AERIAL ACROBATICS ARE EASY, SA YS DAUPHIN FLYER Walter J. Shaffer, the birdman who tells such (ycciting narratives of his life in and'under the clouds has written another letter to his mother, Mrs. C. E. Shaffer, Dauphin, through whose courtesy the Har risburg Telegraph is able to re print the latest of Shaffer's accounts. The letter follows: Dear Mother: It may seem strange for you to get two letters written on the same day, but the weather Is so bad that flying even here is Impossible, and that is pretty bad, take it from me, for in this school the pilots are sent up in any kind of weather. It's drizzling rain and fog com bined and since I am leaving for my escadrille to-morrow, I must needs pack my belongings, which are accumulating at an enormous rate. I hear they give each pilot a duffle bag to carry his stuff, and goodness knows, one needs it, for they give one enough to fill it. My fur coat and fur-lined combination Milt would fill the sack alone and besides that there are my fur-lined K.hoes, compass, map-holder, alti- J meter, gloves and other things which I don't know-whether I will get or I not. I just finished arranging my stuff and even after laying aside my nu merous Poilu clothes which were given me on my way through dif ferent schools, I have still some things over. I hate to leave these ill-shapen Poilu garments behind because they come in mighty handy if one only gets two skinny blankets SAVE YOLRIAiR AND BEAUTIFY IT WITH 'DANDERINE' Spend a few cents! Dandruff dis appears and hair stops coming out Try this! Hair gets beautiful, wavy and thick in few moments If you care for heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with life: has an incomparable soft ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. 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SHE DARKENED HER GRAY HAIR A Kansas City Lady Darkened Her Gray llair and Made It Soft anil Glossy by a Simple Home Process She Tells How She Did It A well-known resident of Kansas City, Mo., who -darkened her gray hair by a simple home process, made the following statement: "Any lady or gentleman can darken their gra> I or faded hair, and make it soft and glossy with this simple recipe, which they can mix at home. To half a pint of water add 1 oz. of bay rum, 1 small box of Barbo Compound and .-4 oz. of glycerine. These Ingredients can be at any drug store at very little cost. Apply to the hair every other day until the gray hair is darkened sufficiently. It is not sticky or greasy and does not rub off. It will make a gray haired person look 10 to 20 years younger. Safe Pills have been the ideal Family Laxative for 40 years—a guar antee of reliability. Gentle in action, they are entirely free from injurious drugs, and are intended especially for constipation, ■J biliousness, indi |l gestion, torpid liv- 9 jjj erormactivityof I Worner'i S.I. Btm.di., Co.. I WEDNESDAY EVENING, . HARRISBTTRG TELEGRAPH FEBRUARY 6, 1918. doled out to him as a bed allow ance, for they are very warm. Of course, I will wear my uniform* at the front all the time, for the com bination suit will protect it from any probable "oil showers" which might descend on me. lam wonder ing where I shall ever get my wash ing don. Such a pile of dirty handkerchiefs you never saw, and as for underwear, I only have worn this pair I have on a month and from the present outlook it's good for another month. Longtng For a Bath I'm looking forward to a bath In Paris too. Gee, how I will soak lup the hot water. Guess the only ! jvay I woyld ever get my clothing | dry in this climate, even if I did ! get them washed, would be to take I them along flying, about a flve minute flight should dry the blg | gest wash known, for I have plenty i of lines on my plane and if it's rainy below, one can easily climb up high •er. How about it, Mother, shall I try it with the family's next Mon day. I The officials here sure do love the American —yes, they "do!! —for most of them are In Paris half the time. The usual thing for an American to do is to give" the school 1 the "once over," hop on the next i train and back to Paris for his. I | would no doubt have done the same thing, only my money was gone, for the impression I got on landing was as unfavorable as usual, for this school. Naturally, when a m&n went back to Paris this way he had no permission paper and when he did show up their was a jail sentence awaiting him for overstaying his leave. This only tickled the Ameri cans because the jail was only on paper and never actually served, so they continued taking permissions to Paris on their own hook, until finally the Captain got wise to them and had "walk-out," or "selective" draftappels, as we called them. "Ap pels" means roll call, you know, and these fellows who were taking per mission without authority got their comrades to