Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-04-14 | Page 19 | Hostesses Find Romance in Airlanes

HOSTESSES FIND ROMANCE IN S Love Flies With Trim Stewardesses Most Wed Less Than Two Years Aloft By IARY Bl MARY MARGARET MCBRIDE l Stewardesses and pilots on most airlines are not supposed to hold any unnecessary conversation with each other They must not be bo seen in public together even off oft These rules are arc meant of ot course b by the practical company to discourage discourage discourage dis dis- dis- dis courage romance But pilots and stewardesses go right on marrying each other regardless American Airline stewardesses also marry airport officials And male passengers So do the stewardesses stewardesses stewardesses stew stew- of ot United and all the other airlines In fact judging from records airline air air- lino line stewardesses are arc about the young women in the whole country At least American J t J f f K f i 3 e y Y i f y r i ia i a 1 Y o oY oy y q r fr y y E i ic c S Sr x r s y j 4 u De D. D Vet Vert applying In San Francisco for a hostess' hostess job with United United United Unit Unit- ed Air Lines Linos passes passos the height and weight test Airline officials estimate that with all precautions their stewardesses till still serve only an average of a year and two months before belore succumbing to o Cupid United does a little better with a sta staying ing average of two years The other airlines which have had stewardesses only a n short time report report re- re port ort terrifying symptoms of getting getting- engaged tendencies among their fe female female female fe- fe male employees Fixing Foong the Blame Of Ot course come right down to it its it's the airlines' airlines own o fault They re require require require re- re quire that a n stewardess shall be easy on cn n the eyes charming and the he possessor of ot lots of ot gumption gumption- this his to be determined by observation during trial service Hows How's that for tor fora tora a description of the Pe Perfect fe Wife The he ideal stewardess must also weigh no more than pounds be belot benot benot not lot more marc than 27 years old some lines ines say 2 25 and no taller than five t. t h p Y h fi y Ip J t i. i Dorothy Ellison seated left loft having keying been boon accepted as an air line lino hostess is is given a preliminary flight over California and initiated into her new duties by experienced Stewardess Catherine Neilson feet five inches inches about about as high as asa asla a a 3 mans man's heart I I Stewardesses must also be regis regis- I i nurses not because nurses are needed so often on airplanes but because officials have a theory that 4 r 4 4 y i r r rl l- l sti r S Ruth Laurent laurenz above kept her job as IS air hostess hosten even after she had married married married mar mar- ried the chief radio operator of her herline herline line lin in Chicago nurses' nurses training produces an unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual understanding of discipline dignity and self seU Well VeIl you know how men have havo always been about nurses So that requirement means just another hazard haard for the company Many any men passengers flying for forthe forthe the tho first time are scared and they hide this by talking to the stewardesses stewardesses stewardesses stew stew- one stewardess explained with a blush she's just announced her engagement to a time one-time passenger passenger pas pas- Once they have landed they somehow feel grateful to the stewardess or feel maybe that they two have shared a a. great danger Thus romance romance- begins begins and and ends at atthe atthe atthe the altar