Flexible
rurtains and
striking feature
in reali
closed cur
door windows that
that
of the new
the coupster
yet
may
ty
transportation,
pedient of raising
practical pu
EFFIGIENGY AND
Comfort and Satisfac-
tion of Owner.
It is difficult to belleve that the ofl
pressure gauges and ‘he ampere-me-
ters whicli now appear on the instru-
ment boards of virtually all makes of
cars were once regarded by many as
unnecessary frills. Today there are a
number of accessorles being offered
which are similarly regarded, which is
the same as saying that they would
be appreciated If only their advan
tages were better known.
By equipping a car with some
these fitments, greater satisfaction,
ficiency and safety will result.
front and rear bumpers to the
tach one of the many
devices,
handy
of
of
Add
at-
rear signaling
a set of anti-skid chains
and the car will he
car,
keep
the prote Frequently
ty devices add to the
and thus not only
owner's original Investment, but
to fit. A spotlight attached to the
windshield and played upon the road
may prevent wrecking the in a
ditch.
Take efficiency as her Instance
A car that Is operated without
regulation of the cox
fil times running inefficiently
is especially true in
engine Is constantly
wrong temperature,
because re dis
tion. such safe
CAT'S appearance
help protect
car
anot
ling system Is at
winter when the
arated the
ihe sr boiling
wed
becan
there i18 no covering at yr The mar
ket now offers several radiator covers
with openings which can be
from the dash.
Along efficlency
devices which destined
the gasoline before it Is
the carburetor, preventing
entrance of dirty or red
to the carburetor or engine. A dev
of this character may pay for fit
within a month after it is Installed
Then there are shock
which In addition to
riding comfort, save the springs from
breakage on the rebound and th
crease the vsefulness of the car
preventing breakdowns Even
outs which were at one time regarded
as toys for
shown to have a very important use,
Regardless of the selling points of
each accessory or all of them
group, it is a fact that any one
op nt
the tor Is with
COVE
cold qe
the line are other
fire
thus
wate gasoline
absorbers,
ivine
4
greater
us in
by
cut
a car. So the motorist not only
the use of the accessories with which
he equips his car and the savings on
insurance, inconvenience, repair bills,
etc, but he gets a return premium
when he goes to sell the car,
Good Advice In t to y Give
There's economy, also
in giving your car the
the spring, then If it
ments or anything else to bring it back
once-over in
ly as possible.
Naturally the toll of a year's driv-
ing is most severe, and generally there
is a reminder or two. Right here the
old stitch in time principle works out.
When the car is restored to its best
shape, almost as good as the day It
was bought, riding In it is far more
enjoyable, also it will bring a much
better price If you care to sell or ex-
pect to trade It in on a new car,
Letting your motor car run down Is
false economy. Eventually it costs
you more and In the interim you are
not hap ‘est when riding along the
highways,
Even little things which you may
think are of no special consequence
develop into big items Iu repair bills
If allowed to run on without interrup-
tion.
Windshield Rattle
When the windshield glass becomes
loose In its frame, it causes an an.
noying rattle. It is very difficult to
close the frame so that It will grip
the giass more securely without the
possibility of breaking the latter. If
the glass Is not too loose the rattle
can be eliminated by filling the space
in the frame with shellac. This can
be applied with a sharp pointed stick
or a brush and should be applied
slowly ¢5 that it will pack tightly In
the opening.
lowered or raised like
top of the body when
pullman car
rulsed are a
comforts of
nple ex-
For all
affording all the
an open car by the sh
a five-second operation
into
TIRES 15 SMALL
Not Injurious.
Now and then in the course of a3
automobile trip a car has to puss
through a stream, ard the question Is
sometimes discussed whether the ac
tion of the water Is harmful to the
tires. The same question arises when
the car Is out in a heavy rain.
