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Show Are Women Motorists II 1 "Road Hogs?" I THH automobile "Road Hog" is III ill J -held responsible for many of iij 131 the fatnl accidents which con Ski rill tinue to mark this form of loco-mo- fiw mil tlon. But it has remained for an fifij ff English writer to declare that woman. Ml fldl . are the worst offenders in this way, ljy j j "The man road-hog is going, but a lil II far worse terror is taking his place Ifjl !i( the woman road-hog. I do not re- Bm P- member meeting In the course of llfill fi some fifteen years' driving anything jig I so dangerous as this new -pest For fiff(iP!i she is nothlnff else. There is a cer- IB! ill ; tain small proportion of womenkind iBll'fl who can drive motor cars. They III ! have mechanical ears and hands, a M sense of machinery, knowledge, self- rjf w 1 confidence, and road sense the I&llflSi qualities, in short, whloh mark tho 1 '; motor driver from the person who M) merely drives a car But the rest Mj llSlii' ought to Ibo forbidden by law to sit . Mn in the driving seat of a motor-car on- 'ilillfhil the pirblic roads. The average j (:(JuSr! woman driver has become a real h L'fjjflf II' menace to our safety. fj Mfjytj!1 "Who does not know her? She Jjltl p; generally drives a two-seated car, in lllr whioh She sits, or rather lies, back jj I wj in the 'attitude of her predecessor, ''firllllr the garage-loafer road-hog. The ''Winlll'' smaller the car the more she tries 'il l lilf'1 to convey an impression of breath- ilffiilr loss speed; and the risks she causes IllllfPi!' to other people are legion. li'i Irlii "They seem to lose all sense of .InM lIllii decency. They run nnuick and turn M yElj' the King's highway Into a path of iui! Nflll peril, no man saying a word. How "IHf fiplf often has a woman been summoned Klijcnli' for reckless driving? The fact is, Ifi kIwI they trade upon their sex. Hideous- iwlllflL ly clothed, with faces set in a 1c f Itlf Medusa-like glare, looking as little) fif as you can conceive like human; II llfirir women, they rush furiously through W Ira i i the country, spurred on by the ad- II 111 II miring moon-calf stares of yokels if'llinll and in the sinful lenienoy of th 3 ilil j rustic police." . 1 1 in |