The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-16

she is. a passenger, desires above all else to feel comfortable, restful and at ease; likewise does the man motorist.l There are some men who will drive an open race roadster the year round and boast of to their friends. Such. men are to be congratulated upon their TO- bust condition, but the vast majority of business and professional men can not enjoy the exposure to that ex- tent and they, too, have become ex- acting and discriminating in their de- mands for closed cars for winter and fall use.
 Saloon Money For Roads.
 Stsseton. a village in South Dakota. has municipal saloon. It is report ed that the profits of the saloon are being devoted to the improvement of the roads in the immediate vicinity5 and especially of the section of the Meridian road which passes through that section.
 Despondent Family seNIade OVer.''
 CThis story from real life, by an H., Hnois farmer, E.. c. Edwards, given in the American Agriculturist, is short but good.)
 My wife and daughter had been ai1 ing for years. We had tried all sorts of medicines, sscures" and doctors They cost awfully, but did no good. The whole family became discouraged. It took the spunk all out of me to see the women folks dragging through each day in such a forlorn way. None of US were happy. life was hard, work. piled up. We were going backward in rriore ways than ones although we stuck close to our work on the farm and in the home, and never went any where.
 Finally got desperate and bought an automobile! Never said word about it until drove into the yard with the new car. My, how my wife did scold for such extravagance! She'd never ride in it, we couldn't afford 1t, etc. made no back talk, but after a few days use of that machine around the farm, carrying milk to the depot, doing twice the business in half the time, my daughter felt well enough to take a ride in it. drove slowly and carefully until she got a little used to it! When we got home she rushed into the house full of ex- citement and enthusiasm, hugged and kissed her mother, and said: "Oh, it's glorious you simply must go out in our car.''
 After a few rides. wife likes 1t as much as daughter. Since then the whole family has driven out almost every day or evening. if only for a short run. Getting outdoors, breath ing fresh air, seeing new scenes and faces, creating new interests along with sharp capacities, has cured both wife and daughter, and made new man of me-
 We all feel now like fife is worth living, work goes along better in house and field, we are making money again and prospering in every way. Not a. dollar has gone for medicines or doc tors since I bought my automobile three years ago.
 I understand now what that physf- elan meant, who bewailed to a fellow s7< Iail into the home the doctor goes outr' It's true. .@ Prevents Chafng of. Spare Tire.
 New holder perfected by Marion en- gineer folds extra shoe clear of body. Carrying of spare tires is problem that has come in for more than ordin- ary attention by automobile, engineers. Hardly any part of the equipment of the motor car has been worked out in more forms or shifted around more often than the extra tire carrier. Fen ders and rears of open cars and tops 1 of closed cars all have been used as locations for the tire carrier. The new models have a new arrangement. The tire rack is carried at the rear of l the body and away from the back paneIso there is no possibility of cha,f- ing Of the shoe at any point. The new holder is in the form of a. wheel feI- Joe, over which a tire, already inf1at- ed and mounted on demOuntaDle rim, is slipped. One lug similar to those which fasten demountabIe rims to the wheeIs, holds the tire securely in place. In this manner straps and covers of all kinds are done away with. The whole is held away from | the body by a bracket on either side. There is no chance of the body being
 marred by the tire rubbing against ii Tor the casing worn thin from contact Many Failures Predicted
 There is no question in the minds
 of those who have closely followed I the trend of the motor car industry that we have reached aaperiod a of the .1 survival of the fittest,'' says President W. H. Vandervoort, maker of Moline motor cars. There are unQuestion- lably many failures due to occur but l these failures and receiverships vii not by any means act as a barometer for the industry's future. Where one l car has been sold in the past hundreds
 will be bought in the future, but the
 sale of these cars will go to the tried land-n not-found-wanting'' manufactur.
 CTS. Since the inception of the in tdustry we have awakened nearly ev-
 cry morning to find a new concern 1T
 the field, but many have been and vii
 continue to be like sships that pass
 in the night They run onto the reel
 of public disapproyal and sink Il When designers of motor cars had
 reached what now appears to be the
 top rung in mechanical construction
 and standardization had been accom-.
 p1ished, builders turned their effort:
 towards coach work with the result.