AT THE CENTER OF LIFE, AM ALTAR
The International Sunday School Lesson Fof Oc
tober 21 is "The Temple Rebuilt and
Dedicated."—Ezra, 3:8-13-6:14-18
By WILLIAM T. ELLIS
Tuesday, Sept. 24th, 1917.
Tours, France.
Dear Mother:
For once I have enough sleep to
last me through the day. This fly
ing certainly makes one sleepy ana
creates a prodigious appetite. Have
not had much time to sleep during
the last week, as weather has been
very good and naturally we were
kept right on the job, for you know
I am flying alone now and have been
for the past four days. It may be
less than that, but so many things
have happened to me since I took
my first hop that it seems longer.
If I was out looking for thrills,
I sure got one yesterday, when my
motor went dead on me and let me
clown among the grape vines.
ever, I was not looking for thrills,
It was the spiral field I was looking
for, which is some distance from the
school. Two of we pupils were dele
gated to fly machines out to this
field, but only one of us reached his
destination.
Down He Goes
It was one of these doggone
Gnome motors that played out on
me, and I was only up about 60
meters at that. We were running
nlong nicely and climbing slowly
higher, when 'I began watching
scenery below roe, when it occurred
to me that open fields seemed to be
very scarce in that vicinity. Fur
thermore, knowing the tempera
mental habits of a Gnome motor, I
decided It was time to turn and fly
over better landing ground, so I
pushed a little on the rudder and
started around —and then "poup"
went the engine, just as if some one
had hit it wit* a hammer, and ev
ervthing stopped except the ma
chine. Instinctively- I pointed her
down. Luckily she had stopped
right over a little open place, so we
kept on coming down, banked up and
turning all the time, because I had
to turn, a house and bam being in
my way if I hold gone straight on. I
won't say I was as calm /is a mill
pond because It would be a lie, but
am glad to say I came down on that
little, space and landed safely, but
my speed was so great that the ma
chine jran along the ground and irjto
a vineyard, going through three
rows, taking wires, posts, grapes and
everything along. By the time it
had ambled through three rows Its
force was well spent, so she stood
upon her nose to take a rest. About
that time lier tail went slowly up In
the air and I was hanging by the
strap around my tummy and looking
at the gasoline tank below me. See
ing that she had finally decided to
stop, I unbuckled the strap, shut off
the gasoline and pushed a lot of
other necessary levers shut, and
crawled out to take account of stock,
or rather damage. Strange to say,
there was none, not even a wire was
broken or slack, so, seeing that the
airplane was standing partly on her
nose and putting an awful lot of
weight on the propeller, I crawled
up the tail hand over hand, for all
the world like I used to crawl up
to the top of young poplar trees
when I was a kid' and then bend
them down by swinging my weight
outward, and the tail came down,
letting the whole machine flat
among the grapes.
They, had seen me go down from
camp and soon two mechanics cfme
riding out on bicycles to see what
the flamage was. Seeing there was
none, they endeavored to start the
motor and put me awing again. But
the motor refused to start, so they
went back to camp after a new mag
neto and left me in charge, or on
guard, whichever way you wish.
After sitting there some time be
moaning my hard luck in silence, I
noticed a plump little lady coming
to look my bird and I over, so I
proceeded to spring what few words
of French I knew, which amounted
to "Bon jour, Madamoiselle" and
"Qui, qui." But the bluff did not
carry me far, as her first sentence
pimply swamped me, and, worse yet,
she knew it. Then she tried a few
phrases of English on me which sure
did surprise me, for her pronuncia
tion was very good. Jt was "dom
mage" (too bad) as I told her, that
"je ne comprend pas Francais," and
then I kicked myself aguin when
she asked In excellent English wheth
er I had a dictionary with me, for
I had none. But, take it from me,
the next time I get in one of those
doggone Gnome motored airplanes
there will be a dictionary among my
equipment. Still. 1 did not do so
bad, as 1 discovered she was selling
Juice of Lemons!
How to Make Skin
White and Beautiful
; ,.y|j Hl
IjpP
At the cost of a small Jar ot ordi
nary cold cream one can prepare a
full quarter pint of the most won
derful lemon skin softener and com
plexion beautifler, by squeezing the
juice of two fresh lemons into a bot
tle containing three ounces of or
chard white. Care should be taken
to strain the Juice through a fine
cloth so no lemon pulp gets in. then
this lotion will keep fresh for
months. Every woman knows that
lemon juice Is used to bleach and
remove such blemishes as freckles,
sallowness and tan, and is the Ideal
skin softener, smoothener and beau
tifler.
Just try It! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any pharmacy and
two lemons from the grocer and
make up a quarter pint of this
sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and
massage it dally into the face, neck,
arms and hands. It should naturally
help "to whiten, soften, freshen and
bring out the roses and beauty of
any skin. Jt Is truly marvelous to
smoothen rough, red hands.'—Adv.
FRIDAY EVENING,
bread and how to tell her she was
pretty. She was a big girl. In fact,
she reminded me a lot of sister Ruth.
If the mechanics had not arrived just
then, I might have swiped the red
rose she wor 'neuth her plump little
chin.
I told you I was bound for the
spiral field, which means I was
again promoted on merit. "Spiral"
explains itself, merely meaning
coming down from 600 and 200 me
ters. respectively, in a spiral glide.
