The New York herald., 1922-05-25
BY the Air Line.
Plan to Aid the Forgetful and Sup
ply Table Delicacies.

To THD NEW YORK HERALD: Mark this
day and date. have worked out de-
vice which will bring to humanity more
Joy. cure more sorrow. relieve more
worry than all the mechanical inven-
tions OF this and the last century some
thing which within a short time Will
broadcast. or, at least. dispatch. uni
versal happiness.
My great thought flashed upon me
when l read OF the exchange of aspara-
gus and chocolate candy between New
Jersey and Boston. Why. / asked my
self, should not this enterprise be ex-
panded perfected? These freighters of
the air must not operate only for the
convenience of commerce; the personal
relation is needed TO make the wonder
supreme And It is so simple!
Near every city and in every town
there is to be established a dispatching
station for the air express service. If
you have gone from home on an impor-
tant business matter and arrive at your
destination to find that you have for
gotten the papers without which your
voyage is in vain; II you are giving a
dinner and must have something the
hcme market is without-how about It?
You have almost guessed my triumph.
A supposed instance or two will permit
the full force and effect OF my astonish-
ing plan to burst upon you.
You, reader. and your wife have gone
to New York from, say. Princeton. as
guests of a lunch and an opera box
party. At your hotel your wife makes
what would have been a devastating dis
covery. Does she sit down and weep?
No! She steps briskly to the telephone.
calls home. and says softly to her maid,
Marie. you did not pack the stockings
l am to wear with my lunch dress nor
the gloves for the opera dress"
Marie, Of course. makes up neat par
eel of the wanted articles. gives them
to James. who carries them in your
touring car to the nearby air express
station, r A III, where with other par
cells they are placed in a. container like
a mail pouch. fastened to a captive bal
loon, which ascends 1000 feet, and the
next fiier on that route bound for New
York. having received radio call to
collect at r A II, swoops down to the
proper level and picks off from the bal
loon the loaded pouch, and half an
hour later your wife is in smiling con-
tent. If mail train going forty miles
an hour can pick off with rigid arm
from another rigid arm at a railway
station loaded pouch, the flexible arms
employed in my device will do the trick
like a mouse.
Or, reader, you are giving dinner
Saturday night and recall in the morn
ing that your richest guest dotes on
soft shell crabs and terrapin. Your chef
tells you that the local markets are de-
nuded of those delicacies. Poof! You
telephone to Washington for the crabs.
to Baltimore for the terrapin, and pres
emily they are picked out of the air for
you and In due time make a big hit
with your richest guest.
After such dinner your wife, New
England lady, who knows the kind of
breakfast which should follow that kind
OF dinner, calls up her mother. Beacon,
1922. to dispatch by air express some
Of her own fshballs, a crock of her
baked beans and loaf of her favorite
bakers brown bread.
Why. there's nothing to It.
HILLS IpE.
MoNTcLAIR, N. j., May "a.