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id: 19098
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Charms for the New Year--Compromise in the Later Middle Ages--The Puritans and Christmas--Decay of Old Traditions


id: 44379
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Hen and Chickens"--a plateau or tray of silver gilt with some gold chickens with ruby eyes upon it--and the famous iron crown


id: 42682
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Vestiarium Christianium: the Origin and Gradual Development of the Dress of the Holy Ministry in the Church


id: 21352
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  "The Children are to appear in the School-room at Eight o''clock in the Morning during the Summer Months, and at


id: 10940
type: ORG
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  Guilds and Trade Corporations Uncertain Origin of Corporations.--Ancient Industrial Associations.--The Germanic Guild.--Colleges.--Teutonic Associations.--The Paris Company


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  " Saints in the Sixth to Eighth Century " Prelates, Eighth to Tenth Century " a Scholar of the Carlovingian Period Costume of a Scholar, Ninth Century " a Bishop or Abbot, Ninth Century "


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  The " Expulsion of the, in the Reign of the Emperor Hadrian " Secret Meeting of the John the Baptist, Decapitation of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy, Assassination of Judge


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Corporation of Clothworkers of Bruges " Corporation of Fullers of St. Trond " Corporation of Joiners of Bruges


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Des Deduitz de la Chasse des Bestes Sauvaiges").--Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century (National Library of Paris


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Put me in the middle of the pie three young partridges large and fat; But take good care not to fail to take six fine quail


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Royal Orders concerning the Jurisdiction of the Company of Merchants and Shrievalty in the City of Paris


id: 10940
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Ordonnances Royaux de la Jurisdiction de la Prevoté des Marchands et Eschevinage de la Ville de Paris


id: 48065
type: DATE
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  66 1702 49 13 1703 38 18 1704 35 17 1705 44 16 1706 33 5 1707 23 18 1708 34 18 1709 39 10 1710 36 8 1711 36 13 1712 43 15 1713 60 25 1714 108 59


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type: WORK_OF_ART
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  Watchmen too old--should be from 25 to 50; their beats too extensive--should not exceed 20 houses on each side of the way.


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id: 14887
title: Pipe and Pouch: The Smoker''s Own Book of Poetry
author: nan
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  My Pipe _German Smoking Song_ 7 Sweet Smoking Pipe _Anon._ 146 As, like other ancient maidens, they perchance object to smoking. ''Tis sweet through smoke-puffs, wreathing slow, And in peace smoke my brierwood pipe. We never more, old pipe, shall see those days, Thou dear old friend, with thy most honest phiz, Thou hast thy separate virtues, honest pipe! For though, like thee, each pipe was black and old, Like great John Paul, who would have loved thee well, well, then, love, smoke every day, I live, and smoke my faithful pipe In sweet content, old pipe of mine. We''ll smoke for good old by-gone days! Then let each smoking pipe be broke,-Say, pipe, let''s talk of love; And blue like smoke her eyes; SWEET SMOKING PIPE. Sweet smoking pipe; bright glowing stove, And smoke a good pipe of tobacco. In dust, like a pipe of tobacco.


id: 20558
title: The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany. Part 1
author: Hurlothrumbo
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  The texts cited use a variety of long and short dashes, generally with George Robert Guffey, _University of California, Los Angeles_ Dearing, _University of California, Los Angeles_ One morning he pulls off his diamond ring and writes upon the glass using a diamond to write ephemeral statements on window glass was far these verses with hir diamond in a glasse window verie legiblie as Part I of _The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House the polite Part of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, _&c._" graffiti printed in _The Merry-Thought_ as well as the author of the _The Merry-Thought: or, The Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany_ Glass-Window and Bog-House Glass-Window and Bog-House of the World, written upon Walls in Bog-houses, _&c._ _Windows_, on _Walls_, and in _Bog-houses_, should be left to the World? Dear Sir _John_, (with a Smile,) return''d the good Lady, _A strange Thing written upon a Glass Window in Queen Elizabeth''s Time._


id: 19979
title: A Righte Merrie Christmasse: The Story of Christ-Tide
author: Ashton, John
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  and Christ-tide--The Restoration--Pepys and Christmas day, 1662--"The England, they will set the Church dores open on Christmas day, and we time called Christmas came, when others were feasting and sporting held of Christmas Day, to which end, order was made that whoever would "_Christmas._--Good my Lord, be favourable to an old man, I am above am corruptly called _Christmas_, my name is _Christ-tide_ or time. Christmas eve, although it obtained on other days, such as New Year''s old custom in England to deck houses, churches, etc., at Christ-tide year, on Christmas Day." Eve of old Christmas Day, and that at twelve o''clock, they observed notice that the old _Christmas Day_ should be kept holy as before. Christmas day cometh while the moon waxeth, it shall be a very good house on a Christmas Day." Christmas, Hogmanay, New Year''s day, and Handsel Monday. The presentation of gifts on Christmas day was an English custom of


id: 19098
title: Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan
author: Miles, Clement A.
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  Slav New Year--Customs attracted to Christmas or January 1-German Christmas Logs--English Customs--The Yule Candle in and suggest the connection of Christmas with the Roman New Year''s Day, by the Roman Church at Lauds on Christmas Day, and "Jesu, redemptor church at the _Plygain_ or early morning service on Christmas Day, in the connection between present-day or recent goings-on about Christmas-time all on the Church''s feast of the Nativity and the Roman New Year''s Day, The only folk-festivals of note between St. Nicholas''s Day and Christmas Westphalia, for instance, it was the custom on Christmas Eve or Day to Straw--Christmas and New Year Gifts, their Connection with the Roman Christmas Eve and New Year there is a great present-giving in of London," it was the custom at Christmas for "every man''s house, as A common gift to German children at Christmas or the New Year was an Christmas, New Year''s, and Epiphany Eves.


id: 19925
title: At the Sign of the Barber''s Pole: Studies In Hirsute History
author: Andrews, William
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  cut hair, made wigs, bled, dressed wounds, and performed other offices. Long days are usually worked in the barber''s shop, and many attempts Corporation: "Ordered that no barber open his shop to shave any man [Illustration: A Barber''s Shop in the Time of Queen Elizabeth.] customer was waiting for his turn in a barber''s shop to pass his time bygone times, the barber acted as a kind of surgeon, or, to state his time progressed the London Company of Barbers increased in importance. reign it was considered a mark of fashion to dye the beard and to cut old-fashioned barber, who dressed the only three wigs in the parish, for a time the custom of wearing powder for the hair; by which Medical men kept up the custom of wearing wigs for a long period: Several old laws regulated wearing the beard in the bygone times. quarters the barber was visited, and the cherished moustache and beard


id: 19587
title: The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals
author: Janvier, Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone)
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  the Provençal rule, from Christmas Eve until the evening of New Year''s As Christmas Day drew near I observed that Misè Fougueiroun walked In a way, the crèche takes in Provence the place of the Christmas-tree, the heart of Christmas than the tree, being touched with a little of the souls, the poets from early times have been making Christmas In old times, the Vidame explained, it was the general custom for the need for them had passed away with the coming of better times. In those times, when in comfortable homes the Christmas feast was set, But for the Vidame, although he also loves its old time the old grandfather--still standing at the fire-place--marked the time had left behind us the black streets of the little town, and were come little town hung out to sun in long strips upon terraces rising from the


id: 20644
title: The Book of Hallowe''en
author: Kelley, Ruth Edna
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  Hallowe''en; the Celtic day of "summer''s end" was a time when next morning, New Year''s Day, by the priests to the people to light Druids became the vigil of All Hallows or All Saints'' Day. All Saints'' was first suggested in the fourth century, when the The evil powers that came out at Samhain lived the rest of the time The place of the old lord of the dead, the Tuatha god Saman, to chain, still celebrates the Celtic days, Beltaine and November Eve. In the Hebrides is the Irish custom of eating on Hallowe''en a cake On the Eve of All Souls'' Day, twenty-four hours after Hallowe''en, night and the next day, fires are burned, as in England, to light When Christianity turned all the old gods into spirits of evil, "Last night ''t was witching Hallowe''en, and hold a Scotch party, using Burns''s poem _Hallowe''en_ as a


id: 22042
author: Dawson, W. F. (William Francis)
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  The coronation took place at Rome, on Christmas Day, in the year 800. CHRISTMAS DAY WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR WAS CROWNED KING following year Richard kept Christmas in the great hall at besides the King for Christmas Day, the Marshal and the Master of the "The cupboard of plate is to remain in the Hall on Christmas Day, St. Stephen''s Day and New Year''s Day, from breakfast time ended untill Another home of Christmas hospitality in the days of "Good Queen Bess" reference to the Christmas festivities at Court the following year "On Christmas Day, the King attended Divine Service at "Monday, December 25, being Christmas Day, the King attended "On Tuesday, the 25th December, Christmas Day, the King attended "On Christmas Day the King attended Divine Service at Whitehall, "On Christmas Day the King attended Divine Service at Whitehall, except dancing on Christmas and New Year''s Day."

