ON WOMEN IN THE AIR.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2120, 11 April 1914, Page 11

ON WOMEN IN THE AIR.

'SOME INTREPID ONES. . Lady Victoria Pery, whom we take the more interest in, as her family was, intimately connected with] Tasmania! some years ago, celebrated her coming' of age in January by Hying upsidedown, looping the loop, and doing all the daring feats which her aviator, Mr. Gustave Hamel, permitted her (states .Bn Australian,writer). It was a superb way to'spend one's birthday. Then Aliss Trohawke Davies about the same time performed similar feats, which read all the more thrillingly because these swallow flights, which surely Sairey Gainp \ would have called, "owdacious," were yundortaken in winter, amidst the cutting blasts and dense fogs of England, at the New Year time. • We havo all thrilled over the account of Mrs. Aschetown Harbord's flight across the English Channel with the French aviator, when they were lost in the fogs,, and at intervals could only see the grey, tumbling waters below them. They were nearly frozen, and dropped down on France,! thinking the grey cliffs were a fogbank. ■Mrs. Harbord's flight reads like "the most improbable romance, and yet it is just the ordinary newspaper "story." But it is no exaggeration to say.that all ""tho womon "stories" • in. the, world's journalism, as it comes out in tho daily news, provide the day's sensations, whether it is the story of a lady politely being led forth from a Brussels ballroom by order of King Albert, shocked at her slit skirt, or tho ,stofy of tho Suffragette sitting on the doorstep of tho Ulster' Hall,' and solemnly cursing Sir Edward Carson. .Whateverwe.call the woman of to-day, wo cannot with justice call her timid..