Evening star., 1932-05-01

One way to keep your new car look
ing right is always to park it between
two other new cars.
She thought she was making quite
a confession of incompetency when
volunteering the information at a din
ner party that she always picked easy
places to park even if this meant that
she had to walk a couple of blocks
to do her errandS. AS a matter of
fact, this is rather good policy. The
less difficult the parking the more
strain there is on the car.
The impression seems to be general
that where a car is equipped with an
automatic control of the clutch it Is
not possible to leave the machine in
gear when parking There are two
reasons why you need entertain no
such fear. There Is no intake suction
when the engine is stopped and there
fore, no automatic clutch action. And,
secondly, you can always return to
conventional clutch action. 1t varies
with different cars, but is simple
enough process on any Of them.
I mention this because when the
hand brake of her new car failed to
hold a woman drove on until she could
find a level parking space. Some one
had passed along to her the misin-
formation that she could not leave
the car in gear because it was equipped
with the new clutching principle.
Some of the things we do to save
a penny rather prove that P. T. Barnum
had the right idea. You would have
thought the same had you witnessed the
sight Of woman running into the curb
in her haste to park the car and pur-
chase two pounds of butter at a re-
duction of cents. II the right front
axle wasn't sprung by this procedure
I'm poor observer.
incidentally, if you are having trouble
with the car steering poorly try to
think back over those penny-saving
expeditions. Check over those hur-
ried parkings for the basic reasons for
many a trouble that drains the pocket
book and spoils your pleasure drives.
Better STILL curb the haste that makes
for waste. Brakes themselves can be
damaged by too sudden application,
quite aside from the extra wear on the
tires and strain on the car.
Women who have to find separate
places for their keys and the car or
operators license should be interested
in the new combination key and
license holder 1t is small, smart and
serviceable. One of its best features
is that to use the keys it is not nee
essary to unfold the section containing
licenses.
Now that we're getting out on the
open road again for communion with
nature it may be well to know that
your wrist watch comes in handy to
help you find your directions 1t
serves as a compass if you merely
hold the timepiece horizontally in
front of you and then turn it so that
the numerals denoting II o'clock are
pointing at the sun. An imaginary
line drawn from the center of the
watch to halfway between II o'clock
and the hour hand gives you north.
You then know that as you face north
your right hand points East while
your left hand points west. Why not
cut out this paragraph and tuck it
away somewhere in the car for fu-
ture reference?
This reminds me of the story of two
women who were lost in the backWoodS.
Every time the driver stopped to read
road signs, to check her directions or
to make inquiry she switched of the
engine.
why DON'T you let the motor rum
asked her companion. Suppose you
couldn't recrank it,"
Suppose we run out of gas" the
other retorted. Five minutes of idling
is a miles worth of fuel lost"
If you have to buy more gas than
friend husband even though you don't
use the car any more than he does,
maybe it's because you haven't learned
that it costs more to travel in the ex-
tremes of speed. Women, as rule, are
either using the car for shopping expe-
ditions or for going places usually in
hurry. Short runs with frequent stops
eat up gas because the motor is always
running too cool and you have to use
the choke more freely And If you drive
up in the fifties when dashing out to
meet a luncheon engagement at tea