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All vertical letrers with verticat strokes have the elementary strokes accented" or consisiing of heavy and light line», are classifed as Roâ€" man letters. We have learned thai in the Plain Block or Gothic style of letter, the strokes are of an equal weight or of thickness, and san serifs, The word SERIF is a torm appilea to one of the fine lines at a letier, enâ€" pecially one of the lines crossing at the top or bottom. â€" Afier searcting through three dictionarles and . one Thesaras, | fall to Aind the word. ser it. In future we will call these added touches ar the top or bottom of the letters. "SPURS" instead of serifs as they are known in the printing trade. The added touches at the bottom of the letter A, the top and bottom of B and C, are to be known as Spurs. So now study the spurs on F and G. At the bottom of the letter F, there is a full spur, at the top of the letter s Nalf spur. There is a decided differâ€" ence, and also a reason for this dif. Yerence. Study this feature carefully. Nmtfldfl.hum the lotters in Fig. 23% and try to finâ€" ish out the whole alphabet, These letters are a development from Arabic and Greek. apd later, the l.u..'l'hhnnnunmh Scott Newhall, 24 and his wife, studying charts in the cabin of their 42â€"foot keteh, Mermaid, in which they are preparing to leave San Prancisco for a cruise around the world. . C £ : M. 4. O. Bray, ornithologist of W:r-:w?wgfioaamm#m Canada, mak "'rm-mb-â€"'*-" . and P. D, Raird, geok Arctic by --'r" the Mudean Bay, swuk I 10 three and a half in Bafin I.nzul.:"-.hn.-:l the W. nl‘hu”.h‘mi sre shown here as they met in Montreal. ABCefg MODERN ROMAN Lesson No. 99 [ 4 Sketch Club @ beautiful in nh&;7;§ Arctic Bound Explorers Arrive forms the basis for nearly all civilizâ€" ed alphabets. It reached a very bigh development in Inscriptions on tombs and monuments in anclent and medâ€" jeeval Rome and Italy, It has been adapted and modified by nearly every type founder and letterer. The Roman letter vsed in the Engâ€" lish speaking nations has come down to us through the Italians and through the Germans it has grown into the modern Ge:man â€"â€" Gothic, a letter that is very strong and heary and soâ€" lid, but lacking in grace and elegance. The different . national . temperaâ€" ment« are well expressed in the type of leltering each nation uses. . The graceful light, and vivacious . seript came from France, Roman has been brought to _ its highest modern development by an Englishman, }Mr. Castar, and the heaâ€" vy blackface type is distinetly Gerâ€" Read books on lettering. find out how Modern Roman differs from "Old Roman," "Roman®, and "Poster itoâ€" man," letters. These lessons are free. We invite questions from our readers, . which will be answered without any charge. A amail fee is charged for criticiem on readers‘ sketches. Enciose a three (.O3) stamped, .addressed return en velope for personal replies to "The Art Director, "Our Sketch Ciub," 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto. "Tapeaiiion > ilihologist of the C. W. Rowley, othâ€" &fly.wm-mlvlzhm They _hlh'ound-mphl.h.. west nd unknown half of e -l':: l.hn Cambridge men, To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; because the very perfection of manpers is not to think about yourâ€" seif.â€"â€"Whately. curing good breakfast«." In a ward. the workaday world cannot function without women, or so Mis« Willlams eontends. Such a pleture undoubtediy rq/leets the fmportant place that weâ€" man has made for herself in the econâ€" omic scheme of things. But in emphaâ€" slzing it thus thore is danger that she may come to be held responsible in men‘s mifiis for much of the unome ployment crisis. And such an outcome would certainly be of no assistance to her cause. â€"â€" Quebec Chronicte Tele graph. Consider for a moment what a oneâ€" day "sirike" of women would do to life and business. Actually, of course, there is no likelibood of such a strike but Miss Charl Ormond Williams. the President of the U.8. National Vederâ€" ation of Rusiness and Professional