Show CT eroes as b t f A aj 1 J 41 ir f ra 14 1 X LN N 1 it takes two months to dry a codfish in the prepared by the th national society L cl C III bank v ind swept faeroe faeroes I 1 T I 1 boon soon III hear the tile drone of regular mall planes for a new landing field Is planned for mod atlon of places which will fly the proposed amer amarra ca denmark or air mall route the lac numbering 21 small islands sprinkled our a small area about miles off the northern tip of scotland hare have remained unchanged since I 1 aking says days modern can find no foot bold hold on their n indy cliffs here there life can easily exist only when modeled on 01 ancient primitive patterns and to the islanders forem ur wrestling estling with waves and ninda have little time for the tourist or his money ironey r fach deli of the islands rises from the sea with flanks as sheer as a ship e 3 sides and nith a plateau top flat like a ship s P deck in all the fae roes there Is only one small san ly IY beach of a hundred feet or so a beach beuch which Is consil considered ered such a remarkable gift of nature that the bl big island of sando tubes takes its name from the tiny strand Is probably the bleakest island of them all and therefore visit ora seldom land there but the ef ton fort pays pay for there the dwellings are of the most ancient type cus tons toms hare have been handed down un modI modified fled and it Is such a colony 11 as 8 I 1 let ericsson nr lesson might have planted there Is no town not even a store low sto stone n e farmhouses half halt sunk in the ground and girded by outer stone walls to escape the violeet winds cling to the barrens sheep graze at will live in smoke rooms so lo poor Is billero that only one hoie that belonging to the school master a very great man indeed has a glass room 1 such an eitran acance Is not tor for the average VI dero dweller who lives nith his family tn in a smoke room or a con averted smoke mm room the smoke roum which ins uia once epical of all rural homes bornes in the faeroes and still survives in many harks back to the feast halls balls of the icings ally it Is 13 large since it Is ofton the only room in the houe except the stable below it for hordes and cows and atit sene serie for the merit ment of the neighbors as well vell as for all uses around the room there are no nin windows dous only the tile en ell trance door and tho those e that open on in the original pullman beds hleb kiy be sing single le or double deck leek in the center of he room stands a it low stone forge on which burns peat or ranle broun coil and abo aime e the fire heinzs u n chim ney anc i carries sime but not all of the smoke to air lille lie the schoolmaster his his hir stove store room and Is tie 10 only imn min of N didero ft ith a it gliss room nearly all ill the on isi island ind have bore gaa girss s rooms room and in chrs havn barn the capitel it itself elf the corn com mun cumi il stove store room lias tins been left out in the new concrete houses A glass room is an nt tot the smoke or stoe room haan ha ling glass wind ws cu illy it Is a par lor for and like parlors of an earler lay day can con be used oily on state oc won for a funeral for a roar mar ariage or a reception of a caal nl guest generally the il par lor for contains lont alna ains the lie family s only fur til kiture ture such as a table a few chairs a vase with paper floers and religious pictures on the wall unit frequently the glass room PR 1 opened for travelers but the stranger usually prefers the family living loom with Us its winn stove store to these parlors which ghe forth the cold musty odor of a cellar closed for r many seirs like their feed aich I 1 the stoe stone room series seres of course a as s the dining noni roni sheep fish anil and chale are staples falth fill the Is linders finders the first two are corn com mon enough to ni aust people the method of prep iring the lie food for the tile table in the tile I 1 se irely mends it to the like 1 ike most prim primitive ithe northern peoples the islanders prefer irli and to satisfy this tills desire they tune hang a skinned sheep in an olian shed for about a year before eating ft it the carcass acquires a cault like can coil era em bert cheese this Is aired olt off each man isles bising the lafe he car ries ties constantly the highly toned lolled meat beneath the crust the bathes eat raw similarly v ft hale blubber eca ron son for a month or more balfore 0 tic e family makes hl 1 tl feast other sea