The Archive · 1907

THE' MOTOR SIR

No small part of the ill-will which moter-ears aroused' on' "their first appearance -in-England—for nervous irritation is almost proverbially harder to bear than material injury—sprang from their drivers' unnecessarily loud and repeated, use of the horn... But it.bas been left. to. motorists in China ta invent " far more, objectionable means of cleating their way. The siren is not. leautiful..even. in. its legitimate use among shipping, except. perhaps when it is heard at a great. distance which, lends it a certain melancholy picturesques ness. On a country road. it. is equally unjustifiable and auendurable.to bath cars and nerves; and it is. sincerely.

hoped that.thove mutoriste, happily:

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