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SPORTS AND PASTIMES OF ALL NATIONS
#11 - PORTUGAL
Size: 3" x 5"
Copyrighted: 1893
Lithographer: Kaufmann & Strauss
  
| Reverse - Text |
Left section:
GRIND
YOUR COFFEE AT HOME
Right section: |
| PORTUGAL. |
| PORTUGAL
has much in common yet differs
greatly from her neighbor Spain.
A different language is spoken.
The Portuguese are a very musical
people, dwell in a fertile
country and imbibe from its soil
a great love of nature, are
content to dwell amid her haunts,
and learn through her inspiration
to express their thoughts
rhythmically and beautifully.
They are graceful,
happy-go-lucky and charming
people. Yet notwithstanding their
quick response to the diversions
and recreations of life, they are
a hard-working and easily
contented nation. |
| Of
their love for music, the
ubiquitous mandolin and guitar
player is a proof. After Vespers
he can be heard everywhere. In
the long May twilights the young
man with his mandolin will take
his way strumming careless chords
and snatches of those strange
airs in the minor key which the
Portuguese call Fados,
and which are of lineal descent
from the music of the old Moorish
times. Young and old delight in
this charming string music. |
| The
favorite game of the children is
that played with the bowl. The
bowl is placed on the ground, and
each participating girl or boy in
turn is blind-folded and given
three lunges at the bowl with a
stick. The child who strikes and
breaks it, is given a prize. |
| The
Portuguese notwithstanding they
are gentle, mild, humane and
courteous, have such a
pleasure-loving temperament that
the first of April, April Fool's
Day, is observed throughout the
country with much more spirit and
humor than it is in any other
country. Every one is on the
alert, yet nearly everyone
becomes the victim of some clever
trick or joke. And all is taken
good-naturedly and with the
proper spirit. |
| There
are so many poets throughout the
land, that matches of
improvisation are frequently
arranged. The bards improvise
ballads, and invariably play the
guitar to them as an
accompaniment. |
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