The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1915, Page 5

ee What You Want to Know About Your Auto and How To Drive It and Keep It Bibere Aivive How to Keop Autemobtice Running Smoothly aud the Best Way te Remedy Machine Troublee— Healtic Suggestions and Pleasure Routes fer Evening Werld Readers. By GEORGE 8. ROBERTSON. / Tie 18 @ growing tendency of late for the buyers of motor cars to show preference to the convertible type of closed body. Heretofore @ closed body was bought for town purposes only and was consid- ered heavy apd clumsy for touring purposes. Recently sentiment has changed in this respect and the body makers have been quick to take ad- vantage of thig fact. As @ result the up-to-date body for ail purposes now has a standing top with windows which can be raised or lowered at will, When closed it makes an ideal cold weather car and when open its use increases the pleasure of sum- mer touring. The heat and the glare of the sun are eliminated and its free- dom from dust and dirt more than makes up for the slight increase in GEORGE H: ROBERTSON ‘He original cost of the body. It is reasonable to expect the use of this style of body will become universal in the near future. It seems Tidiculous to picture a railroad coach or a street car without a permanent Protection from the elements. car to be unprotected from the eun or rain than it is for the railroad coach or sreet car. Motorists ride for comfort and they are gradually finding that real com- fort and the convertible body are synonyms, Autemottie Battor: ———_—_————_ T have two motor trucks of the same samme engine, magneto, car- The horse power is rated the same, One truck is eight- en months in use and the other five months, The older truck is more powerful under load on up grade and the new truck will hardly pull a load up the slightest grade without knock- matter how hot she Is with spark re- tarded or advanced gas retarded she will not start on the magneto, Can you advise me what to do? WILLIAM HARTWIG. My advice to you would be to.re- turn the car to the man who over hauled the motor and demand that ing. I have consulted t nantuac-|remedy the trouble, which prob- turers and they cannot account for|ably due to poor workmanship. the diff In power, Can you Automobile WAitor: Is there any kind of solder that will good Job on aluminum where ti work is subjected to a great “ain? GEORGE LARKIN. There is an aluminum solder called Superior which is very good for breaks, Automobile Féiter: I have a one-cylinder 11-3 horse- power Victor motor, When I give tho flywheel a turn it makes ten revolutions, then the cylinder gets dry and stiff and stops. I have to put @ great quantity of lubricating ofl and bout ten drops of gasoline before I an start it again, Then it gete dry much thicker, only making six revo- lvtions, and the engine stops on the up stroke of the piston. The feed cup is continually feeding ofl to the cyl- inder and the curbureter feeds con- tinually, I have tested my spark tell me why the older truck is super- lor to the new one for engine power? The adjustments of the valves, ig- nition and carbureter on both motors | m that the pistons, ring: good condition, Would the timing of tho vatves be and the ignition correctly set. which the carbureter should be « justed to suit the heavy pull of the motor. Automobile Ei Can a y itor ung man seventeen years of age be the owner of a commercial car? If so, can he run it alone? Ca: same age, run a com. asure car if the owner is with him and can he run his father’s car unaccompanied? What motorcycie is the best for general use, ouring, &¢.? ca L. P, ROSENTHAL JR. The law requires ‘hae the owner of a plug, coil and twelve dry batteries and find them all right. will be appreciated, JAMES BYRNE. Your advice Ri fa motor vehicle bi eighteen | piston and th years of a that prob: if you puro’ ly with either the or the cylinder. Automobile Editor Is tt better to put alcohol or kero- sene in the pet cock of the motor when the car is going to lay tdle in the garage for a day or two? J.J. B, The use of kerosene in the manner you describe is good if not done too may operate a motor vi owner is with you, prov rot an employee or a pe ie tho vehicle for hire. The owner must eocompany any unlicensi driver, as there must be some ona li- censed by the State in the car at all times. Regarding the motorcycles | often. This pr: tend to keep you mentioned, would say that it is|the