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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 26 Sep 1912, p. 4

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PlWlililiiii Th^ir line of Slang Has Been Copied - Fro m Other Me- chanics and They Have Few Original Phrases. -•-----------------------------*â€"- » WORDS ARE CLEVER W, Any Bew bualneaa or amuaement brings *wlth it its own line of slang phrases, but although automobiling Is hardly a brand new thing, the de- velopment oi racy and original phrases in it has been slow. Per- haps because the chauffeur, who ought to be ttaponaible for the growth of motor slang; contents himself with using phrases that be- long to other crafts, there'la no lengthy glossary of motor car phrases. .ȣ. When the chsjtffeur says, "step on her tail," he i|£ana i;io> take it on the loop," whiofc^ofi course is to "give her the Juice/* "give her the gun," or In- other words, to make the car bound over the road. Occa- sionally he varies these by telling that he "gate her a kick," the gen- eral Idea being that he made use of the accelerator in order to hurry the car along. If be says he "tickled the^ motor," he does not necessarily *mean that be went around*ith m feather trying to ex cit* the risibilities of any part of the! machinery, but simply that he "jiggled" a part of the carburetor in order to get a little flow of gas into the. cylinders prejaraiory to "spin- ning; her." c By "spinning" of course, he meant th4 operation of fra|»kfng the jnotor, Th# chaun*tttr Wver *<©^iriks". a mo- tori He «Oa»r "*ftr*» her pve*," or "atfns her." With the growing use of the self-starter or self-cranking de- vices ie will probably have to adopt a new system of describing this oper- ation. Rarely a Machine. _ automobile, by the way, Is rare- ly |k ear or a machine, but usually a "bant" "Boat," however, is not so recent or in so good form as "boiler." is not heritage necessarily, thejdays of steaito cars, but it wfclf to a*few* Ot them whicb overheated. A chauffeur does speak of the fuel he uses as >Hne orâ€"as some folks who are ^wei^ acquainted with auto- „__,____ aay-^-"oiL". The stuff he us|l% always "gas,"* so that he has distinctive phrase for, acetylene, cb is used in some hejadlignting â- ^ ayptefiia. When a chauffeur says "oil be means lubricating oil, â- "Jrhjf chauffeur ha* h4* own set of dislikes, which generally begins with ""' employer and includes his car and the *apt>ointm4nts on it How- eMpr, in the presence of other chauf- \ng, and of course if it happens ar> fairly large sised machine, scribes anything else smaller it as a "road louse."* That Is the* phrase for a taxicab. Urs) are some small touring cars ichj scuttle about the roads to UcS this name always is applied. A Bunch of Junk. HaW is-undoubtedly i'^ffi&PBHPt phra*e~for Ge- iosj' whfct he did not like, ips because he could not get his issfin ifcpm .the? dealer for to- i nisletaployet io buy one. It be* u^o^tood that^'bunch of is- BOt:an enUrely jsevere con* iliJfiiiU'in because' that phrase does ^yefe in the last particular ap* It must be knows that the teurr no matter how little his <ir mechanical experience, i» a, better designer than any â-  'man, no matter how long the may have been in the busi- k,^Uihi^%r V-;: . ,m battery Is weak, the proper is to "put her on the wWch is a more or ieaa logical r^^^MM*. If ^th* .......MMMM.....<.....^ »♦♦♦♦♦ iii Gross Point •••••.....*1 A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Meier last Tuesday. Mr. Michael Balmes of Charles street is seriously ill with heart trouble. Mr. Paul Naneig stepped onto a rusty nail last Saturday and severely injured himself. Mr. Ben Meier of Meier Bros.' Ice company broke a bone in his right wrtst last week by overlifting. The Rev. John Ott left last Sunday for La Crosse, Wis., where he will spend a week's vacation with his par- ents." The Rev. Wm. Netstrae-ter and Very Rev. E. J. Vattman went to Naperville, 111., last Tuesday to be present at the silver Jubilee celebration of Father Schuette. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Doetsch left last Tuesday for their home in Califor- nia after visiting here seven weeks. They will atop over in Denver on their way home. The prise winnera of the Ladies' Card club which was entertained by Mra. tlenry Hoth last Thursday were Mrs. Paul Bleser, first prise and Mrs. John J. Huerter, second prize. Mr. Gangolf Sesterheln returned from Peoria, 111., last Saturday, where he attended the convention as a dele- gate of the Highway Commissioners' association of the state of Illinois. Master Peter Thalmann entered the employ of an Bvanston paper last Mon- day. Mr. Max Engels is able to get around again after a two weeks' ill- ness. A surprise party was