Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Milady's Motoring
BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.

The traffic Officer is the only person
qualified to say whether or not you
are a convincing talker.
If your car carries a luggage rack,
better keep it folded up and property
secured. 1t is an invitation for chill
dren to jump on when you are picking
up your own after school. An I'M
fastened carrier will suddenly drop if
grasped and may seriously injure any
child who tries to steal ride on the
back OF your car as you pull away
from the curb.
A special gas-electric car, owned by
the son of the late Hetty Green, has
windshield and top double the usual
height. Which brings to mind the diff
ficulty many women experience when
getting into the low-top cars of today.
Note. however, that it is the getting in
rather than the getting out, that
causes the trouble. for herein lies the
explanation. Many Of the loading
platforms at hotels and clubs are too
high for modern machines.
The weeks safety thought concerns
the Importance of watching intersec-
tions where cars approach at angles Of
less than 80 degrees. At night the
other car may seem invisible, because
it has no side lighting to distinguish
it. Its headlight rays appear as those
from your own car.
This is the season Of year when the
engine shows a strong disposition to
complain about starting. Because the
garage is unheated these cool Fall
mornings cranking may be more diff
cult than later on in the Winter. A
word OF precaution, however, to women
who seek a remedy for the seasonable
situation. Don't let mechanic adjust
the carburetor for too rich mixture
This will speed the start, but the motor
will then waste gas the rest of the
day, which. in Fall, may be warm. Dc
not, of course attempt to run, on a
Midsummer mixture, but you can aid
starting effectively by seeing that the
battery is we'll charged and that the
mechanic cleans and adjusts the break
er points.
A woman writes me to say that her
husband is on the point of signing uI
behind the times mechanically. He
appears to be afraid to learn to op-
crate cars with advanced features
When you learn to drive he'll be Diff
ferent," I tcld her.
And to her astoniShed query as tt
how knew she didn't drive 1 replied
that the trouble in her family is due tc
lack OF competition. I know one man
who is enthusiastic over a new driving
feature because he thinks his wife isn't
experienced enough to use it correctly.
Choosing colors is a difficult task al
best. especially when the subject il
considered merely from the standpoint
OF taste. The psychologists, however
are offering to help us cut. They view
green, for instance, as an energizinl
component and point out that white
"heightens the sensation of light anc
reflects cleanliness" Orange has high
visibility and in motoring. as well as
in factory work, can be utilized to pre-
vent accidents.
"Please tell me how an intake silencer
on an engine actually Silences?" writes
woman who evidently aspires to be
the great emancipation or women who
must listen to the distressing howls OF
vacuum cleaners.
It's little technical. but the general
idea Is to make one sound wave neu-
tralize another. The roar from the en-
CINE originates in the intake. BY send
ing into the intake sound waves which
are out Of step with those coming out
we get balancing silence. Thus
the silencer itself has to generate sound
waves and Is accordingly built of multi
pie chambers and tubes. Furthermore
1t has to be designed to operate with