Wooden Shoes Research Articles

‘Poor Protestant Flies’: Conversions to Catholicism in Early Eighteenth Century England

Through the stormy and divided history of religion in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England runs one constant and unvarying stream—hatred and fear of popery. That ‘gross and cruel superstition’ haunted the protestant imagination. The murderous paranoia of the popish plot was the last occasion on which catholic blood was spilled in the service of the national obsession, but the need to preserve ‘our Country from Papal Tyranny; our Laws, our Estates, our Liberties from Papal Invasion; our Lives from Papal Persecution; and our Souls from Papal Superstition . . .’ continued to exercise men of every shade of churchmanship, and of none. Throughout the early eighteenth century zealous churchmen sought to keep alive ‘the Spirit of Aversion to Popery whereby the Protestant Religion hath been chiefly supported among us’, and publications poured from the press reminding men of the barbarities of the papists, ancient and modern, the fires of Smithfield and the headman’s axe of Thorn. Catholicism was bloody, tyrannical, enslaving, and cant phrases rolled pat from tongue and pen—popery and arbitrary government, popery and wooden shoes. The tradition was universal, as integral a part of the nation’s self-awareness as beer and roast-beef, and equally above reason. There were, observed Daniel Defoe, ‘ten thousand stout fellows that would spend the last drop of their blood against Popery that do not know whether it be a man or a horse’.

Clogs or Wooden Soled Shoes

CLOGS: Ther's hag-clogs at's as stupid as they mak 'em; ther's clogs fassened tull a bull snoot; clogs fer t' fire; an' clogs fer t'feet — wooden soled shoes, t'lawyer co'ed 'em. ‘Let's see, your father wore wooden soled shoes, called clogs, I believe?’ “Aye”, sez t' fella he was bullyin', “An' if thy faddur hed worn wooden soled shoes co'ed clogs thoo'd bin weeren clogs noo”.

Temporary wooden shoe lift.

Journal Article Temporary Wooden Shoe Lift Get access John K. Thompson, B.S. John K. Thompson, B.S. 1Mr. Thompson is a staff physical therapist at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21211. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Physical Therapy, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 1970, Pages 827–828, https://doi.org/10.1093/ptj/50.6.827 Published: 01 June 1970

The wooden sole shoe in podiatry practice.

The wooden sole shoe in podiatry practice.

Put Away those Wooden Shoes!

Put Away those Wooden Shoes!

The Mystery of the Wooden Shoes

The Mystery of the Wooden Shoes

A school for the grandsons of samurai

The Tsukiji Primary School is two miles from my home in the city of Takamatsu, Japan. Will you go with me for a visit there this sunny morning in February? Down the middle of the streets we walk, fascinated with their mixture of the East and the West-gentlemen attired in correct blue serge and overcoats; women in striped silk kimono and soft purple crepe haori; countrymen in coarse blue and white cotton, cut much like the garments of the women; coolies in tights, with their backs decorated with huge Chinese characters advertising the trade of their masters; babies toddling to the middle of the street, their little red kimonos so padded that they seem to roll; bicycles everywhere, and baby carriages. Here comes a man on a wheel carrying a couple of planks fifteen feet long over his shoulder; there is a woman with three young palm trees tied to the back of her bicycle; they look like the waving tail of some huge bird. Here is a boy with so many wooden boxes tied behind him that we cannot see his head after he passes us. Here is a faithful old lady of over sixty pushing her invalid husband in a baby carriage made especially for him. Here is a lonely jinrikisha. Here is a four-seated body (the Japanese call it bowday!) on a Ford chassis, with sixteen wellpacked passengers. Here is a two-wheeled cart drawn by two women and a little furry cow. We pass shops selling fish, and fruit and vegetables, and meat and clothing, and sewing machines, and graphophones, and radio sets, and groceries from America, and wooden shoes, and incense, and wonderful brocades. In spite of the natty new plate-glass windows in many places, we can reach up and touch the eaves of almost any of them. Here is a great granite bank building that would do credit to any city anywhere. There goes an up-to-date tramcar. We cross the track and enter the imposing iron gate of the Tsukiji Primary School. Before going on into the long, low, unpainted building, let us look at the little shrinelike structure on the left-the repository for the imperial photographs. It is of concrete, decorated with a big, goldlacquered chrysanthemum crest, and it looks a little like a small vault in a Western cemetery. The pictures enshrined there are to the Jap-

A SURVEY OF ULCUS TROPICUM

Tropical ulcers—tropical phagedenic ulcer, Aden ulcer, Malabar ulcer—occur in cachectic persons who have been impaired in health by privations and insanitary surroundings. Among school children who wear shoes, slippers or wooden shoes, ulcers are not common. They are common among the barefooted whose feet often get wet and soiled with mud, and especially in some forms of grass blight. The ulcers begin to appear in May, and increase in August, September and October, when the weather is damp. They decrease in November and December, when the weather begins to get dry. Why the ulcers exist in certain localities and not in others has never been explained. In places where shoes are extensively worn by school children, the disease exists, whereas in places where every condition is favorable, the disease does not exist. Eggerts examined 2,874 specimens, and found that 9.3 per cent. were positive for one or more types. Eggerts'

Frenchmen and Wooden shoes

Frenchmen and Wooden shoes

Frenchmen and Wooden shoes

Frenchmen and Wooden shoes

Frenchmen and Wooden Shoes

Frenchmen and Wooden Shoes Get access Richard H. Thornton Richard H. Thornton Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s13-I, Issue 10, 8 September 1923, Page 193, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s13-I.10.193f Published: 08 September 1923

"Popery, Tyranny, and Wooden Shoes"

"Popery, Tyranny, and Wooden Shoes"

"Popery Tyranny and wooden shoes."

"Popery Tyranny and wooden shoes."

Wooden shoes

Journal Article Wooden shoes Get access W. E. Buckley W. E. Buckley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s7-IX, Issue 233, 14 June 1890, Pages 472–473, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-IX.233.472g Published: 14 June 1890

Wooden shoes

Wooden shoes

Wooden shoes

Wooden shoes

Wooden shoes

Wooden shoes

“Wooden shoes”: ‘protestant tutor for youth’

Journal Article “Wooden shoes”: ‘protestant tutor for youth’ Get access G. F. R. B. G. F. R. B. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s7-II, Issue 40, 2 October 1886, Page 274, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s7-II.40.274a Published: 02 October 1886