given last Sat- urday evening in honor of the six- teenth birthday anniversary of Mas- ter Harold.Rink at the residence of his parents. Twenty boys and girls were present, among them Miss Helen Sen ley er and Clarence Herdrfck of Chicago. - Mr. Wm. Thalmann returned Sun- day night from Saskatchewan, Can- ada, where he spent two weeks shoot- ing ducks. He says they are so nu- merous there that you could kill them with a club. He also shot two wild turkeys and five pelicans, which meas- ured eight feet from tip to tp. Six young men from Gross Point had a narrow escape from serious in- jury last Sunday. They were on their way home in a taxicab, four miles west of here at 11 o'clock at night when the taxi smashed into buggy which was coming towards them with- out a light. It broke the shafts off the buggy and the horse ran away, but the driver was uninjured. The taxi fell over on its aide in the ditch, but the occupants got away with a few scratches. complement of cylinders he describes it "as hitting on three," or "two," as the case may be. Sometimes be may be "hitting only on one," but that condition can't keep up for long. The car which is normally equipped with but one cylinder, of which there are so few nowadays, was long ago christened the "one lunger." When the car fails to yield its full power or stops it "dies." Similarly to stall a motor is to "kill if But in the main the slang of the chauffeur is the slang of the street. He is not the Inventive genius to build up new sets of phrases for de- scribing things and in a few re- spects where operations are peculiar- ly those of self-propelling motor vehicles Jpe is apt to borrow from semi-technical language and let it go at that. ABANDONS FAMILY; HUSBAND ARRESTED well sermon next Sunday evening at 7:45 o'clock. Rev. O. L. Hansen will be his successor. NEW8 WANT ADS BRING RE8ULT8 â-  i'--,\KftiCi'jiW »«rr-VT A-r;TVT kit^Mi THIS SALE FOR StPTEMB Native Siaoin Steak, lb Native R/md Steak, lb.. f»ancy Shoulder Steak, 1 ^Rib Roast Beef, 1 Suga/ Cured Bacon, lb. Cream City Hams, lb... Leg of Veal Roast, lb. .^ Pork Shoulder Roast, any s Fancy Shoul melesa lb. ... Snowball SVnenbig, Little Pig Hams, ^______ Fine Breakfas^ia^slfJTreach 10o Strictly FJRsaHSgs, doa......30q Best Country Rblla, lb... f,..20o Kidney Veal Roaat, lb____...18c t â- 'ilea lb, Hind Quarter Spring Lamb, We handle all kinds of Sausage. FRESH DRESSED SMUNC CHICKENS, »>...,«..............aOc Ptltce Casb Mtat Market, 1559 ShsrmwATS., EvustOB, ID. *,y 0*>PO*fTl THEATRE A I! ffj w M. GLASS «F i/ GLAS Ladies' T 3952-04 Sheridan 8door.No.of "I/'Sta. Tal Lak It affords as much P DmIcm. Material* and Stykw that will ba fwhionabfc for the oomfa* Pall and Winter hum af 1912-13. and that w ara naw follrprajtarad to a*acnt» crdan Us Ladlaa' TaOor>mada Garmonta of orsrir daacrlptfcm. Richard Marquardt of Evanston was arrested last evening on a warrant sworn out by Miss Edith S. Reider, superintendent of the Central Association of Bvanston Charities, who charges him with abandoning his wite and two children. Marquardt is alleged to bare left his wife and chil- dren June 10." fhe^s^more than likely to de- * thew particular ' "boat" he is CHANGE8 PULPITS. Rev. H. P. Bergh, pastor of the Nor- wegian-Danish M. £1 church of Evans- ton, is back from his conference in Omaha, Neb., where Bishop Edward H. Hughes appointed him pastor of the Bethany church on North Albany street, near IrvingVPark boulevard, Chicago. He has been here three suc- cessful years (his second term in Evanston), and will preach his^fare- 7 sp* nooa MASO We orenotja made to der hou&mff make YOU a mail or- YOU to order tit its at $35 normal i â- â- â- -^â- i^-:^^^^-"'^ We make 5uita at much higher prices, but for $35.00, we will make you a Suit that for-STYLE. FIT and FAB- RIC cannot be excelled at the price. We make Suits for the most exclusive women in Chicago. We would 4» pleased to have rou pay tn a vi*tf attAloek over our samples and (the first authemtic FaU fashion plates just arrived from abroad. ^ , ^ $. A.NAHINa Mgr. 1st. 20 Years â- y in products ally wide range of c from makes a satis- Nowhere else can you comprehensive an exhibit of Things Electrical for the home. Electric Flat Irons, Coffee Percolators, Toasters, Water Heaters, Grills, Curling Irons, Disc Stovesâ€"these are only a few suggestions from the hundreds of Electrical Appliances shown. The prices, quality considered, are generally lower than elseu here. When next jrou are in Chicago he sore to visit Electric Shop. Electric Shop-Chicago Jackson Boulevard at Michigan Avenue V/avDi. "^iloii&r-.'iiiV: •lt»f sa---tis3;-. â- â- â- â- â- '.â- 42^ ;<S8 .-.â- â€¢' â- - - -\-\-~^ .â€" ^^^^^^^^MM^mi^iM

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