Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-06
The God of the Car

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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
that highway was ever before the
mind. The traffic was stopped, the
things that kim saw as he marched
along it'll his guru were held in sus-
pended animation But you caught
vignettes of them by the wayside;
and you found yourself questioning
those lines OF Matthew Arnolds:
The East bowed low before the blast
In silent deep disdain;
She heard the legions thunder past,
Then raised her head again.
The East i'd not affect to disdain the
motor car. Even the Sadhu, sitting
by the roadside with whitened face,
failed to preserve his accustomed pose
OF Indifference to sublunary things
You caught him looking out of the
corner of his eye at the curious prod
uct of ak nowledge which he under
stood not; but he was too well
schooled to permit any flicker of sur
prise to exhibit itself What he
thought only Kipling can tell us when
he realizes that the motor has come
to India, and that his picture of the
Grand Trunk road is no longer com
plete.
The trials established the fact that
the autocar is now part of the life
OF India. Side by side with the
camel, the elephant, the bullock
wagon, the reckla, and the pony
tonga, it has taken its place on India
roads; and the latest idea in locomo-
ton has dropped into its position with
no more bizarre effect than is visible
In all things throughout this land of
startling contrasts.
The trials also proved that the
automobile provides the ideal means
of travel in this wonderful country.
One result has been to open a new
world to The tourist The India of
the railway stations in striking, but
the motor car reveals the India of
the villages, and scenery unknown
to all but few touring officials. Along
That $50 miles from Delhi to Bombay,
the most varied landscape was re-
vealed, plains, valleys rivers, and
mountains unfolding themselves in
grandeur to delighted eyes. Above all.
there was the charm of speeding over
perfect roads at season waen
the climate of Northern and North
western India is incompatible. II. the
freshness of December morning,
with the air like wind, the rush of the
motor car sets the blood of the
parched Anglo1ndian dancing to a
tune that he has known only in Eng
land. And the man who has escaped
the season of gloom and fogs at home,
gives thanks that he has discovered a
new joy in life. India as a field for
"cold-weather" motoring has received
a splendid advertisement. When the
Western Ghauts are revealed, with
their curious, truncated,, yellow hills,
contrasting with the more graceful
outline of biiIowy, blue-tinged peaks,
and you drop down marvelously en-
gineered roads, overlooking the gran
deur of mountain gorges and vistas
of smiling plains. you enter a world
of beauty that you vainly seek to
compare with other scenes of delight.
Anon, gaining the level, you cross
noble rivers and picturesque creeks,
sometimes by the aid of coolie-
propelled ferry, and again you run on,
by the curving shores of a placid,
cleaning sea, recalling the beauty
spots of the Riviera. Over all is the
brillian sunshine of the Indian win
ter, when, If ever. come perfect days.
Thes are the chains of the motor
car in India to the fieeting visitor To
the Anglo-Indian there are others. It
promises to be his redemption in the
hot weather, for by it's aid he can
minimize the rigors of the tropic day.
When no other pastime is possible,
motoring invites by the breeze it
creates. 1t is the one pastime which
provides perpetual punkah, and
when the dog star RACES. and the
coolie slumbers, the auto beckons to
currents of "coolth.' A benign
government has begun to realize what
the coming of the car means to tour
ing officials and the Sirkar has
spoken in its favor. Royal elephants
have seen 1t installed. to displacs
them as the bearer OF kings ara
chiefs; it carries the mail expeditions
ly across the wild tracts Of country,
where the "ag-ghari" has never pene-
trated: and IL has begun a revolu.
ton. not only in transport, but in the
immemorial habits of the Orient It
has achieved this in India. the heart
of the slow-moving East. in less than
five years.