Evening star., 1937-06-03

tiful blue Philippine costume, the
gift of President and Mrs. Manuel
Quezon."
The visit to the Orient was Miss
Haven's seventh crossing of the Pa
ciflc Ocean. She went to the Hawaii
an Islands in 1928 as a teacher, and
the following Summer sailed for the
Far East, where she had an exciting
10000-mile trip through Japan, Cho-
sen, Manchuria and China Before
returning to Hawaii to continue her
teaching, the writer explored the
alleyways of congested Shanghai,
traversed the great plains of the
Shantung Province and climbed
Mount Fujiyama, the famous noun
tain of Japan.
FOLLOWING second year in Ha-
Waii, Miss Haven returned to
Japan upon an invitation to teach
in the American school in Toxic. While
on the faculty there in 1880, she en-
barked on her journalistic career by
joining the staff of the Japan Times
and Mail, an English language daily
newspaper in Toxic, as society editor
and feature writer.
1T was a real education to me to
switch from teaching in the Hawaiian
schools where the children of the IA
nationalitieS represented there attend
ed school in cotton frocks and with
their little feet bare, while in Toxic
taught the children of the diplomatic
circles and wealthier classes, who were
attired in expensive clothing. usually
handsome cars with liveried chauffeurs
and their 'amahs' in attendance"
Among the interesting assignments
Miss Haven covered while on the Toxic
staff were the flights of the Lind
berghs over the North Pacific, the
flight of Amy Johnson from London,
the ar0und-the-W world junket of Post
and Gatty and the nonstop flight of
Langborn and Herndon from Japan
to Wenatchee, Wash.
Miss Haven and a friend cooked
chicken, made sandwiches and pre-
pared lunch for the Pangborn- -Hern-
don trip, entertained Amy Johnson,
and long before the Lindberghs landed
in Toxic she had prepared a scrap
book for them with interesting clip
pings Of their fight pasted on one side
while on the opposite pages a noted
japanese artist had painted lovely
flowers, birds and fish.
r OUNDING out four years in the
Far East, the flying teacher"
made trip around the world, visit
ing Singapore, the tapioca fields of
Sumatra, gorgeous Ceylon, the stark
barrenness of peaceful Djibuti. the
African greatness of the Sudan, celes-
tai Egypt, Italy, dreamy Spain, spir-
itual Portugal, industrial Holland, do
mestic Belgium, pulsating France and
the then stole England.
AT the steady, peaceful rate of IA
miles an hour, on leisurely steamers, "
she said, Il have crossed the major
seas of the world-the Yellow Sc the
Bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea. the
Indian Ocean. the Red Sea, the Med
lterranean and the Atlantic. 1t was
not until had 'nicked out masters
degree at Columbia University, circled
North America via the Panama Canal
and picked up my journalistic career
in Washington that ventured into an
airplane on the fastest flight in the
world"
Miss Haven combined work with
pleasure on her aerial junket by COL
lecting material for series of articles,
soon to appear. She was steadily at
her typewriter while aloft over ocean
wastes on the Clipper Ships and on the
American airlines, flying over South
ern plains and Western mountains of
the United States. At present she is
busy breaking down" $4,000 word
note book of personal observations.