The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-07-06

Goodbye, Pa! Come, come, Mr..
GAM, let's go down past the De Leon
spring. If you wash your face in it,
they say it makes you beautiful"
Then 1 take right away a bath in
it, Miss Kessler.'
He quick-stepped his gait to hers.
His timidity had suddenly rushed up
in a wave of color above his collar
line, in his quickly withdrawn elbow
when it brushed hers, in his hitching
shoulders.
/ "You-you don't need no beauty
, spring like the rest of us, Miss Della.
You-youre just beautiful without
/ it,"
whenever l fish hard for compli-
ments like that, Mr.. GAM, there's a
fellow at home always says to me, he
says, Cutey, you're Woodworking
girl"
"Cutey! That's a mighty fine little
name for you. That's just what you
are, Cutey."
They were in the green twilight of
through except at the remote end of
the tan-bark walk. Along that shaded
| tan-bark walk, men and women in
quest Of panacea for that-tired-
feeling and that-run-down-loo strobe
from spring to spring.
Look" cried Miss Kessler, quick
ening her companions pace to hers,
Just look at them all over there by
| De Leon trading symptoms before sun
up"
You're right restless down here at
the Springs, aren't you, Miss DellaY
Restless! Well, rather! Me down
here In the Alimentary Canal zone,
when it's Aero week and the Motor
Cup races at home!"
ITO think of a little Cutey like you
being so crazy over airships. Aren't
you afraid, Miss Della, to-"
''Afraid Why, I've taken two
flights already. 1 was among those
present in Revillon's famous plane the
time he carried a passenger at the
Chicago meet. l went up with Arch
Meyer the first time he tried out his
old mOnOplane. L"
Just full of pep, amt your
'Why, there's not an airman ever
dropped in at the office While l was
stenoging that l didn't invite myself
up with. Afraid Gee, l can taste a
flight now. Cloud in my mouth and
rain before it's rain in my face! a
feeling like all of n sudden my feet
are cut free from asphalt and the
world has Slid out from under me.
Up-up-up. With this warty old planet
dropping away like a pebble off a
cliff. ScOoting on wings through the
middle of million years That's the
way it feels to you, Mr.. CAM, to go
flying through space, If your rudder
Is vertical and the air gusts let the
| planes alone"
well, Tiff you amt just full of
/ high jinks. tell you fellow like me,
who lets himself get close up to forty
with his nose and eyes to the grind
stone, sometimes just keeps them
there from habit unless something like
you comes along to wake him up"
You self-made men, Mr.. CAM, are
sometimes like home made flying ma
chimes. After you got wings, you
don't know how to use EN-"
You bet I've been sleeping, Miss
Della, but I'm awake now and-and
you woke me-"
Flying, Mr.. CAM is like any other
principle where"
'Now just don't you begin to get
right away from the subject of-you
and me like you did last night, Miss
Della, when YOU wouldn't let me say
what I've got in my heart to-"
: It's you who changed the subject,
Mr.. CAM. We We're talking about air
planes and l was trying to tell you
that we We're standing on the edge of
the air age. We've finished with the
Stone age and the Iron age and all
the other ages and now we are ready
for the"
But, Miss Della, what l got in my
heart to tell you is more important
-"
There are no limits to the alrplane,
Mr.. GAM, that's what makes it the
greatest Of all inventions. Mountains,
seas, valleys and rivers won't be any
more of an obstacle to men hereafter
than relief map is to you, if you
wave your hand over it,"
But"
81 worked in an aero office for six
months, Mr.. CAM. I've heard them
talk tirst-hand and seen what the boys
with the ideas and the nerve are do
! Ing Why, l know boy right this
minute who is putting the finishing
touches to a biplane out in his back
shed that not only is going to do the
fanciest flying this world has ever
! seen, but If ever he can get it before
the public, Is going to give the gov
eminent the thrill of its life in nation
al defense. 1 know another fellow,
too, Ed Waller of Dayton, is"
Man wasn't made for flying, Miss
Della, or the Almighty would have
given him wings, just like he wasn't
made for water or he'd have fms"
"And he wasn't made for roller
skating or the Almighty wOuId have