The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-22
IN CANADIAN MARKET.
ODD THINGS TIE FARMERS
WIVES BRING TO QUEBEC.

Roots and Herbs That Cure Many Diseases
-1zome Weven Hats M Rag Carpets.
Knitted Socks and Mittens BLOOD
Puddings That Tempt Few Visitors.
One who would see the open air market
Of Quebec In its full glory must rae on a
Saturday morning at 8 O'Clock when lazy
tourists are still four hours from breakfast.
From Duferin Terrace the sight we'll repays
the sacrifice Of tho morning nap. Last
night the terrace was crowded with home
folks and visitors p~romenading to the musio
Of b military band. Now II 10 empty, and
the upper town lies In silence all around.
Within q stones throw stand some Of the
oldest houses In Canada. Down below be.
yond tho edge OF that mighty precipios
lies o panorama OF river and rolling coun-
Try, yet with hugo ocean liners lying quietly
at dock. il IL o curious impression 10 the
New Yorker that after travelling nineteen
hours inland by rail no finds here a city 900
miles from the coast which is q seaporti
where the tidss rise eighteen feet.
Tho early riser turns eastward on Buade
street, and lol II ends In Q staircase. It 10
o common ending for streets In Quebec.
which wander up and down stairs as un-
o~onoernedly as tlS4y turn q corner.
Down the long stairs abe plunges into
the lower town. and there finds the peo-
pie all astir. She has only to follow thu
first housewife abe sees with q basket on
her arm to be led eventually to the great
gray stone Champlain market house.
1t is the market square without which 10
the attraction for the tourist. There in
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farmers and their wives, who have come In
before daylight from those ribbon farms,
stretched back from the river in long. mar.
row strips.
Perhaps they left home at 8 O'Clock In
the morning to drive into town IN the
bouncing two wheeled Quebec calechs.
Perhaps they came in the market boats,
catching what sleep they could on the
hard wooden benches.
Here they are sitting now, ready for the
thrifty housewives OF Quebec, each sales
man or saleswoman with such produce
before him rs his farm affords.
Aside from the ordinary market vegs-
tables there are many quaint articles for
.sale-spruoe gum, for instance, In great
Jumps which resemble chunks Of quartz
and In sticks, which look not unlike sticks
Of homo made molasses candy. Bunches Of
herbs and roots, fresh and dried, also are
offered for sale by the market woman, and
II the tourist can understand her language
she will explain volubly and politely for
what each is good and how It should be
taken.
These market women at knitting, many
Of them-sooks Of Q weight and solidity
which speak volumes Of the winter to come.
Their wares Lie spread on q box before
them; and among them there 10 sure to DO
q bunch Of country posies.
Not only things that grow are offered
for sale. A gentle sChapeeu, madame?'
will call attention to tho straw bats for
men. peaked in crown. broad In brim, much
resembling those worn by horses In New
York. Later In the season there will
be conical caps for winter wear, knit Of
wool, with a long point to Zap behind,
ending in q tassel, and with thick rolled
edges to be pulled down over ears and fore
head.
There are hanks Of homespun wool, In its
natural oolors or dyed In all the hues Of tho
rainbow by homo made dyes. There 10
towelhng spun In the winter from home
grown FAX; rag ~carpeting homo woven Of
close. fine strands; socks and mittens Of
course and table covers and bedspreads.
woven Of linen in blue and white. One
buy too, brooms made by tying green
withes to q slender, round sapfing or bars Of
home made hard soap and pots Of soft
o.
The homo woven baskets come from tho
lit tie village Of Indian Lorette, where q
small colony Of Hurons dwell. They are
quite as French as the French around them
now, yet the Indian features show out
at times. They make baskets
Of sweet grass to sell, and moocasins and
birch bark canoes for summer although
I he moccasins are quite wearable forwinter
bedroom clippers.
There are hooked rugs, also in this medley
Of home products, hooked rugs, com
ture and wax fruit under a glass globe.
There are baskets full Of little stamped
pats Of country butter, each wrapped in
q wet lettuce leaf. Most mysterious Of
All are collections. Of objects which look
ooneistenoy-the black pudding of the
habitante, made Of pigs blood. Even the
desire for "locaI color" will scarcely
cad the tourist to sample one.
One wonders how some OF these market
women car afford to come to market and
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II q box in The market place, 80 small is
heir stock. One has only a little pail full
the blood buildings before her nothing
,Ise; another has only a dozen bars OF home
made soap and-most curious Of com.
sleeps heart. Even il she
'nly pays her expenses n is glad, for it
50 happy days outing. She sees and talks
With 80 many people, a~cquaintances, even
~elatives from other villages whom she
'ees but seldom; fellow villagers who have
'ome to Quebec to work in the shoe fac
cries, village girls who are waiting on
ables In Quebec hotels, possibly even som
'oung priest, lawyer or doctor who used
o be one Of the boys Of her own village.
The market place resounds with cries
animals. Hens and geese stretch forth
from Slated ooops and protest strenu.
'usly. Penned calves add to the din.
.bove all is the %squeaking Of little pigs:
ne by it's curl paper tail, holds it up to the
ustomer's view and pinches it's fat, pink
ides as he expatiates on its merits, whils
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