Show ing about our gas mileage J g by M K THOMSON ph D IJ WHEN you get married you take your partner tor better or for worse la acquiring an automobile you take no buch bowa publicly but the two situations are not altogether als similar you cannot keep from becom ing very much identified with your car and to fly to ita defense quite unconsciously in case of attack on its virtues end vices it takes bome occurrence some rude shock such as enormous repair bills and coeh other heart rending in clients as being towed in through crowded streets where your friends are likely to witness your humiliation that you get to the point of bontem plating dt orce I 1 ordinarily how ever every man Is loyal to his own car our affection for the old bus increases as its market value decreases its weather beaten features serve to endear the old faith ful servant who has gron old and feeble for our sake there are bound to spring up emotional attachments and sentiments after going through exciting together we sometimes grow sentimental over the family car and refuse to trade it off and turn it out to pasture as a workout horse the attitude Is one of true comradeship ve hate to have any dealer look it over with a view of placing a price on its head it hurts not only our pride but also 0 our sens of loyalty we fib about the gasoline mileage as we do about else con necked with the car out of a sense of loyalty and on the ground of corn mou decency e fib about our gasoline mileage because it Is expected of us we also fib because we want to make a good to shw off our skill in buying a good car in the first place and in keeping it in good repair and in getting tha roost out of it the chief reason stated Is that in the car we compliment ourselves vie alb about our gasoline mileage for the same reasons that a mother sides with her boy mcclur syndicate |