Women‘s (Clubs, has recently drawn a graphic picture of what one -u"! "Nearly 500,000 women." she points out, "are employed by on# national telephone company alone. Then 1, $00,000 women are enzaged in mannâ€" facturing business; nearly 2,000,000 are employed as clerks, hnd . more than 3,000,000 are employed in dom estie aud personal service. "The public schoois, the banks, and the stock exchanges, elevators. stores hotels, offices and shops would . be forced to close. not to mention how many men wou‘ld have difficulty in se Can‘t Be Called A Man‘s World Va., where pirates and other malefactors were hanged and punished in the oyy betore 'n:. Revolution, pictured u.c_:E had ?':n‘nl- m Society which ming t ol snisl Capital of the Old Deminion." * * The stocks ar" gallows in the ancient prisom at Williamsbury Hanging To Tradition must have at last been reached; but last year the total increased to 7,â€" 403,109, This remarkable support of the B. B. C. is practical evidence of the listening public‘s approval." { Observes . the Ottawa Citizen; "When the number of British leâ€" enses reached 6,780,569 in 1984, it whe ml-cT':v- on the Arizona d: falling 1 Q::o"-l h:’m‘blhc wb |:.\".“' Â¥ Il:”-Tzuo h in a 9 ® outlets spill water into the Colorado at the rate o; 30,000 gallons a -«-n‘.n lsyara‘F%l in London. All the exhibited works were dor shews n "* !shior Al ons exhiblted works were dor British and B. B. C. that the saturation point CATHEDRAL MODEL IN BANW‘s ART SHOW h exhibition of the Midiand Ban‘ Art Clu Man Made Cascade of Beauty Although we feel worried and blue, if you smile at the world and look cheerful, * The world will smile back at you. So try to brace up and look pleasant, No matter how low you are down; Good humor is always contagious, But you banish your friends when you frown. To be patient is not always easy, To be cheerful is much harder still, But at least we can always be pleas ant, If we make up our minds that n‘ And it‘s hard for us to all be zood ; We are sure now and then to be And it pays every time to be kindly We cannot, of course, all be hand "THE FORGOTTEN HIHL®®* oy Mabel 1. Tyrre!i, (The Musson Book Company, Ltd., Toronto), 52. will appeal to those who like Enzâ€" sey has himself personally made the selection. Here are some of the addresses chosen: "STAND UP," "OPEX YOUR EYES." «yoU CaN‘T saw sawpust." "WHEN I BECAME A MAN," ete. And we always do as we should. OF, by Denton Massey (Reginald Saunders, Toronto), $2.00, is a volume of the addresses delivered by Denton Massey to the York Bible Class in Toronto. This book has been published in response to innumerable domands from . fur and wide for a more permanent form of there addresses, which had such a wide appeal to and reâ€" spouse from the public. Mr. Masâ€" THE STUFF MEN ARE MADE 5E 3 t | is 6 i uk. L‘.*r\' Look Pleasant mbeis of the rlerical sait. Our pietare w A re his own design. Â¥ e ted Among the principal items of ex ’m were automobiles valued at §7, ©12000; automobile pasts, $918,000; fish, $2,000,000; . paper, $1,361,000; tools $419,000; wood (unmanufactur ed) $3,206,000; planks and boards, §1.â€" 540.000, Total trade with Australia amountâ€" ed to $30,195,000 Jn 1935 against $23,â€" 201,000 in 1934. Imports from Austraâ€" Na were worth $7,395,000 last year against $6.231,000 in 1934, and exports totailed $22.800,000 compared . with $16.870,000. of 35 per cent in exports and 17 per went in imports over the previous year, the Dominion Bureau of Statis ties reported recently. ‘ OTTAWA â€"â€" Canada‘s trade with Ausiralia during 1935 showed a gain of 35 per cent. in exports a ga78%9 T he Book Shelf This is an loea: book tor the week end. and recommended for those who like to read in bed. as it is not to heavy to hold, which s womething in these days of omn‘â€" buses The broken romance of Beatrice and Oliver, Philip‘s marriage to Agnes, and the bitter torment ot Kleanor‘s fight against her inhert« tance are all graphically portray ed. Miss Tyrrell knows her locaie and her people. BY MAIR M. MORGAN Driven by the dark trugedy ot her husband‘s