Such a wetting is practically noth-
ing at all, either for damage or lm-
provement. At any rate, the effect on
tire 15 not harmful, Two chief
are rubber and
otton, both vegetable substances, and
as a rule water does not injure vege
table matter. As illustrative of this
point, there is the old but true story
of the farmer who, when one of his
rubber boots fell into a well, placed
ther on a shelf in a closet, Twelve
years later when the well
t was found
ellent condition,
shelf had fallen Into ruin
f running through a brook
tire the effect
beneficial, but
the water has little effect on
alr within tire and
the temperature ge
its bath is negligible,
apparently does
but the combination of
and moisture known as
is very destructive, especial-
cotton In ordinary fabric
¢ moist alr works in between
ayers of the fabric and rots them
I even hefore the tires
dealer's Cord
the
“leaned
in ex-
on the
was
he lost boot to be
but the hoot
resulted
would
a quick dash
n cooling a
lecldedly
through
heated
onsequently
he
th
0e
the
chan
in the tire after
Water itself
to tires,
no
linrm
commonly
humidity
on the
the
stimes
storeroom
humid better
harmful effect of moist
n
tea
Kept
ity
air
tires are
in a dry
is also harm-
be dark-
he chief reason why, whe
s '
shone
As sunli
+ storage
they
atmosvhere,
lace ahaotild
piace should
Shabby Tires Are Not
Khabb
Yet
and
dilapi
to the last mile
y tires on a good
any
nun
dated tires which
looking
corner today
iber of patched-up,
used
The cost of keeping
running for a few thou-
miles would nearly pay for new
Mileage such as this comes
stand on
the
street
count
are being
these tires
Ones,
high.
Tire conservation does not mean
picking up a decrepit tire and putting
it back Into service at a big repair
cost Just to save a little rubber left
in the tread. It means taking care of
the tire from the first so that It will
be able to deliveg all the mileage built
into it by the maker. When tires are
far worn that they are soon to
it Is poor economy to repalr
Such a course means sacrifice
wo
them.
Cheap, makeshift patches, boots and
but patching up an old casing in which
separation of fabric plies has already
begun, cannot give the freedom from
tire trouble on which the pleasure In
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Will Prevent Spreadiog | a+
Since the leaves in a spring have a
tendency to spread apart, it Is often
hard to replace the spring tie-bolt in
autos or trucks.
The easy way Is to grip the head of
the tie-bolt In a vise, and put all but
the last four leaves one on top of the
other, The last four leaves are put on
crosswise, or spread around like the
ribs of an umbrella, which allows the
nut to be easily started on the bolt,
With the nut on the bolt, swing the
bottom cross leaf into place. Then
each succeeding leaf will slide easily
into position. Then tighten the tle
bolt nut, Of course, the clamps on
each end will have to be removed un
til the spring Is assembled,
Anything These I Days
Running downhill recently a driver
found to his utter surprise that »
motor truck, supposedly at rest in the
downhill pesition on the right side of
the road, was actually going uphill
backwards. The driver could not get
It through his head for a moment and
nearly lost control of his machine try.
ing to dope it out, which showed that
he was not prepared to expect most
anything nowadays, The truck driver
was utilizing the lower gear ratio of
reverse In order to enable the enging
:
i
¢ hdd
NCE there
woods na
lived
fox who
in some deep
had
country a great deal of wisdom.
he was now
cided to
account.
"Surely
worth
have
turn
all the
something,’
learned
experience
fering and
keeping
things I know
he reasoned,
things throug.
’
many
my ears and eyes alert,
who care to profit
and 1 today
door telling the
can listen each ni
wisdom.”
Mr. Fox
painting a
the
stog
by my teachings
post a sign
woodfolk
ght
shall on
where
to words of
was
sign
woodfolk
and
spoken each
busy
and that
wandered
read,
and
evening
along
“Words of wisdom
every night,
us
ped
Mr. Turtle Left
About
Mr. Fox Wallowing
in the Mud.
moonlight to those who wish to
them, for a small fee"
Those svho first saw
hear
the
happened to see a bed of nice mush-
rooms; and knowing that Mr. Turtle |
mushrooms, Mr. Fox had an
to the woods,
his own home.
but he
Oh, no;
reached the home
did not stop at
he kept right
of Mr.
Mr. Fox sald:
bed of fine
thought
“Mr. Turtle,
mushrooms over the
you might Ilke
re fond of them.”
