Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1932, Page 116

22 NDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, ARY 31, 1932—PART EIGHT. MOTORIST OF 30 YEARS AGO FOUND LIFE MOST INTERESTING‘ Irritated Vermont Woman Threw Potatoes | at Horseless Buggy—Frightened Calf Pulled Down Woodpile. . ffamily had a Duryea car, and then, suc- cessively, a Locomobile and a Stanley steamer, all of which actually were driven from the back seat—whence to- ay comes so much superfluous advice to how to operate modern cars. Syd- ney remembers that, as a child, he used to have to be strapped by the st into the front seat of the Stanley steamer, while his father behind him, operated car by tiller e 1902 potato-throwing incident occurred, ‘when the father drove the to Clarendon Springs, Vt., to his brother there. When the senor Knott alighted and knocked at a farmhowsa door to Inquire his way answered, and, automobile until Knott Milady’s Motoring FREDERICK C. BEST SALES BY RUSSELL. THE WORLD'S | i When hubby asks his lambkin if shes | either in a crowded garage or out on | not in a draft and completely comfort- | the street, be sure to have the head- lights tested as there is a good possi- with her. | bility that the lamps will be found out of focus. A car never should be moved by pushing on the lamps or the radia- tor, but in an emergency this point is often overlooked. | The signs distinctly warned against | driving over 15 miles an hour, but she came into the park at 30 and held to | that speed, honking the twin horns like a fireman ‘on a three-alarm blaze. An| No, it elderly pedestrian pointed a finger of scorn as she whizzed by and I found myself jumping back to the grass Three minutes later she came tearing back, having picked up little Oswald ‘ 5 - /i 1 / y 7 able probably he wants to change seats isn't because they use the choke too much that women have more trouble with carben motors than men. It's just the more limited fleld in which the average woman operates her car. The motor of the family car who can't be trusted to come home from | will load up with car uch more school of his own accord “with all these | rapidly than cne that is pushed hard | reckless drivers on the open road. Short runs, fre- quent recrankings and much parking invites a_valve quickly than an; A “horscless r a means of ‘There's good news “for women in the fact that with the new starters you are | not likely to forget to switch off the | ignition at night, since the engine would keep on running, but let's temper | this with the fact that you can run down a good battery by forgetting to Bur DADDY DEAR, YOU SAID YOU WANTED ME TO HAVE NICE THINGS, (SNIF-SNIF-) AND I JUST LOVE THAT Fufiaficos 1 switch off the car’s hot-water heater. PRETTY LAVENDER CABRIOLET! | Incidentally, if you like the ides. mad - if you do not have need for heat ‘while v the car is parked you can have your ' If an er i ; £ D an engine i pped before {t is service man wire the fan of the hea med up, th rils eonsiderabie so that it can be switched on only w! : o vapor in the the ignition 15 on. This prev i v »n of the | fan from operating when the engin i g and invites sticky not running. L. s too long the poor battery has a double dose of difficult c a male do is to One of the FoLLowing THE TREND member of OF COMPLETELY EQUIPPED AND LUXURIOUSLY APPOINTED INTERIORS - WHY NOT INSTALL SOME OF THE AND AFTER SEEING THE SWANKY NEW ABOVE FITTINGS ? R} / - - CARS AT THE AUTO SHOW YOUR 1930 “the 3 Y . MODEL LOOKS _y_ LIKE THIS— | In reaching conclusions about the de- | sirability of mechanical improvements women are handicapped by a limite experience with things automot There was, for instance, the recen of the woman who decided against car with free wheeling bec band said that modern clutches are so easy to operate he could not see w there would be any point in e you are “his looks r the £ but you ready to go off f like the heigk don't know the e away s Fear of Children. recollects, too the \\dl ey fear of some water iven them in | mbers that 1 se simple things, it. now is It's just one of but if you ha the time to tal can tell if the sto ing by the way tk 1 flicker toward will i you brake pec ry village later ca in those days obilist had to be his own Knott ser of the men g du ved Tassact nning for several annual with > motor- would be f "SAy-1 DIDN'T LIKE THAT CRACK YOU MADE ABOUT "RIDE - CONTR man pe’a P< /rh(‘/"7/ Expert :- + "SAY, GET THIS LADY--1T'S HOT, THEN I SAYS To THE SENATOR, LISTEN PAL, THIS Dissip-8 CAN GO FASTER IN REVERSE THAN THAT BIRDCAGE ETc,ETe.! need for using the clutch whe: ing. 1If only she had been able to th back a comparatively few yea days when men were s s just as easy to u e hand crank as to bother with a self-starter! - How old should a woman be to drive Times of Bad a car? At what age sh e asked to let James dg the dri INGENUITY SHARPENED DURING DEPRESSIONS Are Periods ustrial You may say it all depends, and probably does. But one of the ins ance companies which issuc accident policy for 1 CAN DRIVE AS WELL As You ! to automobile 1 the good roads ire Document ative I'll vote i avor of an extension at the upper end One of the best nd safest women I have ever driven behind is well over the 60 mark. m and of these two a is by far the rarer. AUTO MADE SAFER APt BY SPEED CAPABILITY Zini. ceoee ot nn, 25 ruggedness, stam That a Cnr Can Make 100 Miles Per Hour Is Not the piece of machinery Point. = s of machine 3 hought that they for performance capabilitics in_an | @ % 50 i to happen. Each | chal looks 2 fact t € te an effective fac- | driver feels that he is alone on the dej is ! 5 inning 100 mile: road and need not worry about the Cars * | Researcl | e | other fellow. It is a dangerous b s which | at best. Better rem 3 who plan about it when one or f is driving the car Sy ning bridge party. an hour in excess .mn\\ POLICEMAN LOOKS AT SPEED VIOLATIONS :: Matter of Interest Described in Traffic Officers’ Train- ing Manual. d for on of the father befo record—sc careless operators never has bee or other viola laws, and his as flaw thing for the more today to think about In a spirit of penned a new prov claring “the later greater the speed.” lights are either set at snapped out altogetr Collisions a vers ot 65 miles hour a'\e* Dusters and Goggles t, without st Mention of th so essential to wotor cycle officer ns of the motorist a bac 5 i How the home are a S ACKelE speed volatl des were attached in up- restingly revealed in automobiles are connection with to speed One 1 speed law, permitting st to exceed the limit if he e is doing so safely. 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