Life — August 5, 1909 — page 6: what you’re looking at

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gi dbe Jeg REMY ‘*‘Best Magneto Made” Says LOUIS CHEVROLET Winner Western Vanderbilt Detroit, Mich., June 24, 1909. REMY ELECTRIC COMPANY, Anderson, Indiana Gentlemen:— feel that you are to be congratulated on work of your Magneto. In the recent Cobe Trophy Rece my car was equipped with your Magneto. I was offered @ good premium if 1 would put on another make, but my past experience convinced m you have the best Magneto made; therefore Tetuck to it and won the race. Yours very truly, (Signed) LOUIS CHEVROLET You can equip your car easily with this distinctive mechanical ignition system—the choice of those who demand the BEST. Visit, phone or write our nearest office. Remy Electric Company Dept. 19, Anderson, Indiana Branch Selling Offices CHICAGO, ILL. DETROIT, MICH. 1400-1402 Michigan Ave. 471 Woodward Ave. NEW YORK CITY Automobile Blég., 04th aed Broadway Summer Now comes the gorgeous summer. And the bee, The merry little hummer, Trills his glee, And flirts about the rose. The butterfly Careering goes, All drunk with joy because the summer's nigh The straw and Panama Bloom wide and far For lovers true To whisper through, And through the leafy dale The tuneful rivulet Pours pail on pail Of water, damp and wet, Bound for the shimmering sea, Down where the beaches be. The bullsome frog Now dominates the bog, And from his reeded bunk, Cries “ Chunk-ker-chunk !"* The which no doubt contains much wisdom for The pollywog athirst to walk ashore, And swagger there about Before his nascent legs have sprouted out. The plumber’s winter boom Collapses into gloom, And wreathes of woe appear upon the pate OF men of coals unreconciled to fate The beaches and the mountainsides are strewn With visitors, a boon To landlords, who with fat and bulging bills Assuage the maw of apoplectic tills; While in the city’s marts the toilers toil To win the necessary spoil That Gladys and her ma may cut a swath At some resort with six rooms and a bath, ‘And trunk on trunk of costumes gay To glorify the night and flabbergast the day. When signs like these along our pathway bob ‘Tis six to one that summer's on the job! —Everett Hughes, Harper's Weekly. A Mate Malaprop is said to have asked Sidney Smith this question, at a dinner-table: “Aw, Mr. Smith! Do you know in which of his journeys around the world Captain Cook was killed—his first or bis last?” Sidney Smith looked up quickly. “I believe it was on his first voyage." said he; “but he doesn’t seem to have inded it much, for he immediately set out on his second! Politene Lieut. Shackleton, in a happy and manly speech which he made in reply to the toast of his health by Mr. Heinemann at the dinner given by that gentleman at the Savoy Hotel, told an interest- ing story of politeness in the untrodden regions of the Antarctic His party, he said, were always extremely good-humored and polite, and one professor in par.icular attained a degree of politeness un- usual under such trying circumstances. “‘ Are you busy, Mawson?" he called out one night to another member of the party who was in the tent “*T am,’ said Mawson. “Very busy?’ said the professor. “*Yes, Very busy.’ “Tf you are not too busy, Mawson, I am down a‘ crevasse. “The professor was found hanging down a crevasse by his four fingers, a position which he could not have occupied for any length of time.” —London Daily Chronicle. Strong's ARNICA TOOTH Soap A septic —peevarvet Keeps theskia srmooth; oth forchaps, pim alleraptions. Seat pout pald for 25 CONtB. \% A MINT JULEP OF HUNTER BALTIMORE RYE 1S A DRAUGHT OF COOL REFRESHMENT THE DAINTIEST SIP THAT PASSES LIP estechass cates a by jobber. WM. LANAHAN & SON, Banimere, Md and SSS SSS SSS NSNNNSSNNNAANNSSNASSNNNSSSNNSSSNSSSNSSSSNSSSNNSN ON The Idiot's Idea For a Musical Note—The last rung on the ladder on which Wagner climbed to immortality was the Gotterdémmerung. For an Impresario’s Gift—We do not think a loving-cup would be as appropriate a gift for a tain impresario as a Hammer Stein For a Distinguished Golfer.—Certainly, in the presence of an unusually bad lie on the links, Taft would be justified in borrowing an jas Club from the bag of his predecessor. For Congress. —Let Congress do its level best to model the tariff after the President. In that way we shall have not only a well-rounded Bill, but one that will be popular with all classes. For the Best—Most things in this world are ordered for the best just as they are. Take fish- ing, for instance. How footless it would seem if things were reversed and we went out into the fields to dig up a handful of trout just for the fun of catching a few worms! For Brid, Players.—Why not establish a Bridge Players’ Union, and see what can he done to secure a shorter bridge day. limiting the hours of play to eight, instead of compelling the help- less to keep at it for twenty-four, as is now done in some communities? For Tariff Tinkerers—To make yourselves solid with the married men of to-day. place a tax of 789.986.534.342.143 per cent. on the hooks and eyes the ladies wear on these evening gowns that fasten up—or won't fasten up—at the back. —Harper’s Weekly. comicbooks.com Af EXNANANNNNNNNNNNNSNN NNN SSSNNNN NNN NSLS HN LH NNNN NNN NSN NNN NHHNN NNN LAWS: