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The World Magazine, September 28, 1919
NERVIEST GIRL AVIATOR
Rival of Dare-Devil Brother
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Miss Ruth Law ready for a flight. 
Ruth Law, Undaunted by the Tragic Mishaps of Others, Does Thrilling Stunts in Midair with Marvelous Ease- Recommends Flying for Hysteria and Other Nerve Troubles.
HIGHER and higher soared the biplane like some [[page ripped]] The woman with the lever in her [[page rip]] happily. She knew they were now [[page ripped]] feet up in the air. The rather heavy [[page ripped]] passenger who has craved thrills in an [[cut off]] -mp sat tightly, as he had been told, but with firmly compressed lips. He inwardly hoped that this outward appearance indicated a real enjoyment of the sensation of flying. Never for a moment did his eyes swerve from the slight, girlish figure of the woman before him. How cleverly she managed the great, flapping machine! One false move of the lever and-
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The man's reflections ceased abruptly. He became suddenly obsessed with the idea that something out of the ordinary had occurred. He leaned forward breath ssly. The young woman at the lever held his life in her nds. Surely the smile on the face of the golden-haired iatrice was just as bright, but, even as the man looked, blue eyes seemed to become keener, her slight form alert. Her trim gloved hands moved quickly from r to lever. There came an almost imperceptible jar he ship seemed to be swinging around. The air cur  changed. The man gasped again. It was no im  ion. Something was really happening. The ship  urely turning around, now slowly, now faster, again  gain. The man passenger who has wanted thrills  etting them. 
re you frightened?" asked the woman at the levers.  o, n-n-not at all," gasped the man as he felt him  ng whirled faster and faster through the air.  n, down, around and around, down again, ever swifter and swifter went the machine, while the  d tight and gasped and the woman gazed off into   h those keen blue eyes that are so unfathomable 

The man was Sir [[Walter?]] Scotts of Saskatchewan, Canada, and the woman who whirled him from the skies in a $6,500 Wright biplane was Miss Ruth Bancroft Law, called the most daring woman aviator of the world. 
"There was really nothing to be afraid of," remarked the young woman when telling of the experience. 'All I had to do was to keep the machine under control. Had it once got to going too fast in that mad whirl the air pressure would have ripped off a wing. The secret of safety in the spiral dip is to pull up slowly enough to get out without any sudden change. It is perfectly simple." 
To head Miss Law tell of airships and their gentle ways one would think that any child could guide one. Nothing is difficult, nothing is dangerous- if you know how and have never known fear. 
Miss Law knows how and in her lexicon of aviation there is no such word as fear. She is a worthy sister of her daredevil brother, Frederick Rodman Law, who flies and dives and jumps and climbs and rows just as his little fearless sister aspires to do. 
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As the hero of classical fame gazed at the birds, so gazed Ruth Law at her Brother Rodman. 
"Rodman does it, so why can't I?"
From the time she could first lisp the words members of the Law family have heard her say them. Later they have seen them carried into effect. If Rodman rode a spirited horse Ruth was
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same predicament- and no matter what happened she smiled. 
She smiled the day that brother Rodman made his first parachute jump. That was the day she decided to fly. She said so. As she stood by the deserted race track at the Empire City Fair Grounds and watched the workmen packing her biplane for shipment to Hempstead, L. I., she told of her experiences modestly, yet with a frankness and matter-of-fact manner that stripped flying of all its terrors and clothed her own exploits in the most ordinary habiliments. 
"Risk!" she exclaimed- and of course she smiled. "Why, really, there is very little. Just enough to make flying fascinating. Nothing is interesting, you know, that has not some little risk connected with it. Nevertheless I never consider that I take risks when I make a flight. The very calmness with which the machine glides away from the earth gives a sense of security. The higher I soar the greater freedom and liberty I feel. The vista which opens out before one is so vast, so wonderful, so all-absorbing that the particular bit of world one has left below seems very small and nerve-wracking in comparison."
And think of it, nerve-racked men and woman of earth, in aviation Miss Law has discovered a panacea for all you ills. Nerve specialists and rest cures, with all their attendant drugs and expenses, are quite unnecessary. When you feel that you are about to have an attack of hysterics do not disturb the whole household, but hold your breath until you can board the nearest airship. It will at once be observed that this will have practically the same effect as the time-honored precept of counting-ten. And when business matters all go wrong and the office boy brings a telegram that your mother-in-law is coming on a visit don't swear or tear your hair, but get right up in the air. The effect is marvellous. Miss Law says so. 
And Miss Law knowns, because since she commenced to fly a year ago last July she has made more flights than any other woman in this country. Her recent visit to Hempstead, L. I., was for the purpose of breaking her own world altitude record of 5,000 feet. "Flying takes one so completely away from everything mundane," she remarked, apropos of nerves. "When I am on earth I am nervous as any other woman. Trifling difficulties annoy me. Sometimes I get dreadfully worried over a delay in getting started on a flight. Often, at the last moment I have been greatly vexed and disappointed. But all I have to do is to get the motor started and sail away. Instantly I am calm and tranquil. Flying softly through the air has the effect of quieting the nerves as nothing else on earth can."
The fearless, death-defying young woman gazed up at the fleecy white clouds hovering over her with an expression that was almost affectionate. "I love flying," she observed reflectively, "and it took me only three weeks to learn. After I bought my machine I practised another four weeks before I gave my first public exhibition at Narragansett Park, Providence, R.I. [[Rhode Island]] In all the flights that I have made never once has it occurred to me that I was braving death to any greater extent than are the pedestrians who every day cross Fifth avenue or Broadway and Thirty-fourth street. 
"When I first wanted to fly Orville Wright refused to permit me to be instructed at his school. He said it was physically impossible for a woman to learn to fly because of her tendency to get into a panic and in an emergency do the wrong thing. I have entirely disproved that theory. I have not intentionally attempted anything foolhardy because I do not believe in foolishly risking one's life. There have been times, however, when I have faced danger and when I have simply had to disprove Mr. Wright's theory in order to save life."
Then it was that Miss Law told of her remarkable flight and spiral dip at a time when the biplane was [[illegible]] ing the additional weight of Sir Walter Scott, "Of course," she explained, "Sir Walter did not know we were in a whirlpool. He only knew we were going like a merry-go-'round, and I guess he held his breath a bit. He told me afterward that for many days the earth seemed to him to be an inclined plane upon which he had great difficulty in walking,
"At Oakland, Cal. [[California]], I had the motor stop when I was three thousand feet in the air, but I brought the machine down all right. At Jacksonville, Fla. [[Florida]], when preparing to make a flight at the Moncrief race track, I had my most serious accident. Strange as it may seem, it never got into the papers, so far as I know. I had made my practise flight and had come down to take up a passenger. The place given me to fly in was just a small space in front of the paddock, and I was accordingly handicapped. The machine was going about 45 miles an hour when the front wheels suddenly caught on a high fence just as we were clearing the ground. There was no time to think. All I 

