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NOV-29-1910

WOMAN MAKES FLIGHT

Forty Feet In Air Suspended From String of Kite.
[From the New York World.]

Here is a picture of a young lady on a string, so to speak. Also she is up in the air. Many another young lady has been up in the air because she was "on a string." as the slangy say. But never before was one hoisted like the young lady depicted here.

She is Miss Helene Mallard, 726 Carpenter Place, St. Louis, the first woman in the world to go up on a kite string. Mallard as she is, she takes to the air, not the water. In St. Louis last Wednesday Miss Mallard, seated
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MISS HELENE MALLARD,
Of St. Louis, hanging on kite string

in a sort of bo-sun's chair, was raised to an altitude of 40 feet and maintained and supported there by 12 of Samuel F. Perkins' aeroplane kites. 
New Yorkers have seen kites soaring in the blue, which will give them a faint idea of what Mr. Perkins' kites are. Occasionally big kites are sent up there and on a string supported by them flaps an American flag suspended, like Mohammed's coffin, between heaven and earth.  Occasionally, too, advertisements are carried aloft, by kites, and New Yorkers read on a background of sky such advice as "Be fly and buy Mr. Bear's Ointment."
 But Miss Mallard is a substantial young woman, and to raise her 40 feet the kites have to be much larger than any kites ever seen around here.  Mr. Perkins, who hails from Dorchester, Mass., calls his kites "man-lifters." They are the largest ever constructed, as far as is known, and more than dual in size Santos Dumont's famous demoiselle. But the Japanese, the greatest kite flyers on earth, may have constructed kites bigger than Perkins' or Santos Dumont's.