The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1928-06-16
Feminine Y earn
Turns to Real
Air Castles
BY Beatrice Fairfax
Aan Authority ON Problems Of
Love and Marriage

We arc uVlnS at the GAVIN
Of "the age of the air dad
want an airplane.' ''Do you
think you could handle one,
Dick? It requires more careful
control than your roadster. One
cocktail too many might mean
death for yourself your passen-
gers and those on whom the
plane crashed"
Conversations to this general
effect are. even now taking
place, preliminary to the pur-
chase of an airplane. When there
Is comfortable fortune, an
slrplane is no longer an I'M
practical luxury.
Dick got his airp1ane after
learning to fly and proving his
nependability at a registered
school of aviation.
Nowadays his best" girl goes
out for flights with him. You
may be sure she would not trust
her life to his. care and 5udg.
iaent and feel happy and safe
with Dick at the controls, if she.
were not sure that he is skilful,
perfectly self-controled and tenn.
perate.
Soon we shall all be flying,
and suited to this new, thrilling
field for adventure, comes a
new chivalry, the code of The
knights of the air.
The age of chivalry Is gone,
wrote Edmund Burke. nearly two
hundred years ago. THE I'M
bought grace of life, the nurse
of heroic enterprise, is gone
that chastity Of honor which, fell
q stain like a wound"
Yes. chivalry passed out with
the age of innocence" insists
young Elizabeth Benson, flapper
authoress. but we girls would
not exchange our happy-go-lucky
male comrades for bowling and
scraping young men, If there IS
fer to be along. sharing the hard
ships as well as the fun
Is caivalry dead? Are we not
rather at the dawn of a new chlv-~
airy, more glorious than any the
world has seen,-a natural, I'M
assuming chivalry in which girls
may go along?
Can cl1ivalry be dead while a
Lindbergh. Commander Byrd
4 Baron Huenefeld, Capt. Koehl
and Major Fitzmaurice live. while
the memory OF Floyd BENEFITS
immortal sacrifice Is fresh in our
memories?
Old-tine chivalry fell down on
q mistaken idea. prevalent in its
day--tl1at women are frail and
helpless. mentally and physically
unable to take part in robust adj
venture. Girls in those days were
kept ignorant lest they strain
their brains by education and
were guarded like dollhouse flow
erg. But modern young women,
aside from the restrictions which
are part of their education and
upbringing. take their places
side by side with young men as
pals, comrades and fellow-workers.
and adventurers. We have our
Huerta Junkers and our Ruth
Elders as well as our Chamber.
Inns and Lindbershs. But for all
that. women still hold their pre-
dominant place as home-makers
and happy. contented wives and
mothers.
Not because of limitations i'm
posed from without. but because
of her own innate nature and
IDEAL of happiness. wOman's great
role continues to be that OF help
meet. blending her life with that
Of y her husband. succeeding
through his success. inspiring
that success by understanding
love and practical aid. Recognition
Of equality does not prevent men
and women from also appreciat-
ing certain superiorities which
each sex admires in the other
Men pay homage to women for
their mother-like capacity for un'
selfish devotion and for the ideals
of love and purity they bring
cut. Women admire the wisdom
and strength OF men.
What an inspiration to any
man il the perfect, well-grounded
faith of the woman he loves.
Wholesome romance. sound mar
rage, affectionate family life are
the general rule among our air.
men. and are part of the code OF
modern chivafry. which is not by
any means restricted to aviators.
Girls, do you wish to win as
your husband one of these mod
ern knights, a modern gentle
man? Then prove yourself in the
best sense a modern lady. Win
by charm. character and eff
cheney.
Bring out the best in the
character of the young man you
meet. Music is founded on
arithmetic. aviation on exact
science. Do not scorn the prac-
tical home.making arts, such az
efficiency and skill in cookery.
end housekeeping as well as
personal chic and companion.
ability, IL you would send the
husband of your choice into the
world each day feeling fit to
conquer it! Build castles in the
air with him. then make these
dreams come true by patient ef.
fort, unchanging affection and
the code of the new chivalry.