title:
  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries


id: 17008
title: A Counter-Blaste to Tobacco
author: James I, King of England
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summary:
  That the manifolde abuses of this vile custome of _Tobacco_ taking, may base corruption and barbarity, doe in like sort, make their first entry disease, so from them likewise was brought this vse of _Tobacco_, as a disease vpon them as they did, by vsing the cure thereof. liking thereof; and next, what sinnes towards God, and foolish vanities a good and great conceit thereof, I shall content myselfe to examine is that the whole people would not haue taken so generall a good liking great power and vertue, to cure diuers diseases. man chance to recouer one of any disease, after he hath taken _Tobacco_, shall serue for diuers, nay, contrarious sortes of diseases? not confessing that the vse thereof were healthfull for some sortes of take _Tobacco_, let a man I say, but take as oft the best sorts of for taking of _Tobacco_, for my part I should neuer bee sorie for any


id: 18570
title: Yule-Tide in Many Lands
author: Pringle, Mary Poague
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  the "old blue-coated serving-man" on Christmas day. The grand Yule-tide festival is opened on the eve of St. Nicholas Day, Because St. Nicholas Day came so near to Christmas, in some countries a play given on Christmas Day it is stated that the people assembled Catholics alike making Christmas the day of all the year in which they Christmas is a great day with them also, for they cling to the old the season; the "Second Christmas," or day following, being far gayer. New Year''s Day is of comparatively little importance; the Christmas Christmas until after New Year, but spends the time in visiting, After the ceremony of lighting the Yule-log on Christmas Eve, the features of New Year''s Day rather than of Christmas in France, hearth for the Christ-child to fill with gifts on Christmas Eve. In early times New Year''s Day was the occasion of the Festival of


id: 30522
author: Devereux, G. R. M.
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summary:
  When a girl is staying with friends, no man should pay his addresses that "A wise man will never marry his first love, for he knows that The lady friend who tells a girl that a man "is very much make a man of him, a good husband for a girl young enough to be her it does go against the grain to think of a woman asking a man to marry The girl who is marrying a man with a small bride''s home for a few days before the wedding. Bridesmaids; (3) The Bridegroom; (4) The Best Man; (5) The Bride''s Bridesmaids; (3) The Bridegroom; (4) The Best Man; (5) The Bride''s loving hands of mother, sister, or friend would deck the bride. the man and woman, there will not only be the marriage ceremony to The man who is mean enough to bind a girl to himself by marriage

title:
  The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements


id: 769
title: The Book of Tea
author: Okakura, Kakuzo
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summary:
  eighteenth century became, in fact, tea-houses, the resort of wits like The Schools of Tea. Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its Like Art, Tea has its periods and its schools. outsider to appreciate the subtle beauty of the tea-room, its principles All our great tea-masters were students of Zen and attempted to When a tea-master has arranged a flower to his satisfaction he will flower-worship of the tea-masters formed only a part of their aesthetic like the other works of art in the tea-room, was subordinated to the The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to Thus the tea-master strove to be something more than the artist,--art indeed, to find any department of art in which the tea-masters have Great as has been the influence of the tea-masters in the field of art,


id: 5890
title: Games for Hallow-e''en
author: Blain, Mary E.
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  for eyes, nose and mouth and a lighted candle placed within. The following games and tests of fate and fortune will furnish Each one places handful of wheat flour on sheet of white paper and Stop at each line to place a seed on a paper, and turn slip over to Pass pencils and paper to each guest with the following written upon Take half as many apples as guests, tie two long strings, one red and Into one tub half filled with water are placed apples to the stems of The players sit in a circle; each person is provided with a half sheet "Do you like your partner?" the lady is asked, and the gentleman may Lavender pills--stand on left foot, place right hand on heart, take Each guest takes turn in trying to bite apple-end of stick. other, and the culprit asks his companion if she likes apples (or any


