By the electric model is meant a machine the lighting outfit of which, together with the hom, is run by electricity, generated' by the engine on the road and kept steady by a storage battery or eccunmator. It is admittedly the last_word in elegance and convenience—simply turn on a switch end there is the best light available—but for the interior it should Lever be given a serious thought, loc 2 number of reasons.
In the first place the battery requires constant and expert care. Before the writer is an instruction book open at the place where the cere of the storage battery is taken up. One's first impression is of the vast difference in the reading of the advertisement that sells the machine and. these plain-spoken directions that the buyer gets only after the.machine is his, The pages fairly bristle with warnings of ell kinds. By actual count there are 11 specific "don't" and 10 other "imperative's"—"be sure's," ete. enough to terrify the expert machinist, much more the novice who cannot even identify the parts spoken of. Before buy-j ing an electric model it would be wise thing to insist on getting a full list of instructions and if the purchaser then feels competent. go ahead, my blessing upon him!
Secondly the storage battery is almost sure to reach its destination in bad shape, by reason of the journey. For part of the way out ib is likely to be in an inverted position and the jars of the road in such case are almost sure' to Fut it out of commission.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.