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TC # Photos by mbernatronal By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE recent arrival in this country of Fraulein Thea Rasche, the fore- most German aviatrix and stunt flyer, and her announcement that early next year, after doing some flying here, she will attempt to make a nonstop flight from New York to Germany, are a reminder that women are following closely in the footsteps of men even in aviation. It has long been a popular idea that the so-called weaker sex have little or no interest in those hazardous occu- pations which are supposed to be reserved for the hardier male sex. Aviation, where unshakable nerves and coolness in an emergency are prime necessities, theoretically has no place for the oe ary ‘women, at least in performing some of the dare- devil feats which the aviators perform. But like so many other popular ideas this one in regard to women's nonparticipatien in aviation is an erroneous one and there have been in the past and are now enough fearless bird women to prove that fact. Fraulein Rasche is only the latest one to command public attention. During her first flight from American soil at Reosevelt field when she took up her little Flamingo for ten minutes of exhibition flying, army pilots from Mitchell field pronounced her “a skillful and graceful flyer.” She is preparing to show that she is also a fear- less flyer by exhibitions of stunt flying which she will give in various parts of the country and she intends to pit her skill as a racing pilot in the New York to Spokane, Wash, air derby this month, Fraulein Rasche, however, is only one of several women pilots who have attained more than pass- ing notice in aviation. There is Mrs. Charlotte Alexander, who organized the only women’s avia- tion corps in this country some years ago; there is Maxine Dicks, who is probably the only woman aviation “camera man” now pursuing that occupa- tion; there is Trehawke Davies, the first woman to loop the loep in a plane; and there is Mile. Adrienne Bolland, the French aviatrix, who was the first woman to fly across the English channel back in the days when that was regarded as a feat of considerable magnitude, and who added to her laurels by being the first woman to fly across the Andes mountains in South America. Other bird wemen who have been in the news lately are Miss Ruby Thompson of Dallas, Texas, who was the first woman pilot to enter the pro- posed air race from Dallas to Hongkong, China, for the prize of $25,000 that has been offered for that feat, who will be accompanied on the flight by a navigator as well as a co-pilot ; Miss Mildred Doran, a school teacher of Flint, Mich., whe flew from her home in the Middle West to the Pacific coast within the last few weeks with the an- nounced intention of attempting a flight to Hono- lulu with Augy Pedlar as pilot; and Miss Gladys Roy, who tegether with Lieut. Delmar L. Snyder, a former army aviator, is planning to attempt a New York-to-Rome flight, Miss Roy is a well-known stunt flyer who, not, satisfied with risking her neck on the wing of a plane, added a sensational touch by doing her work with her head encased in a black bag. Among the other well-known women stunt flyers are Miss Gladys Engle, the California aviatrix whose favorite stunt was to jump from ene plane to another, flying just overhead, and then, after making her flying leap, to hang by her heels from the upper wing of the plane on which she had just landed, and Miss Lillian Boyer, a girl of nineteen who, several years ago, gave the crowds a thrill by swinging from a cable beneath her aeroplane with only the grip of four slender fingers between ber and the risk of a dash to the earth a thousand: feet below, TEA RAID FTRIT APZERICATY FLIGHT" I REFAWEZ DAVIES Mention of Trehawke Davies’ distinction of being the first to loop the loop recalls the feat of Laura Bromwell, a twenty-three-year-old girl who on May 15, 1921, made a loop the loop record when she executed 199 successive loops in one hour and twenty minutes. It also recalls her tragic death when her plane fell a thousand feet at Mitchell field near Mineola, Long Island, the next month (June 5, 1921) and she was dashed to the earth. Miss Bromwell was not the first bird woman to meet her fate in the air. Prebably the first fatality among women aviators occurred in the early days of aeronautics when on June 5, 1912, Auguste Bernard and Mme. Rose Amicel, two French avia- tors, lost control of their machine near Bue, France, and came crashing to the earth where both were killed. But stunt flying has not been the prin- cipal contributien of bird women to the progress of aviation. Mile. Bolland’s flight across the Andes, made in the infancy of aviation, was a practical demonstration of the possibilities of the aeroplane as a means of transportation to which high mountains cculd offer no barrier. She left Mendoza on the Argentine side at 6:32 on the morning of April 1, 1921, and soared high above the lofty peaks of the Andes with their treacher- ous air pockets where an accident meant instant death on their rocky slopes, or possibly starva- tion in the wilderness even in case of a safe land- ing. However, the trip was made without mis- hap, and she landed at Santiago, Chile, at 10 o'clock, less than three and a half hours after she had set out from the Argentine city. To Miss Phoebe J. Fairgrave, an eighteen-year-old girl, goes the credit for making a parachute jump which was a record for women at that time and probably still stands, On July 11, 1921, at the Curtis flying field, near St. Paul, Minn., Miss Fair- grave stepped out into space at an altitude of 15,200 feet, shot down with terrific velocity, and then as the silken umbrella opened, she floated gracefuly to the earth. But of them all there is one who was acclaimed “Queen of the Air” some ten years ago and she still retains the major part of her claim to that title. For