The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-03

then answers: Bills lobster. but if he's going to cut under like that I'll go up for one bone
 Tt was only joke, of course. The boys are still getting their ten, but it only shows you how easy and cheap you can get parachute people nowadays. You'd be surprised at the number that are willing to go up. You can find them in any town.
 Maybe you'd like to try it yourself. You could tell about it so much better then. It could be arranged easily. What, not for thousand? That sounds funny to me; but still, looking back, I can sort of imagine how you feel.
 T remember that I wanted to back out pretty bad just before my first as- tension, and when I got up into the air it seemed awful Sitting on that little bar, with the whole country spread out away down below and nothing between you and it but air, and no way of get ting down except to drop in the para till you get used to it.
 But the worst part is the first two or three hundred feet of the way down when you just fall. You feel for cou- pie of seconds that you're entirely in the hands of late. Then there is stiff jolt and kind of a bounce, which means that the chute has opened. After that you drift along with the wind and float down pretty easy.
 FEPI1t 1yO11Y. fyhufjac aiYst nuaT vet You've still to make your landing. I've dropped into the ocean and into biz lakes, but I always wear life preser- yer when I'm doing leap near water and there is always somebody to come out and pick me up. don't mind that as much as getting tangled up in the top of a tree or being blown against g house, where the 'chute's apt to do al sorts of queer things and let you droI very hard. .~.
 I've had all these experiences, Why the very first time made a leap lit 1T a tree top, and the boys had to come uI and get me down. When my feet were on solid ground once more I said never again for me; but the money was SC easy, after all. that in a week or so went up again, and I'm at it yet. . My husbands at me all the time tC quit, and say I'm going to every sea | son. But I can make more than ht i does, and I like fine things. @$z ''The fact is, though, thatI'd, a stoppt very sudden some some time ago if l wasn't very careful woman. I've go ] to see for myself before the start tha everything's just right, or don't do tht ! leap. Not me. I've disappointed more l than one crowd because it was gttins 1 too dark to see what I was about, ol 7 the balloon was leaking, or something 1 of that kind. 'The trouble with good many para
 chute people is that when the crowd
 waiting they haven't the nerve to tel
 the boss that they won't go up. l
 means money out of pocket for him, vol see, and queers him in that place. .St l the performer takes a chance and likel! as not gets killed. - J Late one afternoon over in Jerse,
 the balloon wouldn't fill right, but th' i young fellow that was to do the leal i said he'd go up anyway. We'll, he did i but after he was in the air he lost hi: head or something, and cut loose at twt 1 hundred feet.
 You should never do it under thou sand, and unless you're drifting over woods or water two thousand is better The young mans parachute didn't have time to open, and that was the end oi 1 him. ... ts | 2 g.. srg + sFZ Another boy I knew we'll used tc come down clinging to the bar by his I feet. It Is such stunts as this that give I one a reputation in the profession, but they're risky. One day this boys chute dropped farther than ordinary before l opening and the extra jolt jerked his feet off the bar. You can imagine tht | rest ] At a large assemblage of German marrymakers in a picnic park on 2 | green New Jersey hill within the weel there was a parachute leap. For z couple of hours before the time adver' tised fof the performance the balloon ] expanded, until at last it loomed up or the knoll as big as a house.
 The youth who was to make the leaI