Life — August 15, 1907 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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lee FORD It’s significant that while other cars go a begging for buyers—cut prices, divide commissions, and trade in old cars to make a sale— the demand for Ford Sixes as well as Runabouts increases by leaps and bounds. Henry Ford has always erred on the side of low prices. Ford cars have always been worth more than the maker asked for them. That’s only one of many respects in which Fords differ from other makes— while others deteriorate Fords increase in value. “If it’s a Ford, it’s ahead—a year ahead” 750 Ee B. Detroit Model “*R."* 4 ey1., 15H. P. Write for catalog and address of your nearest Ford cogent of branci Ford Motor Company 263 PIQUETTE AVENUE, DETROIT, MICH, DO YOU LIKE TO BE SIDE-TRACKED by adealer when you have made up your mind that you want an article advertised in LIFE? If the dealer offers you a substitute— * just as good and cheaper,” will you not serve your own interest and the interest of all honest manufacturers by saying, “No, thank you, I WANT WHATI ASKED FOR” Love Sonnet of a Chorus Girl E WANTS me to give up my stage career And go to school somewhere a year of two, And learn to cut out slang, and parley voo! Ain't he the limit? Nix for me! No beer, No bubbly water—daily prayers!—I fear Tl have to give him up and sy skiddoo; Tt can't be that he really loves me true, Or else he'd take me as he found me bere. If Vd go ‘way till people all forgot I'd never be an artiste, when he came To take me out and marry me there's not ‘A paper that would hardly print my name— Unless he took me fresh from off the stage My picture wouldn't be on no front page! —Chicago Record- Herald. The Killers T HAPPENED that once a man ran past Socrates armed with an ax. He was in pursuit of another who was running from him at full speed. “Stop him! Stop him!" he cried. Plato's master did not move. “What!” cried the man with the ax; thou not have barred his way? He is an assassin!” “An assassin? What meanest thou?” “Play not the idiot! An assassin is a man who kills.” “A butcher, then?” “Old fool! A man who kills another man!” “To be sure! A soldier!” “Dolt! A man who kills another man in times of peace.” “T see—the executioner. “Thou ass! A man who kills another in his home.” Upon which the man with the ax fled—and is running still_—La Terre. Hotel Champlain, the observatory of fashionable summer life, on Lake Champlain the Magnificent. Golf and all land and water sports. ‘Through Pullmans via Delaware & Hudson, Stop-over privilege at Saratoga Springs, Lake George, etc. A Repentant Look YOUNG man tting in a barbershop look- ing at a magazine when an old farmer, with little knowledge or appreciation of literary people stepped up behind his chair and looked over his shoulder. “Who's them?” he inquired, pointing to a group of portraits. “Well-known authors and playwrights,” was the reply. “Humph!” ejaculated the farmer, contemptu- ously. “‘Jist writin’ fellers, ch?” ‘Then he caught sight of George Ade’s long, solemn face, and his eyes lighted up. “That's the one I like,” he said, with decision, putting his finger on Mr. Ade's mournful countenance. “Oh, yes; nearly every one likes George Ade," agreed the young man, “His humorous writings are”—— “Don't know nothin’ "bout his writin’, but I like his face.” “Why so?”—curiously. “*Cause he’s the only feller thet looks like he was sorry for what he’d done.” —Lippincott's. A Solemn Companion ASEIER meeting Tennyson for the first time an Englishman asked the poct’s friend, Jonas Spedding, if his temperament was as melancholy as his countenance indicated. “Well,” Spedding began, thoughtfully, “I fancy when he is alone Tennyson finds himself in very grave company.” — Youth's Companion. GREAT BEAR SPRING WATER vite purity has made it famous.” “couldst | THE PLEASURES OF MOTORING Asmooth-running engine is more satis- faction than smooth roads. Mobiloll— the perfect automobile lubricant—is the only oil that makes smooth, easy running absolutely certain. There is a grade of VACUUM MOBILOIL especially prepared for every en- gine. The Moblioll booklet lists every make of automobileand tells what grade of Mobitoll to use. It's free. Moblioll sold by dealers everywhere—in barrelsand cans of varying capacitie MANUFACTURED BY VACUUM OIL Co. ROCHESTER, N.Y. 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