The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1895-10-17

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Restores Health
capas. AS you may imagine, nothing can
be funnier than the side view of two
capotes gossiping together on the street.
The Rua da Sac Francisco Horta prin-
cipal thoronghfare, extends the whole
length Of the city in a struggling, genial sort
of way inviting fellowship from all manner
of lazy waterside folk and scenes along
shore, and from the far pretter and more
interesting thoroughfares that come down
from the mountains past orange groves and
vineyards and garden embowered villas,
1t monopolizes all The business of Horta.
all the stores and principal residences and
public buildings, the cathedral and bar
racks. At intervals ii widens out into
large well-paved squares and tiny parks.
where beggars and tieas 'smost do CON
gregate. In every square is a public
Well, where water carriers loiter and pic
tulesque groups Of women, dropping their
horn cups and filling their churn-li like
casks, are coming and going, with much
laughter and gossip the whole day long.
Alphabetically, The city is vastly more
quaint than beautiful Street facades
present the queerest Of styles and studies.
Some Of them are veneered With porce-
les il,al
lated, blue eyes, aud the names of the
streets are also Uttered in the same blue
and White ware set into the walls
The shops are mere windowless store
houses With blank outer walls, but each
with Two or three enormous doors which
stand wide open BY day but are barred 1T
night as i for q siege. Dwellings are
uuill above the shops, with small balco-
hles projecting over the street. Balconies
/ in the Azores are as universal is in Ha-
! s.ina Lisbon OF Madrid Some project
from supports Of carved stone: others
rest witb airy Insecurity upon fan
clfnliy- wrought timhers, and others
show the daintiest patterns into which
brass ana iron can be wrought All
ale lalticed, and i'll this lattice work are
queer little slides and grates-peep- holes
behind which many a Juliet watches her
Romeos coming. In passing you get
glimpses of lovely and rougish faces. (the
loyeller because half concealed), and re-
ceive coquettish smiles and sly salutes
with fans and finger tips 1t is consider
ed highly improper for Fayal maiden of
the better class to so much as glance at a
man in the street, and should YOU ven
ture to call upon her, though with
string Of introductions yard long, the
social heavens would surely fall; but To-
cal custom gives them the blessed privi-
lege of flirting with any stranger who
happens to come along, from the safe and
lofty vantage ground of their balconied
aicobas. Evidently that rare jewel, CON
sistency, does not abound even in these
Western Islands. The houses are built
in continuous blocks close up to the side
walks, the lower floor being on level
with it, Each has court yard or sagao.
as the Portuguese call it, equivalent to
patio of the Spaniards. In the better
houses they are paved in patterns, with
gray and white pebbles, with dados of
bright colored tiles, having beautiful
Oriental effect. These glazed tiles, by
the way, are an interesting relic of the
Moslem occupation Of the Iberian PENN
sula. Irving, writing about the Alham-
bra, says of them: ''Some are still to be
seen among the Moorish ruins, which
have been there upwards of eight centu-
ries." When the Spaniards invaded the
Netherlands the tiles went with them
white porcelain, with geometric figures
OF blue, brown, green or yellow-and
their cleanliness made them acceptable to
the Dutch. LII colonial days our fore
fathers brought them to New England,
where we knew them as Dutch tiles; but
they are still Moslem, and Dutch only by
adoption. These of the Azores are most |
ly made in OpOrto, and there are many |
other manufactures in Spain and Portu-
gal 1t was the late Mrs. Harrison's |
dream to have the White House kitchens
foored and ceiled with neat Dutch tiles.
but her ambition was not realized. To
return to our Fayal sagao; long flight of
wooden stairs leads up to the dwelling
part of the casa, and usually bell rope
hangs beside the door on the landing
Nobody pays any attention to the bell,
however, which seems to have been put
there mainly for ornament-the proper
way, from the Azorean standpoint, being
to announce your arrival by clapping your
hands, as they did in the Arabian Nights,
you remember. The great double doors
Of the sagao are painted green, blue or
yellow and have clumsy iron hinges,
latches, locks and knockers that would