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Main Street in its numerous rebus signs records a mediaeval period when illiteracy prevailed and education was the prerogative of the Church. The barber pole, tea-kettle, fish, watch, key, boot, shoe, last, foot, pair of glasses, large eye, horse-shoe, head of a horse, wooden horse, wooden hat, shears, three balls, red flag, saw, anvil, chair, wooden In- dian, large awl, and other emblems all record a mediaeval period when it was necessary to iden- tify every trade and occupation, not by the na...me MAIN STREET of the proprietor of tlie place which could not have been read, but by the symbol of the trade. The emblems of political parties placed to-day on elec- tion tickets are but survivals of ancient mediaeval rebus signs. Thus Main Street records the meet- ing of social extremes in its rebus signs on stores and the coats of arms seen on its automobiles, — both once a gTiide to the illiterate.
Main Street records the trade organizations of a mediaeval time. The Chamber of Commerce finds its prototype in the great commercial leagues of Italy, the trade unions seem the outgrowth of mediaeval guilds, the order of the Knights Tem- plar finds descendants akin at least in name in the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of Py- thias, and even the system oi militia may make connection with military organizations of a medi- aeval time.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Main Street in its numerous rebus signs records a mediaeval period when illiteracy prevailed and education was the prerogative of the Church. The barber pole, tea-kettle, fish, watch, key, boot, shoe, last, foot, pair of glasses, large eye, horse-shoe, head of a horse, wooden horse, wooden hat, shears, three balls, red flag, saw, anvil, chair, wooden In- dian, large awl, and other emblems all record a mediaeval period when it was necessary to iden- tify every trade and occupation, not by the na...me MAIN STREET of the proprietor of tlie place which could not have been read, but by the symbol of the trade. The emblems of political parties placed to-day on elec- tion tickets are but survivals of ancient mediaeval rebus signs. Thus Main Street records the meet- ing of social extremes in its rebus signs on stores and the coats of arms seen on its automobiles, — both once a gTiide to the illiterate.
Main Street records the trade organizations of a mediaeval time. The Chamber of Commerce finds its prototype in the great commercial leagues of Italy, the trade unions seem the outgrowth of mediaeval guilds, the order of the Knights Tem- plar finds descendants akin at least in name in the Knights of Columbus and the Knights of Py- thias, and even the system oi militia may make connection with military organizations of a medi- aeval time.
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