exchange of letters
made before it is cast. Men who handle type constantly become very
expert in detecting errors, many compositors being able to read type
upside down, or in reversed order, as easily as you can read a
straightforward line of printed matter."

Mr. Hawley paused.

"In addition to this department," he presently continued, "is the room
where the plates for the color section of the paper are prepared. After
the drawing for the pictures is made, it is outlined on a block of metal
and afterward cut out, so that the design remains in relief; then the
impression is taken with colored inks, a separate printing being made
for each color in turn, except where the colors are permitted to fuse
before they dry in order to produce a secondary tone. You doubtless have
seen the lithograph process and know how the first printing colors all
the parts of the picture that are red, for example; the next impression
prints the blue parts; and the third those that are green."

"Yes, I've seen posters printed."

"Then you know how the work is done."

"And it is for printing this colored supplement that the color-decks at
each end of the big press are used?"

"Precisely. We often run these colored sections of the Sunday edition
off some weeks in advance, as they are independent parts of the paper
and need not necessarily be turned out at the last moment as the news
sections must."

"I see."

"We also have our designing rooms for the drawing of fashion pictures,
and the illustrations to accompany advertisements. All that is a
department in itself, and a most interesting branch of the work. These
cuts are prepared on sheets of metal and are cast and printed as the
rest of the paper is; they are set into the forms and stereotyped by the
same method as the printed matter. When we want reproductions from
photographs we have a photo-engraving department where by means of a
very powerful electric light we can reproduce pictures of all sorts;
pen-drawings, facsimiles of old prints, photographs, and every variety
of picture imaginable. These are developed on a sheet of metal instead
of on a glass plate and then reproduced."

"That is the way you get the fine picture sheets that you enjoy so
much, Paul," put in Mr. Wright.

"The photo-engraving took the place of the woodcut," Mr. Hawley
explained. "The process has been constantly improved until now we are
able to get wonderfully artistic results."

"I had no idea there were