| Show r SIDELIGHTS rS ON THE WORLDS NEWS ll f V II 1 c c Enter Enter the Aerol Heroine of the Air Airs t It Iti s N j i w t 1 s t 7 ie lf ft r if ift r I Iw T se t 6 S t ri fY t l 1 f r 7 1 f fe fe e i t fr t tr e f s v P l N 1 h r t trw rw his t I i n N 4 l d 8 4 1 J J I N cC A Ii i i v y Dy CHARLES N LURIE LUniE LURIES AID I to my friend tho woman SAID S hater Well why h wom worn women en n ny if It they the wish to do so soSal For Sal Said l my m friend Irli d the th woman hater No Xo yeas reason n in the world The go up In the air often otten enough So they ther ore are going up In tho tha air ns nR nathe the pictures show but not In tho sense In which the misogynist used u d tho words Aviation for tor women has ha reach reached re ch ed the point where the Parl an an COB cos turners are designing special for tor the apart pr rt or pastime or vocation pr or r avocation That means that It H la fa tnt tact t becoming on an One of t the lad lady aviators Is Ii shown In the picture garbed urb d for tor n a night flight t Whit Whet Shall W We Call Cell the Lady 7 Lady aviators brings up another point Whit what Wr t shall hall 1 We w the th Women who M are afro amending o In a and balloons Shall pall we W refer r t to them an u s plural of nt aviatrix of ot which the mai la is aviator or shall we wead adopt adapt ad pl the Ih suggestion of ot an English magazine find and refer to th fair fliers lIer an as The Tile latter III tt r suggestion has hall merit but the III word has one ono fatal tatal de dele le fe t It Is le of af pronunciation Fr omo ome mouths It will emerge with 10 so 0 rinse a 1 resemblance e to heroines h aa U to be mistaken for tor that word Per Perhaps hips hart It Is III well ell to suggest a between bet heroine and aero Ine since tho latter is undoubtedly worthy of or enrollment In the lists of the tho th form former At f 4 h t tho flying game rame any oman who accomplishes aC a II 1 f heroine a Vp tp to the date data da to of ot writing there had hod hadnot hadnot not Mt been many miny women Italy had lad the tho Duchess of at Aosta cousin by b marriage nf of King Victor Ictor Immanuel Prance Pram rane e In some Bomo respects the tho leader ader I In Ina a Mi m nand and In many man respects r the world s mentor In m had only three prominent lady fliers flie Baroness de flu la U Rothe Incapacitate for tor an In length of ot t o by very serious Injuries due to a fall tall Mme time Franck also Injured just after atler she had an any announced trounced her Intention of ot making a n flight across tho the channel and nd Mme Paulhan wife of at the famous Louie There Thre have been a few tew others Jut but their exploits have havo attracted lit little little littie tle tie attention England Ingland has two or three women filers fliers In heavier than air machines Germany has hall produced no women fliers filers of ot note not none that Is le In aeroplanes The Zeppelin and Gross dirigible balloons have had hod I female passengers In some of ot their th lr fa ta famous inous flights In America we have hAd hud Miss Katherine Wright Mrs Irs Hart O 0 Berg lerg 13 erg Mrs Mra Cortland Field Bishop Mrs Clifford B n Harmon Mrs Wll WIIlIam lIam Ham Je It Vanderbilt Jr and a n few tew others as RB passengers pae with the man birds bird when hen they made flights flight above the tho earth Mr Mrs Bishop was the first nut woman to fly In America But no American woman so an far ns as known has been ben daring enough to BO go aloft as aa an aviator That will come com In time no doubt and In the meanwhile we may rest real content with the fact tact that we have havethe lave ravo the only genuine bona fide tide woman airship Inventor on earth She Is Ie worth a separate paragraph Only Woman Airship Inventor The name of the Indy lady l Is Miss MIB E n ELillian Lillian Todd and her address Is New York She Sh Is Ie called probably the tho first woman In the world to do sign Ign and build an aeroplane all by herself The Todd machine was wu a col