Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — Lost Art. [ARTICLE]

Lost Art.

A. H. Powell tells a good story in that Interesting little volume called “Handicrafts and Reconstruction,” recently published, anent the disappearance of the fine wheelwrighting of a generation ago. “The difference between the -old an(t~ new atmospheres of work came out vividly between two wheelwrights, one old good, the other bad modern. The last was filling in a mistake with putty, and must fall to praising it—‘A fine thing is this putty’—to hide his shame. Says old good. ‘Why deant ye meak the halll thing o’ putty then?* and walked away!" It is only the genuine craftsman who can find the real contentment in his work, and it is equally only the monotony and sameness of mechanical work that makes a man weary of it.