Show most extravagant machine ever devised for the pleasure of man ry hy WILLIAM ASHDOWN in atlantic monthly debt debt debt for a costly article that depreciates very rapidly and lias has art an appe appetite tiie for moncy to be sure tho the money goes out in small email lots but tile tiie toll is large if it be reckoned for a year and this the average man has not the courage to face or facing it lie he has not the courage to quit ile he must keep his car the avalanche of automobile owners is is not a good omen it signifies that the people are living either up to their means or beyond them that tho old margin of safety no longer obtains that the expense account must constantly increase tho the race to outdo the other fellow is a mad race indeed the case with which a car can be purchased on the time payment plan is fill all too easy a road to ruin the habit babit oi of thrift can never be acquired through so wasteful a medium a as s an automobile instead the habit of spending must be acquired qui red for with the constant demand for fuel oil and repairs to together 0 ether with the heavy beavy depreciation the automobile stands unique as the most extravagant piece of machinery ever ever devised for the pleasure of man |