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1 1 By GARRETT P. SERVISS,
The Transatlantic Flight o e DrOaßeErin 0
Why this will soon be achieved and the enormous strides in this direction that are being made on both sides of the Atlantic.
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A new hydro-aeroplane with 400-horsepower engines.
11.1. aeroplanes ever fy
\/\/ across the Atlantic? Of
course they will. Inven
tiveness, courage and money
united will achieve the feat. The
money and th® courage are ready;
the third member of the alliance
lags a little, because it has an
enormous stride to take before it
can get into line, but it will take
the stride!
It is taking it, tentatively, al
ready, as our pictures show.
There, in one of them, you see
the Collier-Jansen tandem hydro
aeroplane provided with two en
gines, each of which gives 200
horsepower. Here, then, is an ar
tificial bird possessing, according
to the ordinary way of express
ing engine power, the strength of
400 horses. It is but a little while
ago when the upper limit of aero
plane engine power was only one
quarter as great.
Great engine power is one of
the requisites for a trans-Atlan
tic flight because no aeroplane
could make such a flight unless it
was capable of carrying a con
siderable store of fuel, and in
crease of weight calls for increase
of driving power to counterbal
ance it, ¥
It is a formidable-looking ma
chine compared with the ordi
nary aeroplane. Its two sets of
big binlanes alone make it ap
pear gigantic, and they also sug
" What Is Woman's Real Business in the World?
J R. EDWARD SANDFORD
h/l MARTIN, from a rather
conservative standpoint,
discusses the feminine agitation
* that is one of the currents merg
ing in the large onward sacial
movement of the time. His book,
given us by D. Appleton & Co., of
New York, he calls “The Unrest
of Women,” Here is an extract
from his opening chapter:
“(iirls have a wider choice
than they used to have. Besides
the old-time callings of dress
making, millinery, teaching school
and getting married, they can—
let's see, let's see—work in fac
tories, laundries, stores; be
cashiers; be stenographers or
typewriters, be trained nurses or
doctors; be telephone girls, in
dispensable office workers, ac
tresses, writers, librarians, soclal
workers, deans and presidents of
colleges, or go into some other
business not done at home.
“The wisdom of mothers, a
Trouble From Tins. |
Many housewives are suspicious of
tinned goods, useful though the lat
ter are. On opening a tin, at onge
plunge into the contents a bright knit
ting needle, and iet it remain for a
minute. A steel knife would do, but
it must be quite clean. If copper poi
son is present, it is immediately de
posited on the steel.
The test never fails. ©
Other precautions are: Never ac
cept a tin which is aented or bulging,
or which even looks ancient. Nor if
the tradesman takes it from his win
dow. Tinned goods make a brave dis
play there, but it's the wrong place to
keep them. All tinned goods, both
in the shops and in the house, should
be kept in a cool, dry place, away
from the direct sun, or the contents
cdeteriorate. Do not buy tinned goods
which bear no maker's name.
And when you have opened a tin,
never allow the fish, or whatever it
contains, to remain in it. Empty at
ence into a dish. These precautions
observed, you can safely “help out” a
mea] with tinned food.
THE GEORGIAN'S NEWS BRIEFS.
gest to the eye a stability that is
one of (he great requisites for an
aeroplane that would attempt an
ocean flight. The car takes the
form of a boat, while the machin
ery forms a conspicuous part of
the whole. The tail structure in
the middle, just ahead of the pro
peller, consists of the radiators
for cooling the engines. Could
such a flier alight on the surface
of the sea, and then resume its
flight, like a migrating bird re
freshed by a rest on the cradling
waves”?
That remains to be seen. But
when the crossing of the Atlantic
with aeroplanes has become as
ordinary an affairs as their pres
ent land flights, there will be no
descending upon the water, ex
cept in case of aecident. The
flight will be one long pull, like
the voyage of a “liner,” with no
rest between shore and shore.
One of the terrors that the
thought of crossing the ocean by
aeroplane has wlways summoned
up is that of the plight in which
the adventurers would find them
selves if a storm wind should
strike them in mid-Atlantic. That
fear has been robbed of some of
its strength within the past year,
for the experiments of FPegoud
and others have shown that it is
possible to fly in the face of va
riable winds blowing 40 or 50
miles an hour.
By EDWIN MARKHAM
body of knowledge derived from
instinct, experience and observa
tiom, and of enormous value to
human life, is a good deal baffled
by them. Indeed, it is a current
doctrine that the live-at-home
mothers are not up to the task
of looking after all these out
working girls, and that the law
—the Gov.rnment—must under
take it.
“The girls, as they come along
and see this great body of out
working women, say to them
selves: ‘That is what woman's
life is coming to be. That is
what | must face and prepare for.
The old domestic life of house
keeping is going the way of the
distaff. What is important now
for me is to be qualified to hold
a worth-while place in’ this new
life that is, and is to be.
“Lawyers' offices are full of
women, extremely competent and
useful, but there are but few
women lawyers: there are many
trained nurses, but comparatively
few women doctors: there are
girls galore on the floors of the
Courage Wanted There.
