Arizona republican., 1921-04-10
INSPECT YOUR
 TIRES BEFORE
 STARTING TOUR

The Sunday on which the family were gonig on the first of their reg ular spring and summer weekly out ings turned out to be a beautiful day.
 The whole family were up early; father and Bill out in the back yard greasing up the car while mother and Jane got breakfast and put up the picnic lunch. Mother and Jane had lot of fun putting up the lunch. There was a big surprise in 1t for father and Bill. Something they were very secret and mysterious about that was to cause a sensation when, reposing in the place of honor in the middle Of the snowy white lunch cloth, the cover was lifted off the dish. Then there was cake that Jane had baked herself that would probably interest Harry, who had been invited to go along. 1s
 Father and Bill had their own little surprise, too. They had refused to tell where the picnic was going to be. They hinted at all sorts of de- lightful possibilities in the place they were going to take the party and said to be sure and bring bathing suits and to wear heavy shoes for climbing which combination only added to the mystery, but they refused to tell the location
 As father turned up the last grease cup. the condition of the right rear tire forced itself on his notice and he remarked on it to Bill
 q hope I don't have any tire trouble today, Bill. This right rear looks about all in and our spare is crippled. If this one blows out, we are apt to be up against it."
 T know" answered Bill. q told you Wednesday that we ought to be getting a couple of new castings and tubes-s
 1 .sYes, I know you did. but thought maybe we could get a few hundred miles more out of these. I wish l had though, now
 An hour later the gay little party was on its way ful lof the intoxicat- ing spirit of the marvellous spring 1 day. Jokes flew back and forth; :; i father offered to trade a hint about ] wrere they were going for a hint about what was in the lunch, but his proposition was turned down.
 They had gone about 20 miles and were rolling through a ten-mile stretch of rather uninteresting coun- try bare of. trees and uncultivated. Bill who was driving, was burning | up the road to get through this un- interesting part into more attractive parts. Father had just started to
 warn him that it was pretty hot, though cool enough driving, and he
 better remember the weak tire, when
 the tire did it's own warning. Bang,
 1 Well, to make a long unpleasant
 story short. the spare, when the jack
 was down, promptly flattened out
 with a tired sigh. The car was
 lacked up again and the inner tube
 changed in the spare and it was
 pumped up by a hot breaking work
 All the men were hot, dirty and mad
 The tube which had laid under the
 rear seat for a year refused also to
 bear the weight of the car.
 Happy, cheery motorists bound or
 voyages of adventure rolled by or
 good tires and smilingly waved con-
 dolences.
 Lunch time came and lunch was
 eaten in heavy silence, sitting in the
 crippled car by the roadside. The de- lightful surprise was consumed by father without comment. Harry said he guessed he didn't want any cake Father said he had intended taking them to a place he had heard oi where the mountains came down tc the sea and there were caves to ex- plore and everything, but he guessed they would be lucky if they got bach home without walking
 They limped back home on flat tire, and thus ended an imperfect per feet day.
 That" says J. A. Shaulis. brancf manager Of the Western Auto Supply company. distributors of India ant