Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-10-03
WAS LOTS OF FUN.
Verdict of Youngster Who Took
 Remarkable Ride.
curled Up Inside Automobile Tire Girl Rolled Down Steep Hill and
 Escaped Uninjured.

Alvan is only five and his sister Mill dred is seven. They live on the slope of great hill In Los Angeles, up which cars are drawn by a cable. The automobile road that winds to the summit describes the sweeping curves of the letter s. An electric car line runs past the foot of the hill, and the road that comes down from the sum- init crosses it to join Pasadena ave nue.
 One day the children were playing along the road, about three loops up from the bottom. where the road runs straight for half city block. Alvan had a wrench that lis father had bor- rowed. and was supposed to be carry two more loops to make, and then some stairs to climb to find the home of the wrench. It had taken an hour to come down three loops in their way of trav- cling, says the Youths Companion.
 At last conscience wakened in Mill dred. She snatched the wrench and, calling to Alvan to follow, began to run. She rounded the first half of the next loop. and stopped. Before her lay tire, lost off some hurrying auto- mobile.
 'Oh-eei" she said. Let's have some fun. Alvan. Set it up and let me get into it.''
 Obedient to the mandate of superior age, the boy struggled with the heavy tire. His sister dropped the wrench and gave helping hand. When the tire was standing properly erect, she turned 1t till 1t headed down the grade and began to insinuate foot into it's interior. Soon she stood, with one foot ahead of the other. inside the shell of rubber and canvas, her body bent and the top of her head against the casing. Pulling the flanges outward with both hands, she damned her head hard against the opening and the fianges gripped 1t. Then. with both hands clinging to the inner fanges. she gave the word to loyal little Alvan to Let it roll!'
 With as hard a push as his sturdy frame could give, the boy sent the rub Der hoop trundling down the steep grade. All of the turns on the grade are banked. As the tire rolled down to the first turn. 1t shot up on the banked part, wavered little. and : turned. At the outer curve 1t nearly went over, but swung just in time. So 1t went careering round the last two loops and shot out on straight line at the bottom, toward the car track.
 The motorman of car No. 1231. watching the track ahead. saw the tire whizzing down from his right. He laughed as he glimpsed it's upper rim above the bank of flowers. Then the tire shot out past the flowers, and he saw a curved. distorted body and a white face that whirled in rapid revo- lutions, with yellow hair streaming and skirts huttering.
 The passengers, who were not look ing ahead, wondered why the man threw on the air brake so abruptly that they bent double over backs of seats. They thought they would re- port him.
 The conductor and motorman jumped from the car and ran back. There, just across the track, lay the tire and a very dizzy little girl. Then women swarmed from the car, to pet and soothe. A careful examination re- vealed only one bruise-a skinned el- bow; and when the dizziness had passed, Mildred sat up with grin. 1@ko nR f,rvN oh nf< <3 want to do 1t again.
 That was not what her father said when he carried the tire up the hill and returned 1t to his neighbor, or what he thought when he found that