Life — May 10, 1906 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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ue Up-to-Date Auto Jargon [ DING purchasers of automobiles are frequently more mystified than instructed by the explanations of salesmen, but New York's © tomobile row has one salesman who carefully 1s technicaliti Said he to a prospective You see, when the piston comes up and com- presses a lump of gas a spark jumps in and uches it off and the engine gives a poke, which s the crank shaft around. ‘Then the piston out the burned gas and ¢ as it goes back; then it comes up and the load gets a spark and the piston and the crankshaft gets another before. Every time a spark is let in a poke and gives it to the crank- ce. It’s perfectly simple and simply ect."—New York Sun. ENRY MILLER was playing “Joseph En- tangled.” _Mr. Miller was in his dressing- room one night when a message was brought to from the stage door, written in French, bya an who claimed to be an old acquaintance, and requested the loan of twenty dollars. Mr. Miller read the note aloud to the friend who was waiting for him, threw it down impatiently, and reached for his pocketbook. “But, surely,” said his friend, “you are not going to send the fellow the money?” “What else can I do?” returned Mr. ‘T certainly can’t have him going about reporting that I can’t read French.”—The SN \ ° \\\ i si leather In every Piano-Player there are 65 primary and 65 secondary pneumatics, or bellow: See illustrations at bottom of page.) These 130 pneumatics operate the wooden fingers strike the keys of the piano. In all Piano-Players except the Cecilian these pneumatics are made of wood a leather, and the constant changes in the weather, from hot to cold, from wet to dry, etc., ca them sooner or later to split or leak, and then the Player must be repaired. Ask the man who owns one if this is not so. In the Cecilian Piano-Player the primary and secondary pneumatics, and also the wind ches are built of steel, brass, and phosphor bronze, and consequently are never affected by atmosphe: or climatic changes of any kind, and practically do away with all necessity for repairs. Furthermore, the Metal Action of the Cecilian enables it to give a more perfect musical pe] formance than anything heretofore accomplished by any Piano-Player. The Metal Action is now put into the Cecilian (cabinet) Piano-Player, the Sohmer-Ceci and the Farrand-Cecilian pianos, FULL PARTICULARS SENT ON REQUEST. GREAT SCOTT! AND TO THINK THERE'S SOME FOLKS THAT STILL SAY THAT A WOMAN DON'T KNOW 1OW TO DRIVE Naits OLD sTYLe PRIMARY PNEUMATI MADE OF WOOD AND LRATIAR For the Sick-Room For the Nursery its miscellany of high-class, artistic For the Library Table ares as te? , a ; io P. B. ALE Ibe he Bt For ay te” Any Place, aerial of $2.00 is made if the loose copies I's AMERICAN Ale. SO dozen, All dealers, LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West Thirty-first Street, New York Pints Booker Hill Breweries, Charlestown, Mass, Comicbooks-com