cot collapsible or folding aeroplane and the tact fact pt pf Its was first made public two yearn yeah ago Since that time Miss Todd has kept busy designing and making Improvements to her aero piano She Sh Is a member of oC the Aero Club of at America and one ona of ot the found era frs of ot the Junior Aero Acre club which alms aims at teaching the young American Am Idea how ho to fly n Miss JIlin Todd has haa the added distinction of ot being the builder of ot her hel flying machine a as aa well as Its Inventor Recently she had the good Fortune to attract the notice of at Mrs Russell Bussell Sage and It was waa announced 71 M tl i I i u f I It ml t L j i i I I 1 1 1 1 r i 1 Jt ril a 1 I I I J I II I IJ f r of a i iI r J f rr J l 1 5 si r r I It r I j L t Y I r nett C I r i l l r I L tI J f I II k h rj 1 y I y k jeI oleo i n tt f I r I Ir rM oJ r 4 l t 1 II IIi F sj tw t t i h i t tJ d i I Ii t i J rs 9 I 1111 J 1 j t I l lI it I 1 READY FOR A BAL BALLOON LOO N FLIGHT F LI G HT 2 GRAHAME G M E WHITE WH ITE AND AN D LADY ABDY AB DY 3 MRS AIRS 1 RB LEO LED STEVENS BALLOON LLDON BA MAKER MA K ER 4 CAP FOR AVIATION VIA N 5 S M MISS IBS E LILLIAN CO N TODD TOD D IN c il ik HER SHOP 6 tI COUNTESS FITZWILLIAM IN MONOPLANE 7 1 MME PAULHAN STARTING FLIGHT 8 ALL DRESSED FORA FOR A FLIGHT 9 3 MLLE IN MONOPLANE IV h t G irh Ift that th t there thero was a 11 fair chance of ot porno Borne of ot old Mr MI Sages Ba ns carefully hoarded i money being burnt up In and oil to run the Todd machine I Commenting on the of ot ottile the tile woman worn an flier filer becoming bf a II common fight eight a II leading I English periodical p said Bald recently It H may almost d be he said hid that fly ny flyIng nyIng Ing man has hall become n a 1 commonplace of ot the sky of ot the tita continent even ev n It if he heIs heIs heIs Is still a 11 rare rore bird In this country The flying Woman Is III a and altogether n a novelty here and d as all such and because of ot hop her own attractions tiona Is III arousing rousIng much it has been said time and again that wo women women I Imen men aro are more apt to bo be daring than men mn Inasmuch Ino much ns as they the do not always realize the extent nt nt of ot the tita risks they take Such Euch an argument nt however cannot possibly bo be advanced In con connection connection with some famous Notice the coolness with which the Englishman assume assumes that that Is the I proper word to use u Considerable experience In the tho art they are arf favor Cor favoring favoring ing and considerable knowledge of the feats of ot flying men and of ot tho the fate of ot dome come of ot them have taught them that followers of the newest of at new sports take lake lives In their hands every enry time they leave the surface of ot tho the earth In company with manmade wings De tie Despite spite this they which says flays much for tor their skill anti anil an their cour courage nr age Ille It should perhaps je J e said that hut but one one of them the tho s de la latoche toche Is I In the habit of ot making flights by hy herself her elt The others hAVO made their I ascents In company with men who I have hae acted as Ba pilots of ot the machine This Title nevertheless does not loosen lac sen the I interest In them for tor whether they have been b n at the wheel or not the mere fact tact that they the have hao flown Is le enough nough to place them among tho aero Ines Inell of ot aviation Must Mut Be Bo a Heroine III a Well aa as a A In one re pe t above all others the must be a heroine when n she ahe goes KoeB aviating Even Kven to a 11 greater r ex extent extent extent tent than the woman automobilist she ahn must renounce nil hit her pretensions to comeliness Aviation Is not conducive to the preservation prel of ot ones onos good looks look II and the woman aviator dressed for tor the occasion Is as aB much a Bight sight ns as asher her machine or her flight night In the th air H Hr Her r garments get little chance In the aeroplane