Life — December 13, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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iv Cerilian Piano Player Mechanism with METAL PNEUMATICS x, THE VITAL PART of the Mechanism, Primary and Secondary Valver and Pneumatics and the Wind Chest -Made of Bram, Steel and Phosphor Bronze CECILIAN (CABINET) PIANO PLAYER, CAN BE ATTACHED TO ANY PIANO. XXRXXKAKRNARNAK AKAKARARRARRANAKRRRANRKAKKKKKKKKK KKK: : KK In all piano players, the “pneumatics” are the vital part of the entire mechanism. In all piano players except the Cecilian, these “ pneumatics” are made of wood and leather—and that's where the trouble comes in. Ever get your shoes wet and have them dry hard and stiff? in damp weather, for it absorbs the moisture. Ever had a door or a window stick in your house? It's because the wood swells during damp weather. That's the trouble with the wood and leather “pneumatics.” They are affected by the constant changes in the weather and can’t do their work properly. In the Cecilian Piano Player mechanism, the “pneumatics” and the wind chest are made of metal—brass, steel and phosphor bronze— weather doesn’t affect them in any way. They don’t swell, neither do they shrink, and that’s why they are always in perfect working order. The Cecilian piano player mechanism is built into the Sohmer-Cecilian Piano, the Farrand-Cecilian Piano, and also in cabinet form ready to be attached to any piano, Catalog fully describing all of these instruments, sent free on request THE FARRAND COMPANY DETROIT, MICH. Leather will do that | IPODRCROEESERSE ORR ESEOSESOOREROROOSOEOOROEHE LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 17 West 3lst Street, NEW YORK Are you furnishing a House or _ Life's Pictures Decorating a Room? Have you wall spaces or spots which you wish to make artistically effective at small cost? are Particularly Appropriate GA dainty catalogue showing in miniature reproductions many of Life's Prints will be sent to any address upon request. 149 TIT rrr tt TERAGYL RY R jens] & > Bos “ER was a brilliant talker and a t debater, says Oulo Bacher in Tie I shall never forget my surprise when I heard him ‘say for the first time: “Bac am not arguing with you; I am telling yo! never forgot the lesson. Later I found that he had used this effectively in one of his letters to the London World, when he then, my Adas, an etching does not depend for its importance upon its size. 1 am not arguit with you; I am telling He spoke fluently, German less readily. His Italian was very good, especially under excitement, though occasionally a French word slipped in unawars, adding to the picturesqueness. I recall that he considered Poe our greatest poet. ERISH the thought that the novelist or play wright should be tied down to historical accuracy! says the Tribune. Lady Dorothy Ne ville quotes an amusing correspondence between Bulwer Lytton and her brother: “My Dear Walpole: Here I am at Bath—- bored to death. Tam thinking of writing a play | about your great ancestor, Sir Robert. Had he er Lucy, and did she not marry a Jacobite?” i My brother promptly replied: “My Dear Lytton : I care little for my family r Robert; but I know that be Lucy, so she could not have married a Jacobite. However, this mattered little to Lord Lytton, for his answer ran: “My Dear Walpole : Y : Sic Robert had a sister Lucy, and she did marry Jacobite.” So, in defiance of history, the play “Walpole came to be written. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER “Its purity made It famous.” PObeowInc hard upon Winston Churchill’ full and official biography of his father, Lor Rosebery’s essay, “Lord Randolph Churchi (Harper's), is, as he himself says, merely sort of debt of friendship. He was much thro with Lord Randolph, and it is ciation of which his volume is made up. sympathy there could be little between the 6 men. But the audacity, the perv liance of Randolph Churchill app Rosebery, if only as matter for neat description | or sententious comment. Of this there is ple given, if little real information. It is put b doubt, however—though it was never really in] doubt—that, in the great crisis of his carcer, bi resignation asChancellor of the Exchequer, Lor Randolph was merely blufiing, and did not ev pect Salisbury to take him at his word. Lor’ Rosebery declares that when the time com for the private letters of those two to be pub lished, there will be tidbits for intellectu’ gourmets. His own style retains all of its po The long decay of Lord Randolph's faculties] rut intd this epigram: “He was : own protracted funeral, a public pagea "There are many such Rose comicbooks.com wa sal dai min sho