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82 accompany road travel in the summer-time, and the cold winds of winter, may be excluded. Dust may set up irritation in the eyes and cause serious trouble, while driving in cold weather with the eyes unprotected may lead to similar conditions. It is a very good plan on returning from a dusty drive to wash the eyes by means of an appropriate eye-glass with a weak solution of boracic acid. Any respectable chemist can supply a solution of the proper strength to be used diluted with warm water. I always have a solution at hand in my dressing-room for the purpose.

Another chapter in this book deals with the question of dress, but I should like to impress upon those who adopt the luxury of motoring that it is better to be too warmly clad than insufficiently clad. A drive when one feels cold and fatigued may result in 'a chill,' which usually means a cold or cough more or less severe. Those who are learning to drive should be careful not to be out for long periods whilst they are beginners, as the strain of driving may cause unnecessary and harmful exhaustion. When, however, a driver becomes familiar with his car and driving becomes automatic this exhaustion entirely disappears. Of this, I must admit that I have no experience, having invariably relegated all the management of my car to an experienced driver, and reserved to myself the freedom of enjoying the incidents of the road and the scenery—may I say, otium cum dignitate?