nod ho boeer eer rec receives elies different dIl Terent treatment bevily cau caught ht fash am are cleaned and dried and dried and anti dried until thy become so harj that ones one teeth ian tan make no lm tin pres slon but with a stout hammer the islander will powder his durable on a stone and eit its dust so to speak 0 no o one goes to the ue westernmost island of tile faeroes Fa eroes unless the trip Is necessary for it has the most violent surf consists of a main island support ing about inhabitants who raise sheep and catch fish curbed it Is by is binds and u waves aves for the storms that leave newfoundland and green creen land gather all their forles ones and loose them thern here the rest of the faeroes and europe get the storms later gets them first and worst at the very western end of the I 1 land ll 11 a holm or islet separated from the main block by a cice 75 feet wide at the point of the detached piece stands the westernmost lighthouse of the fae file roes its beacon blazes out vat feet above the sea at the foot of the lighthouse cliff ellif their dounda lions melting year by year la in the tossing waters are two pinnacles of rock on which in summer the gannets rest life in the lighthouse the lighthouse Is operated by a dane rho lives with ith his family in a house eted behind the light house rock the keeper tells of the awesome storms of vi binter inter when a s screaming creaming whistling blackness descends on the island and the sea lifts up higher higher and higher on their rock ft hen the suffocating blast of s1 sa stinging n ging sl salt 11 spray that no do living creature can stand against rages mercilessly sly bat but more a telling even than his description Is the kerosene lamp u which hangs from the ceiling of his ing room it has a large globe with N ith a hole bole on cither either side as if a shot had passed through during one winter inter storm a wave nave that ro rose ae up the cliff dashed over the precipice a pebble which broke bis his TIn window dow pissed pis ed through his lamp and baruck against the wall he ile shows visit ors the ater worn stone which he gettins as a keepsake keep sike the fanner fishermen of the north minds winds like camies and anti madero are self supporting alln living on the tile IN 1114 of the sea and the sheep on their barrens almost of if ft nhat hat the world his tins to tell or ft i ashes to huv ci ei t condil ions lons obtain however in the s athern and I 1 more p I 1 11 ina eliere exten she fible fisl cries ries hive hie ions long ken abed A decline in tills this imbor in n ha has bien nen sinned hv bv ni anny 1 I ny 1 favors the tile modern equipment by wim tram trawlers lers fl fehere se here newer ne er and clu lher met I 1 n oh ii of in ins used in e frundl ind and nor a uy and ana a world demind necessitated ce stated a recent exl extensive ensle pro grim ot of aid by the diutsh govern ment agures slow a tragic I 1 ss of trade but to to a ay ZY dero appears to hue hie all tip tie fish fist any ally island elsh on i bright di dai q the rocky shore iq ahie bite with the rodal codfish ii i litch are Syd cros a chief stock in trade aerts of fish lie in ing up the fitful hier e sunshine 1 bh ih foil fall iw the shore line a 4 if they hid been caca ill up by I 1 tie I 1 e ac a tiley cover coer a slope stolle like ille slates on a roof thousands of mill slats of white fish meat a thirsty A line I 1 two 0 ii links H k fon sobie e aih imi or h rd Intes intestines for babilt are all the cur a nathe needs hen his ho bo it has been anchored anti ored oer pu go the lines and in come the fish I 1 lo 10 0 he the novlie there Is a thrill in pilline in a live the pound fish but it Is an on old story to the isander I 1 ish are tie ined at i nie nee ni e und salt cd ed dou don often a ship vill deturi to port knitli 1 1 ounh oun iq 0 ol 01 hand caught nh agian it t ill TO go ut and titer return at all I 1 aliese liebe are braie men who nho go jo to sea eu for cd I 1 ich numbers of ind wi ermen I 1 hsc ise thir 11 lives es ai ill their I 1 trade r ade pah grim cilot Is the tombstone of some sonne and her crew once buk bik in to port the ahoo schooners ners heir their fl nh th falb are passed on oil to women out on the piers ft ho bend ovir huge vats of water scrubbing the ile tod cod giemi ell L lures of these ms itis corkers are e obtained only with gnat griat culty for fer in the fuertes ai a amien do not want their pictures taken unless aliey are dress dressed in their best clothes |