The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-03-29
CLEVER WOMAN
MRS. HEWLETT HAS SCHOOL OF
AVIATION - ATHLETIC NOTES
Or. YAMEI KIN UPHoLDs CHI.
NESE WOMEN.

NESE WOMEN.
M RS. MAURICE HEWLETT, wife o
the novelist, has taken UP tn
sport Of aviation. She and her Frencl
partner, M. Blondeau, are the heads O
fiourfshing aviation school. They ar
the joint owners of Farman biplane
They started with four pupils las
summer and have already taught an
graduated two full fiedged pilots.
The method of teaching followed b.
Mrs. Hewlett and M. Blondeau is a
once original and practical. Ever
morning or evening, as the wind ma.
allow, the pupil is taken for a flight
There is a rush along the ground, tn
engine purring like an enormous cal
then a steady lift. when one become
unconscious of the terrible speed
aware only Of a strange exhilaratiol
and an ampler air.
Slow, steady. sure" should be tn
motto OF the air man or air woman VIII,
claims the privilege of teaching other
how to fly. The first thing to do will
a new pupil is to take him on serie
of flights as a passenger. Then afte
the first three or four lessons the pupi
is allowed to feel his hands''-that Is
to touch the lever Of the machine. J
week later the would be rival of tn,
birds begins to fly in. straight lines vi
and down the aviation ground, at frs
skimming the ground, then leaving i
for short spells; last, he is well up ii
the air.
An interesting announcement comes
from Canada to the effect that Mis-
Dorothy Campbell, the British lady ex
golf champion, will compete in thii
years championship at Portrush. Eng
land, next May. Miss Campbell woI
the championship at Birkdale In 1908
and soon after that meeting she wen
to Canada. She has twice won tn,
championship of the United States, !
is probable that Miss Campbell will b,
accompanied to England by severa
leading lady golfers.
twenty-five women rating as thu
foremost lawn tennis players in Thu
section of the country were drawn re-
Gently for the fifth annual indoor ma.
tional championship tournament. Mrs
Frederick Schmitz, the present holder
OF the title. and Miss Marie Wagner, Z
former champion, had places in thu
singles The event was held on thu
courts of the Seventh regiment ar.
mory of New York city.
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Australian girls play a strenuous
game of hockey. In a recent game be.
tween the Waratah and Thistle club.
the injuries were one finger broker
and another severely crushed, an eye
blackened and face discolored anC
many other bruises to faces and shins.
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have baseball diamond of their owr
on the college grounds.
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Miss Hazel Hotchl5iss, the California
tennis expert who intends competing
in England next summer, in games re.
Gently played on courts near Los An
geles added some new strokes to he
repertory in the form of a straigh
drive and smash and perfected her Gu
DR.. Yamei Kin, the Chinese woma
physician now visiting this country
says:
1T is all nonsense to say that Chin
has kept her women in ignoranct
China has always been proud to hav
her women educated. For centurie
and centuries we have had wome
scholars. artists and poets.
Take the late empress dowager Sh
could run over batch of dispatche
dictate replies, handle the domesti
and foreign affairs of an empire an
md time for painting and poetry. 70
may be sure that she did not suddenl
spring from a race Of uneducated VIC
! men.
Chinese women do not boast of thes
things. They would rather play an
embroider, so far as the public sees.
The Chinaman's attitude towar
women is far from one OF cruelty {
abuse. In the past he has treated he
20 far as her relation to the public {
the state is concerned, as a child. /
/ her own home his attitude toward he
30 AdI uHhrreHl. Inc women manAG
their households. The men are master
Of business and things outside til
home. but when they enter the hous
they enter the wife's domain
Il think that the mother occupies
q greater position in China than she doe
here. have been surprised to her
rough and hardened cooIies-men l
whom you would expect to find nor
of the finer feelings-cr out when the
are badly injured. sAi-ya. nyang!' Thi
means. oh, motherl'''