Norwich bulletin., 1916-05-02
keener interest than the grades ot

H1nS.
 While PortugaPs maritime glory is a thing of the past, large number of Portuguese still follow the sea for a livelihood, and the fishing industry is important The Portuguese sardines, are preserved in Italian olive oil, al- though One-ffteenth of the cultivated area of the nation is given over to olive groves for the production of oils Of a cheap grade.
 "The Portuguese peasant woman is an important breadwinner, but she re- ceives for her days labor of Is hours in the field only a shilling or less while the men get two shillings.
 One of the profitable and extremely popular industries of the rural popu- lation is a placid lying-in-waft for tourists who attempt to motor through the country on the less frequented and often impossible public roads. With an ox-team the peasant waits at a 1 favorable spot until a rnotorist travel ing in an automobile on which an ttn- 1 port tax of s120 has been collected by | the Portuguese government, stick in 1 the mud To haul out such an unfort- | unate is often more profitable than i several days work in the wheat, maize | or rice fields.
 "The harbor of Lisbon, where the seizure of the German merchant ships prectpitated Portugal into the war, Is one of the most beautiful in all Flu rope. ranking scarcely second to Ma | pies and Constantinople. The city is about the size of Pittsburgh, and has | been the political center of the nation | since it was wrested from the Moors l in the middle of the 12th century by 1 Alfonso Henriques, the founder Of the
 kingdom It was the English who aid- | ed Alfonso in his war against the
 Moors, and the following century. the | two countries effected an alliance | which has existed unbroken during the
 succeeding seven hundred years, save for such sporadic interruptions as when Napoleon forced the little king dom to declare war against the island
 empire.
 The Portuguese, especially those oi Lisbon, are a pleasure-loving people
 They are fond of sports, including the bull-fglnt but the toreador is not the
 idol in this country that he is in Spain
 nor are the contests as fierce. Horses
 are seldom if ever sacrificed in the
 Portuguese trocaderos..
 Lisbon is an even greater nigh
 city than Paris, the streets appear
 ing at their busiest usually at A. M
 The principal thoroughfares are ad- nira'bly kept nowadays but as late aS
 1885 a. clean up campaigner was in g
 woeful minority when he began tx
 urge the authorities to put a stop tC such practices as breaking horses il
 tho streets. and singeing pigs in tht main avenues of trade. He also pro-
 tested against keeping pigs alive fl
 the streets or tied to the doors, while
 he thought it advisable to put an enc } to the custom of allowing dead ami nlals to lie for indefinite periods in tht streets.
 There are about 100 journals pub } 1ished in Portugal, the majority O these being of a political nature, ant
 many of them are owned by the lead CTS of the various political parties. '1 has been said that if Lisbol turns Turk tomorrow all Portugal vii } wear the turban', so when the mon archy was overthrown in 1910, afte 100 persons had been killed and 50 , wounded in the capital, King Manue
 taking refuge in England, 1t was matter of course that the rest of tn ) nation would quietly acquiesce in tn pew order of things. Portugal toda, } has much the same outward form o government as our own. Each parlia ment is supposed to last three years senators are elected for years, an. presidents for four years The heaa of the government receives $20, 900 year, Money, however, Is reckone chiefly in reis, and, therefore, even } day laborer's wage is sweet to the eal } for it takes 20 reis to make a penny. <Portugal's transcendent contribn , ton to world history was the coloniza
 tion of Brazil, the largest nation ii 5 South America and the third larges l in the Western hemisphere. Whi1