Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-03-04

XiESsG long Tune that she want
B H~S5 ed to have fight in the
r WAaAlM = And so DR.. Sidney 8.
Stowen took Miss Blanche
Edith 'Hulse up N a balloon, boys
proposed to her when they were 10000
feet in the air while the other man in
the basket was looking the other way;
and now they are married,
Dr. Stowell tried something differ
ent. He might have proposed to her
in an automobile, or on the deck of
yacht by moonlight, or even in the
hammock on the back porch; in other
words, he might have proposed just as
millions of other men have proposed.
But on the spur of the moment he
chose the air as the scene in which
to bring his wooing to a climax-and
won out
When his good airship landed in a
rocky pasture he had the promise; the
rest was easy, thanks to this new way
of winning her. The 100 pounds or
so of ballast is now Mrs. Stowell.
At the beginning it looked as if DR..
Stowell stood little chance. Miss HUI
Sc, daughter of Schuyler Hulse, of
| Pittsfield, Mass. was one of the bellies
| of the Berkshires. DR.. Stowen prac-
| tised in Pittsfield too, and one day he
met Miss Hulse.
lure of the City Felt.
At length he gained the coveted in
vitation to call. The handsome young
| physician took the very first oppor-
| tCnity. The visits continued until one
| day the young woman remarked in a
very off-hand manner, I'm going to
New York to study nursing"
| What" answered DR. Stowell, bare
ly sitting a gasp.
YES" ratified on Miss Hulse, fits
all arranged I'm going to Bellevue
hospital there and : shall take the full
course. Won't it be f1ne?"
Miss Hulse left Pittsfield soon after
ward and DIR. Stowell never got the
chance he longed for. He stayed al
home while Miss Hulse went to New
York. Automobling had always been
his hobby, but folks had the balloon
fever in Pittsfeld just then and DR.
Stowen got it, too. He Joined the
Aero Club of Pittsheld-the premier
place for the sport in the east, with
it's big gas works and it's host of aero
sharps. Soon he had the bug" a.
they say.
I'm going to qualify as an air-ptlot,
| declared DR.. Stowell to his friends, and
he went about 1t in a matter-of-fac
formal way, with each flight, making
his records and studying the scienc,
Of aeronautics as If he intended te
make it his life work.
He essayed the air for the first time
| going up as a passenger with William
Van Sleet. The wind was high ant
the pair were blown to Tyngsboro
Mass, but they landed in safety afte
a wild trip through the clouds. Tha
started his qualification for air-pilot.
Under the rules of the Aero Club o
Pittsf1eld a candidate must make ST.
flights with at least one passenger
and one of the flights must be a
} night. All these DIR. Stowen made
but not without peril
Peril In Night Flight.
, The night flight was punctuated b,
a terrific thunderstorm in which tn
balloon was in momentary peril of be
ing struck by lightning. In anothe
, flight he was blown across the Stat
: of Massachusetts,, dipped down till b
hit the waters of the Hudson river
only to rise again and bang agains
, the rock-bound sides of the Palisades
, But. one by one, the flights were mad
> There was but one left and then b
| WOuIQ D0COu0 q lu1l-AeQS0Q captain q
the air. He could fly alone now, If b
chose, or take a person.
He decided that his first passenge
should be John P. Manning of Pitts
field. 1t CHANGED that day that Mis-
Hulse was in Pittsfield too, on leav
of absence from the hospital in Ne,
York She went to see the balloo
flight and was in the crowd that gait
cred about the Juggling thing of sill
and gas that half a hundred men coul
barely hold down.
They had chatted and laughed t.
gether before things were ready, an
Miss Hulse stood close to the baske
to see the CASTOR Dr. Stowell wa
busy setting things to rights and ge
ting everything ship-shape when b
noted that his airship seemed eve
too buoyant. 1t was plain to his e,
: perienced eye that she would shoe
a up in the air like arocket-somethin
y that every aeronaut breads
: He glanced about There was n
y more ballast-yes, there was Miss HUI
= Sc, who stood smiling by the side c
!, the basket to watch DR.. Stowell max
his upward shoot into the air. Pei
:. haps something else beside mere ba
= last was in his mind too.
Perhaps there was something in
pa.r of merry eyes,
Invitation Accepted.
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