Life — July 8, 1909 — page 2: what you’re looking at

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Published every Tharsday. Annual Sabscristion, Five Dotiars. Single Copies, Ten Cents Copyright in Enatam! aad the British Possessions ase Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. ¥.. 48 Second Class Mail Maer. A Season’s Experience has demonstrated the remarkable absence “automobile of ‘The present automobile season has developed no single feature more remarkable than the absence of repair-necessities wherever the Cadillac “ Thirty ” is in use. ‘There is a sameness and unanimity about the reports received from cities all over the country that is striking, to say the least. Thousands of these dependable cars have troubles’”’ the in Cadillac workmanship demands a fineness of fit so absolute that it can be m only in units of less than the thickness of ured a single hair. then, the illac almost To this “Thirty precision, owes its frictionless operation. And to this precision is due the fact that the | In no other car is friction so thoroughly eliminated as been in constant use for months; traveling thousands of miles under all sorts of con- ditions, and the record as shown by reports received from dealers and owners is in- variably the same. Repair work—the least in motor car history. Engine troubles—almost absolutely absent, This record, which is one of the most unique ever developed in the automobile world—is and can be due to but one workmanship the — Cadillac thing—the — scrupulous which — distinguishes ey linde " ty horse power. Theee speed The price of each type is Siete De $1400.2 F.O. B. Detroit and incle three oil Lamps and horn, Racked by the st mobile organien world, no ia the Cadillac Motor Car Company %""X"N. His Pathetic Appeal In Kansas City not lon: talking over the good fortune of quaintance who had succeeded in gaini hand of a Chicago heiress. “T didn't think Bill had it in hi friend. “It must have taken a lot of on his part to win out in that venture. “Oh, 1 don't know,’ responded the other. “As a matter of fact, I happen to know that he told her the simple truth.’* “You don’t say so! “Yes; he told her he her! '—Lippincott’s. friends were a mutual ac- ng the said one plomacy couldn't live without in the Cadillac “Thirty” thousands of cars now in continuous use in owners’ hands have required practically no attention beyond the ordinary care which the owner should bestow on hi car as a matter of course. Member Detroit, Michigan NYTHING voc?" REALLY SERIOUS WITIT A Doubtful Applicant Your famous Count Boissot d’Alloi; non, who h ed you with his title and bs splend in Vendée, where, he said, | wished us to spend the remainder of our days A nice prospect for us! For on making inqu a of the place informed us that the consisted of a family va J packed my trunk ready f retiring to that estate, you will readily under. tI did not insist on it. Our suitor was ore of a ruin than the T > of Ephesus. Mana: Yes, but a handsome man Para: Nearly cight feet. People would have t we had married our daughter to the Fitfel Tower. I should have dreaded an acci- dent every time that Cunégonde wanted to clim! up to kiss her husband, For he was too prou! of bis hirth, which dated back to the Crusades, to deign to stoop—and, besides, he always wor his hat in order that he might raise it every ti the name of Louis XVI. was mentioned. Ther too, he had a way of talking about his futur. plans for Cunégonde's happiness that was far from reassuring. He always began his sentences with, “When as taken you from this Once he was our daughter's husband we should plainly have been in his way, and as 1 am never indiscreet, I sent him about his busi ness.—Eugene Chavette, “In Search of @ Hus- band." Para 1 estate n’s estate though Th world.” As for pictures and sculptures, Iam. thor ughly tired of them, The greatest art critic could not dislike pictures and sculptures more than [ do at this moment. We began b: spending a whole morning in each gallery. W examined each picture critically, and argued with ch other “for: color” and reatment dd“ perspective" and “texture and nosphere.”” 1 generally it was fla and B. that it was out of drawing. A strange: overh our discussions would have i ined that we knew something about painti We would stand in front of a canvas for ter inutes, drinking it in. We would walk round Sto get the proper light upon it and to better realize the artist’s aim, We would back away from it on to the toes of the people behind until we reached the correct “distance,” and then sit down and shade our eyes and criticise it from there; and then we would go up and put our noses against it, examining the workmanship in detail This is how we used to look at pictures carly stages of our Munich art studies. bout its in the Now we use picture galleries to practice spurts in. (Continued on page The second-hand shop and junk pile are monuments to imperfect lubrication. Dixon’s Ticonderoga Flake M@TOR Graphite Stands for readiness, reliability and long life in a motor. You will at once see the com- mon sense of it when you get our booklet on lubrication. Write to Department A. JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE CO., Jersey City, N. J. comicbooks.com Ti pi