Your Garage 



Chas. R. W. Edgcumbe 



This country of ours is fast approaching the day when most families 

 will be the more or less proud possessors of a motor car of some kind. 

 When one stops to consider that the output of one factory alone during 

 the past twelve months was more than five hundred thousand cars, this 

 statement can be readily believed. There is today in the United States 

 one pleasure car for every sixth family, while even six years ago there 

 was not one car for every fiftieth family. 



Today the motor car is America's biggest institution, and is still 

 growing by leaps and bounds. It has passed through its infancy and is 

 now only in its early youth. In its infancy it had a very hard time 

 of it. After birth, its life was despaired of, it contracted every ailment 

 that machinery is heir to, but it survived them all and now has a most 

 vigorous and lusty constitution. 



I claim that everyone should own an automobile of some sort. The 

 automobile in the summer months, in fact, practically the whole year 

 round except in the very cold weather, in a large measure takes the 

 place of the living room of your home. It takes you and your family 

 out into the open air, which means greater health. It pays for itself, 

 both in first cost and future upkeep expense, in greater pleasure and 

 smaller doctor bills. Merely as a means of rapid transit from one place 

 to another, its place will never be usurped unless it be by the complete 

 mastery of the air. True the Air Age is fast approaching, but the Motor 

 Age is here and is here to stay. Everyone is afflicted with the disease 

 of motoritis. This used to be the malady of the rich, but the disease is 

 so infectious that it has taken hold of us all and those who have it not 

 are in the hopeless minority. 



Housing the Motor Car. 



Second only in importance to the building of your home is the 

 building of your garage. Time was and not so very far distant at 

 that when anything that had four walls and a roof to span them was 

 considered sufficient for the average car. Today that is all changed as 

 it should be, since it is an established fact that the better you treat ma- 

 chinery, whether it be farm machinery or automobile machinery, the 

 better it will treat you. 



Adequate housing for the car you now own, or hope to own in the 

 future, is an absolute essential. Most people are under the impression 



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