set as she Bhe Is In the midst of ot spraying oil and tin fumes of ot gaso gIlBo gasoline gasoline line The most favored t ord material for tor women aviators garments Is la leather i cut In as PS few t pieces OB as possible and I with very er few lew seams In the th air all there Is la no dust that beta bet noire of woman I but there Is more than thana thann I a n sufficiency of ot oil all and gasoline fumes tum s sI I to make mak up for tor It IL Is III the word that th t must munt be applied to the wo I Iman man flier tiler descending from the clouds But nut there In is this supreme consola consolation tion It Is le worth It according to the testimony of ot all 11 of at the th women who have tried the novel experience I never had a more delightful g gr ex experience x perl p c rIn r nce ce said Bald Mrs William Ilam ll IIII m IG Ie Von Jr recently upon her h r return from an aerial lI Journey with Clifford B n and I would never ride any other way wa It if I could help It Its a most moat restful feeling no exertion no care cart I 1 never thought of ot tailing felling It Is la the th almost unanimous opinion of ot the leading lending men aviators of ot the tho world that for tor the th present at least women should not think of ot flying In machines B by themselves I Less ob oh objection objection Is raised of ot course against having women omon as In the aeroplanes although some demur Is IB made even against this slight con eon cession to the demand of ot the thA fair tp Ir sex ex extor for tor novelty and new now sensations Ac According A According cording to the man birds women omen aro are temperamentally unfitted to cope cops with the problems which confront the aviator One of at the most moat outspoken of ot the objectors Is le Charles K Hamilton the th famous hero of the New York to Philadelphia and return night flight Among the tho others other who have expressed lId them themselves th themselves m selves as al opposed apposed to t the flying of ot women wo women women men are arl Captain Thomas Thomaa S Baldwin probably the oldest old at and most experienced experienced ced of American aeronauts who says IRs saysA A woman may be able to run a bl hl bicycle cycle or a 11 motorboat or an nn automobile Compared with an aeroplane either Is IB Isaa Isas aa as easy e to manage ns liS a baby carriage It takes out and out nerve to run nn en aeroplane The operator must coat cast all fear tear aside aalde and have no thought for tor I the consequences Had Ha a man been I i In the th machine Instead of ot Its It II occupant being Mme Afine de la In Roche I 1 dont be bl believe blI bey i it I Glove lieve levA there thre would have been heen any n acct acci accident I Ident dent But she aile lost loal her head anti and an then r I lost control of ot the machine also abo f Dangers to Filers and Spectators F II It will be recalled that the baroness t 1 was very severely av rely Injured at nt the ro re r recent cent aviation meet m et at Rheims her Il arms and less legs being bring fractured and her t body sustaining other othel severe Injuries d s She Bhe was wac flying along smoothly when I j i i two other othor aeroplane aeroplanes passed over her herThe h r The rush ru h of ot air confused her so that I 1 ahe s ho cut off orr her Ignition and lost con control coni i trot of ot her machine Instead of ot gild gildIng l tt fa Ing In safely to the earth In n normal fash fuh fashIon f fInn Inn Ion her biplane turned over o r anti and drop dropped dropped i 1 ped pad to the ground with Its lu occupant o The danger to the spectator tor from y I t t the falling tailing of ot an aeroplane also enters 4 I I I the minds of ot the experts exports Without any Intention of at Jesting Je with so fa seri sect serious 1 11 I EJ ous a subject It may meI be he asserted that r I It will hurt lust Jut as much to have n a 1 t t woman aviator lator drop on one almost literally from lire tho th clouds cloud an nB It will to I r f 1 j have hae n a man do so ao i |