answer for them at roll call when their names were called. This was quite a simple stunt to get -away with, among a crowd of 200 some men. A man could holler "Present" for half a i doaen men and get away with It. Funny Fliers Get .lugged Finally the Captain got wise to this trick through a slip-up in an swering when a certain man's name was called. For several seconds there was a dead silence, and then six voices answered "present" in different parts of the crowd. It was so amusing that even the Cap tain laughed but it put the kibosh on that stunt, because thereafter, we were required to line up before roll call and as our names were called step out of ranks. Naturally, they caught a lot of fellows that way and this time stuck them in the jug and locked the door. It was sort of hard on the boys who had money enough to stay at a hotel and order ham for break last to stay in a cold jail and cut I only what was brought them and it seemed the Captain had picked something that was a punishment, standing out on the open field all day was what got my goat, for It was some cold some of the days. Sometimes one would stand there i a whole day and never get a ride. That very thing happened to me seven days in a row. Believe me, I sure was getting disgusted with the weather, climate, and the school in general. After I got several rides thought, it was not so bad, be cause I got several rides every day then. Only got twelve rides on the Spad and then was shoved back on Nieuport to make way for the crowd waiting for training on Spad. My, what a difference in ease of controls, the Spad being so easy that the first time I rode in one I thought the controls were not hook ed up, so easy was it to the touch. Standing Oil One Wing Remembering what some Ameri can had said about moving the "stick" around and nothing would happen, my bump of curiosity got the better of me, and I pushed the stick just a little to one side. Some thing happened alright, and that quick, for the next second I was standing on one wing tip, watching the "choo-choo cars" come up to meet me, for I was right over a rail road train. Oh, yes, we came out all right. Simply pushed the stick to the other side and back she canio, Gave a man a "wonderfully safe feeling to look out and see a whole wing under him instead of only a half a one, as in a Nieuport. for a Nieuport's lower wing is only half as big as the upper, and these Spads are as sturdy appearing too. Rather complicated 'engine to run though, having all the dials and indicators used on an automobile, and I, know ing nothing of an auto am natur ally at a loss. However, give me a little time and I'll learn, that is, if a German don't use me for a target first. Shoveling Macaroni Yes, Tours was an interesting school, and I imagine you would Mill find it so, but I think the kit chen and dining room of this school would interest you more. -I went into the kitchen once for water beheld them ladling out macaroni with a shovel, not very clean at that, as for the appearance of the kit chen, I've been in boiler shops that looked cleaner. No, it did not harm my appetite one bit, tor I am used to these things now. The dining room gives one quite a lot of room for imagination though, being car peted with a thick layer of mud. With a little imagination one can imagine it as a rich, thick rug as he walks over It, but the Frenchman sort of ruin the rug effect when they dumped their unused soup on the floor. I never knew there was so many ways to eat soup before I came here, and they are real mu sical about it too. I even saw sev eral tip up the plate and drink it. But that isn't bad manners, that's efficiency, for if one don't grab something as the stuff passes one's plate, one don't get any—to relieve your mind, Mother, let me assure you I have not acquired the habit of snoring when I eat my soup. WALTER. Dear Mother: • Well, here I am on my way, as I have been assigned to an esca drille to-day and leave to-morrow at 8 a. m. I am leaving this dismal place. So much mud I never did see. Everytime I take a step I fear I'll lose a shoe, so lovingly do'es it grip me. As for my training here If this is all I get before I am sent after the Boche, your prayers are going to be given the acid test, for such a boneheaded flyer you never did see, at least that's the way I look at It. Although the moniteurs say "bien," but then they say that to everyone. It was yesterday that I realized my inefficiency the most, when I was sent up with an armed plane to shoot at a sand pile Not understanding French I was under the impression that to get into po sition to shoot, it was necessary to do a "retournement." This is rather a difficult feat, at least I find so, and there are several ways of doing it. The idea is to double on one's tracks. Some Air Acrobatics One way is to flop over