THE MOTORING HABIT.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 10 December 1908, Page 8

THE MOTORING HABIT.

On the whole, a motor-car furnishes "ilie best means'of getting ov r country roads. Tf you are with on: amateur ■ drirpr there will'be some added cxeitorment. T went up the Ngabaurang.T,

Gorge with an amateur driver, the other ' *day, and .when he got mixed up and unoortain over brakes and clutches and - • things, the experience was thrilling. If tho car got off -thVrofid- in places, if. AVould fall a hundred feet or mor^, pn:l • would fain get an easier pa+h out of the world .The mo+irincc habit s^on

becomes a mania, and a man always

wan<e! to go fi bit faster than he did "last time. I knew a. learned'lawyer' • *lown in Dunedm who.suffered-:.a'malig-nant attack of th-> motor-cycli'-n: mnrli. "Eo used to ride home at a dangerous and fearsome speed; but T d~n't think lie ever went fast enough to satisfy Tiimself. I don't know what would havo happened if 113 hadn't had a nervous breakdown. He:s a very temperate motorist now. For myself, I admit, that a' hot r>aco is chni'minsc wbilp 'it lasts. /It w>uld_"ba>exhilarating,-.ior,-Ixatahce.. to- career Across creation in an aeroplane. liv that .case, however,1 '"I;sKoul3 : iike iiiv drive to be ad,*>-3ct>e.rf-aa .possible. I'mV^ot itt-'dill inclined to">.ako liberties"-..'watli; jaeroplanesw ?.\: ;'lt doesn't seem'riglj!t,:7.; j ■ .:'■;<