Life — March 10, 1910 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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wee i i a § i 5 i i a Don’t Back Out of the Garage! Why Run Riske? Every time you back your automobile out of the garage you take useless chances. You may back into the curb and ruin a tire or a wheel; or, what is worse, you may run down and seriously injure a pedestrian (possibly a child), or back into a passing wagon, automobile or trolley car. Such accidents are happening every day—you are not exempt, though you've been “lucky " heretofore. Every Private and Public Auto Garage Needs a Lansing Ciomobite Taintabl Saves your time and prevents accidents. Upon reaching the garage, you drive in, turn car around on turntable, and then you are ready to drive out—not back out. * Just drive right in, turn around and drive right out again.” Any woman or boy can turn the heavie: Lansing Automobile Turntable. All garazes sho: drainage—wash your machine on the turntable a water will qyickly run into turntable pit. Write us for our L-A-T Booklet. It tells all about our turntables and gives names of prominent men who have installed them. A postal will bring it. Lansing Wheelbarrow Company, Beef and— Jack Spratt could eat no iat, His wife could eat no lean, So in the happy days of yore They licked the platter clean But now for neither fat nor lean Can poor Jack find the means: They neither eat a bit of meat But both go in for beans Brooklyn Life At the Railway Station “Has the two-thirty train gone?" “Yes, ma'am; five minutes ago. When's the next train?" “ Four-fifteen, ma‘am. “Thank goodness, I'm in ti Lippincott’s. A Bible Name The late Bishop Gallier was once a to baptize a negro baby boy “Name this child,’’ he said, addres. ing Mrs. Jackson, the mother of black mite. “ Hallud.”* “That's a strange name, Mrs. j son,” remarked the bishop hesitating we “'Scripter name,”” rejoined the hap 83 Cedar Street, Lansing, Mich mother, with a confident grin ? 5 . “T never saw it in the Bible.” There's a manhole 3 feet square in the turntable. which permits chauffeur to get beneath the car to adjust or examine the machinery, All-stee! construction—sold with a lifetime guarantee. Blue print and instructions furnished. Anybody can set up a turntable. The regular size is 12 ft. 6 in. diameter. but we build any desired size. Some peopie use them just outside the door of the garage. We are building a special portable turntable for private and public garages where concrete floor is already laid. OU R_ FOOLISH CONTEMPORARIES No Slouch The men in the Pullman smoker were arguing as to who was the greatest in- ventor. One said Stephenson, who in- vented the locomotive, and made fast travel possible. Another declared it was the man who invented the compass, which enabled men to navigate the seas. Another contended for Edison. Still an- other for the Wrights. Finally one of them turned to a little man who had remained silent: “Who do you think? “Well,”’ he said, with a hopeful smile, “the man who invented interest was no Lippincott’s THE LAND IS DEAKER FOR THE SEA —Larcom. “Why, Bishop, how kin yuh stan’ dar kiddin’ a ole ignorant nig is? Yuh says dat name whenevak yt says de Lawd’s prayer—' Hallud be Tey name!’ "Success. A Friend in Need “Here's the doctor again, miss Don't you think he comes more ofits than he needs to?’ “Tt all depends; he may be very pox Marie! ""—Frou-Frou. ONG GOATS. 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