Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-08-16
A New and Widely Prevalent LncurabLe Malaoy


(AuroMoBLIousNEss: A perturbed condition of the
nerve the frequent observation of mechanically
propelled vehicles IN rapid motion)
~OU get up early in the morning, with that
glorious feeling that it is Sunday and you
don't have to go to the office The open
windows, the cloudless blue sky. the glow of the
(not yet hot enough to be unpeasant), the
canteioup you have at at; breakfast all remind you
that it is summer The desire for going
where fills you. AS you toss over the pages of the
Sunday paper disinterestedy a thought strikes you
Great day for trolley ride!' you observe
enthusiastically.
Yes, dear your better half answers supinely.
If you had not been busy just then looking at
the score, her tone might have warned you; but
you blunder on. Hurry up and get your duds
on. and we II start right away It'll be great out
along the forest road to-day!
"Of course LII go If you want me to, she says
hestatngly, with such wfely agony in her tones
that you suddenly realize she does not share your
enthusiasm for the project.
Mha ta the fes,n ma Ws you anzousy inquire
There's nothing the matter" she asserts with
onlinous solemnty
Well, then, come on" you say, trying your best
to muster back your vanishing enthusiasm. A
trolley ride will do both good You've been
cooped up in the house all week. and I've been
cooped up in the Office, and it just what need.
You 60 if you want to- dear. she says self sacri-
fcingy; but l wish you wouldn't ask me to 60
with you. It's so hot and there' be such crowds
You used to like trolley riding. you protest
Il do she persists. Il just don't feel like it to-
day. that's all
She insists your going, anyway, and you insist
that it would not be fun without her and it ends
up with both of you sitting around the house all day
And it is that way every Sunday all summer
Somehow you feel that there must be something
the matter with your wife She firmly protests that
there isn't Yet there is. It's automobiliousness
Your Cousins Motor Car
YOUR cousin whom you haven't in eight
ten years happens to be in the city and drops into
your office You talk about old times and the folks.
and ask about each other families and finally get
around to business. He tells you how we'll he has
been doing, and how he has doubled some money he
put into real estate; and finally he casually remarks
something about his if the real purpose of his
call you had not been just let you know that he
had machine.
What maker" you ask coldly and when he
proudly tells you, you remark scornfuy, Il don't
climbers" AS matter of fact. all you know about
it is that friend of yours who has friend that
has an automobile said SO but YOU untruthfully
60 on:
bother and expense here in the city You can't keep
a good chauffeur under twenty a week, and they
rob you frghtfully by standing in with the repair
shops. Anyhow. so many of our friends have auto
mobiles that always being invited out motor
ing what's the of having the bother of owning
a machine?
The real facts in the that the only
automobile rides you have had this year are in a
machine belonging to real estate company that is
trying sell you some suburban lots ten down and
ten a month; and that for months you have been
reading all the advertisements of second hand auto
mobiles, trying to figure whether you can get a
machine that is any good for a hundred dollars down
and the rest In Instruments for hundred in cash
is all you can muster.
Yet you not to blame for prevaricatng to your
cousin 1t is nothing but acknowledgements While
SYMPTOMS disease those O