Show Op Opal l From Husbands Husband's Rin Ring 1 Gift on Her Wedding W edding Da DaW Daw DaJ W Woman oman F Flyers Flyer's yer s Luck I Ruth Law Smashed Superstition Superstition Super Super- as Well as Records in Her Chicago New NewYork NewYork NewYork York t Flight Plans a a Through gh Trip With a aNew aNew aNew New Mach Machine inc By NIXOLA GREELY 1 B By The mi NEW YORK Dec 2 Law Huth Ruth Law held I out to me palm upward the little slender slender slender slen slen- der hand that had guided an obsolete type of biplane from Chicago go to New NewYork NewYork York winning on the way the American American Ameri Amen can distance nonstop record In In that rosy palm nestled a Crosier rosier osier Jewel an unset opal and as the new crowned queen of American aviation n turned it round for me I saw that the little stone had been badly chipped hipped 4 That she he explained in m her girlish voice was my talisman on the trip from Chicago to the statue of Liberty It came out of a ring my husband gave me the day we were married After it was broken I made up my mind to carry it in my pocketbook Just for tor luck lucie They Ther say Ive I've broken three records records records rec rec- today but this makes' makes four For Ive I've smashed smash d the opals opal's reputation for brin bringing good fortune I thought as Ruth Rith Law extended that shattered talisman for me to look Jook at that she was very much of an an- an opal herself blending blue and rose as only i I an opal and it te t blue eyed blonde woman can blend them Miss 1 Law when Law when she is not flying she is Mr Mrs Mrs- William Villiam Oliver weighs Oliver weighs pounds and is 5 feet 5 inches high I dont don't think I grew or I lost any weight weighton on my trip Those were the figures when I left Chicago she said The twenty twenty- year twenty year old woman who flew miles from Chicago to Hornell N. N Y just because she made up her mind she would and who asked for a powder puff putt when she was from the seat seatS of ot her biplane at Governors Governor's Island was wearing her new laurels as carelessly and as becomingly as she wore the gray Shetland cap which topped off her fluff fluffy wind blown yellow hair I found her behind a screen Inan in inan inan an out of the way corner of the the Hotel Hotel- McAlpin dodging congratulations telephone telephone telephone tele tele- I phone calls invitations to star in the movies or go into vaudeville She had I just returned from a shopping shopping- trip in which she had bought a avery very becoming white satin waist That spotless waist consoled the new champion of aviation for the tue fact that she was still clad In the outfit n which f te he had made her marvelous flight This is my flying lying cap but hut this this' morning I wore it like this Miss Law said pulling lulling what had look looked d like a rolling rim down un under r her chin till only the tip of ot her nose nose- and I laughing laugh ing lug eyes were visible Over It I had hada a leather helmet And AndI I wore four suits of silk chamois wool and leather No I wasn't cold just thrilled and when I started a little bit scared But its it's I part of ot any apy big adventure to be scared WOULDN'T CARE FOR IT IF THERE WASN'T A SCARE I wouldn't give Sive a cent for any ex experience experience experience ex- ex that didn't t scare me a a. little The scare scire is is p part rt of the thrill you know Besides the white satin waist and the woolly cap cap Miss Mis's L Law w wore wor a a. a liI bli blue serge skirt which she had brought from Chicago in her biplane and which she he had substituted for her lier leather knickers as soon as she abs reached leached Governors Governor's Island I I carried a change of i clothes you you see b but t not a thing to eat et or r drink she said Eating and add drinking are arc the last thing I want to do hen v Im I'm flying lying I had breakfast in Chicago Chicago- about 4 o'clock Sund Sunday morning though i I didn't get away until after 7 The wind was blowing so hard over the lake that my spy husband William Oliv Oliver r who is my manager tried hard to p persuade per persuade per per- r- r suade me not to ta start And i when wien I got him on on th wire at Binghamton yesterday do yo you know what he sai said 1 He me not to try for foi New York He lie said I had gone far enough But I wanted to keep on You Tou s seel e r had to stop between Chicago and New York only because my gaSoline gave 01 out t There was nothing the matter with the biplane at all And I 1 would not t have had to make any stop if Jt the CurtIs Curtiss' people had b been en willing to give me a abig big ma machine hine lil like e that in which Carlstrom Carl Carl- strom made th tb previous long di distance tance record from Chicago to Erie PaI PaI Pa I 1 do hate to have the papers call my biplane an o obsolete te t type pe I 1 just got her Miss Law added wistfully But its it's tru true they're not making making- that kind any any anymore more And she holds only OIly tift six fifty gallons of gas tank held gallons Do you know What I r thought as I brought that little biplane down right beside Carlstrom's boro power motor at Governors Governor's Island It w was s this Nobody will c cr call me roe the holder bolder of the womans rec ord I hate all sorts of ol discrimination the slender young aS asserted vehemently ve ye- and of course Im I'm a 1st I cant can't think why there should be beso so 50 much talk about women aviators women painters women flyers Women Women Wo Wo- men can do everything requiring skill lulle as well WE'll as 81 men Its It's only In tn feals feats I I. I MISS RUTH L Lut IA cri ut 6 So tR requiring brute strength eel cel usAnd us m mAnd And Add as I swept through jl ti and the haze over that country I had never even made an ex flight before I had a ing of ot freedom of or c er I was steering my own I by a little six-inch six map I got b ing to the topographical bui bux Washington Washing I had gone with red and blue ink cities were plain enough butI the mountains and hills In outlined the rivers in blue in ml with that and Lieutenant t Porte pass the one he be Intended to us us sc flying boat across the Atlant the war postponed I set out fro Ire cago The sky was my limit 11 horizon my sphere Its It's any sphere if it she has nerve and c cand and faith in herself She's got I If f faith ith in herself you know i PLANS FOR THROUGH TR TRA TRIP TRIPA A NEW MACH MACHINE INE I financed my trip and I had hadan hadan an obsolete old type of ot bip arie though they'll trust me with al now now Of course Im I'm going to tom m flight over again with no stop be a through express to Governors Governor's Island next tim l Mr Carlstrom Caristrom will go right rou ou ou my record And if he beats me meI meIto Ito I Ito to take it away from him again to And Ill I'll fly for the California country record I think You l had no kind of record till I dete to make this flight Oh Ob yeS I IJ I did have the womans woman's ord but as as most women hav haverT kc Jf up more snore than five twenty re feet ret t was that J I Im going to tell you some added this modest little Tittle Ruth wh after the gl gleaners of ot the air and up their greatest prize Wh When a 3 little girl I used to dream o not with terror you know bu wonder and delight I would b bt bv low flying south or an eagle sw w down from the clouds and th then a a a. sudden Id I'd wake up Just a 5 litt ready to cry because she had n no J Its It's not true that I became a fl I cause my brother Rodman isi is i for exhibition flights I had neve in the air until atter after T I was marr marr was at Marblehead Mass oneSt for a vacation I was born In Mass but rye lived here since 1 year old and count myself a York woman Theres There a a o civilian of aviation at Marblehead wh where when whereof r of army officers go to take lesac leise became interested through wa oa them and made up my mind Id I'd Ido to o fly ly myself I said What hat tho thos can do a a. woman can do I ca a And well well Miss Miss Law paused bl bI smiled approvingly at the tiny bh bit rose opal in her palm palm with with w wo woi t luck and this little talisman fro rio wedding ring why ring why Ive I've done i it j j |