Arizona republican., 1910-06-11

French pashion). These are the gilded
 youth of France (with d sprinkling
 from other countries) going in for the
 new sport as their American brothers
 daily with the pigskin and the rac-
 quet. A list of their names would de-
 spoil the blue books. Then come the
 foreign officers the French officers
 have their own private schoOD, sent
 here by governments which are be-
 ginning to worry, to bring back with
 them the wings of France. And. third
 ly, are dozens and dozens of autOmo-
 bile and bicycle racers, who, drawn by
 the big prizes now being offered in
 aviation meets, are deserting their
 now obsolete and vulgar vehicles,
 placing perhaps all of their savings in machine which the next day may
 break itself to pieces-and also their
 heads.
 The costumes are varied. The
 women students Ohis is q cO-educa- tional cOllege), who are all French, always get up something natty and charming. But, on the whole. the aerOplane uniform has not yet arrived. It is yet evoluting somewhere along the route leading from the golf suit, through the horse, on and beyond the bicycle and the automobile.
 It is a miXed-up world. and it lives an upsidedow life. Which is due to the regulations of the military gov ernment. Worried over this influx of foreigners, living on the skirts of and flying above the military secrets of the camp. the authorities have decided that there shall be flying only be- tween dawn and the hour after sun rise, and again in the afternoon from half past three till dark. MOurmelon is some three miles from the sheds. Every morning, at the ungodly hour of four, there is a resonant knocking at doors: there are signs and groans of awakened men. pOkings of inquisi- tive noses out of windows (of noses half hoping to find rain. wind, snow, and sleeD; then the whining purr or motor cars hurling themselves into the smooth hard road, a mad scramble of men-on autos, on motor cycles, on wheels, on horses. on foot-a charge in the half light across the graying plain. toward the sheds and the big birds already outside, lined in a long impatient row like gulls on a reef.
 All these men who fly and are learning to fly have become a bit cal lOused at the game. Or rather GOr the biggest or them are at the bottom very serious) they bind themselves in an armOr of outside flippancy. In they have adopted a mode of speaking calculated to keep away from them troubling, enervating vi sions. To leave the ground, to fly, in their vernacular is to decoller-un- glue ones self" To break your ma chine is faire du bois-'make wood. And to fall Git may be d thousand feeO is merely to ramasser une biche pick up a log" As for the grim reaper who, in his spread black coat, flies about them always. they have but charming euphuisms.
 l remember one afternoon two big flying men of France trying to dis suade young De Lesseps Ca grandson of the big Frenchman who dug the Suez canal and broke his heart over the Panama ditchD from trying that day for his pilots certificate A strong wind was blowing "If you don't try today. you can try tomorrow saiC | one philosOphically there may be less ! breeze" Yes" chimed the other l sothingly, you might unglue too l quickly. and rear, and pick up log" Young De Lesseps was obdurate. Al : Ions, allons. allons, said the first man 1 as last and decisive argument; come, ! come, come; don't go ahead and risk : breaking your machine," De Lcsseps 1 He flew anyhow, though 1
 They are all sober of words these ! iviators. and it is difficult to get from ! them the pith of their experiences. l | saw Morane, a fresh checked. azure | .yed young dare devil, snatch his | pilots certificate during a half gale | which made his Bieriot dance like a | ;kff in surf. When he landed. | after making successfully three times ! his two laps with d stop each time 1 within 150 meters of q prescribed , goal, he was laughing as over a secret | III his own. The spectators had really i been frightened. Thye rushed toward 1 lim. He laughed. but would mot say 1 anything. q won't do that trick 1 again; not for a while!" was the most i hey got out of him.
 A few days later I cornered and