Show FIGUREHEADS FOR AUTOS All Kinds of Suggestions Toward Toward Toward To To- ward Beautifying All Motor Cars Can the artist ever make malic anything of motors The attempt in this years year's academy Is la not encouraging That there really is a deficiency on the beauty side tide motorists are all of them uneasily conscious In point of oC beauty the homelessness hor is all loss The They have ha always felt Cell this At the beginning beginning beginning begin begin- ning the they meet one ono In tho the frankest franked t wa way Show us an any other form the motor motol can take that lint would look better than the carriage And boat hoat shape shape- were ivere suggested and swan suan motors and fishes But Dut fishes and boats boar on land would be as bizarre as the thc self moving coach cach and swans ashore are not nol graceful alt any uny wa way It could not be bedone bedone bedone done the thc horseless carriage had tn to bt be And It remains not funny nor noi foolish h. h nor necessarily ugly but certainly cr no beauty Why 11 Not nt FI Figurehead Can nothing be he do done dono no for It Vh not a figurehead Why h not have something that at an any rate represents represent something In th the tho place where the tilt beauty of the thin thing the horse used d to be What hat good would It Il be hc Well Veil no good to a man a who ho has no e eye eyl r What hat good was nas a figurehead to a ship Yet let for fOI appearance sake a car wants want wanta a figurehead more than a ship for fOl tin the ship form naturally converges In front to tn a beautiful finish I The clumsiest ship even the homely fishing makhaN smack mar has haN none non of oC the unpleasant effect produced produced produced pro pro- h by the tho abrupt off cut-off straight line that makes makl s a motors motor's front A motor suffers from having ln no nom nomy But every ever evor ship as OH every cry loco loco- locomotive motive engine has a distinct nom nomy And a figurehead would make male makeup makeup up UI for this pals deficiency In the thc motor But Dut figureheads somebody may say wc ro not merely ornamental In ships ships ships- thc they helped description and anI Identification tion Precisely cly and the they would dothe do dothe dothe the t tame same for motors a consideration which will perhaps appeal store more to the public than to the tho motorist p. p Arms or 01 Crr Crest t t for fur But think what a n field this thiN opt opens up Ul for heraldry Arms and und crusts crests which now note have o none but antiquarian significance become alive the they might almost bo ho useful There would bt- bt quite good sense e in a mans man motor motol carry carrying his his bis crest as UH a CL figurehead What hat an opening for the tho n new w t snob nob ob What glory to be bo able to mount a life liCe sized golden eagle contemplating the sun un or rather the tho clouds cloud In England Or a golden olden lion erect rampaging fiercely in the tho air There in is the thc danger CI The rich end cad would KO so flaunt his figurehead that gentlemen would wouldn be shy h of or showing 01 one But for COl once o let leI the decent people hold their own und and decline to be pushed off th the road b by the vulgar hustler A standard of I J I I good taste would grow grow row up and become established From the point of view of or appearance appearance appear appear- ance figureheads artistically wrought and ard filled would bo capable of oC great things An ea eagle I wings full spread a brilliant hulte butterfly lI a n winged griffin grimn paradise bird thero there Is room for endless variety of oC design The emulation among among motorists would be he great We Va could have shows of figure t heads Think of the work for Cor artists to design theta them and the industry their making would stimulate Would rouM the they Interfere with speed That should depend on their fitting mUng to the car the they hould should not Of course If IC a man in hi his zeal to be conspicuous puts on a colossal golden elephant his speed will he retarded but a reasonable Pegasus say with wings wing's drawn back at a rIghtangle right rightangle rightangle angle to cut the air would be no encumbrance Saturday r Review |