOODEN SHOE,

The wooden shoe, as we all know, is
quite national institution of France, and
in Brittany more than any other part of
that country; its "clank is heard every
where people wear it almost habitually
there who would fight shy of it elsewhere,
save on high days, holidays and en- grGnde
teaue when "there is nothing like leather.
Hence follows the necessity for G suffi.
GENTLY large brotherhood of sabotiers who,
as they could not possibly live in towns or
large villages by reason of the cost of trans
port OF che rough material exceeding the
price of the manufactured goods, are forcsd
to reside in woods and forests or other
places where suitable timber may be avail
able. OF the sabotiers house, such as it
is, the State takes no notice the tax
gatherer never comes near it the owner
can shift it to another locality when
he likes; the wood he has pur-
chased IN this spot worked up and ex-
hausted, away he goes to another. He
buys a certain number of trees OF the
requisite kind, sometimes in forest some.
times by the sides Of fields, which in Brit
tany are surrounded by lofty wood growth,
to protect the crops from the violent gales
which there prevail. The purchase, or
rather the agreement to purchase, con-
Guided at some village notsry's bureau,
and the timber marked, the sabotier comes
to the place with his donkey-cart loaded
with the few poor fittings and furniture of
his ancient and much.soile bedding his
rough self.made cradles and cots, some
we'll worn culinary utensils, and the tools
of his trade, to wit: telling axes and saws,
large-sized gouges, spoke.shaves and
knives. These are his only movabies.
For the rest the site on which he squsts
provides him. At dawn he comes; all
day he is laboring with the sweat of his
brow at the roof-tree; by night il is
finished, garnished and occupied. He beats
even London contractor of scamped su-
hurban villas in rspidity of construction.
Then, if the material be abundant, he may
remain on the chosen site for year or two !;
if otherwise, few months location, and
he seeks another clearing. He is a regular
Bedouin, this sabotier, and, like that no.
mad, can say 1.-THE rope which holds my
tent has seen all cities perish" The never
altering end and aim Of Breton wooden
shoemaker's being is to fabricate sabots,
and out of this groove he and his never run.
Such as the father is, such is the son, and,
for the matter of that, the daughter also.
Children, so to speak, are to the manner
born of making sabots, and at so tender
an age as five or six years they may be seen
smoothing, blackenipg. vanishing stringiDg
together in lots the coverings which their
parents and other relations have cut,
shaped and followed out into chdUssures
for the human foot. When a sufficient
load of sabots has been completed at a Ger.
tain fixing the sabotier goes with it to the
nearest village or town where his wholesale
dealer resides, and to whom be disposes of
tie lot. With the money thus obtained he
replaces few articles absolutely necessary
for his wants, and with the residue. pays
for timber already bought, felled and util-
lied. Money is put into the purses of tree
owner and notary, but little finding its
place in that of the workman. Having no
association with neighbors, sbhorred by
farmers, disdained by townsfolk. these Sci
kinks, in the midst OF high civilization
around, live without further contact or in
tercourse with society than that which has
been told of, viz, to buy wood, and to sell
their handicraft.1 London Globe.
CHOICE OF HUSBAND - could not, |"
writes lady, "love man little-just q
little-my superior. / should detest my
equal; l should despise my inferior, al
though conceive an assemblage OF quail.
ties in man of no great strength of mind
that could win my regard, and if were
| called upon to cherish and protect him,
perhaps might cultivate degree OF love
for him-a kind of motherly sentiment. !
have thought it all over hundred times.
But the man for me to love is one vastly
| my superior-not so much in accomplish.
ment, nor even in intellect-but in irresist-
ible force of character; man who will
compel my spirit to bend its knee 10 his
who will command my soul to stand still
and shine on him, as Joshua commanded
the sun; who can trample my win to the
dust beneath the tread Of his irresistible
and indomitable energy and fixity and
courage. 1 require he ehould make me
worship and fear him and that, instead oil
guarding and protecting me, should master
me. want that he should conquer tn:
domain of my soul, add it to his own. and
then generously divide the sovereignty be
tween us that's all
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