id: 8898
title: Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
author: Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
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  --Underground church--Other caves--"Papists'' Holes" at Nottingham--Rock rock, the caves built up in front with the usual window and door to caves in which notches cut in the rock show where beams had been holes bored in the rock, very much as in our old churches and towers, In Charles the First''s time there were men living in the caves and dens shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, As the first men found their refuges and homes in caves and rock Among the rocks near the summit is a cave in which an old Squire Elford the rocks, and a cave to which he was wont to retire at times. At the foot of many of these rocks there are numerous caves and holes, The access to it is by a cave or fissure in the rock, the opening being


id: 6674
title: Umbrellas and Their History
author: Sangster, William
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  In the Ninevite sculptures the Umbrella or Parasol appears slave, who carries over his head an Umbrella, with stretchers and Very many curious facts are connected with the use of the Umbrella In China the use of the Umbrella does not appear to have been having an Umbrella carried over his head on solemn processions. looks like an ordinary Umbrella, and the ribs are represented City shower, thus alludes to the common use of the Umbrella by "Parasol, a little umbrella to keep off sun." We have thus seen that the use both of the Umbrella and Parasol was Since this date, however, the Umbrella has come into general use, In France Parasols and Umbrellas used to be amongst the articles to the manufacture of Parasols and Umbrellas at the end of the For a long time, Umbrellas were only covered with cloth to the coverings of Parasols and Umbrellas."


id: 34845
title: The Evolution of Fashion
author: Gardiner, Florence Mary
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  The tight forms of dress now in common use among women were an incentive [Illustration: ANCIENT JEWISH HEAD-DRESS.] [Illustration: EGYPTIAN HEAD-DRESS.] [Illustration: ENGLISH HEAD-DRESS OF THE 13TH CENTURY.] [Illustration: HORNED HEAD-DRESS OF 15TH CENTURY. [Illustration: STEEPLE HEAD-DRESS OF 15TH CENTURY.] [Illustration: EARLY TUDOR HEAD-DRESS.] [Illustration: HORNED HEAD-DRESS OF EDWARD IV.''s REIGN.] head-dress among all classes of the Anglo-Saxons was a long piece of [Illustration: FASHIONABLE HEAD-DRESSES IN THE TIMES OF THE GEORGES.] Towards the middle of Queen Victoria''s reign, the hair was dressed in a presents his bride with the costume and jewellery worn at the marriage. [Illustration: WIDOW''S DRESS OF QUEEN KATHERINE DE VALOIS, IN THE YEAR [Illustration: COSTUMES WORN BY KING PHILIP II. black hat-band and another on the left sleeve of dark-coloured clothes. [Illustration: ENGLISH WIDOW''S DRESS OF TO-DAY.] [Illustration: CHILDREN''S COSTUME, PRESENT DAY.] head-dress consisted of a small jewelled crown and two white feathers.


id: 34903
title: Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers
author: Hughes, Talbot
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  is seen; the neck was cut very low, either square or round in shape, and The hair was worn long and rather squared in shape at the back till the were worn, mostly set in a very short sleeve, which assume a puff-shape The chief shapes to mark in this century in male head-dress is the A long coat came in at the later part of this time, with a deep =V=-shaped At times a bell-shaped sleeve was worn, showing a slashed or The short square shape and the heavy round shoe is seen in Mary''s with set-out front began to appear; the same shaped bodice with round Long round capes were still worn, without sleeves, and a collar turned style, just gathered at the waist, with short full sleeves set with a The coats were set with very high turn-over collars and a wide-shaped


id: 36879
title: Nicotiana; Or, The Smoker''s and Snuff-Taker''s Companion
author: Meller, Henry James
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  Now, in regard to snuff, that like smoking is so much abused, coming under Snuff was manufactured and consumed in great quantities in France, long Tobacco is a lawyer--his pipes do love long cases, But no tobacco or snuff shall be And no tobacco or snuff shall be imported, except at London, Bristol, Every manufacturer of tobacco or snuff shall take out a licence from the Every person who shall first become a manufacturer of tobacco or snuff, And every dealer in tobacco and snuff shall take out a licence in like Every person who shall manufacture or deal in tobacco or snuff without "For the taking of fumes by pipes, as in tobacco and other things, to tobacco, whether smoked or taken as snuff, exercises a very considerable who was remarkable for the quantity of tobacco he smoked, that though he _Pipes._--In reference to these essentials to smoking tobacco, a great


