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WMtfwvmim WfF nearly upset by a sudden thirty-mile gust of wind. Only her coolness and daring in shutting off the engine and soaring to earth from a great height saved her life. "Oh, yes," said Mrs. Hornsby, "we women have DARING enough. Lin coln Beachey has said that women will never fly, because they lack nerve. But that isn't true. Women have got the nerve. We're far nervier than men in a good cause. "But women won't juggle their lives recklessly as men do, just for the pure sport of it. The reason is that life is much more persistent in women than in men. They are the mothers of life. It is their most deeply-rooted instinct to guard their own lives, in order that life itself, in the souls of little babies, may be pre served. "And so they vill never face the fatal game of flying!" "Fatal?" I asked. "Do you expect, then, that some day you wjll end as they ALL do?" "Yes," Mrs. Hornsby acknowl edged simply, with a shy smile! "I expect I will. "But not for a while," she added. "And I'd rather end THAT way than get run over by a truck in a city street! "So far, my only accident with an aeroplane occurred when I was out side it, safe on the ground! I ran into it, head first. But in the air I always watch what I'm doing and keep cool. The pilot who does that, and knows his motor, need fear no catastrophe. "But most women know nothing at all. about motors, and that's an other reason they will never become flyers. They have no mechanical ability, and they simply will not get themselves greasy and dirty and bruised in working over a motor." Eugene Arceau of Madrid, Spain, is 19 years old, 7 feet 6 inches in height, weighs 2C6 pounds and still growing j BOY-PRINCE. HAPPY, THOUGH A ..DEAF-MUTE mkim mSJ fcjy $t& Que Vrctc fehtceJai-tne- . tfx&l Madrid, Spain.,-Deaf and speech less, Jaime,' the six-yearTold son of the king and queen of Spain, finds his greatest pleasure m.a moving picture theater which has be.en built in the royal palace for his amusement. Despite his affliction, the six-year-old princeling is a very bright and merry little boy. He is to be taken soon to the French Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Paris, but the physicians hold out little hope of the restoration of his 'faculties. This is an Ungrateful World. The Liniment gets all the credit that should .go to (the "Rubbing. Cincin nati Enquirer, mhi ''i'W: .r i