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raising standard breeds of American 
cattle. These when inbred with the 
native stock, prove to be of fair size 
and superior quality. Raising for the 
American market should be very 
profitable for the farmers of the is- 
land, as the vegetation is tropical and 
therefore very luxuriant. Also much 
land too rough and wet for tillers 
may be used to good advantage, and 
the tropical climate makes sheltering 
and indoor feeding unnecessary. 
“STEP BY STEP” 
“Ultimate Independence” for the 
Philippines is the settled program of 
President Wilson and his advisers, 
and as indicated in this correspond- 
ence on previous occasions, the work 
is to be done “step by step,” this be- 
ing exactly the term used _ several 
weeks ago by the correspondent 
of the Breeze in describing the 
mental attitude of the President, and 
this exact phrase was reitterated by 
the president in his message to Con- 
gress. 
Was Makinc Goop 
Mr. Crowder—‘How’s your 
doing as a broker?” 
Mr. Gouger—‘Great — Why, only 
last week he swindled his mother out 
of $200.”—-Kansas City Star. 
boy 
Anp Wou.Lpn’t CoME 
Wife—Well, did you call at the 
Employment Bureau for a girl? 
Hub—Yes, but I didn’t secure one. 
Wife—Were there no girls there? 
Hub—Lots of them, but they’d 
already worked for us. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SMITHSONIAN GRAPHIC ARTS 
COLLECTION. a 
An exhibition of Graphic Arts, 
forming part of the National Museum 
collections, is installed temporarily on 
the first floor of the Smithsonian 
building, Washington, where it will 
continue to be open to the public un- 
til its reinstallation. This exhibit is 
probably the most complete of its 
kind in the world, and consists of 
many rare and unique specimens, It 
comprises collections on the develop- 
ment of writing, illustrating and 
printing, and of the reproductive 
arts,— intaglio, relief, and plano- 
graphic,—including the latest photo- 
mechanical and color processes. The 
evolution of the book, both as re- 
gards printing and binding, will also 
be shown in a short time. The whole 
collection is prepared with the idea 
of presenting to the layman the dif- 
ferent methods and steps by which 
such work is accomplished. 
In the series relating to writing, 
one case contains a stylus used by the 
early Romans in England, and one 
from Ceylon. A cast of an ancient 
clay tablet with cuneiform inscript- 
ions, and papyrus and linen specimens 
from the famous “Book of the Dead” 
are also shown. ‘There is also a Moro 
alphabet, such as is used in the Mo- 
hammedan schools for. the education 
of the native children. Copies of the 
old English norn books, with the al- 
phabet and the Lord’s Prayer, form 
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interesting additions, as does a book 
on this subject, and several other 
specimens of old records. 
In the exhibits pertaining to illus- 
trating, the progress in woodcutting is 
shown by relief prints from “planks” 
cut with the grain, and also from 
box-wood blocks with the carving — 
across the grain. These are all hand- 
engraved and represent the efforts of 
both early and modern artists. 
There are some very old wood cuts 
by unknown engravers and others by 
Albrecht Durer, Thomas Bewick, 
John Andrews, Timothy Cole and 
Henry Wolf. 
In this connection, Japanese wood- 
cutting and wood-cut printing form a 
special feature. ‘The exhibit consists 
of the various planks engraved in re-_ 
lief, used in reproducing the original 
painting, each plank reproducing the 
portions to which that particular col- 
or applies. ‘The proofs of the differ- 
ent color-planks and the result of 
each successive step are illustrated in 
the composite print, as well as in the 
complete picture, showing the var- 
ious colors in their respective places. 
The resulting print is remarkable 
considering the hand method em- 
ployed, the registration is perfect, and 
it is said that some Japanese printers 
can run off 3,000 black prints and — 
from 600 to 1,800 colored prints a 
day, while English and American | 
printers can not approach this out- 
put on a hand press. ‘This division 
of the collection includes a complete 
Japanese outfit for printing as well 
as engraving. ‘This comprises a box 
of tools, boards for dampening the 
paper to be printed on, the slanting 
table used for holding the planks 
from which the prints are taken, the 
bamboo-leaf covered “barren,” water 
color ink, and so forth. 
Some of the etchings in the col- 
lection. were made as early as 1840 
and are remarkably old, since the 
first authentic print known is dated 
1423. Albrecht Durer, Martin Schon- 
gauer, Hendrik Goltzius and many 
other famous old artists are repre- 
sented, down to Whistler, Seymour 
Hayden and other modern etchers. 
Engraving covers the same time an 
to a certain extent the same artists. 
The processes of engraving and etch 
ing are often combined, since most 
engravers start their work by etch 
and finish with engraving. The p 
ure of Ariadne, by A. B. Durand, 
first important engraving made 
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