id: 37586
title: Women''s Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States
author: Kidwell, Claudia Brush
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  WOMEN''S BATHING AND SWIMMING COSTUME _Women''s Bathing and Swimming Costume in the United States_ Women''s bathing dress holds a unique place in the history of American bathing gown to the swimming suit may not only be dependent upon the There is little evidence of women bathing or swimming prior to the 17th He referred to women, wearing only drawers, bathing with men as a custom York fashions, a separate description of long-skirted bathing dresses many women continued to wear the old bathing dress with its belted American bathing suits retained their long sleeves until the early 1880s bathing and then swimming for women increased, the number of yards of Bathing costume did not evolve gracefully into the swim suit, nor was bathing and swimming costume. The growing numbers of women who wore the new styles of bathing dress advertised swimming suits instead of bathing dresses. Although women''s bathing and swimming costume achieved an


id: 39675
title: Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2)
author: Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius)
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  States, and died a poor, though highly respected old man, in the town of says Lord Bacon, of men, supposed to be dead, taken from their beds as "Great crimes," says Sir John Barrow, "are not common, but old man replied.--"And pray," asked the widow, eagerly, "what said knows our old fathers made no such use of Faneuil Hall, in their early If the year be taken to begin, on the first of January, then Dr. Allen is right; and Peter Faneuil died March 3, 1743. years old, when Peter Faneuil died. Peter Faneuil was thirty and seven years old, when he began to reign--that loving nephew, PETER FANEUIL, eldest son of my late brother, Benjamin this year 1748_." Peter Faneuil died March 3, 1742-3, and had therefore about the year 1736-7, or about the time of Andrew Faneuil''s death. house Mr. Peter Faneuil and Henry Phillips came into Mr. Hatche''s


id: 34179
title: A Cursory History of Swearing
author: Sharman, Julian
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  oaths--Eccentricities of swearing--"Old Harry"--"The impious oaths demanded of old time by emperors and satraps, and the To this day in Servia the popular forms of swearing express dependence swearing, provided he referred in his oaths to no other substantive than copiousness of the ancient swearing the notion of an oath accommodated is ready to swear any number of oaths "by the gods" that he is innocent the name to swearing purposes, the men abjured that oath as scrupulously Hercules himself, so the story went, was known to swear but one oath in time in Germany it appears when a man adopted an oath as deliberately as punctilious in the propriety of their oaths; good Sir Thopas swearing to swear an oath every day, which will yearly produce one million eight convicted for swearing twenty-two oaths. "Ever, when you can, have two or three peculiar oaths to swear by, that


id: 47457
title: Jaros Hygienic Wear: The therapeutic and prophylactic application.
author: Jaros, I.
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summary:
  J. JAROS, Chicago, Ill. My Dear Sir:--I have prescribed your Underwear for the use of patients I have been wearing during the past cold the Jaros Hygienic underwear. JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen:--The goods purchased of you have given perfect satisfaction, JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen;--It gives me great pleasure to say that after having tried JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago Ill. Dear Sir:--After careful personal examination, I do not hesitate to JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago, Ill. Gentlemen:--I have this to say about your wear. JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sirs:--While I do not believe in the practice of recommending JAROS HYGIENIC UNDERWEAR CO., Chicago, Ill. Dear Sirs:--From experience of men now using your Wear, it is indeed J. JAROS, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:--From personal experience I find your underwear the most J. JAROS, Chicago, Ill. Dear Sir:--From personal experience I find your underwear the most


id: 38588
title: Dealings with the Dead, Volume 1 (of 2)
author: Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius)
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  burying-ground--as is the case, at the present day, in our own country, Supposing, as a matter of course, that AndrÃ© would be buried in them, Dr. Thacher had stated that, also, as a fact, though he did not remain, to The good old man himself has been called to the account of his said Johnson, "and think he had made a great addition to our stock." Mr. Stephens has preserved a respectable silence, on the subject of Lot''s daughter, between five and six years old, stepped timidly towards Mr. Adams, and placing her little hand upon his, and looking upon his there came in a hard-favored, little, old man, who looked as if time and twelve years and a little over,'' said the old man. really supposed the good, little, old man, contrary to all his known believe," said I.--"No," the old man replied, "I have always been


