The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-21

This is city Of pcddlers. All sorts
of goods are brought to the houses.
The women prefer to buy at their
front doors to going out shopping, and
there are peddlers of dry goods and
notions who go through the streets
cfapping two sticks together as the
sign Of their trade. There are fruit
peddlers and fish peddlers. There
are men with long brooms and
brushes, and bakers who carry bread
and cake in blue tin collins on the
tops of their heads. The collins have
windows in the sides and you can see
the wares through the glass.
Here comes a man peddling melons.
| He has two low baskets, each as big
around as a wash tub, filled with
papaya and watermelons. The
| baskets are hung to a pole which
rests on his shoulders. They bob up
and down as he goes through the
| street. Behind him is an onion ped
! dler who has strings of onions fasten-
| ed to each end of pole laid across
! his shoulders. Onions are sold by
the string. Their tops are SO braided
that the onions look like knots in long
| braidS of white hair.
How many of the people are bare
footed! l am writing of the working
class and such as you see on the mar
| rover streets. The most of the men
| have no shoes, some of the women
| wear sandals but for others the cal
loused skin of their soles is the only
protection from the hard street. You
see barefooted carpenters and masOns
going about in hat shirt and trousers.
Their clothing is cotton for Rio Is
warm
There are some children going to
school. They carry great portfolios,
some have bags for their school books
The girls are barefooted and bare
legged. The better classes wear shoes
and low socks, but the legs are always
bare from the ankle to the knees
This is so of both the boys and the
:, girls They think it more healthy tina,
way.
We must take the shady side of the
, street as we go. We are now in the
tropics and the sun is hot overhead
The BraZilians say that only dogs anC
strangers walk in the sun.
The narrower streets have many
. small stores and each store is a work
shop. There is a great deal Of house
: ind ustry and the wares used by the
people are often handmade.
: But let us visit the market 1t is OF
T the edge of the harbOr SO that fish
1 vegetables and other things can com,
! in by boats. The market building
= cover six or eight acres. They are
o little city of themselves surrounded b.
/ walls of stores with a glass S-cOveret
tower at each corner and a clock tow
;, | er of glass in the center. The interiO
8 of the walled city is divided up int
r streets which radiate from the tOWe
q with cross streets running through
q | them. The streets divide the marke
i building into blocks in which the stall
are. Each block has it's own kind O
merchandise. Here is one devoted t
. vegetables and fruits, there one whic
: has only butter and chees, Whiele far
g ther on is a third. where meat only
= sold. Some of the blocks are file
:, with live animals. Here, for instanc,
i there are cages of dogs, large an
- small, and cages filled with rabbit
u and guinea pigs and cages of monkey
l. and cages of birds.
II The monkeys are of all sizes. Som
T. are as big as collie; others are ne
" larger than a kitten just born. Th
OF small ones are marmOsettes The
re have tufts of gray hair over their eal
RS and long tails. There are also scream
of ing parrots and parrakeets and ais
OF sWeet-singing birds
III The market has plenty of chicke
ay and game. The chickens are sold
ir peddlers in basket-hke crates. The
so poke their heads out through the sla
re and squaWk or crow as the man tro
through the streets One of the po
ters asks US to take snapshot AS
of open my camera four others come l
I'd and stand by his side. They ha,
ce great baskets on the tops Of the
tn heads. They grin from ear to ear
yn my camera clicks.
a We stop at a meat stall. Fresh be
rv brings eight cents a pound. 1t is
1s queer things that dried meat brin
~ more than fresh meat. Dried meat
irVl hoo t-
-, classes. 1t is made in Brazil. 1t
also brought in by the shipload fro
Buenos Aires and Montevideo, bell
W. corded up we cord up hides. T.
q meat is sold in fat sheets, one or ty
iis inches thick. 1t has a strong sm'
IeI and is salty. Another high pric
let meat is fat nork This ic NM nm
ay, rolls about a foot in diameter al
er two feet in length. 1t is sold by t
ley slice. The fat is used for cooking wi