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Horses, Pony Carts, Light Horse Novelties, Traps, Wagons, Harness, Saddles, etc.
In lines of large display, like head-lines, set in capitals and lower-case, all the important words should begin with capitals. Unimportant words, such as of, the, by, for, but, in, etc., except when they are at the beginning of the displayed phrase, are not capitalized.
Notice to the Public The Best is the Cheapest A Great Bargain in Hats By Right of Conquest For Love and Honor
A line of capitals containing an abbreviation or other short word should have capitals throughout when possible, as in the second form of these examples:
JOHN SMITH, Jr. JOHN SMITH, JR. ROBINSON & Co. ROBINSON & CO.
In advertisement display lines like the following are permissible:
The GOLDEN HARVESTER REGAL SHOES for MEN
Combinations of different sizes and styles of types are also common and serve their purpose properly, as in this style, often used in billheads, etc.
TO THOMAS W. ABBOTT, DR. In account with FRANK ABBOTT
Combinations of large and small capitals and lower-case like the following are, however, not approved:
WILLIAM BROWN, President
The words in small capitals as well as the word in lower-case should begin with large capitals, like this:
WILLIAM BROWN, President
When lines of capitals are used in books and pamphlets, for headings and display, they should be used consistently--that is, all headings of a similar kind should be alike in any piece of work, and not one heading in capitals and another in lower-case. The composition of a title page is more pleasing when its chief lines are in one style of letters, giving a harmonious effect. When lines of capitals and lines of lower-case are interspersed in a page an appearance of confusion is liable to be the result.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING
A Manual for Writers. By John Matthews Manley and John Arthur Powell. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
The Writer's Desk Book. By William Dana Orcutt. Frederick Stokes Company, New York.
Correct Composition. By Theodore L. DeVinne. The Oswald Publishing Company, New York.
A Handbook of Composition. By Edwin D. Woolley. D.?C. Heath, Boston.
Punctuation. With Chapters on Hyphenization, Capitalization and Spelling. By F. Horace Teale. Appleton & Co., New York.

QUESTIONS
As the subject matter of this book is such that many of the questions will serve only to bring out the accuracy of the pupil's memory of rules it is very desirable that care should be taken to insure intelligent use and application of the rules. To be able to repeat a rule is of very little importance compared with the ability to apply it intelligently.
The instructor should give the pupils constant practice in the application of these rules. This should consist of;--
(a) Study of passages taken from all kinds of printed matter.
(b) Rewriting of passages given out without capitalization.
In the first case a wide range of material should be used from the most carefully printed books to the most carelessly printed matter that can be found, including newspapers of varying excellence and pure advertising matter. The capitalization found should be studied and explained by the rules and the criticisms or changes suggested justified in the same way.
In like manner in the second case every capital used in the rewritten text should be justified by the proper rule.
Without such exercises as these, the book will have comparatively little value.
1. What is a capital letter?
2. How many series of letters does an ordinary font of type contain?
3. Name them, and tell what you know about each one.
4. In what does the distinction between capital and lower-case letter consist?
5. What combinations of capitals and lower-case are permissible?
6. In manuscript how do you indicate capitals? Italics?
7. What are capitals used for?
8. What tendencies are observable in style?
9. What is the real implement of English speech?
10. What are the general rules for the use of capitals?
11. Capitalize, men pray to god, to christ and to the virgin mary that they may be defended by the holy ghost from those assaults of the devil which would make devils of them. Give the rule for so doing.
12. Capitalize, the supreme architect of the universe, sometimes called providence, has his own ways of bringing men to heaven. Give the rule for so doing.
13. Learn the list of words under rule 2.
14. Are these words capitalized in all cases?
15. Are adjectives derived from these words capitalized?
16. When do you not capitalize God and its synonyms?
17. What is the usage as to pronouns referring to God and the other persons of the Trinity?
18. What is the rule regarding the Bible and matter related to it?
19. What is the rule regarding biblical terms?
20. Capitalize, the holy man entered the holy place at the appointed time. The message of the gospel is found in the most spiritual form in the gospel of John. Give the rule.
21. What is the rule about religious bodies and their members?
22. What is the rule about monastic