id: 33020
title: English Costume
author: Calthrop, Dion Clayton
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  [Illustration: {A man of the time of Henry I.; two types of shoe}] [Illustration: {A man of the time of Richard I.; a hood; a shoe}] long, loose gown of fine colours and simple designs; the soft, low, long hair cut at the neck, the fashion of beards, the shoes, belts, ladies in long, loose gowns; both men and women hung with cloaks or At this time the lady wore her hair long and hanging freely over her Very little change in dress; the man in the loose gown called the [Illustration: {A man of the time of Henry VI.; two types of sleeve}] [Illustration: {A man of the time of Edward IV.; lacing on a cut full, the sleeves of her dress turned back like my lady''s, her head wears a long loose gown, with wide sleeves, from out of which appear [Illustration: {A woman of the time of Henry VIII.; a head-dress}]


id: 44379
title: A History of Mourning
author: Davey, Richard
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  the singular funereal ceremonials of this people, with whom death was The funeral in Greece took place three days after the followed the example, and ordered general mourning on the death of FUNERAL services of great magnificence entered largely into the customs was one of the last great Roman Catholic state funerals in England, lady" (Queen Katherine) were all dressed in mourning, and the funeral remains of the great Queen were escorted to their last resting-place. King James ordered the deepest mourning to be worn for his royal THE funeral ceremonies of the French kings and princes of the blood funeral to take place at night, the body being exposed upon an open "On the 7th, the first funeral service took place, in the Church of The public funeral took place on the 18th of November, and was attended three weeks'' mourning for the late King of France." At about this time,


id: 42682
title: The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes
author: Webb, Wilfred Mark
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  The head-dress of a nun showing the veil and breast-cloth The head-dress of a lady of the time of Henry II. coat, and facings on old uniforms, and in that of the present dress of who is seen in Figure 76, and shows a head-dress which is confined with head-dress shown in a manuscript (Figure 48) has a great similarity to BLUE-COAT BOY--PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS--ADOPTION OF A SPECIAL DRESS BLUE-COAT BOY--PUBLIC SCHOOL BOYS--ADOPTION OF A SPECIAL DRESS The upper boys at Harrow, on the other hand, wear dress-coats with wear dress-coats, knee-breeches, silk stockings, and buckled shoes. dress a black veil is worn in the case of professed nuns, a blue veil 132.--The head-dress of a lady of the time of this ancient form of head-dress survives in connection with the hood Judy''s head-dress is the mob cap which was fashionable in the time of


id: 45177
author: Peeke, Hewson L. (Hewson Lindsley)
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  Dutch beer, the French and Spanish light wines, for every day use. New Englanders had abandoned the constant drinking of ale and beer as the Puritans of New England, nor drink as deeply as the Virginia Virginia and New Jersey declared liquor debts uncollectible by law. stated that "the general table drink is beer or cider." "No," said the officer, "he never drinks any strong liquor." The brave he made the drinking of healths and the selling of liquor to Indians captains and paid for with barrels of New England rum. brought to New England, distilled into rum, and sent off to Africa; The war of the Indians with the Dutch in 1675 in New York was caused governor, for allowing West India rum to be sent to the Long House. As to New York taverns, in a letter written by Dr. Mitchel in September, 1794, he states: "The Tontine Coffee House, under

title:
  Americana Ebrietatis The Favorite Tipple of our Forefathers and the Laws and Customs Relating Thereto


id: 45077
author: nan
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  The St. Luke''s Head Old Street The Beckford Head Old Street The Pope''s Head Norwich (_e_), _note_ 15 The Lord Arran''s Arms New Bond Street The Lord Monson''s Arms Tottenham Street The Lord Somers'' Arms Stibbington Street The Norwich Arms King''s Lynn The Queen''s Arms Fendall Street The Yarmouth Arms Thames Street The Virginia Plant Great Dover Street, _note_ 40 The Black Bell Ipswich, _note_ 45 The Great White Horse Ipswich, _note_ 51 The Crown and Seven Stars Royal Mint Street The King''s Arms and Lamb Upper Thames Street The Thistle and Crown Great Peter Street, _note_ 82 The Norwich Castle Gray''s Inn Road The Stone House Old Street The World Turned Upside Down Old Kent Road, _note_ 102 The Hercules Pillars Great Queen Street, _note_ 103 The Old Buck''s Head Thames Street The Old King''s Arms Pollard Street The Old King''s Head Euston Road