carbon loose on the bead of the merely a personal choice, as both are | piston, thus helping to keep the motor good, |clean and free from deposits, Automobile Batter | Automobile Editor T have a 1913 Ford which has gas! Where can I get new parts for ob- headlights. Will you inform me how |golete cars? E.AG, to the motor for the Oe hatte on, the head lamps?! Would suggest that you write to Wwhere can I buy the reflectors to|the Puritan Machine Company of Detroit, Mich., who handle parte for hem in the gas head lamps? | Macve seen theso in many Fords, nearly all this sort of cars. F. Ts | Automobile Editor agest that you secure the| What 1s the cause of popping in reflec necessary connect the carbureter? A car is geared for this change over from @ good|41-10 to 1. Does that mean the supply house which specializes in| counter shaft turns four times to one turn of the main shaft, &c.? I have heard of an ol! that sells for 90 cents per galldén and does not carbonize, Is this right? Does the Knight motor d accessories. You can secure, ‘me store, a diagram of the wir- ing showing how to make the proper connections. A diagram will explain more than a written explanation, have to be cleaned of carbon? R.A. Artomobile Falter: |_,Backfiring is caused by various 1 would like to heat my garage with |conditions, If the valves are no ‘an ofl stove encased in fine mesh | properly, if the ignition is not ‘auze, somewhat after the style of ait should be or the mixture is avy mine lamp. Do you consider | popping in the carbureter will be t this safe and of what material is the /reault, If a car is geared 4 to 1 th wuz made of; also where it can be|driving shaft revolves four purchased” PAUL H. z the axle revolves once. Unless this work is carefully done | ake f jot be safe to u is lamp it men The gauze of brass | inated, not only ca ir d'very ine. mesh and can be secured | poor oil, but also by a poor mixture ‘any good hardware supply store, |or poor grade of gasoline, Any type any good hardware supply store, | of gasoline motor will oarbonize more Automobile Editor or less. I have a 1912 Ford car. Recently | Automobile Fattor have had the car overhauled and all} Would an upright elevating gear jew parts, with the exception of crank| bracket for the timer on a Ford car ehatl, shaft mggneto and transmis-|be of any benefit? Would a New flun, have been put in. Tcannot start|York unit coil be a better purchase tht on the magneto, “I have to|than a good Master Vibrator? © ‘batteries and then switch over| ‘A. READ, ‘he magneto, which makes the car! The bracket for the timer you men- My right, ‘When the car stands|tion has been installed on numereue feu about two hours T cannot start! Ford cars to. my knowledge and good sritct apark from the batteries unlers| service is obtained from. their ‘ui { pull and suck up the raw gas, No|R ng the unit coll and the M, MOTORISTS 4 the ion of personal preference. Both are good and both do the work re- quired of them. car it pulls heavy and the clutch slips out of high. I have Champion spark plugs and they leak ound the America’s f Robertson, PROBLEMS SOLVED st « wc sat omy | porcelains, Aro the mud apd me hains very hard on the tires when oe al the roads are dry and 1s thore any Day and Exe anger about grinding out the gears struction a A by running with only one tire on the Special Classes for Ladies | rear wheels? i Call or write for booklet, The high open’ adjustment needs Stewart Auto School — teking, up. Unless thie is set up properly the high speed will throw 22h WPST 57TH STREET (at Broadway) | out when aubjected to a heavy load, “ne | Regarding the apark plug poroe! loose would suagee that Rightoned so that they are ly The motor will of the undue amount Mon desiring to be trained ae Motor Truck Drivers ereding at the West sunday ae \TOMOBILE SCHOOL, in only. cau th i The wi eame on dry roads as n d on tires is the on wet, Still there is no more reason for the motor) into” the cylinders | or as Chauffeurs A Use two’ chains sealing with, Mr. of one THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1915. | Opera Once More At the Manhattan By Campanini By Sylvester Rawling. ' PERATIC circles were In a bub- | ble of gossip last night over tho report that Cleofonte Campanini |'s to bring his Chicago Opera Com- |pany to the Manhattan Opera House on Jan. 24 for an engagement of two wooks. It is understood that If the venture is successful the season will be