Checks. 1.00 .40 4180 1680 Paid Jan. 10, 1922 Walsh and Grant By H. J. Brown, Manager Many bills are paid by check. The following form shows how a check should be made out: $1680 STUB CHECK No. 15 No. 15 Kansas City, Mo. Jan. 9, 1922 the one to whom the check is made payable (called the payee) must write his name across the back. This is called indorsement. Who should indorse the check given above? EXERCISE 1. Write a letter ordering a year's subscription to a magazine to be sent to your address. Inclose your check in payment. 2. Suppose yourself to be a merchant. Send a bill to some one who has bought goods from you. 3. Write a short letter inclosing a bill for goods and your check in payment. 4. Receipt the bill and return it to the customer. Telegrams. For quick communication telegrams are sent instead of letters. A certain rate is charged for a message of ten words; additional words are charged for by the word. It is therefore necessary to make your telegrams brief; but it is better to use a few extra words than not to make yourself clear. A satisfactory telegram is both brief and clear. Telegraph operators omit all punctuation. Pittsburgh Pa April 4 1922 The Clark Hotel Harrisburg Pa Reserve for me single room with bath Friday April seventh Thomas Miller Yuma Arizona September 1 1922 Western School Furniture Company 100 Dearborn Street Chicago Ill School desks not received School opens September eleventh Please trace Francis Allen EXERCISE 1. Write a telegram canceling Thomas Miller's reservation for a room for April 7 at the Clark Hotel, Harrisburg. 2. Telegraph an answer to Francis Allen's telegram. 3. Telegraph about your arrival at a station, asking your father to meet you. PICTURE STUDY SPRING Anton Mauve (1838-1888) Spring, which belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is a good example of the kind of pictures that made the Dutch artist, Mauve, famous. His pastorals, painted in low tones of gray, green, and brown, faithfully reflect the Dutch landscape. His pictures have something of the quality of those of the famous French painter, Millet, whom Mauve greatly admired and to some extent imitated. Like so many artists, Mauve struggled through great difficulties to become an artist. His family objected to his following a career that promised so little of wealth or worldly position. In spite of opposition, however, he early began to study art under Von Os, who found him a most promising pupil. Mauve steadily grew in popular favor, and his pictures are now regarded with love and admiration throughout the world. A companion picture called Autumn hangs by the side of Spring. In these two pictures the artist expresses the two contrasting moods of the seasons. In Spring, the greenness of the grass, the clearness of the atmosphere, the alertness of the animals suggest the quickening flow of returning life. In the companion picture, on the contrary, the prevailing color is dull brown. The shadows are long. The shepherd is following the sheep home. One can almost feel the chill of the autumn evening.. |