Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1914 — AUTOMOBILE MASCOTS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AUTOMOBILE MASCOTS.

SL Christopher One Favorite Design “"-—Comic Figures of Many Kinds. Automobile mascots are growing hi; popularity and in variety in London. Already a form of etiquette has grown up as to the carrying of an automobile mascot It must be attached to the cap of tbe radiator and the material must be solid -brass or aluminum picked out with enamel. Many English automoblllsts hare adopted the Continental patron saint St Christopher, who Is represented bearing a lamb in his arms and picking his way across a stream. But there are countless other badges of a less dignified and more humorous order. The comic London “bobby” ranks as the most popular of amulets among automoblllsts, closely followed by a weird specimen of a yelping dog.

Then there is - the black cat, the proverbial bringer of good luck; the golliwog, the weird pabberwock, a zoological monstrosity that never waß on land or sea; a horned fawn, borrowed from classical mythology; a crowing cock, which came into fashion when Rostand’s “Chantecler” was monopolizing theatrical talk, ahd a spread eagle. The teddy bear has fallen into disfavor. Some of these mascots have been also dropped by airmen,' A good many devotees of the car believe in carrying live mascots. One woman never leaves a pet monkey at home when out in her car, while ■ others have beribboned pet animals of different sorts seated between themselves and the chauffeur.

Two Automobile Mascots.