The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-15
Eyes, the Gender Of the Automobile is She, :" Says
Doy Ana ne ere OF M Inc IRE IVY lazy W+ 81
By DOLLY DALRyMPLE

III may be that engines ana motors
and magnetos and carburetors and
tires and things were originally in
tended for men and mems minds, but
the modern automobile and the modern
time, especially if it happens to be a
Lee Puncture-Proof Tire is built large
Is for mems wives.
The good old days are gone-the days
when man dragged his unwilling spouse
to- see the machinery when he spent
the evening on his knees or on his head
examining unrelated parts of car, when
the unwilling spouse took out her knit
ting and promptly looked bored to death
over anything connected with an auto
mobile and asked unrelated questions
about machinery in general
Times have changed since then; the
war has come and made women indie
pendent; men have gone in doves and
flocks into the army; chauffeurs have
been drawn upon heavily; suffrage has
emancipated women from the old tradi-
tons that she is singing vine and
must be served by men; these are days
indeed when the husband of the family
plays the important role of wallet
the automobile question, when his pres
ence is not necessary as it used to be
before My Lady could step her dainty
feet into the big touring car and he
jumped in with his hand to the wheel;
indeed nowadays his purchasing power is
the only power that he has left be-
cause woman, lovely woman" has be-
come her own driver, her own mechanic
and her own boss" if you please, in the
automobile game
1t is the women today whom YOU see
at the wheel of the big cars; it is the
women today whom you sec "treking"
by automobile over the country-thanks
to the good roads" movement-it is
the women today whom you see volun-
teering as ambulance drivers in the ar
mics of these great United States; and
1t is the women today who must PASS
upon matters concerning automobiles! for
this nice, modern commodity has been
'christened' in the feminine gender and
she holds sway Ger all womankind.
NOW What every woman knows who
has ever driven an automobile. is that
-puncture; punctures rob motoring Of
half It's pleasure, and changing tires is
not exactly in line with even the up-to-
gate, modern Woman's accomplishments.
the annoyance of getting out of ones car
and throwing aside good looking auto
mobile toys and raking out tools and
things and pumping and perspiring and
getting peevish and looking red in the
race and with the powder all off OF
with woman, lovely woman's, idea of
a real pleasant automobile ride. and so.
OF course, My Lady" wasn't going to
be Inconvenience very long. because
knowing the chivalry of mere man. she
knew somebody would come along with
"Puncture-Proof Tire" and sure
enough out of Pandora's box jumped the
perfection Of all arts in the tire line
the Lee Puncture- Proof Tire"
Somebody had told me about these
tires-in fact, lot Of people had-and
SO after the fashion of newsgatherers. 7
was peerng around the other dav TO
see what | could find and accidentally
dropped into the Perry. Supply company.
where Mr.. Tunstall Perry, the capable
president OF the company, and Mr. p NJ
Smith, the company's popular vice pres
ident,s and AIR. S. p. Fowlkes, secre-
tary-treasurer, were all busy with big or
uefs-ior the very Identical thing that
I ! was looking for information concern
ing.
Now, most people know that I am
not the sort Of person who'd be finding
romance in anything as big and gray
and round and unappealing looking as a
tire, but when tell you that / got so
interested in the article--or garment-or
what dye call it? Nou See I'm used to
writing about lingerie and silk stockings
and ''pretties" and things. and I don't
know exactly what terms to use about
a mere t1re) but anyway, I was tremen-
dously interested, and 1 found out a lot
OF things about this important wearing
apparel of Madame Automobile" one
of which is that the Lee Tire and Rub
Der company, for a long time has sue
cessfully manufactured puncture- proof
pneumatic tire. This tire is exactly what
the name implies-a puncture- proof pneu-
matte tire, made so by Embedding in
strips of pure rubber and fabric, layers