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Show TEACHING Ei WIFE j TO DRIVE THE GAR ! . i ! ' Simple and Effective For- ; mula Explained; Guaranteed Guaran-teed to Produce Results. i i ! DON'T PASS THE BUCK Avoid Complications; Make Her Think You Are Real Motor "Wizz." The war, the meeting: of the automobile automo-bile owners last week to protest agtiinst the proposed city tax on motor cars, the fact that apring may arrive very soon all these momentous things make tt clearly clear-ly the duty of every man who owns an automobile to teach his wife to drive- If he doesn't, some other man may, arid. In this event, Mrs. "Wife will forever and eternally have it on Mr. Husband so long: as they own a car and the powers that be are not allowed to tax It clear off the highways. Get that last statement? Don't forgot it, either. If they don't levy a tax on your ca r so big t bat it will be sound judgment or puiest kind uf patriotism to a wan-ills' country to sell it or lay it up indefinitely, you had bettor tench Mrs. Wife to drive. If you don't come to the front with the advent of good weather, Mrs. Wife is apt 'to -et serious about it and peerter the life out of you until you do come t through or pass the buck to someone else. ; Lon't pass the buck. For goodness saka. don't. You will start something If you do that you won't be able to stop in j months, maybe years, maybe never. If j Mrs. Wife learns to drive under the j tutelage of some to whom you have i passed th buck she will be apt to learn j, a different system than you know or 1 could teach and she v. ill be Inclined to j make flip pan I and embarrassing remarks I about your way of. driving every time you go out together. And os she devel- ops cunfidence and knowledge in her i method she'll be showing yon that you J don't know scarcely anytriinj;' about driv- j ing a car at all and in the ouo will have you learning all over again from her. j BetLer not pass the buck. If you do Mr. . Wife will eventually i show you a few wrinkles about piloting ft j; car that you never know. Don't kid yourself" about that. They always 60. Don't Pass the Buck. Mrs. Wife may try th stunt all by her lonely if you don't come through 1 with the technical stuff. If she trios this J she may wreck the back yard fence, drive a'l the chickens ovor into the neigh- bor's lot a nd rnutilnte the garden be- 'i yond repair, or demolish the a-sh pit and '' perhaps nick up the car a bit. Hut she'll persist and finally she will master it. This 1 is woman's asre and she knows it, and one 1 of her most pleasurable prerogatives is to learn to drive an automobile. j The first requisite when starting out to teach Mrs. Wife to drive tho car is to school her to differentiate between right and left. When she learns that hor left ; foot, her left hand and her left ear are I all on the left side and that foer right foot, j right hand and right ear are all on her right side; when she has thoroughly an- 1 similated all this knowledge it will be j time to procoecL One of the underlying1 prLnclploa of j teaching the wife to drive is not to lot 'em learn too much at once. Give 'em one thing at a time to think about. In this way you don't run much of a ripk in maltlpg Mrs. Wife a better driver than you are yourself. If you Flip in this respect re-spect she will in timo come back at you and show you things about It that you never dreamed of. Mn Uo hor leurn Jut one thing nt a time, and she will think you know all there is to be known about a motor car and not try to find out thing j on her own account. She'll think your a regular automobile wly., and she won't a.sk half a many questions aa she woulld f if you try to rush the Job, The Best Plan. One of the best plsnn to follow, after . having taught Mrs. Wife to differentiate between left and right, is to take her and the cni out on 0. lonely stretch of road , far from the madding crowd and begin the losKons there. Ivet her steer the car, but don't let her monkey with tho fhrol- I tic. clutch or tra nsmlsslon until she has mastered the art of f:ifcrlnp or nearly j so. Keep this up until Mrs. Wife is way ; i;p in tho technique of guiding the car, knows which 1b right and which is left ' on the road, how to make turns and to pass imaginnry vehicles coming and going, go-ing, then start in mi the ottmr things. I One at a time is all you should attempt : to tench her each day. Klrnt the throttle and the ignition levers; thou the shift n-fir n nd t hen the bra lo. Slowly but very surely she will come to it and In a very short tinin will loam to nyiichrontr.e nil 'these necessary thing in driving a car. Novr bit hr forge I while she 1s b'nrnlng to steer and to work the levers a nd chitfh and brake pedn Is, which in ; right and which is lcfl. Much depends j on this. Mnko her drivo slow. Mrs. Wifi is Apt to want to show a little speed after a few tries at tho vhO. Holler discourage discour-age her right at the start. Its suScr for thi car n nd the passenger.. Finally keep at it until Mrs. Wife Is a good driver. In tim fine will bo a.hle to discount you ; but t hat's nil to be ex- j pec ted. P.pmcmbcr t In auto was made luxurious and b'-nut iful fnr woman; and thn t womn n becomes more self-reliant, more worthy to play her important pari j In the life of tho nation, more of a pal ' and companion ph she becomes proficient ; In the manipulation of the machine that; t man hi: a Unsigned a nd built especially ' for her. |