prolonged for several weeks. Mr. Hammerstein is said to have volun- |teered his private support of the en- |terprise and to have declared that jwhen he resumes the active manage- |ment of the Manhattan, which ho jowns, next September, he will wel- come eagerly operatic organizations |such as Mr. Campanini’s to his hous, The Court of Appeals has not yet passed upon the Metropolitan Opera {Company's case against Mr, Hammer- stein, Is the former opera war to be revived? Another interesting thing ig that Serge de Diaghileff’s Ballet Russe begins a two weeks’ engage- ment at the Century Theatre on Jan. 1%, Lively weeks these promise to be! Baint-Saens's “Bamson et Dalila” was repeated at the Motropolitan Opera House last night, with Caruso, |Margarcte Matzenauer, Amato, Ro- i thier and Carl Schlegel in the princi- pal characters, Miss Gall leading ‘the ballet and Mr. Polacco conduct ing. It was the best performance since the opera was revived this sea- son, Incidentally, Mr. Caruso began the Christmas celebration in the house by presenting to the members of the staff gold coins bearing, on one side, a bust of himself, and dn the other Euterpe with @ lyre. “prince Igor,” Alexander P. Boro- |din’s Russian opera, announced for last | season but postponed, is to get its first performance in America at the Metro- politan Opera House next Thursday night. The third act holds a spec- tacular Tartar ballet. Mr, Gattt- Cesazza has provided a sumptuous setting and the opera has been dili- gently rehearsed by Mr. Polacco, In tho cast will appear Frances Alda, Amato, Botta and Didur. The bills for the reat of the week are “Marta” on Monday, “Die Walkuere” on Wednesday arsifal” on Friday af- ternoon, "Madama Butterfly” on Fri- day ning, “The Masked Ball” for the New Year's matinee and “La Bo- heme,” the first of a dozen Saturday night popular subscription perform- ances, on New Year's night. Fritz Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, will play at Sunday night's popular con- cert, ci Kitty Cheatham will give her first annual holiday recital, always a do- light to mustc lovers, at the Lyceum Theatre on Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock precisely, Besides her own arrangement of children’s songs from Pierne’s “Children at Bethlehem” she will sing children’s songs by Max Reger and Schumann, new songs by John Alden Carpenter and William Willeke, a group of folk songs from France, Holland, Russia, Japan, Eng- land and Scotland, and old negro songs harmonized by H. T. Burleigh. Flora MacDonald will be the accom- panist. Anna Paviowa and her associate artista of the Boston Grand Opera Company will join with Sousa and his band in providing a Christmas festi- val at the Hippodrome on Sunday night, Mile. Paviowa will appear In Taohaikowaxy’ “Pasdes and in Glazounow's “Bacch- The artista will include Ta- Miura, the little Japanese donna, her first concert ap- and Riccardo Martin, prima pearance, formerly of the Metropoiltan Opera Company. Cecil Burletgh, composer-violinist of the University of Montana, will give a recital of his own compositions at the MacDowell Club on Tuesday evening. Clarence Mayer of the Wes- leyan College of Music, will be at the piano. “The Divine Birth,” a Christmas cantata, will be given at noon on Tuesday !n St- Paul's Chapel with George Carre, tenor, and R. Norman Jolliffe, bass and Edmund Jaques, organist-choirmaster. Ruth 8S}. Denis, the Oriental dancer, who has not appeared here for six years, will give four special matinees next week at the Hudson Theatre, ap- pearing on Monday, Tuesday, Thurs- day and Friday, During her absence Miss St. Dents has created many new dances which she will present. One of the features will be "The Spirit of the Sea," another “The Peacock and Garden of Kama," arranged from Lawrence Hope's Indian poems, “SWELL FEED, BIGSHOW,”’ FOR NEWSBOYS’ XMAS “Skinny” Looks Forward to 5 o'Clock Turkey Dinner at the Home To-Morrow. “Skinuy" Humphries, who sells papers wherever he may happen to find a convenient corner, approached Louts Harris, who has a stand oppo- site the old Sun butlding, to-day and said: “Say, Louts, where is you goin’ to have your Christmas dinner?” “Home, of course,” replied Louis, who is a sort of J, P, Morgan among the newspaper sellers, ‘re a big guy, eh?” sald But say——I got you natled mast on Christmas dinner I got a card what lets me stuff. have my feed at the Newsboys’ Home to-morrow afternoon, Regular