the altitude record for women aviators made on September 27, 1917, at Peoria, Ill, by Miss Ruth Law, still stands and that record is 14,701 feet. Establishing this record, however, was not Miss Law's first triumpb. That had occurred the previous year when on November 19-20, 1916, she made what was then the longest nonstop flight record, from Chicage to Hornell, N. Y,, a distance of ‘590 miles, thereby breaking the record of 452 miles, made by a man flyer earlier in the month. Her feat at that time was heralded as one of the greatest in the history of aviation, and it is inter- esting to read the following account of it which appeared in the columns ef the Outlook Magazine for November 29, 1916: THE HIGHEST MARK IN AMERICAN AVIATION No less interesting than the scientific features of the record-breaking flight of Miss Ruth Law, from Chicago to New York, is the human significance of the accomplishment. Miss Law says the fact that she is a woman makes no difference, but it does. The fact that the new American nonstop record was made by a 120-pound woman of twenty-eight, in a rebuilt aeroplane of almost obsolete type, doubles the prominence of thls achievement in the public mind. General Wood reflected the ponular admiration for Miss Law, when as he helped her from her seat at the end of her flight, at Governor's Island, he said, “Little girl, you beat them all” . In a nutshell, this is what Miss Law did. In a 100-horsepower, two-year-old biplane she flew without a stop from Chicago to Hornell, N. XX. a distance of 590 miles, thereby breaking the record of 453 miles made by Victor Carlstrom in the New York Times flight on November 2. Flying on to Governor's Island with a stop at Binghamton Miss RUBY THOPIRSON Unferwood dv lnderwood /Hoto Law completed the entire trip of S884 miles, from Chicago to Governor's Island in 8 hours 55 minutes and 35 seconds. Carlstrom’s total time in the air from Chicago to New York was 8 hours 17 minutes. With true sportsmanship, Carlstrom was one of the first to congratulate Miss Law, pronouncing her flight “the best performance to date in Amer- ican aviation.” Few persons took Miss Law seriously when she announced her intentions of attempting the Chi- cago-New York flight. Although she holds the woman's record for altitude, she had never before flown more than 25 miles across country. More- over, her machine is less than half as large as the one in which Carlstrom made his record, and carried only 53 gallons of gasoline as against 200 gallons carried by Carlstrom. y Miss Law's record has been by the Aero Club of America. stamped as official The following contemporary account from the New York Sun is also worthy of reproduction because of the parallel in many respects between Miss Law's feat and the recent record-breaking one of Col, Charles Lindbergh. In it is reflected the same cool daring of the lone adventurer who set out almost casually on a great undertaking and the same modest wonder at all the pepular acclaim which followed. The Sun article says: Miss Law tried to buy a bigger machine such as Carlstrom had used, but Mr. Curtiss wa aid to sell her one for fear she would be killed. He thought it would be too powerful for her. But when he heard Sunday night of the record flight from Chicago to Hornell he called the Aero Club of America on the long-distance telephone and said she could have a new machine any time she wanted it, and she will likely want it for now she is going to try a nonstop fight from Chicago to Governor's Island. Carlstrom, whose nonstop record was bettered by Miss Law, had the besc¢ equipment that money and science could produce and back of him the entire Curtiss organization, His plane would carry 147 gallons more fuel than the machine Miss Law flew. He trained for weeks and waited day after day for favorable winds before making his start. Miss Law, who never had flown more than 25 miles in a single flight before, just had new gas tanks put on her aeroplane, notified the Aero club to make the flight official, and started. Miss Law was thoroughly chilled when she arrived, but seemed to be in the pink of condition, resourceful and not disposed to take herself seri- ously. She is slight, fair-haired, and weighs only about a hundred twenty pounds. She was openly pleased at the reception the army officers and Aero club officials gave her, but she was a little bashful at first and looked as though she was wondering just why they were all there. Although this woman has been flying since 1912, she is only twenty-eight. She has had an uphill fight without financial backing, risking her life in machines that were none too good and she seemed hardly to realize that she had at last attained a goal of popularity, publicity and official reeognition of the Aero club and that she is the peer of any male flyer in America. Miss Law has always been in competition with men, flying In machines that were inferior to their's and this time she won out was some Know Your Sweetheart by His Handwriting By EDNA PURDY WALSH Editor, Character Reading Magazine. (Copyright.) Can He Control Himself ? A ar err . Not Much Need of Control Here. The calm, bovine, phlegmatic nature and the perfect Spencerian writer de- serve not so much credit for self-con- trol as those natures with flerce { energy, I bursting J tnasing tion, and Force Unler Control. extreme sensitiveness to emotions. They are not keyed up with any dynamic force which needs control. When we see keen imagination in a writing, in large loops, t bars soar- ing to the right or in the air above the bar, letters very much larger above the line than below, together with the signs of energy, such as long force- ful t bars, triangular loops on f's and t's, y's and g's stopped off with a single line below, and angular writ- ing, we know there is much there which needs control. If such writing changes its slope often, bobs up and down on the imag- inary line of writing, and allows the letters