Professor Joksom, though a man ot
profound erudition, was essentially a
sportsman, and, moreover, a great fa
vorite among the undergraduates at
the University of Oxbridge.
One evening he gave a dinner par
ty. to which he invited a number of
kis yvouthful friends. Afterward, when
the ball of reminiscence began to roll.
ne suldenly took down a magnificent
sword which hung Cfcr the fireplace,
and, brandishing it above his head,
exclaimed: f
“Never shall 1 forget the day when
for the first time I-drew this trusty
blade!"” .
The company immediately became
alert, expecting one of the professor’s
tarilling if somewhat tanciful stories.
Then asked an awe-stricken fresh
man:
“And where did you draw it, sir?”
“Where did I draw it?” said the
professor. ‘Oh, in a raffle.”
A Curtiss flying boat over Manhasset Bay.
If the crossing of the Atlantic
is not complished this year, it
_at least seems certain that an
earnest attempt will be made.
Preparations are under way on
both sides, and, while America
is far behind in the number of
aeroplanes in commission and In
the variety of investifations un
dertaken to settle the principles
of practical aeronautics, she is
abreast of Europe in the skill and
courage of her “airmen,” and the
perfection of some of mner ma
chines. Oné of our photographs
shows a Curtiss flying boat soar
department stores, and some
womeén hold excellent positions
in them; but a woman in the firm
is a great rarity. Women are
admirable helpers in business,
cheaper than men, more tracta
ble, often more agreeable; but
they do not stand on the same
level with men in these undomes
tic employments.
“What is the reason”
“The reason is this: That all
this out-of-the-home work is to
man his vocation, but to woman
at large no more than her avoca
tion. Her great vocation is moth
erhood.
_“lt is in that that she is in
dispensable and unrivaled; and
in that is the basis of her com
plete equality with man. In that
she is the principle, not only in
bearing children, but in rearing
and training them, as well
“That is by so much the most
important calling to which wom
en must look forward, that for
the general run of women all the
other employments are of negii
gible moment in comparison with
: Sacred Deer.
From time immemorial deer have been
held in reverent regard by the Japanese,
Herds are kept in compounds, and the
highest respect is paid to the animals.
In olden times the shogun gave the peo
ple such a strict order to protect the
sacred animals that if any one happened
to hurt or kill them he was put to death
on the spot. It was a period of terror.
Even at the present day the deer
are so tame and abundant in the shrine
grounds that they, in fine weather,
stroll round to -the streets by twos
a? threes and surround passers-by.
as ing for food, and sometimes hold
ing the sleeves of the latter in their
mouths in an affectionate manner.
Once a yvear some of the deer are
caught by means of a net with' a handle
by several tamers in service of the Ka
suga Shrine Office and taken to an in
closure, where their splendid horns are
cut off with a saw, while a crowd of
spectators watch the work with breath
less interest (admission v.gn sen, equal
to about 5 cents). This done, some of
the sacred horns are, as a custq)),
awarded to the spectators by means of
lottery.
ing over Manhasset Bay, and a
special boat of this description is
being constructed with a view to
the transoceanic flight.
To cross the Atlantic in its
narrowest part, between Ireland
and Newfoundland, would take
about 30 hours at 50 miles an
hour. But that is not where the
crossing will be made when it be
comes a regular feature of inter
contimental communication. Then
the speed will be at least 100
miles an hour, and the crossing
lanes will lie between the Eng
lish Channel or the shores of the
Bay of Biscay and New York.
it, and have to be considered on a
basis of their relation to it. To
that calling the great mass of
women in due time find their
way.
“They marry and have chil=-
dren. The extraparietal wage
earning work some of them do
before marriage may be com
pared with the years of military
service which young men have to
give in France and Germany,
“It is a temporary employ
ment, necessary and often very
valuable as a training, but in a
field of ‘endeavor from which
they expect to withdraw as soon
as they can.
“To marry and have children
and raise them is the natural
destiny of women, the same now
that it always was and always 9
will be. It is for that, primarily,
that girls should be trained; to
that they should be encouraged
to look forward; and their train
ing should be such as will help
them to marry wisely, to have
children that are worth raising,
and to raise them well.”
’ Those Chickens.
~ Pouter and Pooke dabbled in poul
try. Most of their evenings were spent
iin relating stories to illustrate tha
intelligence of their own chickens.
' “Wonderful creatures hens are,” an
nounced Pouter one night. “And s 0
‘adaptable! 1 have one boss-eved old
cackler who would hatch out a bottle
If you sat her on a piece of broken
glass! As a matter of fact, only a
few weeks ago she hatched out about
three pints of water from a piece of
ice! It came in useful at the time,
{oo!"”
“Ay, ay,” answered Pooke. “It's a
wonderful thing, is Nature. An old
hen of mine—name of Virginia—don’t
care a brass straw what she's fed on,
iand last week, for a joke, my boy
gave her sawdust every day. But she
never said a word—not she! But she
‘luld seven eggs right enough—and
sat on 'em, too! VWaen they hatched
sut six of 'em had a wooden leg
apiece, and the seventh was a wood=
pecker!”