FIRST WOMAN IN THE CLOUDS

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 3 (Supplement)

FIRST WOMAN IN THE CLOUDS

I GEltT nm : bacon. I „«s the first woman in airship, and the. to go op in . Ethi*- ■ l, n uoman was directly ■ 5M',,1,1 invention of the first P k i‘ to say, the very first ■AN I '. ~o rri e 1 mankind aloft ■B* p , li tliis indeed lie so ■ ' liti.rn is well aivihenicatwell take .the ltdmfi ,D ; .- M , often hurled at ■ eduiV nut I" its opprohrioits ,impT -to einent ol last! ■ that one Novemher PIC tht ' littk ' W 1 AniitUiay. two young n. Montgolfier by name w/P tli, ir lire watchB fer at*. rise "1> t-he chim- ■; t 0 on? I them .the rising ■*“. or • -tell a wonderful Kdw'm till a paper ba B with ■2-_.it- it. too. would rise. So Ur, . tip,, iet to work to make .-uni ll.t-y kindled a fire ■T-intra' and make a big paper Kiu it over the rtames. And, 8.,1 the ling Idled out with the ■E?l| -trims 1 feebly to rise, ■rented t- them that a great V ahim-t within their Bfi° v erv truth it did. XeverK.niohe 111 the bag always got K;;,re there "as enough ill to" from the iray. K tt Tis»"-l ,: -moment that ■ ,„, | | aiel an aid woman—a I nameless ..Id widow woman ■ j --r —.....i and watched ■j,.,'.lea,.ail-. Then to Iter Kminelaa no- urred the softdiffieilltv. - lie the bag ■ -lie -ai l. They did so, ■ and tray r. to the ceiling, ■ the fir-: el dl balloons enter- ■ ' „i(i man , : i-t aerial craft Kiel. ■r KlllSi I’ASSKNCiEU ■ BAI.hOO.N^, B; ust n year alter lliis liitlo B/fluttered up in the roof at ■that tin' In-- men sin-ended Bjntatlie >ky from Paris; and Hjv.fvcn wentl l s later that the tt'in well, aloft. Slu* was si K^ an Madame Thrihle. and Vp n >iii I,Mills on June 21. ■ t j K . prebeiiM- ol (lustave tho Hunt <'> Sweden. It was a ■rom v die made. too, lor she ■iheijilit ni more than a mile Hail, and die n-iiisitiled \i>loft Hee<i uart(>l> :ul ■' 'voll- - early days. Hfeele later a young Italian. Hhrounh, mad.* the first balloon BEidaiKl. -'Ti- iug from Loniiioaientous of: asion. an I Bent wild wi’li exeiiement over ■ m.iru*l. Ihit where Lunardi B|inHertforddiiiv (and a stone Bes-,|| murks the spot) lie was Ba fearsome visitor from some B world, iiiui the frightened Ben fled shrieking from liim BrriMt- new in e (tine. The fact Bli.'it it was a \inmg woman who Bjappron'h. held on to 'lie basBhe![vd the -i miaul from his Bd-luiio. 17-d. Mist a year alter Bdi sister. Mrs Sage, a noted B her day. w .-u; up in a balloon Bard; near I.ondon, and thus Bonmir ol heing the first EngBi in the clouds. Mm KK when ballooning had Bn*lenie ;i’m*:ii iialt a century. en liU'iastw. Monck Bwipilid. roll of all known Bnlio had ascended into tho Be its imeptiou. He counted Bd>. a small number indeed; B to l*o home m mind that B year* were times, for tho B, of -torin and >,tress, includwhen the opportunities Biavvnts were few and rare. la t emerges that of ■ Ml souls m* les> than -19 B?n. and » f tlu-*e 2* were IJritlives only had been lost. Imt ■ "oniaii. a French lady, Mawlic.v <leaih was duo Btronie temerity for she made Bitif.n Hiclit tarrying lighted ignited the gas of her B really (pute inevitable ennBtt 1 considers the H>eial condihundred years ago, the Blives that women then led, ,lls uml | inventions that round, an 1 the tremendous W ;i: lay in their way soould n i l ' l the unusual and daring tin* hue ot the skies for *x that they achieved so in early aeronautics, tunes have >o \v«dclv altlia- woman's em.mcipation V: i ''" l how trial the cloudBM;et Im><oming the natural t > < f travel. c<m we doubt B- v e'ement will ot the future?