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RK FURIOUSLY AERIAL STYLES

n Heights Church Repair Shop for s Gas Bags

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era learned that Dr. s, New York's leading rented the church as vana, his pet balloon. dred the assistance of edlewomen to sew up bag caused by contact ples and other obstruc- f the stitchers qualified lately put to work.
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men are also studying the
devising means of averting an "aerial "war," should the art of flying be per-fected. As England, in its insular posi-tion, enjoys special immunity from at-tack in ordinary fashion, its people are much perturbed in thinking what may happen should an enemy take a notion to descend upon it from the clouds, so to speak. Shooting at airships and the hostilities in them would then become part of the strenuous duty of the British soldier.
However, for the present there is no serious cause for alarm. Aerial ar of the kind under consideration is not like-ly to be seen in the immediate future, and probably the peace conference at The Hague will not think the subject sufficiently vital to command attention. Still, should the airship be really evolved war may take on new terrors--so many that perhaps the nations may agree to abolish that method of settling differences.