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TheSundavStar Bulletin 4 Advertiser Honolulu, August 12, 1979 ti The zaniest town in Wales i li'if ll v. ji at least 12-hour days in these lofts for meagre wages, with no heat, little ventilation, no power but their own muscle. For a few decades, before steam power spread, these were-the Industrial Revolution's first production-line plants, the ancestors of every factory in the modern world' Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones built his fortune on these looms. He was "supplier of flannel to Royal Households at home and abroad." and much more. In 1879, he installed the first world-wide mail order business in ir" I a ilia 1JJ i it ttiviuJt.

Terra cotta medallions in its red brick facade record dates when rail-wave linker! Wutnwn with Paris and Vienna, St. Petersburg and Rome, and let Pryce-Jones's business span the globe. iow me rryifjunes urc is lor out of cottage handwork into full-scale factories That moment of transition is preserved down Broad Street and across the river in chunky, four-story buildings. A half-dozen of these buildings, which would be national monuments anywhere else, are falling into decay or are used as storehouses. One is preserved as a quaint and charming home-grown museum.

You enter through a narrw tunnel into a rear courtyard, then climb an outdoor staircase past six cramped dwellings crammed into lower floors. Upstairs are long, open lofts. They now hold a museum of flannel and its times a loom or two, pictures of 37 varieties of sheep, hand-made models of every stage in the flannel-making process. A complete old-fashioned cobbler's shop is in one corner, a milliner's shop in another. In between is a jumble of slightly bizarre local momentoes including a knocker-upper's wand.

Knocker-uppers" were human alarm clocks. They prowled at dawn through British mill towns rapping on upstairs windows with this long, flexible wand to wake workers. A faded newspaper clipping says the last knocker-upper made her rounds in Lancashire in 1925 for a salary of tuppence (now 4 cents) a week per customer. It's a job straight out of Dickens, and it gives the first hint of what conditions once were like here. Suddenly you realize that these chunky buildings were ingenious, self-contained units factory upstairs, housing below.

Each loft has 12 big windows, each to light a hand loom. Downstairs the workforce lived in tiny two-room flats. Men, women and children slaved NEWTOWN. Wales UPI) When you twist down from the green Welsli hills and spot Newtown in its velvet valley, your first impulse may be to go somewhere else. That would be a pity.

Newtown looks routine. It seems to have no great age and no distinction. Even regional guidebooks find little to mention. Yet under. its dull-looking surface is a zany patchwork of oddities mixed with monuments of utmost importance.

The forerunners of all modern factories are Ijere. So is the world's first mail order business. Robert Owen was born here, and Owen the pioneer of New Harmony, Indiana is a patron saint of social reformers whose visionary ideas helped inspire everything from labor unions to child labor laws. More oddlV. Newtown has a church converted from a flannel warehouse and a bookshop "restored to the original 1920s style as a contribution to European Art." One major church, says one writer, is "a striking and to some tastes perfectly hideous piece of Victorian Gothic in yellow brick," and its most famous store looks like the Victorian grandmother of a discount house.

Newtown, 190 miles west of London, is now the development center of depressed north Wales. And it is not all that new. It began with a fortress on the River Severn, which typically was destroyed before it was finished. The town charter dates from 1279. Then it went to sleep for 500 years.

Flannel woke it up. A roaring boom in flannel quadrupled New-town's population in 30 years, just at that critical moment when the Industrial Revolution was moving 1 'I iny i I I i -n 1 personal shoppers, a delightfully old-fashioned building with a sweeping grand staircase and stained glass window. Despite its modern wares heaped in piles like a discount house Queen Victoria, once a patron, would feel comfortably at home. Newtown's most famous son undoubtedly is Robert Owen, who was- I Uama Ia Inf. Jo-.

If dlV VHP I Lr tin 1 1 4 iiSir. 4 uurn aiiu vmcu ucic uiuusii nc icu at the age of 10 and didn't return for more than 70 years. Owen pioneered a whole catalogue of social reforms mass schooling for young children, shorter factory hours for women, cooperatives, labor unions, child labor laws, even city planning. He made a fortune as a young man, then plowed most of it into the communal society of New Harmony. When that experiment broke up in lOOT UA lift nr, l- UAt.A 3 1041 lie icii mi suua iiicic lj a i distinguished American careers.

His statue is in a tiny Newtown square and his elaborate tomb in its abandoned 13th century church. Tiie forerunners of modern factories are here. 'MSf th Beore You U.ve GUAR'S 1919 TOULIG around the world with SOUTH AMERICAN TOll Personally Korted by Virginia Char Wong milt guss Lv: Octebar 1 T- iiec JJjarjgydovUiting our AWHICA cmATom Ivi Nov. 1 1 latum Dot. Hong Kong, Kwangchow, Hangchow, Shakfei, and Peking (19 days in CHINA).

Escorted 2199 SOlTHACISniPAClTICTOrR Ivt Novooor Visiting New Zealand, Australia, BalMndonasia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong and from 1599 neighbors via Los Angeles: Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Iguassu Falls, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima, Cuzco and Macchu Picchu (optional), Bogota and Panama; returning via Los Angeles. 22-Day Tour iMmu rttte Of IAN AMIUCAN WOtUD AIIWAV! only 1999 LSmAST0l1S Ivi Aug 30, Soot. 3, IS, 34, IT. er can note the subtle lighter complexion, graceful movements and delicate beauty of the local lasses. Many of them work as salesgirls for Thai handicrafts.

This combination of bargain and beauty makes shopping there irresistible. Other highlights of touring Chaing Mai include the Doi Suthep Temple, perched on a mountain top; the Ching DaoCave; Mae Klang Waterfall; the King's Winter Palace and the ancient city of Lampane. Surprisingly enough, the quiet city of Chiang Mai is no sleepy village, and night life flourishes there. It's not as loud, brassy or raucous as Bangkok, but it does swing and the male visitors love it. Tour agencies like to say you can get anything you want in Chiang Mai.

Women, liquor, pot, hard drugs. That's true. But one thing that is almost impossible to get is a cigar. Even a bad one. I searched for hours down sidestreets, into alleyways before admitting failure.

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Nestled in a valley 1.000 feet above sea level and surrounded by mountains, it provides a cool retreat from the oppressive heat of Bangkok Thais as well as foreigners are charmed by the slow paced city, which lacks the hustle and hassle of Bangkok. Tourism, of course, is big in Chiang Mai. So are the traditional Thai handicrafts such as silk and cotton weaving, pottery, silverware, lacquerware and the colorfully elegant Chiang Mai umbrellas. It also serves as a jumping off place for visits to the semi-primitive hill tribes. Moreover.

Chiang Mai is deservedly proud of its lovely women, reputed to be the most beautiful in Thailand and perhaps all of Asia. Now. many countries perpetuate the myth about one section producing the most beautiful, women. In Thailand, however, it is a fact. Chiang Mai brides and bar girls are at a premium.

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