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I want to go to the front if there is a front," Miss Law confided in the doublecream contralto voice which is her greatest charm. "I'm tired of doing nothing. And in Paris, you know, that's all they will let a woman do-just nothing. And do you think they would let me fly over Paris or go to the front? I should say not."
"Of course I did fly over Paris because I had made up my mind to do it. But I had to go as a passenger and really to be sneaked into the air without permission. I don't know what would have happened if Moraline, the aeroplane manufacturer, who took me up, hadn't been so popular with his government. You see, he made the new Moraine-Saulnier monoplane that goes 150 miles an hour. It's the fastest thing in the air, as the best previous speed was 138 miles. On the trip from Chicago to New York I averaged 103 miles an hour in what they called an obsolete machine.

Loyal to Own Plane
"I don't care what names they called it. If I have to fly for my country before I get the machine I've ordered in France I'd rather sit out in front of that good old Chicago-to-New York omnibus and be a target than try any of the other old machines in this country, I can tell yo! Maybe you'd better not put that in. They'll all get mad at me for saying it. Still, it's the truth. So let it!"
Miss Law differs with Admiral Peary as to the menace of aeroplanes to New York. "Airships can't wreck a city," she said "They might damage a few buildings here and there and demolish a trolley car or two as they've done in London, but that's all they could acomplish. And how would they get back to their base? No aeroplane has ever made a landing on a submarine or a battleship yet. Of course I agree with Admiral Peary that our cities should be defended by aeroplane fleets. New York should have at least two aviation fields with 100 planes each and men always resting behind them ready at any minute to jump into the saddle. That is the way they do in Paris, you know. You see row after row of planes and men fully accoutred behind them.

"Zep" Parties in Paris

"Why, today it wouldn't be possible for the German airships to get anywhere near Paris. As soon as a Zep appears the French planes rise in the air like a swarm of bees. I saw a Zep that had been destroyed in Compiegne. The pieces were selling  for $100 or $150 dollars each, otherwise I should have brought one back with me. Paris thinks the Zeps are the best joke of the war. You know a sort of fire siren is sent out to warn the Parisians of a Zeppelin attack and inhabitants are supposed to take to the cellars. Instead they have Zeppelin parties in the street. Everybody rushes out to see the Zeps. I did myself.
"The spirit of the French is wonderful." Miss Law continued. "But they simply won't let women do anything over there except nurse. I'm glad I'm back in this country where I can get a chance to be active. What's the use of being a flyer if you're going to be told you can't help your country because you're a woman? The French won't let their women flyers go to the front, you know, or do anything else that counts.
"You see it's all very well to say women mustn't fly because they are the mothers of the race, but flying is the best thing I do, almost the only thing except drive a car. What right has a government to deprive me of offering my best to my country? And understand me, I want to get to the front!

Opportunity for Women
"Women flyers could do a lot of good, of course, just by teaching flying, but I don't want to be an aviation professor. I seek activity, danger, accomplishment! You see, I don't care for many of the things that women are supposed to love. I don't give a darn for clothes! I landed in New York with two suitcases, all my worldly goods!
"I can tell you, I'm glad to be back in New York," Ruth Law concluded. "It's mild and balmy outside, I know, but my teeth are still chattering form a winter in Paris without coal. Why, I was a great deal colder in Paris every day this winter than I was when I climbed out of my machine on Governor's island after the flight from Chicago. It was simply impossible to keep warm in Paris, no matter how many clothes you put on. NO heat, no sugar! Today, when I see a piece of sugar I feel like hiring a safety deposit vault for it or issuing bonds for the public to subscribe to it."
[Picture] RUTH LAW [/Picture]


Eager
There Is Only One Request That the Daring Young Aviatrice Will Make of the Government. It Is That She Shall Fly "Wherever the Fighting Is."
[Picture] Ruth Law [/Picture]

Ruth Law, the pretty young aviatrice who holds the cross country aviation record of America, is back home again and has offered her services to the government.
Miss Law has been studying the methods of the airmen in England and France and for them she has great praise
"I am arranging to get a Morane-Saulnier monoplane," she said "and I want to fly for the United States. There's only one request I want to make and that is that they'll send me wherever the fighting is. I want to be right in it."
The little aviator said American men by the thousands ought to be turning out for air service right now, particularly for coast defense duty.
"I saw a wonderful new bit of trick flying at Le Bourget," she went on. "It is a stunt called 'le vrille' (the

République Française
Ministère de la Guerre    No 138
Direction de L'Aéronautique Militaire
Madame et Monsieur Charles Oliver
est autorisé à visiter l'usine Nieuport à Thy. les - Nouluieaux
le et les [guess unfallalious] [[?]] à [??]
les établissements ci-après désignés le 15 Fevrier 1917. 