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THE EVENING
PROVIDENCE, R.I., THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1913
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MISS RUTH BANCROFT LAW
Noted Airwoman Who Will Attempt to Break Her Altitude Record of 5,500 Feet at Rocky Point Tomorrow
WOMAN AVIATOR TO MAKE FLIGHTS AT ROCKY POINT
An exhibition of spiral flying will be given by Ruth Bancroft Law, the well-known aviatrix, at Rocky Point ball grounds on Memorial Day, and the two following days. She will fly in a specially constructed biplane, which has been thoroughly overhauled and put in condition for the flights. Ruth Law, or Mrs. Charles A. Oliver, as she is known in private life, has made some exhibition flights in Rhode Island and is familiar with the air currents and pockets of this section. She plans to make two ascensions each afternoon on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and advertises that the weather will not interfere with her flights. Her exhibitions will consist principally of fancy flying, including spiral work, for which her machine has been especially constructed.
Ruth Law has just returned from Daytona, Fla.[[Florida]], where she has been making flights during the winter. At Rocky Point she declares she will stay in the air at least 90 minutes each flight. 
Shore dinners will be served Decoration day as well as Saturday and Sunday. A large addition has been made to the dining hall this year, increasing the seating capacity to 2500. The catering is in the hands of Charles A. Lyons, under whose management the old Field's Point clam dinners were for many years prepared and served. 
One of the most interesting of the new attractions at the [[point?]] this year is a Carrousel which has four rows of jumping horses operated by special machinery. The organ in this new building is a curosily [[illegible]] a product of German ingenuity which reproduces the effect of a 60-piece band. 
The Forest casino opens with a vaudeville bill which includes many acts well worth seeing. The pictures are new and bright and interesting as usual. 
Lamb's Silver Cornet band has been engaged for the season and will give afternoon and evening concerts on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. 
The Midway has assumed already the aspect of midseason gaiety. All the old favorite amusements, games and shows are in evidence and several new attractions are held in reserve and will be announced later. 
Thompson's Scale Railway, which proved to be one of the busiest places on the grounds last season, is again open offering its almost two mile ride of which the patrons of Rocky Point seem never to tire. 

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BIG CROWD SEES FLYING EXHIBITION
5,000 PEOPLE AT THE BEACH TO WATCH MISS LAW IN AIR
COLONEL BINGHAM TAKEN UP AS A PASSENGER ON FIRST FLIGHT, THEN MISS LAW FLIES ALONE.
It is estimated at least 5,000 persons were at the beach Sunday afternoon to witness the initial flying exhibition by Mrs. Charles Oliver, known as Miss Ruth Law, and the immense crowd was well pleased with the two exhibition flights given by the aviatrix.
The crowd at the beach Sunday was far in excess of any one at any of the flights last season and came nearer resembling the crowds which 

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Chicago & [[zamine?]] -|Peru (Ind.) Journal.
John Didn't Go. 
Guy McCabe, president of the Chicago Traffic Club, has recently been sunning himself at Daytona, Fla. [[Florida]] Writing from there he says:
"There has been a charming young lady operating a Wright biplane on the beach here. It has been her custom to take peo-
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ple sailing at from $15 to $25 per risk, according to the length of the sail. The other day a gentleman who had developed a desire to fly with the beautiful aviatrix, or whatever you would call her, got all ready to go when his wife interfered. 
"'John' she said, 'you simply shall not go! If anything should happen I would have to recall my invitations for tomorrow afternoon.'"

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