PROTECTION AGAINST MOTOR-CARS
Sir,—I recently read with interest a letter in the Times from "A Cyclist since 1868." In it he announced his intention of carrying a tail-light in order to avoid being run into from behind. The idea is admirable, and my wife and I, as Pedestrians since 1826 and 1823 respectively, propose to wear two lamps each in future, a white and a red.
We are, however, a little exercised to know whether we should carry the white in front and the red behind, or vice versâ. For in walking along the right side of a road we shall appear on the wrong side to an approaching motor-car. Would it not therefore be better for us to have the tail-light in front. Your most humble and obedient servant,
Lux Præpostera.
P.S.—Would such an arrangement make us "carriages" in the eye of the law? At present we appear to be merely a sub-division of the class "unlighted objects."
Cure for Motor-Scorchers (suggested as being even more humane than the proposal of Sir R. Payne-Gallwey).—Give them Automobile Beans!
SLOW AND SURE
John. "I've noticed, miss, as when you 'as a motor, you catches a train, not the train!"