The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-09-11

I held in America, half a dozen take
! place here. This, no doubt, is due 70
l the fact that aerial sport generally has
made far greater progress here than
| across the water. while here, too. the
public give more time TO amusement
/ and less to the constant business
grind than do Americans.
! In France also women have gone in
Z for aviation to a remarkable extent
| In this country there are fifty women
aviatOrs. or SKY women II you
/ please. to one I'm the United States. As
might be expected. there is male Op-
position here to women taking prom
/ inent part I'm the art OF flying through
l the air. but the women smilingly char
| acterize such directors as mean old
/ cranks."
Henri Rochefort, for instance, one
OF the leading journalists Of France,
contemporary asserts that women's
mental makeup and education, not
/ leading them I'm a direction Of knowl-
edge Of mechanics, are. therefore. I'M
I able to master the mechanism Of mo-
tors and similar subjects connected
I with aviation, a thorough knowledge
Of which is necessary if the science Of
sky flying is to be mastered.
To those sneers the women reply
that although NJ. Rochefort may be
one OF the foremost duellists Of
| France. with a record of many an
| tagonists who have fallen before his
sword or pistol. yet his reputation
does not deter them from saying he
does not know what he is talking
about, that he is living in the past.
and that as he is not willing to live
up to the time he had better reserve
his comments on women and their
practice Of aviation for his club GRO
mics.
Feat of a Woman.
An answer to the ability Of women
TO make successful aviators is con-
tanned in the recent feat of Nine.
Airault who has just sailed from st.
Cloud. a suburb Of Paris. directly over
the capital in a balloon, nOtwithstand-
ing the fact that for two hours she
was lost in a heavy fog but which did
not affect her nerve or self-posses-
sion. She made a successful descent
The stella club. Of which she is sec
rotary. and is composed of women,
sky women only, was organized less
than one year ago with nineteen
! members but now has a membership
Of 122. while the club has record OF
thirty-five balloon ascensions since
It's organization.
Nine. de La Roche. who met with
a serious accident during a flight at
Rheims a few weeks apO. IS a mem
Der Of the club. She is gradually re-
/ covering, and with true womanly
: courage. IS already planning daring
feats in her Voisin aeroplanc.
one Paris publication. the organ OF
aviators. declares that the time is not
far distant when aeroplanes will be
fitted with Tapping wings Private
1 experiments OF this nature. IL Is as
rserted. have been made and have
proven successful It is pointed out
that as the flying machine is modelled
/ ~ -
that Of birds Of the air, there is every
reason for assertion that moving
wings can be successfully applied, in
Z time. 20 aerOplanes.
It is not often that the case Of a
ghost being held responsible for debt
! IS cited. but such an incident has just
taken place here. About two years
ago a number Of authors and other
/, literary men rented a famous house
. I'm Passy. a former suburb OF Paris.
once occupied by Balzac, the greatest
novelist and analyZer OF human ma
, ture since the days OF Shakespeare
and Moliere. Well. he knew the hor-
rors Of debt His debtors prosecuted
, him night and day. until il may be
wondered how he ever succeeded i'm
, writing those wonderful masterpieces.
p II is told that he often got up IN the
l middle OF the night and wrote until
noon Of the next day. with nothing
but a cup OF black coffee to sustain
. him He died at the comparatively
early age Of so.
Scarcely had the authors rented the
house and commenced to rearrange
the furniture and fittings Of the house
as they we're when Balzac occupied IL,
than a collector swooped down on
them and attached every article. on
The claim that rent Of the house had
been. unpaid FOR a time while the great
ovelist still occupied IT, Rent due for
~ty-five years, or course the debt
vas paid
Famous Property Purchased.
Since then the property has been
bought through contributions from
/. private persons. Paul Bourget the
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