title:
  Pubs: A Collection of Hotel, Inn, and Tavern Signs in Great Britain and Ireland to Which Are Added a Few Foreign Café Signs


id: 46775
author: Roth, Rodris
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  TEA DRINKING IN 18TH-CENTURY AMERICA: ITS ETIQUETTE AND EQUIPAGE [Illustration: _An English Family at Tea._ Detail from an oil painting tea table whose equipage included much more than teapot, cups, and Tea was the social beverage of the 18th century; serving it was a sign painting _An English Family at Tea_ (frontispiece). well-appointed tea table, for a teapot of silver or fragile fashionable silver teapot and white ceramic cup, saucer, and sugar occasion Ferdinand Bayard, a late-18th-century observer of American tea and 1768 teapots, cups and saucers, teaspoons, and tea canisters were naked Table, but on the Cloth set a large Tea Board with the Cups."[45] Some of the 18th-century paintings depicting tea tables with cloths do In the early 18th century, tea sets of silver were uncommon if not [Illustration: Figure 11.--Silver tea set consisting of teapot, sugar of blue and white China Tea-Cups and Saucers," or "enamell''d, pencill''d _The Tea-Table._ English.

title:
  Tea Drinking in 18th-Century America: Its Etiquette and Equipage United States National Museum Bulletin 225, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology Paper 14, pages 61-91, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1961


id: 53267
title: The Corset and the Crinoline A Book of Modes and Costumes from Remote Periods to the Present Time
author: Lord, William Barry
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  beauties of Circassia, their slender waists and Corsets--Elegant Egypt--Fashions of the Egyptian ladies--The Corset in use among no young lady is considered the perfection of fashionable elegance dresses and long slender waists of the period--The tight-lacing corset beneath the dress, which fits the figure with extraordinary against its use--Fashion in 1713--Low dresses, tight stays, and The tight lacing and tremendously stiff corsets of the time were also A great number of ladies who, by the systematic use of the corset, what is the smallest-sized waist known among ladies of fashion. never worn tight stays who might have small waists even now if they 1867--Tight Corsets needed for short waists--Letter on the annexed illustration represents a lady dressed in the fashion of the Corset, a peculiar form of, worn by some ladies of fashion in Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, 155-164. Letters from ladies who have been subjected to tight-lacing, 155-164.


id: 62537
title: Home Life in All Lands—Book III—Animal Friends and Helpers
author: Morris, Charles
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  no man can tame is not far away in family tree from the faithful horse. In fact, the dogs kept by savage and barbarian people look much like There are many other animals which are at times kept as pets by man, Coming down now from these elephant-like horses it is a long step to She is also kept as a food animal, but is not made to work, like the This is a Rare Use of this Great Deer-like Animal] Now we come to an animal in some ways much like the sheep, but in other feathers, since it looks more like a wild than a tame bird, but with that it deals with animals in some way of use to man, creatures that dog and the parrot; but while the monkey looks more like a man than time to one of the snake''s chief enemies, the little weasel-like animal


id: 21352
title: Fragments of Two Centuries: Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King
author: Kingston, Alfred
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  Old Jockey House--King James'' Stables--Near Royston . bring into quiet old country towns like Royston at least a newspaper an old man visiting a shop in Royston, the strange remark--"My same year the Royston Coach was "removed from the Old Crown to the Red parish accounts for Royston, Cambs., for many years during the last and Cases are entered in the Royston Parish books of young men working at Cambridge having to come to the parish officers at Royston for their Churchwardens and Overseers of the poor of the said parish of Royston, "At a Publick Vestry held at the Parish Church of Royston, the 24th day old coach road to the North pass through our town and district? characteristic entry occurs in the Royston parish books for the year the present Parish-room in Royston, Herts., many persons living very considerable difference to old towns like Royston, where, next to


id: 19392
title: The Little Tea Book
author: nan
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  _LITTLE CUPS OF CHINESE AND JAPANESE TEA_ honor of being first to offer tea in leaf and drink for public sale, "Set a tea-pot over a slow fire; fill it with cold water; boil it long I can drink one cup of tea, or drinking tea, or coffee, with milk in it. But the drink of the people at large in Japan is green tea, coals, a kettle to boil water, a tray with tea-pot, cups, and a The Chinese use boiling water, and pour it upon the dry tea in While tea-drinking outside of Japan and China is not attended We all know about tea-drinking in England. Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more of In speaking of the ornaments on the tea-cup he says, in "Old should you number my cups of tea?''" "I put--my--little--kettle--on--to make--a cup--of--tea!" "I put--my--little--kettle--on--to make--a cup--of--tea!"


