Arizona republican., 1910-02-12
TRIED TO EXPLAIN ILL
 ABOUT AVIATION
She Listened AttentiveIy and Then
 Asked for Her Chewing Gum.

Out at the fair grounds yesterday, just after Hamilton had beaten an au- tomobile that tore off the miles in about 1:17 in the ten mile race. there was probably one, question that was asked oftener than any other. IL was How do you like the show"
 A young man who knows almost everything, but not quite. asked this question of a young woman who sat in one of the boxes with her languid hands caressing each other in her lap.
 The young woman. who were two ostrich feathers in her hat that sprout- ed out toward the front in different directions. replied: "Oh. don't know sort of stupid. don't you think? Why don't they do something?"
 The young man who knows almost everything looked at her a moment with pittying interest. He didn't real ly know whether it was quite worth while to tell her or not. Eventually he decided to tell her.
 Something over a hundred years ago." he began. "a man namsj Mont golfer in France. made a paper bag and started d bonfire under it. When the bag was full Of hot air-real hot air. mean-he fastened little basket to the bag and placed a kitten in the basket. Then he kicked out the bon fire and let go. The kitten sailed away into the sky and that was the first balloon flight in the history of the world
 "A few years later people learned that gas had more buoyancy than hot air and that was used instead. in- stead of kittens. people went up in the baskets. But for over century there was no change: no improvement. Man had come no nearer to stimulating the flight of birds than Adam did when he was driven out of the garden of Eden and longed for wings so he could get out quicker. .--c
 Then couple of years ago a pair of brothers named Wright, Who hap pencd to live in the town that a cash register made famous. constructed a pair of wings and the man-eagie was the result. Remember, that this was but short two years ago and in that time others. have come forward and perfected the wings and today We see
 
 the history of the world. an exclama- ton point in human existence. For past cons mans existence has been prescribed by two dimensions. length and breadth. The Wrights, Paulhan, Hamilton, the nerveless youth who dares more than Napoleon ever dared. and Willard. who bets the buzzard he can beat him a mile-all. have estab- lished third dimension, thickness, or height or whatever you may cali it. No longer is the human race confined to the flat surface of the land and sea: the invasion of the air has commenced. The inventions of Fulton and Watts have only served to increase speed on sea and land; they have not added new dimension. se
 Men and women stare into the sky as Willard describes a circle on the blue above and cry Wonderful Their ejaculations are as meaningless and shallow as the infant cry of goo when he sees the moon for the first time. There is no word in the language we speak that can express the intolerable magnficence of the spectacle which we are witnessing to- day-an exhibit of the first primitive but concrete results of an invention that will make our grandchildren po- tentates of the air"
 The young woman with the ostrich feathers nodded approvingly. Then she asked abruptly, "Charles, what did yo do with my chewing gum?''