Life — April 22, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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utely his is gets like mach pore: oman, o idea ald be pense. ““L EE-E* VOL. LI! APRIL 22, 199 Pablished by ISHING COMPANY A. Mitten, Secyand Treas, yefirst Street, New York. LIFE PUR LA Mivourns, Prest J West T SPARKS FROM OLD ANVILS Travel That knowledge which a man may acquire only by traveling is often too dearly bought. ‘The traveler may indeed may be said to fetch the knowledge, as the merchant the wares, to be enjoyed and applied by those who stay at home. ‘Aman may sit by his own fireside, be conversant with m ie arts and general sciences, and yet have very correct ideas of the manners, habits and customs of other nations. While, on the contrary, he that has spent his whole life in traveling, who, like Scriblerus, has made his legs his compasses rather than his judgment, y live and die a thorough novice in all the t important concerns of life; like Anson, he may have been around the world and over the world without having been in the world; and die an ignoramus, even after having performed the seven journeys between the bold hills, swept the Kaaba with a silver besom, drank of the holy waters of the Zemzem and traced the source of the Nile and the end of the Niger—Colton Lecon. Diplomacy “To pretend to be ignorant of what every one knows, ond to know what every one else docs not know, to understand what nobody compre- hends, not to hear what every one hears, and, above all, to be able to do the impossible; often to have for the secret one must hide the fact that there is none; to lock one’s self up to cut quills, and to seem deep when one is only, as they say, empty and hollow; to play a part ill or well, to set spies and pension traitors; to loosen seals, intercept letters, and try to dignify the meanness of the methods by the importance of the objects— that's politics, or I'm a dead man."’—Beaumar- chais’ “ Marriage of Figaro.’* “ Reading Books are talked about, and education. It was her duty to know something of these, and of course she did. Perhaps I was somewhat more learned than she, but I found that the dif- ference between her reading and mine was like that of a man’s and a woman's dusting a library. The man flaps about with a bunch of feathers: the woman goes to work softly with a cloth Ste docs not raise half the dust, nor fill her wn ey& and mouth with it—but she goes into Il the corners, and attends to the leaves as has the covers. Books are the negative Each Sterling Tire t# bull as an Individual Job. Fach | of fabric and rubber ts Inspected before the next chy they're bine." t CO., Rutherford, N. J. ‘ay, (cor. 53rd) Franklin Model D> When you want to make time, what is the limiting factor? Is it the horse-power of the motor, or is it the way the automobile rides? There is only one answer, and it explains why Franklin Model D with only 28 horse-power is able to make such high average speed. No other automobile except the six-cylinder Franklin equals it on American roads. You may have 60 horse-power and your maximum speed may be 70 miles an hour, but at the end of a day you have not gone as far as your neigh- bor in his Model D. Your speed is held down to what the passengers can endure and to what you think your automobile will stand. Speed then is a question of comfort—a question of the way the automobile rides. And another thing—easy riding means that the automobile itself is not racked and strained In the Worcester contest last December nearly all the contestants went through the run without road stops, but Model D was the only one to withstand the examination after the run. All others suffered penalizations due to broken, strained or loosened parts. Having half-elliptic springs and the steel chassis frames, they suffered from strains and shocks at speed over rough roads. In another test in which there was also an examination after the run, and in which Model D was perfect, twenty-five per cent of the other contestants broke their steel chassis frames. Model D is always comfortable and you dare drive it It will stand for speed when other automobiles will not. Look into this question. An automobile tha: transmits the shocks and vibrations to the chassis can not possibly give perfect mding comfort. Model D has four 40-inch full-elliptic springs and a non-jarring laminated wood chassis frame. The road shocks are absorbed and neutralized, not transmitted. Half-springs fail because they are short and stiff. To equal in flexibility those on Model D they would have to be nearly seven feet long—an impracticable length. But why discuss it? It is well known that full-elliptic springs are the standard for easy riding. That easy riding means reliability and long life to the automobile itself is not so well understood. Then the wood chassis frame in the Franklin is not only non-jarring, but it is lighter and stronger than the hardened steel frame. If you are interested we will gladly mail you a reprint of a technical article on this subject from the Horseless Age. In addition to the two contests mentioned above, the 1909 Model D was perfect in three other tests, making five consecutive tests in which it won perfect scores. No other auto- mobile went through more than two of these tests without penalization, Remember also that no automobile has been able to break the Franklin's San Francisco- New York record, not to mention the Chicago -New York record —the most severe reliability tests ever made. Ride in Model D. Then ride in other automobiles over the same road at the same speed. You ‘ will understand the meaning and value of non-jarring, easy-riding construction. Our forty-page catalogue de luxe trea’ FRANKLIN MODEL D, four-cylinder, 28 horse-power, five-passencer touring-car, 2200 pounds, $2800. Single or double rumble seat runabout, $2700. Standard finish touring- car, royal blue; runabout, red and black | 36- inch wheels, same size as used on the best water-cooled automobiles weighing a thou- sand pounds more. Sheet aluminum body on stecl angle frame-—the strongest and lightest automobile body made. Three powerful brakes, acting on transmi rear wheels. Selective type transmission, positive gear-driven oiler, Bosch high ten- sion magneto. the whole automobile question in a clear and fair manner. shows why the Franklin, now in its eighth year, is the automobile for those who want the highest standard of comfort and ability. “Mey! WHAT IGNOKAMUS LAID OUT THIS ‘ERE BASEBALL GROUND? ’” Write for it. | H H FRANKLIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY Syracuse N Y pictures of thought, and the more sensitive the mind that receives their images, the more nicely the finest lines are reproduced. A woman (of the right kind) reading after a man, follows him as Ruth followed the reapers of Boaz, and her canings are often the finest of the’ wheat— Oliver Wendell Holmes’ “ Autocrat at the Break- fost Table.” Ir is in the nature of exasperation gradually to concentrate itself, The sincere antipathy of a dog toward cats in general, necessarily takes the form of indignant barking at the neighbor's black cat which daily trespass; the bark at imagined cats, though a frequent exercise of the canine mind, is yet comparatively feeble — “ Felix Holt,’ George Eliot. Ccomicbooks.com