Wrong Lever Mania

A Philadelphia physician says that seven out of ten automobilists occasionally suffer from a disease which he calls "wrong motor mania." "There are generally-I may say always-in an automobile three levers, one to steer with, one to go fast with and the other to stop short. And the victim, the poor sufferer, in this deadly crisis forgets which is which in the matter of levers, decides to guess and pulls, naturally, the wrong one. That is why, in an acute attack of wrong lever mania, Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs, at Newport last summer, drove over a stone wall, up a flight of marble steps and through the stained glass windows of the music room of a friend. It is why Alfred Vanderbilt went swiftly in an automobile phaeton down one of the cliffs backward into the sea, and it is why Harry Lehr, in a petroleum T cart, completely demolished a greenhouse of glass. We have not found a remedy."