Life — December 30, 1909 — page 3: what you’re looking at

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i 1911 Improvement on Your 1910 Car Firestone DEMOUNTABLE RIMS | For all Q. D. and Regular Clincher Tires—Quick Detachable as well as Demountable Bit Join im the tun ir Acd play "Rad-Heidge* as all of us dew." SILK VELOUR PLAYING CATDS | sede oat i ot Betige Wes dea sd Headelitto & Gon ist Peart sts New Yorks and Lontees BG. 12 TOURS TO EUROPE Leave tn April, May, June, July and August. All parta of Europe, including Oberammergau. DE POTTER TOURS, ), 32 Broadway, New York. Rhymed Reviews The Life of a Fossil Hunter (By Charles H. Sternberg. Henry Holt & Co.) 1 bleak Jurassic shore And bills fringe the Late Creta- “ceous, I stalked the mighty Brontosaur And Labyrinthodont voracious. Where deadly Diplodoci prowl Among the wilds of Upper Jura, 1 slew that evil-omened fowl The Archxopteryx Macrura; When, whifiling through the tulgy crops, I heard a heavy-hoofed colossus. What might it be—Triveratops? Or scaly Portheus Molossus? “Hat wretch!" I cried, “ your time has come! “Prepare to skip the reservation, “ Homalodontotherium ! "* I choked him with his appellation. I've built myself a shelter, where, Beneath a mountain's jutting cornice, The Pterodactyl combs his hair, And serenades the Hesperornis. And there at night I muse upon The fossil hunter's life of glory At dawn I chase the Zeug! At eve I dine on Dinosauri. The Best Bitter Li 2 Unter berg World's Best » Bitters Popular in every country in the world for over 60 years. It is imitated. Get the Original. Look for the label. Sold Everywhere. LUYTIES BROTHERS ~ U.8. Agents. ‘New York, Unlock the rim with damaged tire, and substitute a spare rim with already inflated tire. No loss of time; no exertion or annoyance; no tire-pumping. Firestone Demountable Rims possess improved features that place them one year ahead of all other devices for quick and easy tire-changing. Nevertheless, you can have them on your 1910 carif you so specify, or put on your presentcar nop. A year hence these exclusive Firestone features will be widely imitated. By securing them now you have a full year's extra use, plus the satisfac- tion of knowing that yours is the most up-to- date equipment the automobile world can offer. Firestone Demountable Rims abolish the stay- bolt nuisance common to Rims that will take only the old style pliable-base Clincher tires. They are safer and far more practical. Yet, we will furnish our Rims equipped to take the old-style tire, should any buyer request. You can make one or a dozen tire-changes on a trip—an exclusive Firestones feature. You need not buy new tires in equipping your old car; con- tinue to use your present ones if standard type. You can secure these improved features only by specifying Firestone Demountable Rims Send for Demountable Rim Book and name of nearest demonstrating dealer ' FIRESTONE TIRE AND RUBBER CO., Dept.B. BRANCHES: Boston, 145 Columbus Aveo Jeffersoa Ave.; Los Angeles, 957 South Mai Pittaburgh, $904 Pean Avenue; “America’s Largest Exclasice Tire Makers.” AKRON, O. 1442 Michigan Ave.; Sievclenas ae 1922 Buelid Ave.; Detroit, 240-2 vilad 256 Ny Observe, I make no vain pretence To quote the author, line and letter: But, while his book excels in sense, My style, I hold, is much the better. Arthur Guiterman. We Want Your Wife who cannot eat anything witbout Heteninge istrege after" eating One More Good. Digoe! anything sbe desires or craves—and while eating sip MAN- 5A: CEA WATER ANESE, Natural Spring Water. jer Suftering’ To-D: ER CO., 13 Stove St., ‘New 8S rerwards At leading Hotels, Restawrants and Cafes. A. G. VAN NOSTRAND, Po™¥ss,2iilt Rrowertee comicbooks.com