The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-29

be given a thin, transparent dressing of an elastic nature. Pantasote cur tains for railway coach use are often given a dressing of car-body finishing varnish thinned a little with turpen- tine.
 When you're in racing car at speed, keep your mouth tight shut. '' Bob'' Evans of the Studebaker team, whose successes this year have stamped him as the brightest star of the light-car pilots. And it is advice
 which will be endorsed by every ex- perienced race driver Keep your mouth shut,'' continues Evans, "be- cause you will want to breathe now and then. Opening. the mouth makes l inhaling easy, it is true. But the ex- treme speed of a motor car will keep you inhaling for a long time after you want to stop, if you try to do it through the mouth. The pressure will cram your lungs, mouth and air pas sages so full of air that you will choke and strangle. We had a Studebaker- Flanders out one morning this spring on the Santa Monica course for prac- tice. The wind was blowing 50 miles an hour, according to the weather re- ports. On one straightaway we faced it squarely. The gale pulled us down to speed of 75 miles an hour where. on calm days, we had been doing 85. But added to 50-the speed of the gale-gaVe us a headwind of 125 miles an hour Some wind! Why the roar in my ears made them ring for days shoulders was greater than two men could have exerted. My cheeks push edback .on both sides so that my lips hurt. Charley Bamesburger, my me- chanic, leaned over toward me and started to say something. The next moment he doubled up and nearly fell out. I thought he was sick and stop ped the car as soon as I could. When he got through choking and coughing, he said he'd been through all the tor- ture of drowning. He'd started to make some remark about the weather, guess, and the pressure of the wind had simply inflated him almost to the bursting point. He tried to gasp it out and got more air damned down his throat He was frank to admit that I saved his life by stopping when I did. Of course, that was worse than one usually gets. All the same you will notice that the only time in a chanic of a car do any talking, is on the turns, when the car is slowed down. At anything more than seven- ty miles an hour, the result is sure to be serious"
 Every automobile owner and driver can help the good rOadS movement in very simple way says George b. Wilcox, for the Regal Motor Car Com pany. By paying attention to care full driving and an intelligent observa- ton of road conditions, the motorists of the country may become a very valuable and active adjunct in the good roads movement. All drivers must have noticed the ruts that have been formed, not only on gravel roads, but also on the oiled roads. If the owners and operators Of cars would only drive out Of that rut or wheel mark and spread the travel over a width of ten or twelve feet on the roadway, many miles of roads which are now deteriorating would be injured very little if at all On the oiled roads the automobiles would improve the surface and compact the oil and sand together. The cooperation of every automobile driver would soon make material improvement in the condition of our country roads. Not only would touring be more enjoyable for the individual motorist but the pos abilities for more extended travel would be much greater. Next time 11A0 aa out nuAr country roads. heed