Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
MILADY'S
MOTORING
BY FREDERICK c. RUSSELL.

Cooperation in driving Is Q fine
thing, but 1t Is well to avoid the road
hogs who meet you more than half way.
Women who experience difficulty
turning around the driveway or get
ting into the garage will be interested
TO know that there 10 new-style
turntsble on the market. It is entirely
automatic. You simply run upon it
and allow the engine to idle. This
action Of the motor turns the table
to any desired direction.
A lot Of trouble in pulling out Of
snow, after having parked. IS due to
impotence. The driver is 50 deeply
concerned about the imprisonment Of
the wheels that she forgets to allow
the engine to idle until 1t warns UP
Tor work. The trick In keeping wheels
from spinning when starting OF is to
apply power as gently as possible, but
this cannot be done If the engine is
50 cold 1t continually stalls.
When an attractive but tipsy young
woman recently drove her car head
long into the rear Of q chauffeur
driven car stopped at an intersection
there were the usual comments con-
corning our younger generations de-
generation. The fact that the occu-
pants Of neither car were more than
shaken up q bit, however, was iust
another reminder to the woman driver
that 1t pays to collide squarely If an
impact cannot be avoided. Most sober
drivers unwisely try to steer out and
TOO often upset or 60 into q fatal skid.
One Of the most annoying things to
the woman driver is to have her car
start TO buck" Yet all she need do
to stop this is to press the clutch pedal
to the floor. Often when she accel-
crates and allows the clutch pedal to
come up again the engine is ready to
pull smoothly.
woman who reads these obserya-
lions on the feminine side Of car care di-
gested some Of the high points Of the
ammeter and promptly started to Dor
row trouble. Too low q charging rate.
she understood indicated that the gem
orator output was insufficient to keen
the battery UP to par. The observation
was made in daytime at normal road
speed when there would not be other
reasons to account for the failure of the
emmeter indicator to rise TO the proper
charging point.
At the service station they discovered
that the pointer was rubbing against
the dial. This often happens I nave
seen pointers stick way over on the dis
charge side and worry drivers into
thinking they have real trouble on their
hands.
A Milwaukee girl. Miss Billie de We're,
claims the distinction OF being the
champion auto endurance driver of her
sex. She drove one of the new cars
continuously for 120 hours. or q distance
1
Milwaukee State Fair PARK. The re-
port that the average speed for the
event was Is miles per hour, however.
lacks the feminine touch.
Probably because they have been in
volVed in more accidents and have
learned that being within the law to
us last letter counts most in court, ex-
pertenced man drivers try never to place
their cars In what might be termed un-
lawful positions. l was reminded Of
this on seeing Q woman cut across to
the wrong side Of the street with the
thought Of picking up friends. Had any
one collided with her under these cir
cumstances she would have been at a
serious disadvantage In any sort Of legal
proceedings.
Don't let the man at the filling sta
ton initiate the spares to the same pres
sure as the tires on the car Spares
should always be carried at about 10
pounds more than the tires in use 50
that even II their valves leak Q little
they will be ready for service in an
emergency and have more nearly the
proper pressure.
With Eve leading makes Of cars al
ready In the ring with the mechanical
innovation known as free wheeling" It
Is time for the woman driver TO know
that this doesn't refer to q gratis DEM
onstrat on. When q car free wheels
it Is simply coastins. but in the ar
rangement used for this purpose the
thing is accomplished automatically and
not through pressing the clutch pedal
to the floor. Every time the cars mo-
mentum exceeds the power requirements
a car equipped with free-wheeling de-
vice will start TO coast If the driver lifts
her foot from the accelerator pedal.