| Show I Lady Motorists I I t N Are No Novelty l I a AD ADAME IE who runs her gasoline I a M mo motor r car Is no lon longer er a no nov novt t of her herI There Thore are aro many t elt city 1 1 I her herI I r I But who runs I car eal wIthout being vain aln and looking that no lit hu huI lits j I u wise Is so 80 much a Thero 41 I s man mun eye 00 has yet beheld her ber i is grand and I she sho shei about MoUt the lady I 11 i the tho thoI ther there r that mien sha owns I lv If nol nt r Sounds I re car far Sue IJ a nOy motorist r S ice does docs It not oot atch her sail down the tho boulevard her with a aus regards 1 motorist us scion that Is well refrigerated Ii f Male pedestrians take quickly to the thet lines She Is the tho only ono one who t 1 x has complete confidence In her capacity and to toI I j I to tame the wildest it give her Its paw Site Sho sits I back languidly languId fiddles with the tho varl Otis ous levers and enjoys terse there She runs her ca cathe car as Ir It the universe Oh happy mortal the The lady motorist followIng I privileges ot of her sex can 1 to do dons ns its she pleases and when how attention whatever to the pays no usual rules and of tra traffic lc i I t The rhe corner policeman Is her good goodfriend I tIo 10 I frIend He mIght as well be knows he cant boss her or scare her herI herand and what gentlemanly policeman I t would arrest a veiled siren f 1 radiant I who smiles upon him with the r glow of oC perfect She turns around In the middle of oC the block blocki i 1 Instead of oC goIng to the nearest cor corner ner und and she always leaves her hor auto automobile I I mobile facing the wrong wa way U If the tho policeman like It ho he can enn turn I t It around or put It on the tho other side or of the tho street during the tho long hours In InI i I whIch she Is buying a tort hat or attending I 13 J Icet lecture re on womans suffrage There Thero Is something beautifully bland about I the tho J Anyway I I male b men and amI for tor moo mon What have they to do with her herI i il LADY I A BLOCKS TR a l lOne One day last week the surface cars carsi il I were blocked for 10 minute In i t part of the downtown district n a large tourIng car was aG on on the track The Tho en engine sIno was r running nil all rIght Everything was fit and fine finG But the tho car wouldn t go 10 Several fluttering young ladles ladies In the were exceedIngly nerv nervI nervous I ous ou but the tho emInent and honorable be beI bej skirted motorist was waG unabashed and andy j I cool she put up the tho gasoline lover loveri y threw up the spark let out the clutch I e the usual lurch NothIng Noth Ing In dung The crossing r policemen gathered held a con consultation Lady chauffeur I Ull t l was teas nothing the tho car would i start soon In the meantime the trat n ofa oCo great elt city settled down for a aI arest r rest t Pedestrians who passed smiled Women tomen looked at each I other One man said Fool women drive automobiles anI I a they ought to have a law against It t Seo 1 motormen gatherers gather d and d t r Sudden Suddenly Il a great lIght I I 3 d on the mind She hind had 1 had the brake brako On With d graceful movement or of a beautifully gloved l hand honl handshe she released tho emergency brake brako and the tho motor responded Very prominent among the tho onlookers were n a number or of who laughed wildly Great joke But you know and I know that every man who over tried to run a car did the tho same trIck for the first fortnight anyway lie he did It than she for Cor he frequently frequent ut used ed of much strength and beauty WO WOMEN DESERT Man Many women who knots kno how to their gasoline cars seldom eldom sit at the helm They dont quite see whore the fun comes In It suns a novel exercise for a month or so but after actor that It I looked like a near relative or of hard work Pushing the speed levers for forward forward ward Is a laborious that pulls pUlis ones onos sleeves out of oC the tho armhole and damages ones gloves There Thero are nr also other reasons As long M as women have hao such small feet they cant expect to drive cars with safety says sas one woman who knows all about It I dont dare trust to the tho toot foot levers for stopping the car carMy My feet arent largo large enough and the tho only way I can keep the tho lovers loers down II is to stand UI u and jump on them and then my feet slide of off I remember ono one time comIng suddenly upon l a bar barricade barricade across ono one of oC the tho park