Show DATE THERE THOUGH HIDDEN information on peace tower erected in canada would puzzle aver ave age man to find hack to tho the earliest times ivhon man erected public or memorial me buildings Is said eaid to run tile the practice of recording the date so that it remains hidden bidden from casual view in an ornament 0 of inscription and c can n only be rend read by careful study why the practice started it Is now impossible to say it looks almost like a playfulness on tile the part of the first builders but it has continued doun the ages find and its latest example occurs in the great peace tower of the government buildings in Otta ottawa iia here one reads the inscription this stone was laid by edward prince of 0 wales september I 1 in this year of victory finis boronat opas the hypothetical ot trong ranger cr from mars ma rs might reasonably ask as when was tile the year of victory and if lie examined the inscription closely lie ho might inight discover that certain letters beginning with the first i are distinguished from the rest by having an indentation under them and that addling a these theae letters t together answered his question in roman numerous most of us perhaps would have to take the dictionary to help us translate them but none the less means lolo 1010 christian science monitor |