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They did not merely shake off that dead weight which clogs the movement of a nation its inert mass of common people; they converted that mass into a living force. National progress is the sum of individual progress; national immobility the result of individual quiescence.
There were many of all ages, clean in person, and bashful in manner, with their poor clothing put into the tidiest possible trim; others were dirty, and sluttish, and noisy of speech, as in the case of one woman, who, after receiving her ticket for relief, partly in money and partly in kind, whipped a pair of worn clogs from under her shawl, and cried out, "Aw mun ha' some clogs afore aw go, too; look at thoose!
I had left my shoes below, according to custom, by the side of the little clogs and sandals; and I entered on the tips of my toes, very, very softly, to go and sit awhile under the verandah. What a pity this little Chrysanthème cannot always be asleep; she is really extremely decorative seen in this manner, and like this, at least, she does not bore me.
Just as they were finishing their rice there came the sound of steps Clumpity clumpity-clump! "Who's coming?" said Taro. "I think it's the hairdresser," Take answered. She ran out to see. An old woman was on the porch. She had just slipped off her clogs. In Japan no one thinks of such a thing as wearing street shoes in the house. It would bring in dirt and soil the pretty white mats.
As they both sit and sleep on their matting-covered floors, we now see why the Japanese never wear any boots or clogs in the house. To do so would make their beautiful and spotless mats dirty; so all shoes are left at the door, and they walk about the house in the tabi, the thick glove-like socks.
One night I went to a real Japanese hotel. Of course, in a great city like Tokyo, there are plenty of English or European hotels, but in this case I went for the experience. Before entering we had to take off our shoes. No person enters a real Japanese house with shoes on. However, they wear clogs that can be kicked off at the door.
Kirk did not answer. "Good night, Ruth." Ruth made no sign that she had heard. Mrs. Porter, grand in defeat, moved slowly to the door. But even in the greatest women there is that germ of feminine curiosity which cannot be wholly eliminated, that little grain of dust that asserts itself and clogs the machinery. It had been Mrs.
I recollect the sound of father's Lancashire clogs on the street pavement above, as being different in my young hearing from the sound of all other clogs; and I recollect, that, when mother came down the cellar-steps, I used tremblingly to speculate on her feet having a good or an ill- tempered look, on her knees, on her waist, until finally her face came into view, and settled the question.
Several of the new families, however, after occupying a high position in the county, again subsided into the labouring class, illustrating the Lancashire proverb of "Twice clogs, once boots," the sons squandering what the father's had gathered, and falling back into the ranks again. Thus the great Fowles family of Riverhall disappeared altogether from Sussex.
'But durnd yo' think, doctor, that if we do as yo' want us we's be turnin' th' Church into a shoddy hoile? asked Elias Bradshaw. 'There are no shoddy souls, said the doctor. 'No, continued Mr. Penrose; 'it was not shoddy that Christ came to seek and save. 'Who wur it said th' gate were strait and th' road narro'? cried out an old man who was always known by the name of 'Clogs.
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