Life — May 20, 1909 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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From 1% to 3 cents a mile! So inexpensive you don’t hesitate to use it constantly Low upkeep is one of the greatest rea- The town car you sons for driving an electric but particularly will eventually buy is this true of the Columbus. It is lighter than other electrics, from 100 to 500 pounds! This means no useless weight to consume power and wear out tires. The few mechanical parts the Columbus has are enclosed, run in oil, dust_and waterproof. There is nothing about it to break. It can be charged at home. Gives you unfailing service at low cost. Standard Exide Batteries are our regular equipment. Write to-day for catalogue showing our 1909 models of four and two passenger Coupés, Stanhopes and other styles. Let us refer you to users. THE COLUMBUS BUGGY CO. Established 1870 382-450 Dublin Avenue, COLUMBUS, O. Everybody’s Column (Continued from page 707) A Word to the Wise Dear Lire: After one has paid out, on the countless Tues- days of one’s life, a long glittering galaxy of silver dimes for you, and received considerably more than their value in return, one fecls a per- sonal interest in you and an impulse to send you an appreciative word, You are at once human, high-browed and honest, and not incapable of furnishing a chaste delight even to doctors, women, Anthony Comstock and, for what I know, Carrie Nation. If we come under those heads and you lam us, it’s our fault and not your: For anyone with a teaspoonful of brains reco nizes that it is not we you aim at but the weak- nesses in us. There's but one fault I find with Li (aside from its being against woman. sufira; ON THE WKONG TRAIN vv vv vv vv vv vvvvvvvy YACHTING COMFORTS From the wide deep's placid bosom comes a breath of salt sea air. Under canopies on the decks yachting parties of merrymakers seek re- freshment in the Julep, the High Ball or any mild form of stimulant. HUNTER Aad 3 3 3 ; BALTIMORE 3 3 will make the best because it isa pure whiskey Soldat at frase cae ana by Sates Wa TARATIAN'R SON. hauhlnore, 30d WVVVVY' that’s that Mr. Metcalfe doesn’t notice the vaude- ville theatres. They surely reflect the life of the day even more vividly than do the legitimate dramas, And there's work being done on the vaudeville stage that is as fine and delightful and artistic as any work on any stage could be, There is also on the vaudeville stage some very bally rot which sadly necds the attention of Mr. Metealfe’s coldly-just typewriter. Deadly as some streaks of modern life are, it has not yet reached the pitch of intense idiocy portrayed in most of the “playlets” that are perpe i vaudeville circuits. ing under h mad-house could suggest such scene: did those things in real life the pa th i brief intervals of time, As it is, we pa money to sce them. If only they were funn; Also, there are some unpleasant, plumply v gar monologists, whose only apparent reason being is that they already are, for whose auii- ences Mr. Metcalfe might do a world of good. Rut, more than that, one would Ii Not only can you cook anything on the Manning-Bowman Alcohol Gas Stove, but you can cook anywhere with it— in the kitchen, dining-room, sick- room, orat the camp or picnic. The anning- owman (Denatured) Alcohol! Gas Stove is quick as a.gas range—and cleaner. Burns the new fuel—denatured alco- hol—which it first transforms into gas. No wicks, no delay, no odor. Single and double burners. Beauti- fully nickeled. | Manning-Bowman Manning-Bowman Chafing Dishes for use on the stove have the “Ivory” Enameled Food Pan, Unusually cleas and durable, At leadicg dealers, Write for booklet MANNING, BOWMAN & CO. Meriden, Conn. E) Mak able a critic giving discriminating praise whet it's due and indicating weekly the very real & lights of the music halls to the large and ma" minded throngs that frequent them Yours sincerely. Mary MacLaxe 24 Invine Pace, Tuesday, April 27 A Clear Voice To Lire: Woman suffrage in Colorado is a This is due to the indifference of the wom? themselves. They will not interest themselves (Continued on page 700) in pe inclin are ¢ this t politic a few public will b ful of curioy irl o cbamy comicbooks.com