The Artistic Smith In an increasing number of village smithies
you may sec today the beneficent results of the tours of the travelling experts sent out by the Rural Industries Bureau. These experts have revived both old traditional patterns and their names. One of them has recently emphasized the value of artistic scroll work; and on a number of new houses such scrolls begin to appear even in such basely useful work as the brackets for holding gutters. Urban architects are them- selves surprised to find the artistic sense, and indeed know- ledge of local blacksmiths and often of local carpenters. The fishtailed snub, the boltended scroll, the flat knib, the blow-over leaf-end, or *" the ramshorn " become household words again. They were all delightfully illitatrated in the early summer number. of the Rural Industries, an invaluable twopennyworth, and really not highly priced for a quarterly 1 W. Bi.Acu THOMAS.
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