Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-08-24
HINTS TO FLIERS.
THE RIGHT TOCS
VERY NECESSARY
No One Can Hope for Great
Success Unless Attired in
Just the Proper buds.

Uduy HAS DScH VI dIlLCo 4Ol CiiC
operation of a plant, it may be well
to call attention to the edict that the
first consideration in learning to fly
is toys.
A classy outfit does not necessarily
make flier, any more than one fly
makes an antiseptic summer. But
it's cinch you've got to have the
toggery before you get very far in
flying. That is where many begin
ners fall down. They're not we'll up
in aviatory glad rags. If you haven't
got the nerve to wear the latest
things in aerial buds you haven't
enough nerve to fly, that is ALL
Take golf. For years I tried,
against the advice of golfing fiends
(pardon me-friends) to paddle the
pill in multi, says writer in Car
toons. I had a derby hat that cost
six dollars, fastidious blue serge
suit whose single button hid my coral
stick pin, nifty suit Of silk-er-
underwear, gauzy hose that were gen
erously disclosed by high, upstand-
ing cuff on my trousers, with oxfords
that l bought at the same store as
Henry Ford. "That will make hit"
/ said. I did--with the gallery. But
it didn't hit the dimpled pellet. l
would spend as much time in adj
dressing the ball as l spent in dress
ing myself, and then dub it for a
scant ten yards. Then would come
slice into the rough, followed by
hook into the pit, and then dainty
pitch into the water hole. My rec
ord for the eighteen holes was some
where around two hundred and ten.
But all that changed with my first
suit of knickers that my friend Will
kins urged me to buy Wilkins was
strong for knickers. Indeed, you
might call him the worlds greatest
knicker hacker. In color they were
sort of brown, one of those intrigu-
ing browns, that went well with
sneaky cap which draped one ear and
had visor that projected well into
the foreground. The very first trip
out got in contact with friend Bogey
on two different holes, and the third
time out had him yelling for help,
i until now l have severed relations
with him entirely and am cumming
with Mr.. Par.
Now you don't want to dub your
flying. You don't want to spend all
yOuA ClAlc ldlS lllS dIOQIlu Vic lldllS
airs. Right at the start you want to
get up in the air with the proper
draperies. Your friends may go up
in the air when they survey you for
the first time, but tell them it's not
their funeral if your outfit doesn't
work.
What, you ask, is, as the French
say, il ne pas in flyin things? Adapt
ableness, first and last. First, select
something light and airy-and natty.
Worsteds are suitable-unfinishe
will do just as we'll as the finished,
since your career will like as not be
short one and it would be foolish
to throw money away on goods that
will soon see their finish any way.
And while we are on the subject of
suitability, may / suggest that you
have plenty of pockets-these will go
pleasingly with the air pockets which
the atmosphere is affecting this sea-
son. Color does not matter, but it is
advisable to have the goods perfectly
plane. Leather belts are in vogue,
snappy one-with the snap attached
to a well grounded hook in the cock
pit.
This point is of the utmost import
ance, inasmuch as you will want to
fly upside down when you see your
tailor approaching in a racing ma
chine, and a well secured belt en-
ables you to enjoy the scenery longer
in this position. For fast drivers
four-in-hand tie is suggested, with
tubbed silk shirt for drivers of sea-
planes. For the latter the new
waterproof hose and pumps are the
most practical footgear, in case of
hasty descent into one of these oceans
that flier finds so often.
And goggles! By all means you
must have goggles, though / haven't
have them-but then, birds have a
lot to learn yet about the flying
game. The owl, for instance-why,
the owl hasn't learned to fly yet, wise
old bird that he is, while as for the
ostrich-well, you simply can't get
an ostrich into the air beyond your
wife's hat. Choose the big, wide
spreading goggles that keep the star
dust out of your eyes.
While buying your flying outfit,
also purchase black suit and lay
it by in case of accident. Something
that will go well with floral wreaths
is fitting. Which brings up to our
next suggestion for beginners: Be
sure before you take your flight to
pay o visit to the Oak Hill officials
and take filler in real estate-a nice
quiet spot under a wide spreading
elm, say. For you never can tell
when you are going to skid, and hav-
ing a landing place already chosen
may mean lot of convenience to
your friends.
Every smart aviator also has a
policy-one hidden safe away in
safetv deposit vault, to which his
wife has KEY. This may prove the
thing that will save her from a life
spent as chauffeuse of high pow
cred laundry tub.
Having carried out these sugges-