item: #1 of 5
          id: 13144
      author: Power, Eileen
       title: Medieval People
        date: None
       words: 85848
      flesch: 71
     summary: The learned editor remarks that _bric_, which is mentioned in the thirteenth century by Rutebeuf was played, seated, with a little stick; _qui féry_ is probably the modern game called by the French _main chaude; pince merille,_ which is mentioned among the games of Gargantua, was a game in which you pinched one of the players' arms, crying 'Mérille' or 'Morille'. on games, 101, 117, 187; on garments and household linen, 98, 99, 102, 111, 112, 117, 188; on management of farm, 100; on servants, 100, 102, 107-111, 114, 115, 117, 118; on wife's second marriage, 98, 114 Mercers, 149 Merchant Adventurers, 122, 193 Merchant: Arab, 47; Chinese, 46, 47, 58, 71; English, _see_ Betson, Company Merchant Adventurers, Paycocke, Staple; Indian, 47; Italian, 149; Roman, 1 ff; Spanish, 149; Venetian, _see_
    keywords: abbey; abbot; account; acre; adventurers; advice; affairs; ages; amusing; ancestors; ancient; animals; answer; anxious; apece; april; army; asia; attitude; august; ausonius; bad; barbarian; barbarism; bath; bear; beautiful; beauty; bed; beginning; benedict; best; betson; better; big; birds; bishop; black; blessed; bodo; body; book; bordeaux; boy; brasses; bread; bride; bringing; british; brother; bruges; business; busy; calais; canale; canterbury; care; careful; carrying; carved; cathay; cause; cely; central; centuries; century; certain; chamber; chao; chapter; character; characteristic; charlemagne; charles; charming; charms; chaucer; cheer; cheeses; chief; children; china; chinese; choir; christian; church; churches; cit; cities; citizens; city; civilization; class; clear; close; cloth; clothes; clothier; coggeshall; cold; collected; comfort; coming; commerce; common; company; concerned; constantinople; contemporary; convent; cookery; corn; correct; cotswold; counting; 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river; road; robert; roll; roman; rome; roof; room; round; royal; rule; runs; rusticiano; sack; said; saint; salt; sarpler; save; saying; sea; seas; second; section; sense; serfs; series; servants; service; set; sheep; shillings; shipping; ships; sidonius; silk; silken; silver; simple; singing; sir; sister; sixth; small; soc; social; society; songs; sort; soul; sources; spain; special; spices; spinning; spread; staple; staplers; stay; steward; stone; stonor; stories; strange; strangers; street; strong; study; subject; summer; supper; sure; sweet; system; tale; tartars; tenants; text; thee; things; thirteenth; thomas; thomas betson; thomas paycocke; thought; time; today; tours; town; trade; traders; trading; traveller; trees; true; uncle; university; unto; venetian; venice; version; vii; viii; villages; visit; visitation; vols; wandering; want; warm; wars; way; ways; wealth; weavers; wedding; week; welcome; werre; west; western; wife; william; wills; windows; wine; winter; wise; wit; wives; 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        item: #2 of 5
          id: 32725
      author: Manson, George J.
       title: Work for Women
        date: None
       words: 25560
      flesch: 70
     summary: The pay of good women proof-readers is from $15 to $20 a week. Sometimes good women make more than $15 a week, earning as much as $18 or $20 a week.
    keywords: 12mo; 16mo; ability; able; actors; agents; amateur; art; author; average; best; better; boards; book; branch; brooklyn; business; button; case; cents; certain; chance; character; charge; children; cities; city; class; cloth; color; common; companies; company; competent; considerable; cost; country; course; day; deal; demand; design; designing; dramatic; drawing; dress; earnings; education; employment; establishments; experience; fact; fair; feather; female; field; flowers; free; general; girls; good; great; half; hand; hard; help; high; home; hope; hospital; hours; house; important; industrial; instruction; kind; knowledge; labor; ladies; lady; large; lessons; life; like; lines; little; living; long; m.d; majority; making; manual; matter; method; mind; money; month; necessary; new; new york; notes; number; nurses; nursing; occupation; offices; old; pages; paper; pay; people; phonography; pictures; place; poor; position; practical; present; pretty; price; private; profession; proof; public; pupil; qualifications; readers; reading; regular; room; rule; salary; school; season; second; service; short; sick; small; stage; stated; study; subject; success; successful; sum; sure; system; talent; taste; teacher; teaching; telegraphy; term; thing; time; trade; training; type; union; use; want; way; week; women; words; work; workers; working; worth; writer; writing; year; york; young; young women
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        item: #3 of 5
          id: 36485
      author: Frey, Hildegard G.
