What a picture he would make in overalls and jumper, leather jacket and cap; he could not use dart or arrow, at best he could only run the machine hither and thither bunting people into love--knocking them senseless, which is perhaps the same thing.

No, no, Cupid will never use the automobile.

Imagine Aphrodite in goggles, clothed in dust, her fair skin red from sunburn and glistening with cold cream; horrible nightmare of a mechanical age, avaunt! "The chariots of High Olympus were never greased, they used no gasoline, the clouds we see about them are condensed zephyrs and not dust.

Omniscient Jove never used a monkey-wrench, never sought the elusive spark, never blew up a four-inch tire with a half-inch pump.

Even if the automobile could surmount the grades, it would never be popular on Olympian heights.