[26] The fillet which encircles the barber's pole indicates the ribbon used for bandaging the arm in bleeding, and the basin the vessel to receive the blood.
[27] "He speaks like a lady for all the world, and never swears, as Mr. Flash does, but wears nice white gloves, and tells me what ribands become my complexion, where to stick my patches, who is the best milliner, where they sell the best tea, and which is the best wash for the face and the best paste for the hands; he is always playing with my fan, and showing his teeth; and when ever I speak, he pats me—so—and cries, 'The devil take me, Miss Biddy, but you'll be my perdition—ha, ha, ha!'" (David Garrick, "Miss in Her Teens," 1747).
[28] Thomas Deloney's "booke called the Gentle Crafte, intreating of Showmakers," tells how Crispin and Crispianus, sons of King Logrid of Britain and of Queen Estreda, were sheltered at Faversham, Kent. Crispin wooed and married Princess Ursula, whose son was born in the shoemaker's house. Hence the saying, "A shoemaker's son is born a Prince." From their high lineage, shoemaking is named "The Gentle Craft."
"I am of Crispin's trade, a brave Shooemaker,
He loved a Princess dear, and ne'r forsak't her....
This craft was never held in scorn, Sir Thomas Eyer did it adorn,
A Shoemaker's son a Prince is born."
Roxburghe Ballads.
[29] "Health Culture," G. Jaeger, M.D.
[30] A movement, headed by the Empress, has been instituted recently for the abolition of the practice of mutilating the feet of Chinese women, which was universal throughout all classes of society. In the cities, ladies were carried through the streets pick-a-back, and moved about their houses on their knees. In the fields the women worked on their knees, being unable to stand.
[31] "Health Culture," G. Jaeger, M.D.