id: 10940
title: Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period
author: Jacob, P. L.
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  King''s Court, The, or Grand Council, Fifteenth Century [Illustration: Fig. 6.--King or Chief of Franks armed with the Seramasax, [Illustration: Fig. 8.--Charles, eldest Son of King Pepin, receives the [Illustration: Fig. 17.--King Charlemagne receiving the Oath of Fidelity [Illustration: Fig. 40.--Various Arms of the Fifteenth Century.] [Illustration: Fig. 50.--King Philip le Bel in War-dress, on the Occasion [Illustration: Fig. 64.--Country Life--Fac-simile of a Woodcut in a folio In the fourteenth century, Charles V., King of France, having asked Pope [Illustration: Fig. 130.--Grand Ceremonial Banquet at the Court of France [Illustration: Fig. 202.--Craftsmen in the Fourteenth Century--Fac-simile [Illustration: Fig. 299.--The Court of the Nobles.--Fac-simile of a [Illustration: Fig. 304.--The King''s Court, or Grand Council.--Fac-simile [Illustration: Fig. 308.--Supreme Court, presided over by the King, who is [Illustration: Fig. 396.--"How the King-at-Arms presents the Sword to the [Illustration: Fig. 402.--Costume of King Clovis (Sixth Century).--From a [Illustration: Fig. 422.--Costume of Charles V., King of France.--From a


id: 37216
title: Holidays & Happy-Days
author: Hendry, Hamish
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  New Year''s Day, and some of these gifts were very beautiful and very This custom of giving rich presents to rich people on New Year''s Day great Christian Festival which began upon Christmas Day and lasted for twelfth day, special honour was given to the Three Kings who are spoken Night." The chief custom of this merry day was the election of a King of is how the King was elected on Twelfth Day. A large cake, called Twelfth priests of the early Christian Church set that particular day apart for previous day, in the old times, people went to the priests to confess the next All Fools'' Day. This is the great festival of the Practical Joker, and all is well when Christian Church as a day of great joy. of Christmas Day. So all you children should love to go to the church in


id: 48065
author: Malcolm, James Peller
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  children so placed out were received in the seven years from 1741 till two Houses of Parliament and the great officers of state, with hymns In the following year 4400 persons formed a Society for insurance upon for each person, men, women, and children, every day; one man, one some member of the Society; and, the next time any such persons shall it appeared that from Michaelmas 1766 to Lady-day 1767, 13 houses had Lady-day, and great coats as a present; their beats large; was obliged front of his house in Surrey-street, in honour of the King''s birth-day. you ever so late at a friend''s house in any place of this great City, "I have observed of late years, that the London meeting-houses of "As to gaming-houses; such numbers of persons of all ranks have by 14 officers carried to prison; and in the mean time my house was

title:
  Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London during the Eighteenth Century; Vol. 1 (of 2) Including the Charities, Depravities, Dresses, and Amusements etc.


id: 41961
title: The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs
author: Frost, Thomas
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  The theatrical booths attending the London fairs began at this time to be the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called the Rope-Dancer--Cadman, the Flying Man. The success of the theatrical booths at the London fairs induced Lee, a successive years, as a Bartholomew Fair showman, setting up a theatrical In the following year, Hallam appeared at Bartholomew Fair without a Hallam''s booth attended Tottenham Court Fair this year, standing near the appearance at the fair in the preceding year, and his booth was now held performed at Bartholomew Fair three years previously. Bartholomew Fair was visited this year for the first time by the female Yates and Shuter again attended Bartholomew Fair in the following year. Theatrical booths again appeared at Bartholomew Fair in 1782, when Mrs. Baker, manageress of the Rochester Theatre, took her company to Richardson presented this year, on the first day of Bartholomew Fair, _The


