Show 0 0 o Q 1919 by JANE FINDS FLYING IS VERY MUCH LIKE MATRIMONY My Iy flying lessons took my mind off ote from Bob Dob and Miss Miller I think Jim planned them more for tor that than for fer the sake of ot gratifying my desire to pilot a plane My domestic troubles troubles trou trou- bles made me a little reckless I 1 suppose sup- sup pose At any rate I 1 tried to forget torget them by putting my mind on my work I remembered Jims Jim's instructions instructions Instructions with an exactness which astonIshed astonished aston aston- himI him I only have to tell you a thing once and youve you've got It it Sissy You ought to be In the secret service My y memory is Js not to my own credit It Jimmy Its It's due adue to the way I my father brought me up I wish the professor had brought up all the guys Ive I've had to teach inthe in the last two years said Jim Jm None of ot em cm ever got an Idea ideEL inside of ot his nut until he h had d made me say it three times Umes over t Fathers theory was that a normal child will get a thing tho the first time It is told provided the idea is put in words the child can understand Father believed that children lose their natural power which they origInally originally possess through the fault tault of ot their parents He used to sa say that I parents could develop quick 1 s I tion in a child with far tar less waste of ot j I energy than they now put Into nervously pert nervi neM 1 i repeating and repeating what I they have to say Sis I wish your dad had taught me to study lie He had a hard system Jim Iwas I Iwas I. I was supposed to concentrate my mind mindon on a IL lesson so 80 completely that I had had I learned by one reading e ew ew e-ew whistled Jim It appears appears ap ap- ap- ap api i pears to me that the old od mans man's theory I II took root and sprouted I wish I could say that it had I worked The most I can say is that I think awfully w well of ot the theory I Your mother and I are applying it it I Ito to Babe Baba with grand success Parents I train childrens children's mu muscles cles from the cradle cradle- And take care of ot their stomachs and let their take brains brain take a chance I laughed Jim I grasped Jims Jim's instruction about how to run a plane lon long before I had I the nerve nere to do what he told me He lie gave goe me just one rule for getting out I of a a. spin Neutralize your controls and cd the bird will fly straight he r n said For once at least I didn't concentrate concentrate concen concen- I t I on what was said to m me I was thinking that putting the matrimonial I Joy stick into neutral would probably I make my domestic ship level off oft j i too to Mo lost t WI wives 1 fu fuss fu's s 1 so o much when the they I hi f fo with thEir hu husbands bandl that tl U I chin hin r T Ter ver er Jets gets a fair fall i chance i y n Itself Itself If It the they would just lust ke hep p still and hold steady the l' l I good ship of or matrimony would leveloff level leveloff off in grand style 1 Landings provided my chief The first time Jim told me meto meto to nose her down I didn't dare todo todo to todo J do so but kept going round and I II round in circles trying to bolster up I 1 Imy I my courage Jim had to take talce her her down himself Upon another occa- occa j I sion slon Invade I made a grand staircase between be between between be- be I tween the heavens and the earth I brought the airplane down by steps first I glided and then I leveled off I glided and leveled off and the effect I if It f it had been sketched would have been a succession of ot broad terraces such as the ancient gods might have used for tor n n. glant stairway ay to to the I clouds Finally I plumped down the thelast thelast last five fhe feet and landed flat pan pan Jinn caked caked Jim d Jun said and broke a tail tull I skid d Another time Ume time I ran Into a ditch and th the old girl stood on her nose according to Jim and smashed her bonnet And I was scared almost to death Im havin fh thA t ame kind of or trou trou- c bles I 1 had when when coming down to plain married life Ufe after my honey honey- moon Making a landing on some flat lat little part of the world has got I Ito to be done by every ery bride and groom I Its It's the Inevitable I laughed a bit foolishly hoping that Jim didn't guess what a mess Bob Dob and I had made settling down after atter our own honeymoon honey honey- moon Jim left for tor his aviation camp with witha a little wrinkle of anxiety in his brow Jane Jan dont don't you ou be reckless after atter I Ive I've ve gone was ws his warning Serg Sere is a better teacher than I am If It he wasn't I 1 wouldn't slave elave the old bus here for you to fool tool with To be continued |