Three friends agreed to name their cars after their favorite Presidents.  The first christened his Packard with a bottle of champagne.
     "I name thee George Washington, first in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen."
     The second broke a bottle of claret on his car, a Cadillac.
     "I name thee Abraham Lincoln, the savior of his country."
     The third knocked the neck off a beer bottle on the radiator of his Ford and drank out of the bottle.
     "I name thee Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Rider."

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     Two brothers bought automobiles and went touring with their families.  One, in a Cadillac, came to grief on the middle of a steep hill because of a break in the gear.  He pulled up to the side of the road and his brother in his Ford went flying past on high, but stopped at the top of the hill and walked back to see if he could help the other.  He asked the trouble with the Cadillac and the brother told him it was a broken cog in second, and then asked the Ford man what was the trouble with his car for he heard such a rattling noise as he went past.
     "Oh, that was only the $1,500 in my pocket that you heard," replied the thrifty Ford owner.

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