Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — CHOOSING AUTOMOBILES [ARTICLE]

CHOOSING AUTOMOBILES

A prominent automobile manufacturer is authority for the statement printed in Leslie's Weekly that women decide upon the purchase of seventy-five per cent, of the fine motor cars sold in America. The cheaper cars are usually purchased by beginners in automobiling, and in such cases the husband’s judgment usually prevails, the wife having no experience to go upon. Women are likely to pay More attention to the smooth-riding qualities of the tonneau than men are, because they more frequently occupy it, and it is a fact that an easy-riding tonneau usually means a well-built car. Women are also less tolerant than men of mechanical defects which result in breakdowns. Many npen rather enjoy a stop on the road for repairs, in making which they may exhibit their mechanical skill; but to moot women such a stop is irksome and rather humiliating. If the department of agriculture keeps on with its wretched investigations it will leave us not a single little delicacy of the table to fall back on. It now discovers bensoata of soda in the groat American pie.— Pittsburg Despatch. Chancellor McCracken of Now York university, objects to richly endowed universities on the ground that they are bound to be tied to some vicious Influence, /th, Chicago; they're all jealous of you. Ohio’s Attorney-General says ho wants "to keep corporations in the State and see to It that they obey the laWs of the BUte.” No State asks more than this, and it does not MM& IUMTWAMNUIbiOI