Show THE VILLAGE smithy TIlY GOES SHOEING forges are closing down in england E the old shop eliop Is disappearing aring in fit village town and city and where it still survives it struggles against odds that are well nigh ni it overwhelming wh elming ng par for the vie use of tile the hoise horse Is declining says christian science monitor such at least Is the explanation given by george A rayne payne founder of the national master farriery Farri ers fill and ad blacksmiths association tion of great britain for the decrease in membership of his organization from froin 2000 to in the brief space of live five henrs ears nor Is there apparently any prospect of the lie decline being arrested thu q an all ancient craft which has furnished one of the lie most beautiful b c ill ticul them to poet and painter slips blips gradually front from the picture i there Is a sentimental ln interest in fit tile the smithy which no one at all familiar aith it 11 can forget longfellow lias lia s seen to that lie he has ins left the world arid an imperishable memory of that institution under the lie reading chestnut hest nut tree and of tile the mighty man oho mho became the sin ambol lol of honest toll what a subject for art beauty in it a humble bumble form tile the beauty that ni may ay be found in deep dee p human sini pathy partly and that resides in viliam often seems to be the he mott commonplace of only a smithy but what aj charm when illicit its true significance Is appreciated prec precia ted and so the world may justly unger linger olt oil tile the pit passing sing of the shoeing forge once a busy miter center where man geraed ben st which in turn served man mail the smithy in many cases Is now but a mass of 0 ruins an old pail padlock lock rusting on the door ian and blackberry bushes creeping cover over the an vil til yet vet to the returning exile it lins has a deeper significance to him it means joyous us days of boyhood ahen eiery place in the village tillage mile as a nest of vi wonders onders and riving sparks from rom an at am kill 11 a glorious P pyrotechnic display sweet memories ot school rejoicing in the happl happ I 1 ness ot or the hour these thin things the recalls and if the blacksmith ini merits the passing of its his craft for a i cry eryl I 1 practical renson reason he will mill find a sentimental world join him because of tile the happy n ions bilth milich ills his craft I 1 has alnas almas been invested |