       title: The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road; Or, Glorify Work
        date: None
       words: 51576
      flesch: 86
     summary: They say that coming events cast their shadows before, and that everything works out according to a fixed rule, but this could only have been the exception that proved the rule. But this is only doing what thousands of other girls all over the country are doing and there isn't any individual glory in it.
    keywords: absalom; adams; afraid; afternoon; agony; anderson; arm; arms; army; astonishment; bad; band; bannister; bare; barrett; beautiful; bed; beginning; believe; best; big; bit; black; blue; board; book; box; boys; breath; brewster; broken; brother; burnett; business; butts; camp; captain; care; ceremonial; chance; changed; children; christmas; city; clarice; clarissa; class; college; coming; corner; cotton; country; course; cross; crowd; dalrymple; daughter; day; days; dear; dearest; deep; different; direction; door; doubt; drive; earth; elijah; end; ethel; eyes; face; fact; fairlee; family; far; father; feeling; feet; fine; finished; fire; flag; floor; foot; friends; funny; girls; glad; glance; glory; good; great; ground; group; hair; half; hand; hard; harper; harriet; head; heart; help; high; hinpoha; history; hold; home; honor; horses; hour; house; idea; important; indian; jim; job; judge; justice; katherine; kind; knitting; lady; late; laughing; leave; lecture; left; legend; lessons; letter; library; life; like; line; little; lives; locket; long; look; lost; love; low; major; making; man; march; matter; mean; meeting; members; migwan; mind; minute; mischief; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; mrs; mud; nature; neck; need; negro; new; news; nose; note; nyoda; occasion; office; old; ones; open; pageant; paint; papers; parade; past; patriotic; pay; people; place; poor; possible; pretty; prindle; professor; pshaw; purgatory; queer; reading; ready; real; red; rest; return; right; road; roof; room; sahwah; sally; sandhelo; saturday; school; schoolhouse; second; service; set; sheep; sherman; sick; sign; sitting; sorry; soul; speech; spencer; stall; standing; start; stenographer; straight; strange; subject; sudden; summer; sure; table; teaching; tears; telling; things; thinking; thought; throat; time; tone; town; train; trouble; turn; visit; voice; waiting; walk; war; watch; water; way; week; white; window; winnebagos; winnies; wohelo; wonderful; woods; work; world; worth; year; young
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        item: #4 of 5
          id: 39721
      author: Hazen, Edward
       title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 1 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 69631
      flesch: 67
     summary: Cotton is cultivated in the East and West Indies, North and South America, Egypt, and in many other parts of the world, where the climate is sufficiently warm for the purpose. It is also produced, to a considerable extent, in the state of Kentucky, and in many other parts of the United States.
    keywords: account; action; acts; addition; advance; ages; aid; america; ancient; animals; antiquity; appearance; application; article; ashes; asia; atlantic; attention; bank; bark; beer; beginning; best; better; black; blubber; board; bodies; body; boiling; bone; boots; branch; branches; bread; bristles; britain; brush; business; butcher; candles; cane; capable; capital; cases; cause; celebrated; centuries; century; certain; change; chemical; chemistry; chief; children; christian; church; circumstance; cities; citizens; city; civilized; class; clergy; close; cloth; clothing; coasts; color; combs; commerce; commercial; common; company; composed; condition; confined; considerable; continent; continued; copper; corn; cotton; countries; country; course; courts; cultivation; customers; cut; cutting; days; degree; dentist; description; determined; different; direction; discovery; diseases; distance; distinct; distinguished; dollars; dress; dry; dye; earliest; early; earth; east; eastern; education; effect; egypt; empire; employment; end; england; english; equal; established; establishments; esteemed; europe; extended; extensive; extent; fabrics; families; family; fashion; feet; females; fermentation; fibres; fine; finished; fire; fish; fishery; fishing; flax; flour; following; food; foreign; form; frame; france; fruits; fur; garden; general; germany; gold; goods; government; grain; great; greater; greatest; greeks; ground; hair; half; hand; hats; having; head; heat; heated; hemp; herring; higher; history; holes; hot; house; human; illustration; important; improvements; inches; increased; india; individual; inferior; influence; information; inhabitants; institutions; instruction; instruments; invention; iron; islands; italy; kind; kingdom; knife; knowledge; known; ladies; large; law; laws; leather; leaves; left; length; liable; life; light; like; linen; little; long; machine; machinery; maker; making; manner; manufacture; manufacturing; mariner; materials; matter; means; measure; medical; medicine; mediterranean; men; merchandise; merchants; method; middle; mill; millions; mode; modern; money; months; motion; nap; nations; natural; nature; navigation; near; necessary; new; northern; number; numerous; object; ocean; oil; open; operation; opinion; order; original; particular; parts; peculiar; people; period; persons; physician; pieces; place; plants; position; possible; pounds; power; powerful; practice; preceding; preparation; prepared; present; principal; principles; printing; private; process; produce; production; profession; proper; property; proportion; public; purple; purpose; quality; quantities; quantity; rapid; ready; regard; regular; reign; remains; remedies; rest; return; rice; river; romans; rome; ropes; sale; saw; schools; science; sea; season; second; seeds; separate; set; shape; shell; ship; shoes; short; sides; silk; similar; simple; single; size; skill; skins; small; soap; soda; soil; southern; spain; spaniards; species; spermaceti; spinning; states; steam; stock; stone; strength; strong; students; stuffs; subject; substance; sufficient; sugar; suitable; superior; supply; system; tallow; teachers; teeth; thick; thin; thread; timber; time; tobacco; tooth; towns; trade; trees; twisted; union; united; universities; upper; use; useful; usual; utility; valuable; value; variety; vast; vegetable; vessel; view; water; way; weight; western; whale; wheel; white; wine; winter; wood; wooden; wool; woollen; work; world; worm; writers; yarn; years; young
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        item: #5 of 5
          id: 40101
      author: Hazen, Edward
       title: Popular Technology; or, Professions and Trades. Vol. 2 (of 2)
        date: None
       words: 75241
      flesch: 71
     summary: The appellation of _founder_ is given to the superintendent of a blast-furnace, and likewise to those persons who make castings either of iron or any other metal. Wind-instruments of various kinds, comprised under the general name of _tibiæ_, and sometimes the cythera and harp, accompanied the chorus.
    keywords: account; acid; action; aid; air; ancient; animal; antiquity; appearance; application; architecture; art; articles; artist; attention; author; bar; bars; beauty; beds; beginning; best; better; black; blast; blocks; body; books; booksellers; branch; branches; brass; bricks; bronze; building; business; buttons; cabinet; capable; carats; carriages; case; cast; casting; causes; celebrated; cement; centuries; century; certain; chair; chalk; character; charcoal; chief; chinese; christ; christian; church; cities; city; clay; clock; close; coating; coats; cold; color; colored; coloring; combined; common; composition; concave; considerable; construction; contact; continued; convex; copper; countries; country; course; covering; cut; cuts; cutting; cylinder; cylindrical; day; days; degree; description; design; diamond; different; dimensions; direction; distance; distinct; distinguished; domestic; drawing; dry; earliest; early; earthen; edges; edifices; egypt; empire; employment; end; england; english; engraved; engraving; equal; europe; example; execution; express; extended; extensive; eye; faust; feet; fifteenth; figures; fine; finished; fire; flat; florence; following; forging; form; founder; frame; france; furnace; furniture; general; germany; glass; glue; gold; good; gothic; great; greater; greatest; grecian; greece; greeks; ground; half; hammer; hand; handle; hard; hardness; head; hearth; heat; heated; heating; high; history; holes; horse; houses; human; idea; illustration; impressions; improvements; inches; inferior; influence; ink; inside; instruments; intended; invention; iron; italy; john; kind; knife; knowledge; known; labor; large; lathe; lead; leaf; leather; leaves; left; length; lens; letters; light; like; lime; lines; linseed; little; london; long; machine; machinery; mahogany; maker; making; manner; manufacture; marble; mason; mass; materials; means; metal; metallic; method; middle; minute; mixed; mode; modern; mortar; motion; mould; music; musical; nails; names; nations; nature; near; necessary; new; notes; notice; number; oak; objects; oil; operation; order; ore; organ; original; ornaments; outside; oxyde; pages; painter; painting; paper; particular; parts; pencil; people; perfection; period; perpendicular; persons; philadelphia; picture; pieces; pins; pipes; places; plain; plaster; plate; point; polished; portions; position; power; practice; preceding; precious; prepared; present; press; pressed; principal; process; productions; proper; property; proportion; public; purpose; quality; quantities; quantity; rags; rays; relief; required; requisite; rollers; rolling; romans; rome; roof; rough; sale; sand; sculptor; sculpture; second; set; shape; sheets; short; sides; silver; similar; simple; single; sixteenth; size; skill; small; smaller; smooth; soft; solid; spain; species; square; state; statues; steel; stone; strength; strips; strong; structures; style; subject; substance; sufficient; suitable; superior; surface; taste; temperature; temple; thickness; thin; time; tin; tools; trade; tube; turning; types; union; united; use; useful; usual; valuable; value; varied; variety; varnish; vessels; veterinary; view; walls; ware; watch; watches; water; wax; way; weight; wheel; white; windows; wire; wood; wooden; work; workman; world; writing; years; yellow; york
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