Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-08-06

FIX THE FORM IN YOUR EYE-the artistic
lines, the graceful curves-hx it in your mind
Tor this is the design of the future for all high
grade electrics Within a year-within six
months-this Flanders design will be copied by
half the other makers
1T is THE LOGICAL as well as the most beau
tiful form for an electric carrage-and when
you think of it il b the only logical a well as
II is the only really artistic electric yet designed
RIDES LIKE A HAMMOCK" was the way
one lady expressed it--and glance at the
curved frame and the long, graceful springs
with axles set well in front and rear of body
eonvnces you that the riding qualities of this
car are superior to these of any other.
WHEEL BASE Is 100 INCHES and step is just
10 inches above the pavement when car is
loaded. Car seats S adults hberaIly-s in rear
and IN front-and will seat persons
comfortably. Compare this with the ordi-
nary. high-perched electrics with short wheel
base that rock like skf in a slightly
wavy asphalt and pitch and toss dangerously
on bad piece of block pavement
OR COMPARE IT WITH THOSE imitation
automobiles in which valuable room is taken
up by q hood and the four passengers are
cramped in-two seated fairly comfortably and
the other two a half width folding seat so
low only a child can occupy 1t in comfort.
JUST LISTEN TO THIS-it is interesting-it
explains something you have wondered about
why eleetries have been 90 ugly, 50 crAmped
for room inside and so unstable because of
their short wheel base and highly perched con-
stGuction.
THE FIRST ELECTRIC built in this country
had whip-soeket on the dashi Now don't
Taught that 10 an absolute fact And it is sig
nihcant even II 1t is humorous-it shows how
devoid of thought the designing of this type of
car has been up to now
WHY IN THE NAME OF REASON was that
whip socket theref Tell you why. Originality
is the rarest human quality. Only one man in
million can think independently.
HOWE LOST LOT OF TIME when he frs,
tried 70 invent the sewing machine He thought
it ought to sew Ike a lady-and surely no
seh-respeedng needle could have an eye any
where but in the head Il took him long time
to decide that he dare put the eye in the point
of the needle-when he had done that he had
invented the sewing machine.
NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE
did youi Most likely not Most people don't
look below the surface Of thingS-Tnost de-
signsrs Of eleetries are that way
NOW THAT FELLOW who put the whip-sock-
ct on the dash Of his electric car not only COM
n1itted one foolish aet-he was guilty of two
the dash had no business there either But
that simple idea had never occurred to him
A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE he was born
some genius had added to his two-sEheeled cart
piece of bark to prevent the nag kicking mud
in the face Of the Lady he trying to pro-
pooe 20.
THAT WAS GOING SOME in invsnton-and
il was several hundred years later that another
bright youth hethought him OF a socket to hold
the -gad~-whips were invented later-so he
could have one hand free TO hold the lady on
the insecure seat
THEN CAME ELECTRICITY rather the
Harvesting of it-and electrically propelled
carriage for MilAdy became possible He tried
to design one That was the FIRST and only
lucid idea he ever hadi And all he did was to
unhteh the horse. lay away the shafts build