The literary digest . erstand. But what happened? They regardedus through their eyeglasses, subjecting usto an intellectual scrutiny. But did theyfeel with us? No. The veteran opera-company member lethis open penknife fall on the desk in frontof him and the blade penetrated for abouttwo inches. The performance fell just like that, hecommented, stuck fast. You see, theBoston audience had taken courses in howto appreciate the opera, but they couldntexpress themselves. When Alfredo sobbedhis soul out over the desertion of Violettathey were as responsive as a carp. Theycould give only a few frozen
The literary digest . erstand. But what happened? They regardedus through their eyeglasses, subjecting usto an intellectual scrutiny. But did theyfeel with us? No. The veteran opera-company member lethis open penknife fall on the desk in frontof him and the blade penetrated for abouttwo inches. The performance fell just like that, hecommented, stuck fast. You see, theBoston audience had taken courses in howto appreciate the opera, but they couldntexpress themselves. When Alfredo sobbedhis soul out over the desertion of Violettathey were as responsive as a carp. Theycould give only a few frozen taps with thetips of their gloves. The tenors began biting their nails andbursting into tears on the least provocation,and the sopranos and contraltos w ere linedup for a go to the finish when somebodythought of sending for Schultz. He arrivedwith the claque, put through one per-formance, woke up Boston, and set thingsstraight again. It is therefore plain that it isnt the The Literary Digest for February 15, 1919 103. His Engineers Staged This Test W HY, said J. M. W. (president of the X Auto Manufacturing Co.) to his engineer, should a car owner puzzle his brains about the patent insides of this, that, and the other battery? Most sensible folks who ride in cars dontknow and they dont want to know whetherbattery plates are made of wrinkled rubberor puckered lead. What they do want to know is that they aregetting battery service from the best batterymade—from a battery that can and actuallyhas won a side-by-side test, designed to demon-strate beyond question which one carries themost power and lives the longest life. Such being the case, it is up to you and me to makethe test that will settle the question. Taking the best two of six batteries submitted—Prest-O-Lite and a competitor of equal capacity—theengineer placed both together, with a fine new stiffeight-cylinder engine, in the coldest room of a big coldstorage plant. There he left the whole exhibit, batteries and en
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