The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1919-11-18
Confessions
of a Bride
CopyriFhted. 1919. by the News
paper Enterprise AsHociation
JANE FINDS FLYING IL
VERY Much LIKE
MlAIRiMO>N

My flying Lessons took my mind
off from Bob and Miss Miller. !
think Jim planned them more for
that than for the sake OF gratifying
my desire To pilot n plane. My
domestic troubles made me a little
reckless. h suppose. At any rate. I
tried TO s~fget them by putting my
mind on my work I remembered
Jlm'a instructions with an exactnsHH
which astonished him.
II only have TO tell you a thing
once and you've got ~. siHsy. You
ought 10 be In tho secret service. ="
My memory n not 20 my own
credit. jimmy. It's due 10 the way
my father brough, me up"
Il wish the professor had brought,
IN all The guys i've had 20 teach in
the last two years" Kaid Jim. None
OF 'cfn ever got an idea inside Of HIS
nut unui he had made me say IL
three times over"
Fathers theory was that a
normal child will get a thing the
sAhN ettt*" ~ - hRAas ltRNtA'A AAtt At'4A
~ put IN words the child can under.
stand. Father believed that children
lcSo this natural power. which they
originally possess. thru the fault OF
their parents. lie used 20 say that
parents could develop quick perccp.
ton In a child with far lesa waste Of
energy than they now put into
perNWuuf.s .....asfu- GA ,~0~wsfr.-
what they have 10 say"
ISIS. ! wish your dad had taught
me 10 study"
He had a hard system. Jim.
was supposed TO concentrate ms
mind on a lesson no completely that
l had u learned by ono rcadlnFT'
"Whe.e-ewr' whiatied Jim. 1T ap.
pears to me that the old mans
theory took root and sprouted''
II wish could nay that IL had
worked. The most can say IL that
I think awfuily well OF the theory
Your mother and I are applying IL TO
Baba with grand success Parents
train chiidren's muscles from the
cradle"
And take care OF their stornachn
and let their hrains-takc chance
laughed Jim.
! grasped Jim's instructions about
how TO run a plane long before I had
the nerve TO do what he told me. lie
gave me just one rule for getting
out OF n spin. "Neutralizo your con.
trolls and the bird viii fly straight
he said.
For once. at least. I didn't concon.
tratc on what was said 20 me. I
was thinking that putting tho u1atri-
monial joy-stick into neutral would
probably make my domestic ship
level off" too.
Most wives fuss 80 much when
they have trouble with their hus.
bands that the domestic ship never
gets fair chance TO right Itself
II they would just keep still and hold
steady. the good ship OF matrimony
would level off In grand style,
Landings provided my chief dlffl.
culties, The first time Jim told me
10 nose her down" I didn't dare TO
do 10. but kept going round and
round In circles trying 10 bolster up
my courage. Jim had TO take her
down himself. Upon another oc.
casion ! made grand staircase be.
tween the heavens and the earth. !
brought the airplane down by steps.
first | giided and then I leveled off.
glided and leveled off. and the effect.
II II had been skctchcd. would have
been a succession Of broad terraces
such as the ancient gods might have
used for giant stairway to tho
clouds. Finally I pumped down the
last five feet and landed flat-"pan.
cakcd"--Jim said. and broke a tail
skid
Another time ran into ditch.
and the "old girl stood on her nose. -
according TO Jim. and Smashed her
bonnet" And ! was scared almost
to DEATH
I'm having the same kind of
troubles I had when coming down "a
plain married life after my honey.
moon. Making n landing on some
flat little part OF the world has got
20 be done by every bride and groom
It's the inevitabler ! laughed bi,
foolishly. hoping that Jim didn't
guess what n mess Bob and I had
made settling down" after our own
honeymoon.
Jim left for his aviation camp with
little wrinkle OF anxiety I'm his
brow
"Janc. don't you be reckless after
I've goner' was his warming. "Serr
Is better teacher than I am. II
he wasn't wouldn't leave the old
bus here for you TO fool with"
(To BE Continued