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Show GOOD AUTO DRIVING A STATE OF MIND Practice Will Overcome Fear of Being ; Afraid, Says a Woman Pilot. A 6 has been said about worry that most of one's troubles never happen so the fear that a. woman has in driving a car is not so much that as it is the fear of being afraid. At least that -is the opinion of a well-known woman motorist.- "From my own experience and the experience ex-perience of other women to whom I have talked about the subject, T believe the most difficult thing a woman has to overcome in learning to drive a car is not to be afraid of being afraid," says an expert woman driver. "Probably this sounds a little complicated, and an easier way to say it would be that women as a whole, f believe, lack confidence in themselves to handle the unexpected, should the unexpected occur. "A lot has been said about driving. Much advice has been offered as to what to do and what not to do. T believe that good driving is simply a state of mind, and that as soon as anyone discovers j how easy it is to handle a car and how near an impossibility it is for an emergency emer-gency to arise that cannot be met with little effort, when the simple mechanism of the modern car is mastered, she has lea rned about all there is to know in order to drive a car. "Of course, one might know what to do under practically all conditions, and still not do it. Here is where lots of women fail as good drivers: their fear of doing the wrong thing is so great that they do nothing at all. "I have yet to see any woman who has not been materially benefited by driving. The fresh air, the co-ordina- tion of eye, mind and muscle, the exhilaration ex-hilaration of feeling that you are mas- : ter of the powerful and yet tractable motor, and that it will answer your ev- 1 ery whim, cannot help but have a beneficial bene-ficial effect on the nerves." |