Show I Beauty Most Graceful Creature of of Snake Animal Kingdom Ity 1111 STGfSON CItAWFORD Arllol II1J I beauty of the snake has multi now been overlooked by most T people 1 Only lie artists havo realized it and yet it cannot he said that they havo employed it to any great extent because of the unpopularity of the subject However tho Lnocoon group in which the father nnd his two sons arc struggling in the coils of the serpents is one of the most famous of Greek sculptures The Death of Cleopatra and Salammbo are also two well lcmouvu masterpieces of painting which represent rep-resent the snake with great power and beauty The snake is the most graceful creature of the animal kingdom It has no angles no crude postures no ungainly proportions It is the I double curve of beauty incarnate The coloring of many reptiles is i unusually splendid While often its it-s very somber because the snake takes the coloring of its surroundings such as the green of the foliage the gray of he rocks the brown of the earth it is always soft and harmonious The shadings arc often exquisite Many a snake possesses a head hat is a revelation in the detail of its markings 1 can only wonder that more attention has not been paid by writers nnd nrtists to this remarkable creature |