Mr. Turtle thanked him and sald he
cok at them.
Mr. Turtle had stayed in the
mushroom bed, and started
for home he knew he would never he
able to reach there In time for bis
lecture unl. sg some one gave him a
and when he saw Mr. Fox trot-
ting aion, he remembered his ances |
tor who had won that famous
hundreds of years before from
I saw a
hill;
as
to know,
irte
when he
ince
Mr.
Mr. rox ran over to the farm, got
at a
80 he did not
Turtle reached out
grasped the tip of his
and held fast to it
Mr, Fox was thinking of getting
home, and how Mr, Turtle must be |
waddiing along somewhere far from
home, for he was very certain he went
So he was not
when Mr.
and
bad gathered around the door of Mr.
Fox, which made hls eye. twinkle, for
the larger the crowd the more he
would get In fees.
Old Mr. Turtle was stretching his
neck, but he could not see well enough
to read, so he asked Mr. Rabbit,
wis nearest to him,
printed on the sign
The next day the woudfolk saw on
Turtie’'s door this sign: “Mr.
vho for over a hundred years
has been gathering wisdom, will
to read what was
i
improve their minds.
will be taken fo meet expenses.™
“A new broom sweeps clean,” quot-
ed Mr. Fox when he heard about Mr.
Turtle's sign, and then he added "but
"too many cooks spoll the broth,’
myst use my wits to get ahead of my
rival, Mr. Turtle.”
Mr. Fox was running along wher
“What’s in a Name?”
By MILDRED MARSHALL
Facts about your name, its
meaning. whence it was derived; sig-
nificance. your lucky day, lucky jewel
FAITH
where he was going.
Over a stone wall leaped Mr. Fox,
thing he knew he was
of—mostly mud.
A mud bath to Mr. Turtle was fun,
4¢ had not been In a burry to
reach home he would have liked noth-
ing better than to stay there: but he
crawled out and left Mr. Fox wallow-
ing about In the mud
Before Mr. Fox had come along Mr.
Turtle had had time to think, and
bad entered his wise old head that
Mr. Fox had reasons for being so kind
in telling him about the bed of mush-
ge
is
This familiar “movie” actor was
born in Kentucky twenty-five years
ago. He spent his early boyhood days
in Texas. After much experience in
vaudeville he entered motion pictures
leading players, usually in
leads. He is a relative of the
President McKinley.
juvenile
late
he called to him as he
“*There's many a slip
‘twixt the cup and the lp,’ Mr. Fox.
1 shall remember to explain thaf say-
ing to my audience tonight and tell
them, too, how you are unavoidably
detained.”
Mr. Fox knew
rooms, Jo
that his rival would
reach bome in time to give his lec
ture, and he knew, too, that he woul
be the laughing stock of all the wood
folk by morning: so, when he did :
last get out the mud he ran for
home and p cown his sign, and
en out of woods he
went,
make « far away that
of
ullied
the
home so
years before he found him.
(® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
ABOUT
By F. A. WALKER
UPLAND SOLITUDES |
T IS becoming a mooted question
among observing educators as to
whether our present-day diversions do
not often dwarf the budding intellects
of the young and carry them far
afield in the wrong direction
With the possible exception of
the universal language, our en-
tertalnments, as a rule, have become
thelr native land,
been universally
and the name has
popular there, at the
:
charming Faith, which sprang into
appeliatives which denoted abstract
tanism In Eagland, and many such
names came under the ban from other
classes because of the widespread dis
like of the “Round Heads"
But the simple beauty of Faith, as
the name was symbol, kept her pop
ularity undimmed. For was she not
one of the trio whom St,
mends to the Corinthians, saying:
“And now abideth faith, hope, char
ity, these three; but the greatest of
these Is charity.”
The Puritans brought Faith to New
England when they migrated from
HEBER ER ETREEERRLERRRRR RR
A LINE OF CHEER
By John Kendrick Bangs.
FREER ERXXRERRRERRERRRNRN
A WORD FROM SPRING
GENTLE breeze came whis-
pering by today,
And paused a moment on Its
laughing way.
