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SIGNS AND SIGNBOARDS.
TRADE NAMES AND THEIR HISTORY.
In the middle ages, and even into modern times, while the large towns were named, the bouses were not numbered, as now. They were distinguished from each other by the more picturesque, if less practical, way of signs, sculptured or painted, affixed to the walls or suspended over the doorways. A messenger to a particular house in a busy street with which he was not well acquainted, had to pass along in search of the sign; with his exes directei alternately from right to left in quest of the device or emblem which marked the house.
Every house had its individual) sign, and not as now (or until lately) shops only. Thus the poet. John Miltion was born at the sign of the Spread-Eagle. in Bread Street, London, near St Paul's: he was in the cockney parlance of his day, one of "Paul's pigeons," One would now expect such a sign one the wall of a hotel, but in 1608 it denoted the dwelling-house of a private citizen-who happened to be an accountant.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES,
It made for expedition of busi- ness to number the houses. Some trades and occupations of a however, public nature still,
ecu-
retain the old practice of emploş-| ing signs to advertise their busi- ness, шоге especially ions, taverns, and public houses. We have all heard of. The Tabard hostelry in Southwark where the Canterbury Pilgrims 83- sembled ; of the Mermaid Tavern, where Shakespeare and Ben Johnson smoked and chatt- ed: and of the Boar's Head, where Mrs. Quickly entertained Falstaff and Prince Harry. But the fancy names for inns, with their illus- trative emblems, need no meration: they appeal to the imagination and promote custom. The watchmaker swung out as huge dummy watch over his s op-door: the shoemaker pro- jected a gigantic wooden Wel- lington"; the baker (or baxter) stuck up
a sheaf of wheat; the barber hoisted 3 striped pole with
brass besin dangling at the top of it: the pawnbroker hung up his three mystic balls: and the druggist advanced into view a bulgy mortar and pestle, thus intimating his dominion over drugs.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1919.
NOTICE.
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An entailed estate is one cut off| for a certain heir. Fruiterer and poulterer are abominable inven- tions; they should be fruiter and poulter, that is dealers in, fruit
ASIATICS IN S. AFRICA.
TRANSVAAL WANTS
EXCLUSION.
Pretoria, September 5.-The
and poults (chickens) respectively. Conference composed of repre- Shakespeare correctly wrote and spoke "poulter."
is
sentatives of the Transvaal Municipal Authorities, Chambers Trade Unions, and "Comrades of the Great War" and other or
PAINTED SIGNS SAVE TROUBLE These signs or devices to draw frade were mostly carved in wood or metal, and gilded to make
Plasterer was a false analogy con- to fruiterer; but plasterer is all them resplendent and spicuous; but painted sign-right, despite the reduplication of ganisations, which has been dis- boards began to be more in favour the"; "he is a worker in plaster. cussing the Asiatic question in towards the end of the 17th cen- Butcher for fleeber la cannibal the Transvaal. has adopted the tury, as being cheaper, and less word, once common, now happily dan-erous to passers-by in the dropped) means a dealer in bucks following resolution by an over-
whelming majority
Inasmuch street below. We read of a pon- or goats' flesh-the "r" soundi
as the legal derous sculptured sign in Fleet having been softened into the!
restrictions against encroach- Street that dragged down the sibilant "ch" a common trans-i
ments by Asiatics in the past simply house-wall and killed several per formation. Mercer
have failed by reason of the sons. A ship's figurehead often merebant or trader, but is now
persistent evasion of the laws by did duty at last as a tralesman's
limited to a dealer in soft goods, Asiatics and ineffective admin- such as silks, linens, cottons, etc.istration of the laws by the sign in a seaport town.
Near the end of the 18th cen- Draper. according to Oxford
Government, this Congress tury (in 1770 to be precise). legis-authority, is a trader in drab!
strongly urges the more stringent lation limited the weigh and ex- textile fabrics. that is cloth travagant use of signs and sign of the natural colour; but I find application of the restrictions in the future, and protests against. boards; and at present, in a more mention of ale-drapers in Lang! any relaxation or modification of learned if not more intelligent) lands Vision of Peter Plowman" but less imaginative age, we are (14th century) "which suggests these laws and the granting of treated for the most part with measurer or retailer. Chemist any civic rights to Asiatics, and Dames merely, which the should bave kept the old form urges Parliament to legislate as shopkeeper intimates to the chymist-in Greek the mixer or with the cbjects of this Con- universally reading public that compounder.
