The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-21
Adventuriing With
 A Motor Car
The Secret of One Man s Success in Drawing Health Dividends from an Automobile.
(By R. B. Johnston, in Lesiie's
 Weekly.)

Take the speed-recording inStru- ment off your oar when you begin making preparations to spend your vacation time in a motor car, TOE speede should have no piace in a real vacation automobile trim. The man a vacation spent in a motor car ought to forget-fcr the period devoted to his vecation-that the mind of man ever devised such enemies Of rest and Quietness as instruments that record or indicate either speed or be a time devoted to recreation, and recreation really means recreation a period of rest and building up strength and restoring to their nor mai state the nerves that have been overtaxed in the regular work that has preceded the vacation. Surely if one would plan for a real vacation to be spent in an automobile, he will dismiss in advance all queries both as to How fast and How far his car has been running, for certainly neither of these has any place in a time to be spent in recreation.
 Perhaps the chiefsgeason for the spreading use and popularity of mo- tor cars Is the ease. quickness and certainty they possess for transport ing men to and from those places 10 which they wish to go for purposes of business or pleasure. Yet for vacation purposes ease and certainty only should be the concern of a man bent on getting from his car the rest of mind and body he hopes for dur ing his recreation time. Quickness is greatly to be desired during that portion of the year when one is en- gagged in his regular work, yet the motorist on a vacation imposes a, voluntary burden upon himself un- ieW he forgets to hurry or willingly
  the primary idea of an automobile vacation trip, and the making of ex- cessive speed or mileage will not only prevent rest, but in many cases make expensive trouble for the impetuous one with vigilant guardians of the speed-limit laws of the localitie0 through which he drives.
 For the motorist who has never tried 1t. an automobile vacation with out plans as to where to go and how to get there will almost certainly prove a. most unexpected and aston ishtng success Let him start out without any definite destination in his mind and drive his car over roads he has never before frequented. Let him determine before he starts not to hurry. but to drive slowly and easily and really look at the country as he passes through it. If he sees a pleasant prospect up some cross road not freQuented by his fellows to whom speed and distance are def- ties, let him drive off along that road This method of not making plans and selecting routes is sureIy the direct opposite of the general way of go- ing on an automobile trip, and for this very reason is advocated, be- cause it assures a change from the usual hurry and hustle attendant up- on automobiling. It is quite likely that for the first time in his experi- ence as a motorist he will realize the delights he has been thoughtlessly foregoing in his former "get there and get back motoring days.
 If he tries this calm way of using his motor car as an accessory of his vacation time, he will get more gen. uine benefit and rest-real re-crea- tion-from the use of his car than perhaps he had ever dreamed there lay in it's possession. If he takes things easily, he will most certainly be free of the dust nuisance. for dusr is an almost inevitable accompanf- ment of speed. Likewise, on the main travelled roads dust is raise~ mostly by those motorists who tear from one place to another, with no thoughts of the beauties of the iand- scape obscured by dust clouds or passed SO rapidly the eyes could not compass them. When darkness ap- breaches. our vacation motorist can stop for the night at the hotel in one of the towns he will meet along his leisure1y tourney. While these hotels will not be so pretentious-]