New Britain herald., 1915-01-11

Women ardent attendants at an ridiculous. Perhaps it was, some years ago, when they were interested only in the glitter of the painted vehicle. Then woman entered eX- citedly into a discussion as lo whether she would have an all black or a rat tan body And she thought the lights were ugly things.
 Now, however, she knows. She looks critically at a beautiful motor car. whose lines are entrancing. It is upholstered within in tapestry carpeted in lilac, lighted with two dome lights and two lilac shaded reading lamps. and has a step lamp, which lights up when the door is opened so that one cannot fail to enter the car comfortably at night These she glances at appraisingly. Put her deepest concern shows in her questions concerning the motor. How does the cup and ball clutch work? She daintily lifts up the hood, and looks at all the mysterious insides, and understands their working per fectly.
 Even Grant:rnoIl,cr Knows All
 About It.
 ''Dinerential." carburetor. magneto.
 These are not merely the names of things which Whir inside the car. but she knows all about them, as the dem onstratOr discovers when she gently belts him with most intelligent ques- tions. She is young and pretty, but she can run, can tear apart and put to- gether again her own roadster and the big limousine. She turns to her mother a quiet and charming representative of that new species, the young grand. mother.
 She, too, knows all about it, even though she would not care to crawl under the car to see what the trouble with it was. My dear, it is very good. But it is really far too big for a town car, and it is too fast. You know you would be arrested every day or so, if you did not ruin it in trying to throt tie it down to city speed. Be reason a ble.' Her daughter sighed, but ac- the point. Well then, I'm going to have an S-cylinder car"
 Of course there are survivals of the old type, those who fly to the funny thing that whirls around and makes
 
 "Is that what the inside of a car looks like? Why do they paint those pieces such a pretty blue? How do they keep the white clean? Is that what a car buretor looks like. thought it would look terribly different from that"
 Buying Car for the Farm.
 But there are more than any other type the serious women who need mo- tor cars and whose husbands need their help in the management of them. Per haps they live on a farm, and then it is the actual wear and tear on the car that must be figured. These women, dressed in heavy furs, with gray hair pushed back with chiffon veils, stand heavily in groups before an automobile and talk over their future, from the wear that the tire is likely to have, the fuel that will be consumed to the solidity of the guard. They are the ones, the woman who forget the femi- inc side Of things when discussing a question of this sort, that the makers of cars now must consider
 They know that these women can't De fooled by merely pretty exterior, so .hey endeavor to entrap them with novel devices, such as the one-man cover, a top which even a woman can put on the car alone, in case of sud den storm. But even these do not represent the real issues.
 Sure" said one, 'tis underslung. Just look at the way she lies there. She must make a fine hill climber. But that system of feed l don't like. Come, Norah, we'll see what else they've got.' Surely no man was