There are some people who feel justified, if sent up to town in a friend’s car, in giving the chauffeur as a tip the amount of the first-class railway fare for the distance. A tip decidedly should be given, but certainly not so large a one as this, in most cases, would figure out. If taken to town from a country house, or _vice versa_, and one travels in the car with one’s hostess, certainly no tip is necessary; nor should one be given if one goes for a drive with one’s hostess. Should a friend lend you a car for a day or a drive, a small tip is properly given; but if a friend lends you a car for a tour of some days, the proper thing is to offer to pay the chauffeur’s wages for the week. A tip on the top of this should depend on the manner in which the man serves you. I have mentioned all these different points because at some time or another they may be actual experiences of the woman who owns and drives her own car. I do not claim to be an authority on tipping. I distribute a good many gold and silver pieces during a year, but I tip for services rendered and use common sense about the amounts. I get the best of service everywhere. If every woman who drives her own car followed my rule in this respect the tipping nuisance would not be such a terrible thing after all. [Illustration: /* _Photo_ _Elliott & Fry_ */ MISS ISABEL SAVORY, WHO NOT ONLY DRIVES, BUT REPAIRS HER OWN CARS] DISTINGUISHED WOMEN MOTORISTES The Englishwoman at the Wheel--Her Skill in Mechanics and Map-reading--The Ladies’ Automobile Club--Some Noble Women Motoristes--Successful Competitors--Lady Racers at Brooklands--A “Motor Christening” There is no country in the world--not even France, where the motoring movement received its first real start and its keenest pursuit, nor America, where the fair sex is supposed to receive and to exercise its largest freedom--there is no country in the world in which woman may be seen at the helm of a motor-car so frequently as in England. Whatever the cause--whether it be due to a greater sense of security from annoyance on public roads or simply to superiority of pluck, the fact remains that women in England excel their sisters in other countries as greatly in motoring as in horsemanship.