Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — THE AUTO [ARTICLE]

THE AUTO

(By Walt Mason.)

The auto fills a long-felt want, for it enables us to jaunt far from the city streets, and we can breathe the country air, and hear the toil-worn farmer swear, and watch him husking beets. Before the auto made its bow, we seldom looked upon a cow, or saw a setting hen; and all we knew of babbling brooks, and sylvan dells, we learned from books, writ by some weary pen. The country seemed far away! And when we'd toiled, the long, sad day, we could not journey there; we stifled in our dismal rooms, amid the city’s smells and fumes, and longed for country air. The auto’s brought the country near; and from our foreheads dis appear the furrow and the frown, and we can take our wilting wives and put some sunshine in their lives by jogging out of town. Oh, we can seek the rural vales, and see the cattle wag their ffcils, and hear the roosters crow; and we can drink the country breeze, and wind our car around the trees, and chortle as we go. The auto is a boon to men; it’s making old gents young again, it keeps us all enthused; it makes each day a holiday, it drives the cares of life away—when it is sanely used.