“I'm just in from the South™ it
sald, "and 1
Have stopped to tell you that the
spring is nigh,
And all her styles
Are based on smiles;
And when she comes her pane
fnlers will be full
Of blossoms fragrant and delect-
able;
in her train a gay and
choral throng
Of happy birds will wing thelr
way along;
And brand new lpaves to clothe
the naked troes
She'll bring and spread as lavish
as you please;
And all the country o'er
Her flowers will dance as on a
ballroom floor,
That all may know In these dark
days of dread
That Youth, and Grace, and
Beauty are not dead,
Rut with us still,
For man to make such use of
as he will”
(0 by MeClure Newspaper Syndicates
Hele Te We Te TBR RR NHN
And
of the country. It is one of the few
feminine appeliatives which cannot be
contracted.
The pearl is Faith's tallsmanic gem.
It is a fitting symbol of purity for its
who will possess enviable
friends. Wednesday is ber lucky day
and § ber lucky number,
(D by Whesler Syndicates, Ise.)
semanas oi
THE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
THE THRESHOLD
N a much-talked-about recent novel |
the doctor of Gopher Prairie says to |
his bride, "There! [I meant to have |
you lifted over the threshold.” Which |
shows that the old custom of lifting |
brides over the threshold when they |
first enter their new home still lingers |
among us, as it is, also, a feature of |
rural weddings In England and Scot. |
land. The mixing up in the miuds |
of our remote ancestors of spiritual
and material things caused the thres-
hold to be regarded in a peculiarly
mystic manner.
As its name implies, it prevented the
grain, the body of the corn-spirit, from
sliding out when the chaff flew away
at the threshing time. It was that
part of the entrance to the house
over which all must pass that en-
tered it. Consequently there was a9
constant struggle to facllitate the
entrance of good Influences and Leep
out the spirits of evil by “doctoring”
the threshold. Cauls were buried un-
der thelr neighbor's thresholds, per-
sonal relies calculated to facilitate the
entrance of malign influences. A large
nall was driven into the threshold to
keep death from entering.
On Waipurgis night the German
peasan: still lays flowers and branches
upon his threshold to keep out the
witches; and chips from a threshold
used to be thought a valuable ingredi-
ent In making smoke for the fumiga-
tion of cattle. So rs no one knows
what witches or evil spirits may have
done to tha threshold It Is better that
a bride, a: the critical moment of her
entrance to her new home, should be
lifted over it to avold contagion from
the malign Influences from touching
the possibly-infected door-sill,
(© by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate
mere frivolities, sppealing
baser passions, the redeem
in st all
stage settings.
With their deft
painters seem to
the elevition of the m!
tf the
to the
ing features
alm cases being the
brushes the scenery
be doing
nd
wielders stage pen
Without the exquisite scenes
of our popular plays
become miserable makeshifts,
holding the board
many
indeed
inca
a fort
would
pable of
night.
The fine art of acting is being rel
egated to the past. is a
craving for the gross,
and thumping, rather
fined, cplifting and
legs due to perverted
ings for
ment.
The intermediate colors and
shadings the older school have
given way to higher tones whose In
limits have about been
than for the
ennobling, doubt
sensationalism snd excite
fine
of
Just will
fo
follow
hint
what cannot be
in a vague
ylon wil: some day suddenly topple
over, tumble nolsily at our feet and
leave us babbling In straage tongues
There Is In the human heart an
something
new, and no one apparently knows
what to suggest.
It is just possible that we need
now, more than anything eise, the
upiand solitudes, where we may get
in the pura, clear atmosphere and re
flect awkile without molestation from
the crude scarlet letters and blinding
lights which have warped our judg-
ment and dulled our finer sensiblli
ties,
We nec! these upland solitudes far
more often than we may suspect, for
it Is among them that we gather new
strength for the higher duties of life,
a keener conception of our infirmities,
a deeper realization of our lack of
human kindness and a sickening sense
at the loss of our faith Ir the good,
the clean, the noble and in humanity
itself!
{® by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
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er every mea
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Keep it always
in the house.
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set for Monarch 70 years
ago remains unchanged today.
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