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Vol. 4 — No, 38 Thursday, 8 | REMEMBER Jim Bell (a leg where an arm —_ to be or a head out of a man's About A Number of Things jack. t thin “there modernists 1 lost my glasses a couple of should assume a new name and weeks ago and could not read or the most appropriate one that I write anything very much so 1) ean think of js contortionist. In got a grouch on and am trying to’ one of Lloyd C. Douglas’ books, work it off. This is the result. | the author makes one of his char- Some years ago a Professor, in| acters, an artist of repute, say, one of our prominent institations| “These abstract painters, with of learning, stated that, as far as’ their weird productions, are most~ he knew, there was no sueh thing) ly too lazy to learn to draw and as a technique for writing short! then they produce these fantastic stories, at if there was, he had) things and claim they are pion- never ran across it, That seemed a! eering a new field,” very foolish statement to me. One, The artists are not the only ones might have a thorough grounding | who seem to be wandering around in English grammar and tou in a wilder ness of ideas. When one tion and an extensive bh tes some of the mod- but, unless he knew the technique’ ern churches that are. springing of story writing, he would be like! |up all aver the country, we won- a man trying to build a house der what the old master designers without knowing anything sbout! of the beautiful cathedrals of it. He might have all the materials, Europe and England would have necessary but unless he knew how! thought of them. I have often to build a house, he would likely wandered whether the much make amess of it, asia great touted City Halt will, in the years many people do. |to come, be an object of admifa- The other day, I saw a state-| tion in our great city of Toronto, ment by a prominent artist, He! or will it be ridiculed as another stated that the nearer an artist) contortion of real architecture. tried to imitate nature, the poar-) But we will have to leave that for er his painting was Hkely to be. .} the future ea 1 1 would like to-ask him, who is ng back to Col the supreme artist of the uni-| walked verse? b have always that good old Mother § thing to compare with what she! in this ease: ‘it seems to creates and the néarer one comes’ ting what was wanted even If the to obtaining the effects that she! contractor was not furnished with does, the nearer he is getting to specifications. I guess that is true art, It is to be hoped that) enough criticism for this time. these modern contortions are! Now, one little word of commen- never adapted to portrait paint-| dation. I am glad to see that we ing. It wouldn't look nice to see) have a competent Police Officer eyes peering out of one’s feet or! on the job. We needed him.