Want To Fly High

1910

Undoubtedly Most Fascinating Form of Air Navigation

London. — The most fascinating form of aviation is undoubtedly the high flight. One watches the machine rise from the ground and climb steadily an invisible stairway, winding round and round in wide spirals. From the size of a monster the vessel diminishes until it looks like an eagle, then a wild duck, then a pigeon, a blackbird, a lark, a bee, a fly, a midge — and so it finally disappears out sight; for men have now flown to over a mile, and it needs a strong glass and a clear atmosphere for a spectator to detect a machine at such stupendous heights.

One waits in amazement asking how the daring aviator will return safely to earth from the clouds. Suddenly the machine darts into sight, and it is seen plunging downward at an alarmingly steep angle. It is the vol plane, or dive, the most sensational of all aerial feats. Having climbed to his maximum, the aviator shuts off his engine and deliberately steers downward by the aid of the elevator.

He plunges through the aerial sea at terrific speed, but not at hundreds of miles an hour as some imaginative writers have put it. As the air resistance underneath the machine increases with the speed and the amount of surface presented to it by the planes, the vessel is automatically led back to its normal gliding angle, and the downward path becomes less steep. In order not to get too far away from his starting point the aviator thereupon makes another spiral at a gentle angle and then starts upon another plunge. Thus by a succession of these maneuvers he comes to a position from which he can make a final glide and reach the ground smoothly and without shock.

The world's record in high flying was broken by Brookins over Atlantic City, when he rose to the height of 6,200 feet. It took him 56 minutes to reach this point, or in other words he had to reach it by traveling over a distance of about 30 miles in a succession of long spirals, for his flight speed can be assumed to have been about 35 miles an hour all through. His descent was made in eight minutes and was composed of several high-speed dives and short spirals. Brookins used a Wright biplane.

The prettiest high flying is done by the monoplane, and at Rheims Latham, when he soared to 5,540 feet, afforded a splendid spectacle. Morane reached a height of 4,107 feet at Bournemouth and also gave a superb display. Captain Dickson is one of the most accomplished men at the vol plane, and he shows masterly skill and judgment. Mr. Drexel is also a very daring air climber, and in his descent from a height of 2,400 feet at Bournemouth he made a steep glide.

Women's Dress Bolder Than Ever

1913

Look!

Woman's dress is to be bolder than ever!

In full view of things as they are seen, this would seem to be a rash statement. But it is no mere layman's conjecture from visible fashions. It is the dictum of a man dressmaker, a famous Parisian, whose name is a household word among the modish.

Moreover, this authority does not hesitate at the word "bolder." He goes it a shade better and uses "daring." And if anybody knows, he knows.

Daring is the word that expresses present fashions, which have caused more cricks in the masculine neck than any feminine styles that have prevailed since "the Grecian bend" caused grandfather to forget exactly what he went to the grocer's after. From extant pictures of this curve, it was just the style that grandmother might have worn and kept her mind on serious things. It was but a single curve. But there are many now.

Some apprehension should prevail as to just what "more daring than ever" really means, in connection with woman's fashions, coming and to come. As they are, when a pretty woman intervenes between the sun and a man's vision, the man — unless he is a hardened creature — has to shut his eyes. He can get along on a cloudy day with a few blushes, interlarded with thought. But if worse comes to worst — although this might disappoint the ladies — man must take to the woods or neglect his business. — Judge.