on your back shut off the motor, pull on the stick, and finish the loop, coming out head on tho ground. Another way is to stand- tho plane right on its tail, then "cut' the motor and tail on a wing, also coming out in a nose turn in the opposite direc tion. The latter was what I tried and it must have been some stunt, acoriling to the spectators for 1 stood on my tail all right but when I shut off the motor, instead of going off on a wing right away. V hung there for several seconds like a monkey on a string, and then tumbled off, coming down head first, wires whistling and guns blazing away at the sand pile ahead of me. Remember I had no altimeter so had no definite way of knowing how high I was. To make matters worse, there was a thick fog over everything which made judging dis tance much harder. In fact, the weather was as unfavorable when we first came on the field, that the moniteurs called for volunteers who wished to fly. Naturally, he was: swamped with offers, but 1 did not 1 get in on this, there being too many ahead of me. It was a little later that the Captain picked half a dozen of us out and sent us up to shoot. Now that I have explained all this, we'll go back to where I left off— or rather, came out —thinking I was high enough to try another one, I pulled her up and tried again with just about as little success, and then when 1 finally did get the sand pile in line the doggone gun jammed. Incidentally I came out of that last nose dive about 25 meters from the ground. My roommate told me af terwards he thought I was gone for sure, starting acrobatics so close to the ground. 200 meters he judged I was, when I endeavored to get into position for the second try, which shows how lost a man is with out his instruments. No, I did not get patted on the back for my shoot ing exhibition, as it turned out I had used the wrong stunt to get in position. A "vertical virage" was what the Captain wanted, which will bring one in the same position and is much easier, but I did not know that then, and the Captain was probably frothing at the mouth when he saw me falling around in the fog. He was not there to wel come me when I landed anyway, although it is a wonder he didn't J3ooma#% niJI,I, 1001—2356 UNITED HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 0, 1018. Style Initiative—Assured Quality—Fair The February Furniture Sale Pricing—Make This_ Store a Most yl|^| | I inents to P rov id e . Desirable Shopping Mecca IS 188 l I —This store's organization does not wait until the new things Are Impcrtant Functions that are evolved in Fashion's realm are introduced; we must have Bs£|joj| | °' Evmt them first and at reasonable prices. This policy has placed the Bow - vHPSgjI Its an exposition—a gather man Store in the forefront as a Center of Fashion—reliability—and rr- JJSvW <mg of the best furniture to com r • i' HMs§f - W >fli prehensively provide for the needs SOpr f 1 of the home—whether one of Heralding the new Spring Millinery illustrates the point of | WW M V moderate means or to fit up the view—-and the*e are mny other lines ready right now that be- — V nr immr'A-Jt of r° St sumpt "°" s wellin &- i lij , i f i • i r i • i / ? lvin g your immediate or future furniture needs attention you will have opportunities Speak the advanced modes ror the coming days or sunshine and for wide selections and for generous savings in price, warmth. More Specimen values follow: 0 . j A special boxspring in the February Furniture Sale at $14.95 St€P in and 1 CIRC CI r C€P Clt the New ' s ' zc beds— mcta l ° r wood—good ticking—upholstered top —elegant springs. 1 aiiorea s —Art ticking—rolledge. 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February Sale price $55.00 —One new fabric is especially handsome and novel—mohair tus- BOWMAN-S— Firth moor. sah in a complete color range at yard $2.00 WW" • m —Then there are plaids to be so very fashionable—white ground OI Ul^llCr with colored tape checks, also handsome medium and dark color com- r "' binations 95c to $3.50 a y ard Lowly Priced mm .r> I I wr TI ! 7~' Housewives Should It is fitting at this particular time Most tverybody Knows That Linen • , , , . n V £ when so many people are buying r"*** Handkerchiefs Ave Scarce —OCUte aew 0 furniture that special price-induce- i'ry — "7f}s> The fact of the matter is there's no linens to be pro- These Special Bed ments should attend the rug display. I j / j':} Iff cured and later on you 11 hardly see linep of any sort in • ?