New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1918-11-01
F|RES|DE talk
OF AUTOMOBILE
No Longer Devoted to Prolonged
and Delightful "reminiscences
of Family Horse.
SMALL CAR SOON FORGOTTEN
Machines Have Grown Larger and
Latest Vehicle 10 seven-Passenger,
Six.cyIinder Affair, Entire
ly Up to Date.

Already the automobile has become
the vehicle Of family history. You
know how it used to be. how the fam
lily was forever recalling the days OF
Old Pet. or Selim, and how the men,
ton of the old family horses inspired
prolonged and delightful reminIs-
cences in which the family story
logged along behind the memories of
the bays and the blacks and the grays
we used to drive. You remember the
peculiar understanding that existed
between mother and Old Pet, the gray
that had a crooked tail. Mother never
would drive any other horse. and cried
when the crooked tail was trimmed
into an absurdity in an effort to make
1t look straight.
Memories Of Gray Mare.
You did not care much for Old ret
yourself, perhaps, for she was m am
bling sort of creature; hut those Sat-
urday morning drives In the country,
with mother holding the reins, had
a charm that fingers about the men,
cries of that little gray mare. AS for
Selim. mother never understood the
dainty blacks impetuOus ways. and
could not be persuaded to drive him.
BY the time Red became the family
horse the children were beginning to
drive by themselves and not Just hold
the ends Of the reins, and 1t Is a Won
der that Red lasted as long as he did.
He was a tough one, though. that slen-
der, black.nosed little bay, and kept
his WI independence through many
years Of trials that would have less
ened the courage Of another horse.
Queen. the big dappled c~ream-colored
mare with the wavy white name and
tail, came after Rod, and you remem.
Der that father almost sold her to ev-
cry circus that came to town; and
then Boy was the last and perhaps the
best of them all. He was a real
horse, father used to say. Boy came
from Kentucky, and was as proud and
as gentle and as gay and as wise as
a thoroughbred should be.
Automobiles to Fore.
That is the way the story used to
travel. Now it goes by automobiles,
and they seem somehow to take the
family along more swiftly and through
stranger ways. There was not so
much difference, after all, between
Old Pet and Boy, but the new automo-
bile seems in no way related to the
funny, little, long-handled first one.
And while the family grew very slow
ly during the years Of the family car
rage. 1t has become, with weddings
and colleges and professions, smaller
and smaller with the most unpleasant
rapidity during the years it has trav-
eled In automobiles. That narrow
chested, complaining, lOng-handled lit
tie one was very soon forgotten In the
possession Of a grand affair into which
we crawled by way Of the back door,
and which wearied us all with its fuss
and noise. That n was turned in
for, Of course, there Is no pleasant pas
ture for WORKOUT autOmObiles-as
first payment on q secondhand tour.
ing car, a remarkable creation that
was forever losing Its parts and get
ting along Just as well without them.
After that the family rejOiced in the
possession Of a .brand-new car. only
to be convinced. before the year was
over. that there wasn't really any use
at all in having an automobile If it
was not at least u s!x-cylinder
And so as the family has grown small
er, the latest vehicle Of the family
history being a seven-passenger six
cylinder machine that would have
Old Pet out of her wits.