El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-02-14

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you sign up a order blank for a car
you don't know what you are going
to get but you know what you or
dered and sometimes what you
finely get Il pretty near like It and
Z that is where the surprise comes IN
For instants. last summer, when I
I had past up the car that 1 would
Iof 5oughten II hadn't tried to drive
III first and pretty near choked to
death on my knee, why then I went
I in OF the show rooms OF OF the
{ best makes, a car that is bilt so
that man over It, tall can drive
il, and signed my name on the
blank and payed so much down in
advance and they asst me what special
] features ! wanted and says I want a
I kind Of light dark blue body and
/ tan brown wire wheels ana tan
brown upholstery TO match the wheels
and so and so tires.
He Was Surprised
Well you haven't no idear how
surprised I was when I finely got the
car with a stock color body and black
wooden wheels and black uphol-
stery to match the wheels and such
and such tires. The surprise layed
in the fact that the car was the
some make as what I ordered Those
is the kind OF things that renders
buying a car so interesting as it is
Just like the Old days when you set
down and wrote santa Claus a let
ter and said what you wanted for
xmas. but when II finally come time
TO look into your stocking You was
srre 70 find something that tickled
you TO death but nothing ike what
you asst him for
As for me giving my readers ad-
vice on how 70 lern TO drive your
car after you get z hold Of il. why
they can't be no fixed rules layed
i Hm 81
different parts Of the country For
instants where I live in Connecticut
before you can get a license, you
half to take a drivers examination
and you are supposed to study up in
a book and find out what is the
penaltys for different violations OF
the law and be able to tell them
when they question you Out in
Illinois you don't take no test. but
the Judge gives you all that infor-
nation a piece at time
The Difference.
Out west you stop at a garage
and say Gimme 10 gals OF gas and
a at. OF OIL But in New York state
you stop in front Of a grocery store
and say can you spare me 10 gals
OF gas and a ct OF oil II Il isn't too
much trouble2' On the eastern roads
in cold weather you can drive with
! hand and keep the other in your
pocket. but out west you have TO
drive with / hand and hold onto the
wheel with the other TO keep it from
bounceing out OF the car
However. east or west. they's
nothing like IL and they viii be
more cars than ever on the roads
this comeing u. what with all the
millionaire J. ". ". buying them.
but don't let that scare you out Of
buying I for yourself because vile
the increased number Of cars may
jam up the roads a little. IL won't
lie no harder 70 drive because as I
say most OF US is going TO be sober
Besides witch II has been this
birds experience that most Of the
smashes comes when they's the lease
traffic abroad About 3 mos after
I had boughten my first horselest
carriage I got the cute idear at
o'clock morning that Il would be
nice TO drive out TO the Wayside inn
witch was a place about IS miles
put side OF Chi and I don't know how
10 describe IL only II wasn't q church
when One Travels
Well when 1 landed out there the
m was all lit up like a cemetery
lut 1 went Up and banged on the
ioor and finely a waiter let me IN
md lighted q candle IN the parler
md went back 10 sleep vile l en-
owed a few hours practice on the
,iano. Well I got back in Chi be-
ween : in the morning and come
Jack TO Lawrence's ave and they
rzs only 1 vehicle besides myself
N the SITS and this was LaWrence6
we. St car and you would think
Fhen they was only 2 vehicles rome
NJ around in a town as Dig as chi
rhv the odds would be about a mil
ion to ! that they wouldn't nit eacn
,ther. But on this occasion the long
hot win and when I regained con-
Iclousness and asst for my car they
w1HHH y NJ
N X than Aphoditey- The BODY ano
he TOP and so forth was all on Lne
4 car going west
On another occasion was out
al-inz the air on Mich Az some
where's between in the morning
.ise on the st. but the lamp posts
ticking up in the middle Of It but
he one at the Intersections OF Mich. !
md 13 St jumped right out IN 'front.' /
II me and bit off a wire wheel 50 I
7ou see Il isn't the jams witch causes /
he danger but II is just some piece |
II carelessness like on the part OF the /
z. car OF the lamp post that had theiI 1
mind on something else
No Special Advice.
They's no special advice I can give i
lew beginners on how to avoid these /
accidents only to say use your head /
ike the fellow i remember reading
bout In Chi that was driveing ! night i
ords ] OF those bridges acrost the I
liver that when they's a bot comeing 4
through it razes Up In the middle
witch is split open TO give the boat a
nance TO go through without bump
lg its bean. Well this guy didn't
ear the bell ring or something and
e was pretty near the middle OF the
ridge before he seen that the section
le was on was getting pretty billy but
! was to late to stop himself so he Z
haw a. Nha ehn rr~nnrna ~mlrn I
nd she lept over the gap and lit on
he other section and then he throwed
n the brakes and stopped before he
OF 70 the bottom OF the down hill !
ide- Some Of his friends kind Of
inted afterwards that when he
leuat TO step on the brake witch
Tould o. been kind OF fatal but any
-ay he got away with the story in
he papers Critics may point out
hat this guy used his foot instead
his head but some peoples brains
} located IN different places the same
8 their diseases.
what a Beginner should Do.
One OF the first things that the new
eginner should out to do when you
ct hold o. your car IL throw a lot
things out OF Il like the tools and |
he curtains that don't do no good and
lst weight the car down and make
heavier. The curtains is one Of
le best practicle jokes connected
18th motor life. II you want to have
ie factory put them up when you
rst get your machine and then leave
lem up why well and good People /
lat rides in the car won't be able to
se none OF the scenery but II they I
cen over IN same roads befor why
hat Is tn differents2 But don't never
ct the idear that curtains is going
help you out for a emergency like
the case Of a storm because II the