of the line below to interfere with those above to any extent, then | States the energy and imagination are not | under ful! control, and will not be as forceful in business or an artistic life as if the writing is on a more even line, with t bars carefully crossed in the center, and i's dotted above the letter. Much change of slope in- dicates a nature that is swayed In too many directions. Is His Writing Light or Heavy? i The Head? QUANT Light writing indicates what is some- times termed a weak character. But, this Is meant only in relation to that writer's reaction to material things. You will seldom find a writer who touches the paper lightly who is In- terested in how much money he can get out of a certain deal. Therefore we find that the writing of the one who uses the delicate touch Indicates a mind more concerned with things philosophical and spiritual, The light-pressured writing Is more frequently made by the writer who puts -principle above profit and who will give his time to others—often without need. Extremely heavy writing speaks of the emphatic “give me” type—one who follows the law of self-preservation. This trait is true when the main strokes are heavy and other strokes are lighter, When the entire outline of a letter is heavy and smudgy look- ing, then you may expect the writer to be violent in temper, usually due to sickness. It is this type of writer that usually loses his life from some reaction of uncontrollable temper. Light and keavy lines in the same writing shows a personality that has magnetism and force. Does He Pity Self? Lidoss on He may not complain about his trouble to you through sheer will- power and sirewdness. He may not want to scare you away. But here is a way to detect his habit of self-pity: Look for the terminals to turn back to the right. If d's and t’s are looped for sensitiveness, then we are sure of a self-pitying person. is this true if the t bar is made to the left or if it is small and made as if a sparrow bad taken a peck at the upright. Encourage this writer to forget himself and to understand that his work in this life is the thing and Especially | he is insignificant except insofar as | he promotes that work. Back-handed writing, with the t's and d's inflated, shows a self-centered does the for- | that | more than When loops are viewpoint ward writing. should not have letters made in this way and the writing has many | sharp points, the conclusion may be | made that the writer is given to telling his troubles and boring others. If the writing is inclined to run down | hill and t bars have a sharp point to right, little can be done to the moody, blue condition of the writ- er without conflict, Praise is, what they want. Note.—Do not make final judgment until other signs in writing are studied. Shaving and the Hair Many believe that continuous shav- ing of the human hair makes the hair wiry, but now it is declared there is no foundation for this bellef. Tests made by growing beards on men who had shaved for as long as 40 years showed that such halr was no stiffer than the beards of men who had never shaved at all. Cultivate Moderation Moderation is the silken string run- ning through the pearl chain of all virtues.—Joseph Hal!, English bishop and author. correct | Wider Use of Steel Is Proof of Man’s Advance Steel production in the United last year reached 48,000,000 tons, more than half of the world out- put, according to recent reports, Americans used about six times their own weight of the material as com- pared with little more than two times the weight of the population at the beginning of the Twentieth century. } In 1500 the total estimated output of steel and iron for the entire world was about 50,000 tons, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. The inerease in the production of the metals, keeping pace with the development of power machinery, has enabled a laborer to earn in a few hours today what would have required days a few centuries ago, One economist estimates that the ratio in favor of power over man toil is as high as 590 to 1. U. S. Blades Shave Europe All Europe, it seems, is buying its cafety razor shaves from America, says the American Druggist Magazine. Excluding the United Kingdom, where a prohibitive duty is imposed, safety razor blades shipped to Europe in 1926 were valued at $5,869,203, as compared with $4,800,297 in the pre- ceding year, Result Worth the Cost The American dead and wounded toll from eight years’ fighting in tne American Revolution was 20,000. He is next to the gods whom rea- passion, son, and not dian, impels.—Clau- As We Crov Older Proper Kidney Function Is More Than Ever Important. AS we grow older, there is apt to be & gradual slowing up of bodily functions. The kidneys are the blood filters. If their action becomes sluggish they do not thor- oughly cleanse the blood of poisonous wastes, This tends to make one tired and achy, with often a nagging backache, drowsy headaches and dizziness. A com- mon symptom of imperfect kidney action is scanty or burning excretions. Elderly Porle recommend Doan’s Pills. This tested diuretic is endorsed the country over. Ask your neighbor! DOANS 60c STIMULANT DIURETIC 5% KIDNEYS Foster-Milburn Co. Mig Chem Buffalo, NY. W. N. U,, PITTSBURGH, NO. 36-1927. Something Like Warm Miss Quizz—Isn’t the climate bere dreadfully hot? Sailor—Nothing to where I was last summer. Why, miss, it was so hot that we had to take turns going dowa to the stokehole to cool off! MOTHER :— Fletcher's Castoria is especially pre- pared to relieve Infants in arms and Children all ages of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, Colic and Diarrhea; and, by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving natural sleep. To avoid imitations, always look for the signature of Zoupt Trdon Absolutely Harmless = No Opiates. Why It’s There Customer—The bread you sold me had sand in it. 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