The Washington times., 1937-12-10
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by Beatrice Fairfax
Famous Authority on Problems Of Love
and Marriage

Copyright 1887. king Features syndicate. Inc)
EARNING her living in the air enhances
~ girls charms, we are told, increasing
the likelihood of her speedy marriage.
But lest this news induce too many
msidens to forsake the safe and steady
earth, must warn them that there's another
time among the clouds, they're likely, as it
now appears, to lose the husbands that their
very flights have won for them So what's
the wise course to follow? I'll explain a
little.
Not long ago the chief "hostess" on one of the
big air lines married the superintendent of pas
senger service. Not only that, but within six
months of this wedding, Is other hostesses of the
same line happily marched to the altar.
WANTED JOBS
The delicious sound of so many wedding bells
seems to have sounded all over the country, and
captured the attention of great many girls who
had neither job nor husband. Before long, thou
sands of them were standing in line to get jobs
as airplane hoSteSses, their minds full OF sturdy
intentions to succeed their hearts full of dreams
of romance A few got what they were after.
At about this same time Chicago flier, Will
lard II, Anderson, whose job was that of private
pilot, got the notion that he would like to teach
his young wife, Opal, how to fly. Anderson
owned his own plane. It's name was Betsy. 1t
seemed to him that Opal and Betsy ought to get
together. A fearless girl who can manage her
own plane, he thought, and manage it quite
alone is wife worth having
Opal's thoughts ran in the same direction.
Very soon she seemed to be as much at honle
in Betsy as her husband was. 1t wasn't long
before she had her license. Anderson was en-
thusiastic. Opal was even more So Flying, she
believed, was what she had lived for.
KEEPING HOME
But Flying wasn't opars real job in life. Her
real job was keeping house for her husband
cooking his meals, attending to his clothes, keep
ing the home homelike And Anderson couldn't
help noticing that home-cooked meals came to
be fewer and fewer and that when he needed
Betsy for business flight Opal was already in
the air with no intention of coming down.
He made flier of her. certainly. But what
had become of his wife and housekeeper? In
vain the poor man pied with his av1ator-bride.
She and Betsy and the whole situation were, alas,
beyond his control.
In divorce bill on file in the Superior Court
in Chicago, Anderson describes himself as an air
widower His wife spend all her time he says,
either at the airport or flying about the country
In exchange for divorce, he offers to give Opal
the family plane Betsy, you see, has been
treacherous friend.
STICK TO GROUND
So, after all, it may be better to keep to the
well.worn rut If sticking to the gound is pretty
sure to be your business in life. is it wise to fall
too much in love with sky levels? Men will fall
for YOU probably, against background Of clouds,
whether you're wearing hostess uniform or flying
toys And they'll want to marry you. But then,
as like as not, they'll want you to say good-by to
the clouds, drop to earth and stay there. Is the
sky any place for a wife to be, at mealtimes?
Most husbands won't think SO.
And anyway, it's good deal easier to qualify
for ground-job than for a sky-scraping one.
good safe pilot has to have qualities that by no
means all girls possess. AS for hostess, she has
to be not only young slim, pretty, charming to
talk to- intelligent and tactful, but some lines
q trained nurse as well, Think twice, therefore,
before you take to the life of the air