"HIGH LIVING."

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 590, 19 August 1909, Page 3

"HIGH LIVING."

• Well may.wo wonder what things are.comihg' to, '-Biid-,hbw long it .will be. before. we make, and- keep, appointments in'' midair (says a .writer!in an Australian paper).: t All .. sorts of possibilities; are conjured by ' recent happenings. ~We are only- now as-, ■similatirig ■the' fact that .a ,man has. .flown across the Channel in less than -half ■ ap. hour, when the idea that yrome'n have also taken'to'.the-aif is borne upon us. Writing from France; a correspondent says: . At Bagatelle there, haye -beeiv gay doings. The Women's Aero Club has held a most successful fo'te at St.'Cloud." There seems to bs something; singularly appropriate to English . ears about the. name. ''Sis balloons went up,, cach .with its. freight- of woman passengers. Thoy were decorated 'with the. flowers 'from which, they, took their names,. ' 'The'Roses,'''The ■ Field ■ Poppies,'.' 'The I'conies,'. 'The Hydrangeas,' and , The. Pari-. ■ sies.' The ivind'was high, and carried the- " balloons' rapidly 'toward Fontaineble'au, and on to Orleans and,.Bordeaux. The / elnb is called The Stella,'/and among the.,many distinguished members is one Mdme.' Surcouf, -who has obtained/her pilot's licens?, and whose powers of , aerial navigation are remarkably good'."; A comment also oh the! . subject says that if ballooning proves no-1 thing else.,it certainly'does prove;that theroj is "very little wrong ; with. fhe; nerves of/ ' Frenchwomen.' '/. '/ . / ', j