death, Marion East, changes ber name and takes ber three children, Philip, Eleanor and Bestiice, to live in the hamiet of Maveringache, m their ances tors lived, cent ago lish fietion. All the ingredients are here. * Big Trade Gain ' Lovis 1. Dublin and Aifred 4. Lotka in their new book "Length of 1/%e." estimate that in the Roman Empire a baby‘s expectation of life was be tween 20 and 30 years. It was perâ€" haps a bit higher in London at the end of the seventeenth century. Ome hundred years ago in England is was 49 years, At the beginning of the preâ€" sent century it was, both in England and this country, 48 years. . in the United States today it is 33 years for :lb boys and 62 years for the Hilte rle ® "Our io work ‘ One reaso. for an increase in the sovalled degeneralive diseases that reap their harvest in middle age is that they find fertile soil in the vast army of lndividuais which formerly never ‘would have grown up. Moderm progress keeps them alive imio . the Iiftles. Reyond that they cannot make the grade. | Wrles the New Yory Times: "Dr Atexis Carrel said in Los Augeles (het a mildleaged man today has a «mai ler chance to !ire to be 80 than his grandfather did. He thinks that our reslstance to fatigne to sorrow, . to worry, has been decreasing. But it is an exsential part of the argument to recall that a new baby today has a much beiter chance to become a wiide dieaged individual than it had 1e# years ago. den death" should be tokl them, And I‘d make it good. All children need to learn real reâ€" apect for motor cars. Few of them have any, Drivers can‘t be changed. They are what they are. Some good, some indifferent, some selfish fools. Anyhow the day is over when they can stop on a dimse. Increased police protection around school buildings has been a gesture in the right direction; but it is like taking the matches from the baby from three to four in the afternoon and letting him play with them the rest of the day. Schoolâ€"letâ€"out is of course, a greater hazard ecause of greater‘ numbers on the street . at ence, but it is not enough Bicycles, roller skates, and â€"seoo‘â€" ers have all been hazards to ihe amail fry of our communities. Police are ever on the watch for accidents in each case, As for bal‘s and kites and anything ¢lse that file« or rel‘s, what is to be done about them? 1t has come to the p‘ace where anything that moves is under indietment. Most outdoor toys move, and chilren elther move with them or on them, blissfu‘ly eblivious to danger, "Plapth‘ngs should promote acâ€" tivity and exercise," say the books. But the space to play deercases a* the advice advances. There is litt!> slaee to use muscleâ€"builling toys exâ€" cept outdcors, and the outdsors means pavement and the pavement weans street for most children. Once cutside they forget where One answer to the whole business, especially in large cities, is of course, more playgrounds and small parks easily reached from home. The grow!} of safe open spaces for play has been eriminally slow and far from adequate compared to the inâ€" erease in cars and speed. Ozc would think that children were incumâ€" brances not to be openly asknow!â€" edged in some city budgets Schoo‘s are important, but not may more im« portant than health and life. Need to Realize Traffic Perits Length Of Life Actually the womler is that more children are not hurt But that does not help the situation much because Bo far the youngsters have been moderately safe, because in many citles and towns, to say nothing of country romds, the lee piled up in alps between carb and roadbed bave done solendid duty a« barriers, But daily the sun lesels the bulwarks and daily encroachments on . speedâ€" ways increase. Shate time, kite time, ball tims, Ali of them are just around the comrner with the robins and, like the robins, come at their own risk. Parents Are Warned of Perils On City Highways great possession is the right " â€"= Heary Fard. Play Space Decreascs OUR CHILDREN To TRAFFIC DANCGERS ‘e chanee won‘t bort sys Johnny, and â€" som and deadâ€"1 We know enough . play» + an airâ€"tight "Jus t this