Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-25

have 4 noise, but afraid as death of
colt, and Won't have anything but an old.
tame nag that will only wink its ears
when they slap the reins on its back.
Dolly was afraid of automobiles. but wild
TO have Ferguson have one. and she
thought he had better buy one that was
old and broken to the road and that had
learned not to be afraid of the cars and
that would stand without tying. The
one that Ferguson bought would stand
without tying Standing was its strong
est point 1t would stand anywhere.
Sometimes ii would not do anything but
stand for days and days at time. And
yet II was beautiful color.
The reason l advised Ferguson against
the Viborg-Potzcommer was that it was
an Austrian car, and you know how the
political situation Is in Austria just now
half the people wanting the Czech ham
guaSe and half wanting the German Ian
guage to be the official tongue. And with
Wborg a Czech and Potzcommer a Ger
man II was only natural that the book OF
directions about the motor car should be
printed half in one language and half
In the other. TO keep peace In the flrm;
and as neither Ferguson nor Dolly knew
either German or Czech. / didn't see how
they would get any fun out Of motoring.
FOR everybody knows the beginners spend
half to three-quarters Of their time read
ing the direction books. You can read
sonnets and theosophy in a foreign Ian
guage with the aid Of a dictionary, but
not motor talk because all the words are
too new 70 be in the English-German and
Czech English dictionaries. And 1t was
confusing. too. because In some places in
the Viborg- Potzcommer book a thing
would be called something like a
'czgkehkg" in the soft Hungarian and
the next time Il was mentioned 1t would
be put down as something like a "doppel-
neutrality-suspicious." in the flowing
German. But Ferguson would have his
way just because Dolly asked for that
kind of a secondhand machine, and he
did
II was not my fault that he wanted TO
marry Dolly. told him il was mis-
take 20 want a girl like Dolly. who was
all romance and pretty. I told him out OF
my experience that he was making a mis-
take. and mentioned number OF my
friends who had married unromantic and
homely girls and who had been perfectly
happy and tha, did not know one who
had married as pretty a girl as Dolly.
and that was true. but he only said that
II was because there was not another
such pretty girl for them 10 marry, and
that for his part he was glad she was
pretty, and that IL she wanted to elope
in an automobile il only showed that she
was just the kind of girl that kipllng
would like. for she could see the romance
in modern things. couldn't see wH:T
Kipling had TO do with it. and l told
Ferguson so. but ne only said he didn't
see what had to co with It, either. which
I consider an unktnd and uncalled-for re-
mark. for have always advised Fersu-
son literally and to the best OF my ability
So Ferguson bought that old V.borg-
Potzcommer car that you could hear an
hour before II came in sight and an hour
after II went out of sight. and he and
Dolly began their dress rehearsals Of the
elopement That was what l called them
They called 1t taking little spin on the