- _ * i - / JU the stores with a continuation of the war. c 1 s\ rr • Jl_ C £ - fr\~J A long time ago contracts were made for our supply , iSpread Utf£ringS and SO by reason or fortunate <■ of linen handkerchiefs and we bought heavily, with the foresight in buyint? we are en" |** j_| UJ. I r result that you can have a fine selection of pure linen U J 111 rr c i i S § —{( handkerchiefs for as long as our present supply lasts. ZUU ne mnied cro- abled to Otter rugs Ot the bet- g After they're gone, you'll have to pay decidedly higher chet bed spreads, size ter sort ronsiderablv below the im* prices and they will be hard to procure at that! 76x84 inches sale T bel ° W So take a little word of advice and bay from these price $1.75 | mar et ° to " ay " !MBil Women's * pure linen Men's pure Irish linen 0 _ , , j r . .* . i handkerchiefs —, % inch colored initial handker- 325 hemmed cro- and it s a tact that, perhaps years hem, each 10c—dozen,chiefs, each 25c— chet bed spreads may elapse before such figures for Women's pure Irish Hn- Men's all pnre linen extra heavy weight rugs may be quoted again. en handkerchiefs —Y\ inch handkerchiefs longfel- . —rull size isale . _ hem, each 15c dozen, low in,t,al 30c price $2.00 Axmmster Kugs Tapestry Rugs .K 3£i:f='S BSStaig; ass-ss b i •„• •; Wolnen> .H Hnen , terly gtyle Fsh- 8.3x10.6 ft. .. $22.50 to $30.00 69f $lO 00 tn SI 2no handkerchiefs -y 4 ,nch _ doze n $3.00 ion book for 9x 12 ft $24.00 to $37.50 JMU.UU to hemstitched edge, each, Bovs' pure Irish linen Snri ncr nnw I*l 7A Q C*■ (in no *. ®i>i no 25c—dozen $2.85 - handkerchiefs plain opring now Linoleum 7.6x9 ft $12.00 to $14.00 Finest Irish linen— and colored hemstitched ready at pattern NeW process linoleum in tile QO iOA£i. tifiCAi ffioen hand drawn hemstitch— edge, each 19c—dozen C J * .. M. i " O.JXIU.O rt . . p lO.OU to Jblo.sU each 50c-dozen, .. $5.50 a g e - "ozen Section. and mosaic patterns—two yards v BOWMAN'S —Fourth Floor. *• ball mo out. However, I'll know better next time, and ,lt just occurr ed to mo that my acrobatics would surely fool the Germans. They wouldn't know what 1 was doing and neither would I, so blissful ig norance may win again. Oh For a Oorn Fodder Bed Seems I will have to learn to sleep tit a dixoiit oed. witn slieets and all the fixing all over again, for since taking a room with an other American at this humble cot tage I have slept but poorly. Prob ably I miss the old corn fodder mattress I used In. the hay loft, and being aroused from a nice peaceful dream by a straw corn cob in the middle of my back. Anyway, I'll hand the hay loft one thing—l slept soundly there, even if I did get a sore throat. Yes, the sore throat all disappeared along with the bad cold. The latter, however, did not pass out until 1 had "compeo" my mustache. Yes, I cut the dear little thing oft. I got tired of having my soup strained, besides I could not get enough air. From that you can judge it was pretty healthy, even If small. The manner of its passing-caused a lot of jocu lar comment on apcount of the early hour at which the crime was] committed. You see in order to get to "appel" (roll call) on time, we| have to get up at 5.4 5 a. m., since; we have our coffee and bread and I butter—yes, I said butter—served] here before leaving. I had not slept > well the night before and was >.iot sleepy anyway, so I crawled out at 5.30 and washed, shaved and dress ed—all the water being icy cold. That's what caused my roommate's comments, for cutting off a mus tache and shaving with cold water was in his eyes a brave act, and the early hour not only made It brave, but amusing, and aroused his cur-' losity as to the cause therefore. Af ter studying awhile he decided I must be In love, which- was all wrong, of course, for I had taken some pictures the day before and taking a chance on their getting good, it seemed to me the mustache had served its purpose, since it may give you an idea how wild a looking Frenchman I am. That was not the only reason though, for I had ridden In a Nieu port the day before, which like most machines from the front, was fitted up with a looking glass directly In front of the pilot, I don't know what the big idea was but I do know that was not a very enjoyable ride, for a looking glass is my worst friend. And there I was looking him right in the eye. A better chance to view my facial scenery and es pecially the "shrubbery" never arose before and probably never will again; so not being able to help my self, since the glass was directly in front of me. I spent that ride di agnosing my case. There was not much I could do, unless cut the whole head off, for with the gloggles and close-fitting hood nothing more closely resembling the "missing link" was ever discovered. I de cided immediately though, that a serious operation was necessary, which occurred at "la lome lieure" of 5.30. When one fellow noticed the missing "forest," he wanted to know what was the big idea and whether I had typhoid—or only cold feet, and advised my roommate to keep an eye on me and see that I did not cut my hair off the next morning. Looping tlie Loop Received two letters from you yes terday and one from a