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Show diver's. Besf of all, every tourisF Is a sodd rn;ids booster, and he is already pulling a lot of states out of the mud. i (Copyright.) . n Rain-dom Reels ! By HOWARD L. RANN THE TOURIST THE tourist is a hopeful biped whose sole mission in life is to feed currency to the wayside garage. A few years ago tourists weie few and far between, being confined largely large-ly to the expert but widely-busted tramp printer, who remained in town long enough to become thoroughly pickled and then toured to the next stop on the brake rod of a poultry car. With the upspringing of the automobile, automo-bile, however, our roads are deeply lined with a new kind of tourist, who travels imong strangers and pays the list price for red inner tubes. Since it has been discovered that the modern automobile can be run several thousand miles without any more expense than operating a short-line short-line railroad, the practice of skipping from coast to coast in a wabble-legged touring car has become a fixed habit. Most people would rather ride in a new automobile carrying a pennant and a weak-lunged storage battery than jump on a transcontinental flyer and inhale free cinders in a rapid and A?(hir-Tee one Did You GE.T 33fR. Gat! "NE UnimEnTj1 fcJWMV ThATJ "aU MATCHES awl CourJ Highway yJTVr Pw!Tf c-o K&Tn 37 Wle foR. AnoTher j' The Practice of Skipping From Coast to Coast in a Wobble-Legged Touring Tour-ing Car Has Become a Fixed Habit, j noiseless manner. Statistics prove that a man can drive his own automobile auto-mobile to either coast for less than it costs to buy a private car rigged up with a shower bath and brunette, porter, unless a spark plug gives, j One nice thing about a long automobile auto-mobile tour is that the tourist gets a ' chance to meet a great many nice poo-1 pie and learns how the government j regulates the price of gasoline. AVe i have one of the freest forms of government gov-ernment in the world, and when gasoline gaso-line gets too high in one place all a man has to do is to drive on to some point where it is a few cents higher. This tends to keep the tourist in an amiable and contented frame of mind, and also encourages the building of stone-f'nnit garages which are often mistaken for the hotel. 1 The tourist does not need to take much of anything with him except a few extra tubes and money. It is astonishing as-tonishing how fast money will ooze away from a tourist who has never done anything to his own car except, tilt the windshield. But no man he-grudges he-grudges the money when he comes back with both lungs full of fresh air. I an appetite like a wheat elevator and '(n coat of t.nn 'hb-ker than a deep sea |
