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153 The lock up is puzzling, while the “T” swings upward, the “h” ascender stays rather shallow and a descender is invented to merge into the rule. But it’s still just so good and gooey and compact, still not distracting from the “C” in Country Gentleman. In a period of 25 years since this Schoonover Canoeing Through the Rapids cover, the publication¹ shifted from presenting the machismo of an adventurous American agriculture to something tamer with less draw due to editorial or management troubles I know nothing of, eventually being bought and merged into the fanfareless Farm Journal. It’s a little sad, but the Golden Age of Illustration was dying, deco was booming, and mechanization was far sexier than canoes. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Gentleman