swell dinner hour, too, Five o'clock Whaddya think they get? Maryland Turkey, Virginia ham, Kalamazoo celery, mince pie, Neapolitan ice cream—pretty soft, huh? “And say! they got a show after the feed. Parl Carroll what writes songs, Jess Greer and a couple of tor guys named George Taylor and edward Mulligan, Will I be there Like a duck in @ pond!" And t “Skinny” began yelling war news a the crowds on their way home with Christmas boxes and the “Peace on Reducing 210-Pound Woman’s Weight By Proper Diet and Scientific Exercise New Exercises Introduced During Mrs. A. St. James’s Third Week as Miss Furlong’s Pupil Reduce Superfluous Abdomen, Waistline and Shoulder Flesh. SQUAT TINGS WITH YVAN By Pauline Furlong. At the end of the third week with | my pupil, Mrs. A. St. James, I find j her still gradually losing weight and | —= =< retaining her wonderful health and high spirits. She has mas- tered all of the various exercises which I have taught her, with the exception of the trunk raising and side liver squeeze, both of] SAS PYNSHINe which T have decided to eliminate from her lessons until next week. My puptl continues with the obes- ity diet and at least one full hour of exercises each day, this, of course, including walking and deep breath- PENDS PAS) DIAGRAMS OF THIS WEEK'S EXERCISES. sing muscles of the neck and] SQUATTING. the Jaws. The cold alum solution is ap-| meat piled immediately after these exer-! at te cires, mo To reduce thi Hold the wand in th as shown, and squat east ton tines, After practised you waist right and rive you are may do the ing. Teal etre Dalal ots vquatting: ses without using the Y FEAdCTS | ward as a balan We have practised some bas|who are following the course no-| SIDE BODY BENDING. Reduces ae atin fon during the Iastiticed the wonderful change in tho| the abdomen and waist line, Bend to week to help remove the fat from|eizg and a the ¢ side and touch the floor - Ppearance of my pupil! with the finger tips, keeping the knee tho shoulder blades, and Mrs. St.!when they saw her picture on Mon-| rigid and the lett hate on the lett James seems to take great delight in these. The body bending exer- day last, and I hope to have even a Bip better one for you next Monday and| fy left nd on the right Repeat t with the right hi As a support cises are practised each day with the} aiso @ noticeable reduction in her| My pupil's dict continues along the wand, but my pupil cannot touch the! measurements, game non-fattening menu and. she floor while keeping her knees rigid, finds many deliclous and nourishing | THE EXERCISES, Tam giving you a description of the bag punching exercises which my pupil practised last week. BAG PUNCHING. To reduce the fat from the shoulder blades: Hit the bag with first the closed fist and then with the elbow and alternate with each arm. — Hit the bag with first one fist and then the other, very rapidly, This ts called the tattoo movement, Just yet. She also uses the wand as) a support when practising the sqnat- ting exercises, which are so {mpor- tant in alding in the reduction of the high abdomen. To-day my pupil nearly touched the floor with her finger tips at the right side, keeping the knees rigi4 and the left hand on the hip. A little later I hope to have her master this dificult exercise with the left arm and hand stretched out on a level with the right one. To perform this exercise, which reduces the watst line in a remarkably short time, tho two arms should form a perfectly) straight line, which stretches the DOUBLE FUNERAL FOR muscles of the stomach and those DEVOTED OLD COUPLE) PPe’s Cold Compound containing starches, fats and sweets The hot lemon water and vichy and Kissengen waters are also taken each | r uke, ome accustomed, day for sevorad dishes to choose from, without vects | to which she has be are enjoyed every hours, Monday | will report the prog: Mrs. St. James has made during three week: her, giving a table o exercises, in order to tighten the loone skin on the chin and build up is| discharge or nose running, relieves sick headache, dullness, feverishness, sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness, Don't stay stuffed up! Quit blowing and snuffling! your throbb head! N such prompt relief as “Pape'’s Cold Com- pound,” which costs only 25 cents at any drug store, It acts without assistance, tastes nice, Be at the waist line, Mrs. St. James continues with the head and neck the Surest, Quickest Relief