Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1919-07-17
VALUABLE HINTS TO
BEGINNING FLIERS

The first consideration in learning
to fly is togs.
A classy outfit does not necessar-
lily make a flier, any more than one
fly makes an antiseptic summer. But
it's a 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 well 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, rnat is all.
Take golf. For years / tried,
against the advice of golfing trends
(pardon me-frteIdsl to paddle the
pill in multi. 10edh derby hat that
cost six dollAs, q fA idious blue
serge salt whose single Button bid my
coral stick pin, nifty suit of silk
er-underweaI, gauzy nose that were
generously disclosed by high up
standing cuff ON. my trousers, with
Oxfords that l bought at the Same
store as Henry Ford. That will
make a hit" l said. 1t did--wth
the gallery. But it didn't hit the
dimpled pellet. woNld spend as
much time in addressing the ball as
l spent in dressing myself, and then
dub it for a scant ten yards. Then
would come a slice into the rough,
followed by a hook into the pit, and
then a dainty pitch into the water
hole. My record for the eighteen
holes was somewhere around two
hundred and ten.
But all that changed with my first
suit of knickers that my friend Viii
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, in
triguing browns. that went well with
a 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. until now / have severed
relations with him entirely and am
chunzfning around with Mr.. Par.
Now you don't want to dub your
Ifying. You don't want to spend all
4 your time hanging around the ham
CARS. 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 flying things? Adapt
ableness, first and last. First, select
something light and airy-and natty.
Worsteds are suitable unfinished
will do just as well as the finished,
: since your career will like as not be
| a short one and It TSuId be foolish
to throw money away or goods that
twill soon see their finish anyway.
And while we are on the subject of
suitability may suggest that you
have plenty Of pockets-these will
go pleasantly with the air pockets
which the atmosphere is affecting
this season. Color does not matter,
hut it is advisable to have the goods
perfectly plane. Leather belts are
in vogue, snappy ones-with the snap
ATTACHED to a well grounded hook in
the cockpit.
/ This point is of the utmost impor-
ltance, inasmuch as you will want to
fly upside down when you see your
tailor approaching in racing ma
chine, and a we'll secured belt enables
you to enjoy the scenery longer in
this position. For fast drivers q
four-n-hand tie is suggested, with
tubbed silk shirt for drivers of sea.
Iplanes. For the latter the new wa.
teproof hose and pumps are the most
practical footgear, in case Of hasty
descent into one of those oceans that
a flier finds so often.
And goggles, by all means you
must have goggles, though | haven
the slightest idea why. Birds don't
have then-but then, birds have ;
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 fol
the ostrich-well you simply can
get an ostrich into the air beyont
Iyour wife's hat. Choose the big
wide spreading goggles that keep tn,
star dust out of your eyes.
While buying your flying outfit
also purchase black suit and lay i
by in case of accident. Somethin,
that will go well with floral wreath
is fitting. Which brings us to GU
next suggestion for beginners: B,
sure before you take your flight t,
pay visit to the Oak Hill official
and take a flier in real estate;
nice quiet spot under wide spread
J ing elm, say. For you never can tel
|. when you are going to skid, and hav
ing landing place already chosel
may mean lot of convenience t,
your friends.
Every smart aviator also has
; policy-one hidden safe away in
safety deposit vault, to which hi
iwife has key This may prove tn
thing that will save her from life a
a chauffeuse of a high powered laun
dry tub
Having carried out these sugges
tons and made out your will an
made up your mind you are ready t
fly, after learning few things abou
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