Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-03
TEN'rIETH DAY
|lNGS NEWS OF
SAFE LANDING
kildren, Too, Of Lieut..
Farrell Certain He'd
Return
Rx ZOE BECKLEY..


NEW YORK, Jan. 3.-Faith -
mple, sure, sublime-which burned
the heart of Mrs. Stephen Farrell,
fife of the navy balloonlst, who with
wo companions was missing since
Dec. 13, has ben rewarded.
~ "I'm sure he'll return safely"
Mrs. Farrell said Saturday, 10 days
after he sailed away, and the 2O-h
\ dav the news of his safety came.
Her faith was like that of Mrs.
Harry Hawker, wife of the heroic
Englishman who essayed trans
Atlantic flight from Newfoundlana
to the British Isles, and vanished in
to space. After all the world had
given up hope- that Hawker and his
companion would ever be found
alive, Mrs. Hawker kept her conVic-
tion.
'sDaddy will come back" she whis-
pered to her baby, time after time
as the days dragged by and brought
no word. But at the eni of week
her faith was rewarded-the wire
less brought the word that the avl-
ators had been picked up in mid
ocean and We're on their way home
to her. This was in 1919.
"Of course daddy will come back,
Mrs. Farris Sold her children.
Endurance Flight.
The balloon bearing Lieutenant
Farrell and his two companions left
Roekaway Point Naval Air Station,
near New York, on an endurance
flight. 1t was last seen eyer the
Ia dirondacks. Only one of the car
RPier pigeons taken up by the baF
loonists has returned. 1t was re.
leased over Brooklyn.
When Mrs. Farrell opened the
door of her Brooklyn flat to me, the
savory incense Of frying liver and
bacon came forth. She brisked
about her household, her marketing,
her mending and her reading just as
if her husband were certain to come
home for dinner at 6 o'clock.
Perhaps it was not easy fos her
to smile through this anxious time.
''But Stephen is not dead,' she
said to me in a voice that rang with
confidence.
"He has done this before and he
will probably do it again. | am used
to il, this waiting. Only-only 1T
has never been quite so long
Life as Balloonist's Wife.
"I knew when | married Stephen
16 years ago that my life would not
he as placid as that of women whose
husbands go to work eacn morning
and come home each evening from
an office or shop.
sI.ong ago | trained myself to be
cheerful and not to cry.
-,o,.1o aY,d / work .InSt QOlnQ
through the motions helps lot.
at does no good to worry. By
constantly disciplining yourself you
can get out of the worry habit.
emily she interrupted %erselI
to call out "just run into the kitch-
en- and see that pan doesn't burn;
that's a good girl. r..
nMv husband, she went On, rs
hoth brave and experienced. can
not see how real tragedy could have
hefaIlen him and the others. They
were prepared for anything.
an nv heart l believe they are
oo,,obt in the mountains or forests,
:, some place from which they can
not communicate.
"O aim Stephen were-lost, I should
Sal here. Everybody knows
tiai women have peculiar instinct
and and intuition more sensitive than
men,s This gift is often more 1ell-
nble M than mans SLOW logic"
"'' No Gloom In Home.
Certain II is that no gloom per-
I'D fhe home of Stephen Farrell,
ohle sailor of the air.
avg Sunshine streamed through the
..Itn a,Y, wind OWS.
li'T The study voice of 15-year;old
r,aane rang out as he hailed boy
III 1sSSirteen-year-old Emily linked
,or arm arm throguh her mothers and
.A slDaet Il there anything, wonder, that
Z Z ba braver upon occasion than
1onan's smile?