Milton
in
cails
soon as possible in accordance
BTERS."
patrol the streets the nature of trumpet in his grand poetical way The Congress decided upon t'e the which he deals. The other" the sounding alchymy," from formation of a "South Africans' day from the top of a tramway- the amalgam of the metal and League," among the objects of
а Superior which is to secure the expropriat car plying between Morningside Shakespeare,
tion, subject to just compensation. and the West End of Princes Sonnet, describes the sunshine of Street-rather more than a mile Warwickshire as gilding the Avon, of all immovable property vested of shops-I counted only eight with "heavenly alchymy."
in Asiatice, and the general elim- nine **signs," three of
ination by all reasonable and them duplicate, namely 竊 A stationer meant originally a statesmanlike means of Asiatics boot, a fish (sainion), end a small bookseller who had a station resident and trading in the pestle-cu-mortar. The hundreds or stall in the market-place. Transvaal.
or
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of shops unsigned" offered Blouser is a very modern creation, Sir Abe Bailey was elected only a leg nd of names (th-and is on right enough lineea President, and a vote of thanks owners' names and in words, maker of blouses but where the for his stand on the subject in what they dealt in.) Many of French got the world blouse Parliament was carried amidst these trade names such as nobody knows; it was applied at general acclamation. grocer, fruiterer, butcher, poul first to a workman's frock or terer, mercer, draper, chemist overall. I ara in daily expectation Jobp Ball may purvey beef; here stationer, furrier, blouser, etc., of seeing creamer, a dealer in is a Taylor who trades in fish: are very much the manufacture
Crean! : we have already got and here again is a Fish who is of the tradesmen that use them, creamery, the shop where cream batter and hosier. I have noticed at least in form or manner of can be bought. Dairy, where
parrie Badenoch on the Saturday, 25th October 1919. spelling.
milk is on sale, is an interesting window pane of an auctioneer.
Signs and signboards are grow-
DANCE $1.00 SIGNS THAT NEED CORRECTING. old word: it meant the place or
DINNER $1,00 Needless to say, they offend, apartment where the milkmaid ing less and less every decade! or rather amuse the eye of the presided at a farm; she was the part of the scenery of the streets: scholag on the pounce for popular" dey" woman, originally the but there is growing interest in
Anyone entering the Dancing etymology. He is, however, "dough" woman, who baked for tradesmen's designation of them- powerless against a strong-rooted the rustics, and supplied milk selves, and in the manner in Room whether they wish to dance
advertise their wares. with death inte la protes silps popular fad or fashion, and can along with her bannocks (or pan: Advertisement, however, has rug or not, MUST purchase a dance
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only now and then eaterhis protest. nocks, little cakes of bread- Grocer should be spelt (as at fi st Latin, pania)
Tobacconist is a
the
chiefly to circulars" and the
it was), grosser, a dealer in gross mongrel word, the first part being columns of the newspaper, and ticket.
CARDS of Virus deezing retails in moderate amounts to and signifying, not the leaf, but, all to itself to present in one;
or large quantities, which be native West India (Hayizin), would require a special article suit his requirements of individuel the pipe in which the dried leaf, proportion ita enterprising phases
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men be priced at á þess of $9,10,8 for manh- benda bonding, sadať which they ses inserted Larger sårvelousasia frodz 29TH 215.
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Our dancing room may for private Dances, who seem in some instances to be hired keep a poet" or at least a
or family purchasers. A retailer was smoked: the affir "ist" is and startling features Especial booked. is so called because he cuts off a Greek, and means in a very loosely is this the case with drapers, partion of bis store for a customer; general way the agent or doer. the same word appears in tailor,!
WHAT'S IN A NAMET "romancer" on the premises to Masonic Banquets, Evening parties
I
one who cuts out for you from his. The names of tradesman and announce to cailous public the
cloth a garment or a suit. The their wares are sometimes amisbargains they are losing J
or any other Social Function. word is French, teiller, to sus, ingly mited. John Lamb may, Logie Robertson in the Weekly Apply to the Manager for terms.
and has no connection with tall be a butcher, and sell mutton; Scotsman,
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