Known—It’s Fine! Watchman Kass Laid in Grave With Blind Wife Who Hoped A dose taken every two hours until They'd Die Together |three doses are taken will end grippe ‘The river-front lost one of ita char-| misery and break Gp 8 covers cold, either acters to-day and the big city one | in mm pest hee ony ot limbs. ai of | promptly opens clogged up nostrils of its tenderest and most inseparable | .14 sir passages in the head, stops nasty old couples when Michael Kass, sey- enty-five years old, and his wife, Sarah, who had come to the good age of sixty-eight, were buried to- gether from St. Alphonsus’ Church, on West Broadway. They died with-| in aix days of each other and will be| laid in the same grave. Kass was for nearly forty years a watchman for the Old Dominion | Steamship Company around its pier, at the foot of North Moore Street. Four years ago the company pen- sioned him. Kass went home and | climed the rickety stairs at No. 259) West Street with only one thing to| worry him and that was the cata-| racts forming over the eyes of his} wife. Even with the blindness, however, life was not so bad, Kass would walk two blocks for his pension every month, and there were still the steve- dores to joke with and new boys up the street who want to know about Relief comes instantly, getting “Pape's Cold Compound if you want to stop your cold quickly Advt Saint Nick Flees to the U. S$. AL! ¥ rer ¢ ‘The midnight sun was shining way up North one Christmas Eve fishing, besides which Joseph and When from his shop came Santa Claus and packed his sled to leave Mary, the two grown-up children, Upon his yearly mission to make glad the heurts of me 0 4 helped to make ; Taek doy He de the tase CF eck old Balnt Nick thent ftten came in and And oh, what joy lit up the face of good old Suint Nick ther things pleasant “L hope, anyway,” said Mra. Kass,| But what a bitter sorrow was tn store for Santa Claus, feoling for her husband's hand, “that| For soon he way to seo what comes from breaking mature laws on We KO, we'll go together.” | ut, as it was, ho cracked his whip and to the southward sped wee ee hat veald Kass, ‘Ten| With drum and doll und horn and ball and book and guine and sled daye ago Mrs, Kass was seized with With Northern seas left far behind he soon reached Europe's ahr double pneumonia, Last Monday she died, Kass hadn't much to say as he started out for his pension in the big snow storm, but within a few ure he, too, who had weathered the storms on the pler for forty ride in days of yor tight that a grim proce " stated eitles passed 1 No Christmas bells were ringing—no laughter sounded ther He heard the boom of filed the air. The rattle of the m shrieks of pain years, developed pneumonia, They re dios filled dee nches and were scattered on the pla were to have buried Mrs, Kass yes- Dead bod a Ghep tre f ree ee ’ terday, but Kass was too ill, Before Whole cities lay in ashes; great cathedrals had been razed night come Kass was dead too. aad Explosion at Da Pont Mil, Where happy folks once gathered mur Scarce a chimney now was stan: The sight that was presented lo ux howitzers now blazed ed wel “ys Santa bad H the world ike h | | | WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. —A Choked with Indeer to th plant of the du Pont Powder Com- | pany, containing several hundred pounds of black powder, exploded yes. terday afternoon, wrecking the bulld ing. 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Wheels of industry were turning. & Harinonized with peaceful hamlets and with many « h Working men were trudging homeward through the er For the little ones awaiting for the Christma: v Veet fleld wowith glad surprt “lucky ‘This is like old times,” erled Santa Live in prosperous America f @ sea of who ¢ ‘ople wha At hould com: the s here should by those who cone happ: ‘Tho: Bo the good Saint filled the stockings of the lowly and the high ‘And those heard who stopped to listen ns he paused to say goodby Pleas you one and all Kood people, you will pre \ Day by day what World Ads, tell you of the bert MILD TAMPA () ciGar wonderful sensation, that gives to all, and the words “get the sensation,” is the slogan of a nation, which in both rhyme and reason have the call. ALL SHAPES Sold everywhere Millions Thankfully Praise Carter’s Little Liver Pills stomach, perfect pe ive ae pon ag etny bans belong to all who are wise enough to is. 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