Show a. a 1 aULONT USE M r R CARS CARS' etiqUette Would Not clot Allow Driver to Sit In Presence e of Chinese Dowager Dowager Dowager Dow Dow- ager Empress When the doWa dowager er empress of ot China died ded In 1903 1003 she left 48 motor cars among other things to her heirs Most of these had been made specially for her many were gifts from high Chinese potentates and nil all were gorgeous gorgeous gor gor- I palatial expensive cars Her Iler favorite was an nn passenger eight French machine with its body painted deep orange and Its seats upholstered In violet violet violet vio vio- let satin brocade edged with round flat fiat blue turquoise stone stones But the dowager never ne rode In a motor motor motor mo mo- mo- mo tor car In her life lIe and not one of ot the 48 varieties ever left the Imperial ga ga- ga- ga rage It was not because there were no embryo chauffeurs In China The young Chinese who had been In England England Eng Eng- land laud and America Imbibing Occidental college educations had learned to joyride Joyride joyride Joy Joy- ride and dozens of them might have qualified as high chancellor of ot the wheel In the dowager empress' empress buzz wagon But But no no one may sit down In the presence of a n Chinese monarch 1 And how liow could any anyone one stand up straight and drive a n powered high-powered motor car In Ia 1908 there were not more than a dozen motor cars In all aU China besides the collection In the Imperial garage today there are about at nt least CO GO COper GOper per cent of which are driven by Occidental Occidental Occidental Oc Oc- Oc- Oc traders commercial agents and members of ot the various Western legations Driving is restricted to a avery avery avery very few of the tho largest coast cities clUes where it is rough rough going nt at best and there Is not a n road In n China fit for tor a n motor ride |