Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-21

from but ten to twenty miles an hour have little
to fear. In fact, the main point at which they
must be on their guard is to wear proper cloth
ing. Carelessness in this respect brings pneu-
monia"
The automobile, like the poor souls in Dante's
Inferno carries its own atmosphere with it,
The tremendous current of air which its rapid
passage generates brings GOODNESS even on warm
day. The pedestrian perspiring in the road sees
with astonishment that the women in the touring
car that speeds by him at the rate of mile a
minute have fur at their throats. They need
them, in August. One of the bellies of
Brookline Boston's loveliest suburb, went for an
auto ride one afternoon last summer. 1t was a
stihingy hot day, so that she wore dress of the
sheerest muslin, and exulted in the sudden cool
ness as the wind penetrated through its di-
aphanous aces. On the way home however she
was seized with chill. By night pneumonia had
developed, and within week she was dead. The
autoist who would escape a thorough chilling and
its baneful consequences must be connoisseur
in weathers
DUST A DANGEROUS AGENT
A New York physician of standing did not hesi
tate to add his testimony. "The touring car that
can make over fifty miles an hour bestows upon
its occupant something more than the exhilaration
Of swift movement and the eXultation over dis.
tancing all rivals. 1t not only stirs up dust for
those far to rearward but il fills the immediate
air with flying particles. The marvelously con-
trived inventions of automobile masks goggles
and hoods are the result Of sad experience. Yet
many fair autoist refuses to wear them. 4 am
not going to turn myself into a monster of ugli-
ness one of them declared Indignantly when
offered mask. She did not know that she was
giving challenge to dust-dust, the enemy of
the human system, that causes irritation wherever
it lodges. 1t chokes the lungs, infames the mu-
oous membranes and painfully excites the delicate
capillary nerves.
The eye, as the most delicate of the scnsory
organs is the first to suffer from the automobile
Corner druggists have become expert in removing
foreign substances from the streaming eyes of the
autoist Often remedy is beyond their skill. As
one oculist said, 'It has become matter of habit
for me to ask a patient when he shows badly
inhamed eye whether he has been automobiling.
The consequences of a severe attack of nAamma-
ton are often irradicable Thank goodness, the
goggles now exclude most Of the dust. But [
now have TO deal with new complication-the
automobile stare. This attacks the chauffeur of
the high speed machines, The intentness with
which he must scan the roadway has disastrous
effect on both the muscles and the nerves of the
eye"
The work of other watchers, the motormen on
the trolley cars, entails similarly unpleasant liza.
bilities. While the poise and balance of their
bodies constantly shifts, the muscles that hatten
the crystalline lens are strained to maintain a
proper focus, and the retina nerve filaments are
overworked in the effort to carry an unwaverng
picture to the brain. The trolley however roll
ing on fixed and ballasted track, has fewer oh.
staoles to overcome, and fewer dangers to fear.
just in proportion, the other hand, as the auto
is free will agent so the eye of the chauffeur
has to endure demoralzing tension. First he be.
gins to perceive floating sparks, then objects are
surrounded by rainbow nimbus. Finally, each