GIRL FLIER’S SHORTS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1930, Page 3

GIRL FLIER’S SHORTS

HOW SHE CAME TO WEAR THEM. London, Aug. 20. Miss Amy Johnson, who was the guest of Hull Rotarians, convulsed the party -by relating how she came to wear her famous shorts. Taking as her text a. cartoon published in Sydney, representiiig her borrowing a leopard skin from the natives while her own clothes were hanging out to dry behind the Jason, Miss Johnson explained that w-hen she decided on sherts she had to borrow them. • "Since then,” she said, "every gentleman who owns a pair has laid claim to lending them. As a matter of fact, I was sleeping outside a. hotel because of the heat in India, and found a pair of shorts and a shirt beside the bed when I woke up. I did not know the donor, but I proceeded to put them on. The dimensions of the waist were enormous. Nevertheless, they had to last me to Australia. “On the way back a man boarded the ship, and ‘said, ‘I am the man who lei't you the shorts.’ I replied, -Well, you might have left me your best, pair instead of your worst, as my photograph in them has gone round the world.’ Jly benefactor apologised, and explained that his servant happened to be a Scotsman.”