drive driveways ways I put on tho toot foot brake but my foot Coot stick I dived doo through the planks and lanterns as If I were In swimmIng and taking a 0 breaker That finished mo me for Cor I II If I ever h try It again rn wear my hus husbands husbands bands shoes Ny My friends who sit It beside me on the tho drivers seat find great enjoyment In looking nt at my feet They laugh un kingly and say sa the they look so fO m feet not my I reckon the they do doA doAs As A long as motor cars must bo be cranked l women will prefer to be pa pas Instead 9 of hl rs The mo moment ment 0 a woman trios to crank a car carn cara n a largo and Interested crowd consisting or of large muscular street loafers The frail creature or of motoring ambItions turns the crank a alimo limo timo or two sweeping the pavement with Ith the tho front of her gown own knocking her hat over her ear and breaking a Dorset strIng The only way 3 to crank cronk n a Is to wear weara a bathing suit or bloomers and thIs Is not considered au fall fait at present i FORGETS SWITCH PLUG I After many unsuccessful ende endeavors the dear deal girl remembers that she sho has hall not net Inserted the tho switch plug piUS The next tiling thing Is 18 to find It H Much lIuch to the tho amuse amusement moot ment of oC the assembled audience sho Rho digs Into the tho deepest subterranean p Sages of oC her hor shopping bag bringing to the a moUe motley assortment or of samples keys keS rough sticks powder cloths mirrors loose change card cases and amI memorandum books The Tho plug may he be there or It Itma ma may not bo there When ben she sho finds It the crowd sighs with relief and she sho begins another round or of crankIng When the tho car starts It roars like a lo locomotive Mrs Driver climbs In starts the machine the tho switch lever and kills the tho engine Out again in n agaIn Finnegan At last she sho Js s under way The Tho fool crowd says nays Boo Hoo Hooray ray rny and the tho lady lad shell n a alady lady and say It During the tho first enthusiastic years of oC motorIng wom women n used to wear special apparel but It sot got to bo be a joke For FOI Forthe the tho country drive where dust Is thick and bus busy n a long wrap and It a close cap are convenient but for elt city travel travelIng Ing women do not find the uniform necessary What could be uglier than the tho combination or of cap eap goggles and long lank cloak elook with which the tho early motor girl disguise herself The prettiest women wore were rarebit dreams Some of oC them wIth bIg goggles looked like largo microbes The Tho day or of all ull th that t Is passed DRESS FOR MOTORING I dont dress for motoring says the tho woman who has real brains under her false Calso hall hah I dress for the moment when whon I jump out of oC the car I wear my pretty prett frocks and nIce hats just the tho same I protect them wIth a 11 long wrap and n a nutty veil I select selecta n a pretty e t veil Some S women en think that a thing cannot bo be unless It is III ugly A pink or blue veil costs no more than limn thana a hideous red or green ono one When I II I wore the outfit of oC the auto mobile girl I hind the queerest feelings For one thing r I always fancied that other people thought t I was advertising the fact that I poa esi a 0 car Looks like U it It nut But over every girl who wears go goggles own a car Those who dont are craziest about the goggles For another wing I was when I wont Into a cafe caCo or hotel looking lito liko a cartoon Nixey for mo me thank you ou I Ilove love lovo my motor but oh your pretty clothes Thoro nil all tho world to me mc meTho The Tho limousine proves u a great pro protection protection to garments und rind many women say IW the tho car without the tho limousine 1 a oar ar at all In a mn ma machine chine without a top ones millinery milliner luC suf furs Cors from the tho suns rays and the tho freak freakIsh freakIsh Ish actions of oC the wind Ones gown fades anti and all the tho little knacks of outer apparel grow grimy and dusty thin the tho limousine a woman Is comfortable and protected as If shin she were on en her hel own veranda The Tho cost or of ortho the tho comfortable top Is soon paid for forIn forin In the tho saving of oC gowns and chapeaux It might bl be added that there thero Is nice also nicea alson n a saving In hair since more than ono one set of oC expensive c puffs or ringlets hat ha been lost on the tho speedy trip In the tho 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