Miss Kelker, saying she had sent a Christmas box to me, which was certainly kind of her. ilere's hoping it reaches me. Am glan Dad enjoyed my account of my first trip through the air so much. I must have made it pretty realistic if he was expecting the grand climax to be a smashed plane —and a cork leg. You should hear about my flight through a flood of oil in a Spad if you enjoyed the rain experience. This won't require so long to tell since it happened very quickly and was more amusing than dangerous, although I didn' see the point until I reached the ground. I was trying acrobatics in a Spad, and having tried a lot of stunts, en deavored to make a loop, something very difficult to do with a Nieuport, but a Spad very easily. So I gets her going full speed, dove down a little to acquire more speed and then with a jerk pu'led the stick into my belly. Dp we went and over and then I "cut" the motor. It was here the oil shower occurred, for as I hung there a few seconds on my back before she decided to go on around, all the accumulation of oil. dirt and gasoline lying on the floor neath my feet naturally obeyed na ture's law and fell downward, and I, being under, simply got plastered. For the first time 1. did a side slip on purpose, and out of It ac cording to Hoyle too. Did you ever watch a piece of cardboard fall edgewise? Well, that'fe a side Klip In an airplane, and believe me, you sure do make time. Like to blow me out of the seat, as it was, tho mustache was all blown out of shape, which was another reason for cutting it oft—Too much wind resistance besides, the air at higher altitudes does not need straining. Glad He's a Flyer Big as the c.tances may seem in aviation, I pat myself on the !ack for being in it everytime I see a bunch of infantry come trudging down the road, each one carrying enough to fill a one-horse wagon. Really, one fellow had so much on his back, I did not know whether he was coming or going—his back was bigger than his chest. I have a mental picture of myself "picking up my bed," along with the kitchen, part of the dining room, and all my wardrobe. That would be one time I would fall by the wayside, I as sure you, I carry around a pair of the army hob-nailed shoes all day and that's quite job enough. I only carry them around because it keeps the mud a little further away, even if some of the water does leak through. Going on the assumption that the shoe-throwing custom is universal at weddings, I wouldn't advise Arne to follow Herbert to France—at least, not on his arm— for if one of these "sablts" (wooden shoes) ev.er met his intellectual brow, aviation would lose another hero. O, Those Eate From Home Here I am, gassing along and never told you that your box of Christmas eats arrived yesterday. A more welcome gift was never re ceived, because I was "busted" com pletely and getting mighty hungry for'some sweets. My roommate, in the same financial condition be-1 cause of his generosity in paying my room rent, sure had some party with that fruit cake and peanuts. As for the sand tarts, they disap peared so quickly we hardly knew there were any there. And then we each wrote a letter and went to bed on top of all that. Is It any won der I dream of German planes at tacking your home and my room mate of being knocked oft a tall building by the same German? The box was In wonderful con dition too, and came direct from Avord to this place. I am expect ing to get some more packages at the Paris address I gave you, if 1 am lucky enough to get a little lay over between trains on my way to the 'front." There is very little left of the fruit cake, and It sure One true Aspirin Only One Beware of Substitutes The sole makers of gen jpl*] nrift uine Aspirin brand every package and every tablet •lljflJaW with the Bayer Cross. "Thm Bayer Cross TABLETS b Pacta Bom of 12 /"EpS. Bottles of 24 ud 100 / A \ CAPSULES In Soalod Fcki( of 12 ud 24 PAY Elj The trade-mark "Aeplrin" (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Off.) R 13 a guarantee that tha monoareticmcidcster of ■alirylirariu in the*e tablet* and cmpeulue ia of v . . m .. tha reliable Bajer manufacture. I OUT Guarantee Ot Parity 99 wan good. It was indeed thougbt fuHof you to send that kind of cako, for when I read on the outside "cake, peanuts and candy," I feared it would be "Old Reliable." Not that I would not have enjoyed it, but it would not have stayed in such good condition as the fruit cqke. Gee whiz! If all those presents arrive that you say are on the wuv I'll have to get another "duffle bag" to carry all my things. Hope I will be allowed to use the camera at the "front," and the watch—it's a wrist watch, I hope—will be most useful. I only hope they are 111 Paris when I arrive there on my way to the front. WALTER. 3
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