The Art School Kindling By Ruby Jobnston

ne tan people may think that only janitors have to worry about kind-
ling, but they are badly mistaken, for the Art Students of Class A
surely do their share of worrying.

The students use this kindling (when they can either beg, borrow, or
steal a piece) to measure the heighth and width of the object they are
drawing. The kindling is held at arm’s length and enables them to com-
pare correctly the heighth to the width.

Graham Nichols, the one and only gentleman student of Class A,
promised Mrs. Hoole, our teacher, to supply the girls with measuring
sticks. He lives out in Point Grey, where the young cedar trees grow
abundantly, and it was an easy matter for him to do so. The next day
Graham came to school with an armful of smooth, round, cedar sticks
and a broad smile. Each student was given a piece and told to be sure
and have it with them at each drawing lesson.

The first day everyone had their kindling, but each day the kindling
seemed to disappear, until finally only two or three of the girls, and, of
course, Graham, had their measuring sticks. Graham kindly brought
some more, but this time it was some rough boards (belonging, I think, to
an apple box), as I presume he was tired of chopping down trees. Every-
one again had a measuring stick and peace reigned once more supreme.

The girls seem to be doing much better now and try to remember
to put their kindling in their lockers out of harm’s and the janitor’s way,
and it is to be hoped they do so, as I am afraid that Graham will lose
his patience and not bring any more if what he does bring is not taken
care of.

If the old coal man that passes the Art School daily with his song of
co-oo-alulp would change his tune to kin-nnn-dl-ing, | am sure he would
get several new customers from the Vancouver Art School.

Sitter: “Well, does it look like me yet?”
Peter M.: “Oh, I’ve got long past that stage by now!”