This is one of the hardest tests of
the school, so I am anxious to have
a try and finish, or myself.
As for the promotion to spiral, it
occurred in this way: There were
fourteen pupils in the class, and the
class b£low was filled up, so he
wanted to finish some of us up and
send us to a different and more ad
vanced class. Since we were all
about on a pa® as to flying ability
and we all wanted to advance, the
moniteur said he would take the ones
who made the best landings, put a
B (meaning "Bon" good) in
French) after their name, give
them four or Ave rides and shift
them to a more advanced class next
day. Those landing's are mostly a
matter of luck, but I tfot away with
a good one and sota "B M and', what
pleased me more, four more rides.
After that we seven (there were aev
en "B's") stopped flying and the
other men of the class started. One
man, starting oft on his first flight,
lost one of his landing wheels just
as he got off the ground. That left
him three wheels to land on, which
you may think would be plenty, but
I assure you it's-some ticklish propo
sition, and we all watched him make
nis circle and come down to land
with foreboding. One man was so
sure he would smash that he trained
a camera on the smash he expected,
and then the pupil came down and,
leveling his machine out prettily
landed on the two good wheels first
and didn't break a wire.. As for
worrying about my getting hurt, you
may put your mind at ease. If you
should see how some of these air
planes are smashed up and pupils
never scratched, you would want to
ride yourself. One fellow's engine
stopped like mine did the other day,
and the slide slipped down, smashing
his machine to kindling wood, and
never hurt a bit. He was not quite
so lucky as I, though, in being right
over a clear space even so small, as
he was headed right for a forest.
To avoid it he turned and fell among
the grapes instead of running
through them like myself.
I forgot to say that I was not
crazy about taking that machine of
mine out of the little field I landed
In. It sure was little, with a house
on one side, vineyards all around
and a big harrow standing up right
in my pathway in the center of the
course. Of course, I would have
attempted it, being quite sure of my
ability to steer clear of the harrow,
but 1 would have had to jump a
vineyard directly in front of me—
and then if the engine had died
again we would certainly have land
ed among the grapes, because that
particular valley is simply nothing
but vineyards and -with their posts
and wiring they don't offer a very
soft landing place. That would be
one time I would have been mad
enough to crush a grape.
To-day is very foggy, which is
beginniag to clear a little now, but
I fear will turn to rain. I wish
it would clear up now, for I want
to have a whirl at those spiral
glides.
But. enough of my troubles for the
present. "Where are all your letters
and packages ? I have not received
a letter from anywhere for two
weeks and I sure am getting dis
gusted with life and censors in gen
eral. must have put too many
good tilings in thoge packages, be
cause only one got through and the
bread lias not arrived yet The
peppermint sticks were a godsend,
and some of the boys I shared them
with sure did bless you. As for choc
olate, we get a lot of that doled out
to us every day, and I am getting
very sick of it. Furthermore, I am
so afraid that it will rot my teeth
and dentists are very rare in France.
Again, that would mean lost time
something which I don't want to do
as this flying game is mostly a mat
ter of luck, anyway, especially as
to weather and whether one can get
a machine to do his tests, as air
planes are very scarce. You can
understand why when I tell you that
seven were busted more or less bad
ly in half a day's flying yesterday.
I No, ma'am, nobody hurt. That is
the beauty of this type of airplane*
they almost fly themselves. As one
moniteur f>ut it to we "solos " "Just
. now the machine guides you, vou
| don t guide It," which saying con
! tains more truth than humor. When
I look back on the times I rode
those light machines thev give a pu
pil for his first flights I sit and won
der why I was not killed, for the pu
pil has nothing to do but fly and if
he tinkers with the throttle even
a litle but the moniteur threatens to
put him on the ground without fly
ing for a week. All we dared do
was to shut the motor off when com
ing down with the contact button
and one could not turn them on
again. When you shut off your en-,
gine you come down, as the moni
teur grimly put it, wherever you
I were headed. However, the ma
| I'hlne we take our crosH-countrv
! flights on are motored with henv
i ier engines, which make them ride
easier, especially in bumpy weather,
i On Humpy Trip
I I had a taste of bumpy flying on
; m.v first two flights In those light
■ machines going at a terrific speed,
| one certainly feels the bumps, and I
went around that course both times
| a log in a bumpy sea. One time
, especially, I remember, my left wing
: dropped in a hole so quick I thought
j I lost a wing -Over went the stick
' to the right as far as it would K o.
and there I hung for what seemed
l ten minutes, but in reality was a
; liulf-second, with wings nearly
j straight up and down, wondering
I whether she was going to side-slip or
come back level. The old bird prob
ably heard one of your prayers be
cause she came back level with a
Jerk and 1 swallowed my heart,
which had somehow stuck in my
throat, and took another breath and
went bouncing along on my way It
i.t a feeling that I don't care to ex
perience again, when you have done
all you can and all you have to do
is sit tight and wait. I have had
the same helpless feeling in canoes
already, especially the time when I
ran the Marysville Falls on the right
hand side with my brother Bill at
the front end and the river twenty
feet above normal.
Bought a silver bracelet with my
name on the other day. It's quite
pretty and will make a good souve
nir or Xmas present when the IT. 8.
A. takes us over, for they don't
allow them to be worn.
WALTER.
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