Pour le Ministre et par son ordre
Le Colonel, Directeur de l'Aeronautique Militaire,
P.O. Le Chef de Bataillon,
[Signature] G. [??] [/Signature]
[Stamp] Ministere de la Guerre Direction de L'Aéronautique Militaire,
N. B. - Cette carte rigoureusement personnelle devra être retournée à la Direction de l'Aéronautique Militaire (Cabinet du Directeur) lorsque la visite aura été effectuée.




[Picture Top Right] MISS RUTH LAW, PHOTO BY INTERNATIONAL [/Picture]

Paris, France
12 --- Excelsior --- Jeudi 3 Fevrier 1917
Les pages de Madame

L'Esprit de Guerre et la Mode

L'Espirt de Guerre habite-t-il en nous? C'est ce que pourraient se demander bien des femmes pur qui les infimes privations que nous valent les nouvaeux décrets ont pris l'importnace d'événements capitaux.
Habituées à vivre matériellement comme autre-fois, ou presque, l'arrêt des ascenseurs, du chauffage central, la fermeture temporaire des pâtisseries, toutes ces nouvelles ordonnances, qui sont les communiques de l'arrière, les ont fait réflèchir d'avantage en quelques jours ques les communiqués de l'avant ne l'avaient fait depuis des mois.
Si certaines se content de souligner d'un gentil sourire le geste par lequel elles font tomber dans leur thé la pudre de sucre, d'autres, qui reçoivent l'un des deux «jours sans gâteaux», offrent, avec soupirs qui en disent long, les sandwiches, les toasts, les fours secs et les tartines qui prennent, sur le plateau d'argent, la place des tartes fraiches et des délicieuses brioches réglementées.
Une maitresse de maison, que cet état rend pessimiste, s'exclamait dernièrement, découragée:  « "Oh! ces Russes!...» Et, comme on la regardait avec surprise, sachant que, jusqu'alors, elle me s'intéressait au mouvement des troupes que sur le front français, elle ajouta, résignée mais douloureuse: «On ne peut même plus trouver de caviar!...»
Ce genre de préoccupations demeure, nous n'en doutons pas, l'apanage d'une faible minorité. Trop de femmes, depuis 1914, ont fait preuve d'abnégation, trop - hélas! - ont été frappées pour que nous ne sachions pas que leur soucis sont plus graves et plus hauts. Mais, même parmi celles pour qui ne comptent pas ces préoccupations anodines, combien, en s'interrogeant sincerement, ne seraient pas obligées de convenir qu'ekkes ont rendu loute leur importance à des détails de temps de paix?... Petit à petit, sournoisment presque, chacum, malgré l'angoisse commune, a cepris la vie anterieure, mêlée de soucis égoïstes, et, après un temps d'arrêt, la vanite deminine a repris elle aussi, sa place malgre tout.
Porter de hautes bottes quand le cuir est rare ou d'amples jumes quand la laine manque, comme on fit l'an dernier, cela fait partie des mille et une contradictions auxquelles nous a habituées la mode, et nous ne pouvons oublier que ses caprices mêmes font vivre un grand nombre d'ouvrières et d'artisans. Cela n'implique pas qu'il faille nécessairement acheter tous les colifichets en vogue. Il n'en manque point qui font éclore des tentations et des regrets. La main-d'ouevre, les matières premières élant plus rares, ces <>, comme on disait jadis, atteignent parfois, le triple de leur 
valcur normale. Les fleurs de soi, les parfums, les voilettes, pour ne citer qu'eux seuls, ont, pour causes diverses, sensiblement augmenté. Cela fait, il es vrai, partie de ces <> dont on

Une aviatrice americaine
chargée de mission en France
[[image of Ruth Law]]
MISS RUTH LAW
Miss Ruth Law, l'aviatrice américaine dont les prouesses aux Etats-Unis ne sé comptent plus et qui dirige á Palm Beach une école d'aviation féminine, vient d'arriver en France, chargée de mission. Elle étudiera les progrès que la guerre a apportés á l'aviation françaisel.
Miss Ruth Law est également l'un de nos plus sympathiques confrères de la presse américaine. Elle collabore au World, de New-York. Miss Law, qui a parcouru les centres d'aviation britanniques et le Bourget, demeure en profonde admiration devant les progres accomplis en France. - Malheureusement, dit-elle. la France ne vend pas d'appareils en ces temps de guerre, Mais il est indeniable qu'elle posscde, la encore, la suprematie.


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Correspondance

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Transcription Notes:
I am not a french speaker, so some of the french transcription may be off I wasn't able to add some of the punctuation like the little signs over some letters.