Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-19
Milady's Motoring
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.
A hero is man who says he feels
entirely comfortable when wife has the
wheel in traffic and a heroine is the
woman who makes him feel he's telling
the truth.
Have you ever driven for quite a
while only to discover that you forgot
to let off the emergency brake? And
did you feel that your neglect called
for a trip to the service station? II
so, you probably worried needlessly. 1t
may encourage carelessness to suggest
this, but the truth is that with internal
expanding emergency brakes the bands
quickly expand away from the shoes
through friction heat, so that the mis-
take never is as serious as 1t seems.
Many things may cause the engine
to stall and refuse to start again With
out coaxing But you can determine
If the trouble Is lack of gasoline merely
by cranking the engine and noting II
there is smell Of gas. The exhaust
should be emitting unburned gas vapor
If there is fuel in the tank.
It should be of special interest to
women to know that one Of the newest
devices to kill glare of headlights Is
built on the principle that II you look
through dark screen you are not so
likely to be blinded. wonder If any
woman has experimental with wells to
see if they can be used prof1tably IN
this connection.
"a MI IVY e.
to climb a hill In second instead OF
high. Tests show that a lower gear
is more economical in more instances
that the average driver suspects. With
the modern car, high" is more eco
nomical if you can keep the speed over
Is miles an hour.
What with lady's cigarette burning
up the Los Angeles automobile show
and the Chicago agency of leading
make of car being managed by q
woman who thinks nothing of ordering
| 800 machines at clip, it begins to
look of if trumping your partners ace
doesn's have quite the same Importance
| in the newer scheme Of things.
Sometimes mention Of the most
| technical of matters in connection with
cars helps to clear up doubts regarding
some of the things every driver ought
to know about. This thought recently
came to me when woman asked what
was meant when an engine was re-
! ferred to as "four-cycle."
| I explained that this classified the
engine as to a general type. The
| "cycles" refer to the functions Of the
pistons. In a -four cycle" engine Of
any number of cylinders, for instance
each piston goes through four major
| functions as follows:
Going downward it sucks in fresh
charge of gas. Coming up 1t compresse!
this charge. Then comes a spark from
the respective spark plug, igniting the
gas and sending the piston downward
again on a power stroke. The mex
upward move Is the exhaust stroke
| when the piston forces the burned ga!
out the exhaust pipe.
Aiming his message at American
women a manufacturer recently sale
in praise of his new model: Great
broad, sweeping Bots de Boulogne fen
derS-cushions from the Palais Roya
high, narrow radiator from thu
Champs Elysees-board doors suggested
and demanded by women who know
those new, small, sturdy wheels-thos'
real fat tires" There is rumor t.
the effect that the car carries ar
engine.
A woman does not need to know al
the ms and outs of the engine lubri
eating system to be suspicious of thu
three-year- car that does not seen
to use much oil. When an engine i
worn much of the fluid in the crank
case that registers as oil is apt to b.
raw gasoline that has worked by thu
pistonS.
One thing milady can do to protec
the finish of the family car Is to hav'
coverings hung on the inside of TIT
garage doors if the glass is clear. I
car stands in garage with door
facing the sun the finish on the baci
will soon fade.
If the car gets stuck in the muc
so that the rear wheels spin arounC
don't invite your passengers to get out
Their weight is helpful in getting trac'
ton. One reason for the wheel spin
ming is because too much power is be
ing transmitted to the rear end. Shift
to second gear and keep the emergenc!
brake partly on.
Copyright 1929 by The Russell service)