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I/OGHT) starvation blockade is to continue, so that we may not fall back into our old life of luxury. How long is it to last ? Hcrr Maeterlinck, the poet whom we used to fete, tells us. ' Happily,'-he says, ' the Germans are an industrious people, and we will compel them for So or perhaps 100 years to work for us. The Germans will be the slaves of Europe.'" " THE Three Stinsons, in their marvellous triple looping display," may be one of the stunts in America soon, for the SiKtors Stinson—Katherine and Marjorie—have now been joined in their looping exhibitions by their brother, Eddie. BROTHER STINSON bids fair to become as skilled in aerial gymnastics as his sisters, judging from the feats he has been accomplishing recently on his tractor biplane. THIS latter machine, by the way, is a speedy little machine designed by and constructed under the supervision of our old friend, Walter L. Brock. It follows European practice very closely, and is equipped with a 50 h.p. Gnome. C. H. STEVENS, who, with H. Sykes as instructor, has been learning to fly the Martinsyde biplane, took an excellent " ticket" the other evening at Hendon. His distances from the " bull's-eye " were,29 and 19 yards respectively— not so bad for 44 hours' tuition on a fa«t tractor 'bus. Stevens celebrated the event a couple of days later by taking his wife for an aerial trip on the Martinsyde around over the sur rounding country ! AND all this after a nasty aeroplane smash some time back which resulted in serious injury to his legs. His MAJESTY THE KING saw the Royal Flying Corps defeat the Rest of Aldershot Command at football at Alder- shot on Saturday. IT must be a grim—not to say ghoulish—kind of humour wlu< li prompts a Surveyor of Taxes to claim for excess profits duty on a municipal cemetery. Enough to make the tenants turn in their graves. But it would appear that Kensington was able to successfully resist the super-tax, as the borough treasurer demonstrated that the " profits " only gave a return of 2-23 per cent, on the capital invested and Parliament allowed 6 per cent. •t •» » WHICH CREW ? " ZEPPELIN. We crew."—The commander of the derelict airship to the constable who " arrested " the raiders. 'Twas English, Hans, But was it true ? Foiled in your plans. You cursed ; WE crew. (From the " Office Window," Daily Chronicle.) To be able to run on an artificial leg is somewhat of an achievement. Yet there can be no doubt any longer that it is possible, as demonstrated by^Iarcel Desoutter some time ago. It should be pointed out that the leg was made by Desoutter liimscli. and embodied several new improvements. S. Daucourt, the aviator who last week flew to Essen and " distributed " some bombs over Krupp's works. SEPTEMBER 28, 1916. DESOUTTER'S methods are very thorough in getting the data for constructing artificial limbs. For this purpose he has called into use the cinematograph and obtained pictures at a rate very much above that normally employed. These show, when projected at the ordinary speed, the movements of men at a very slow rate, which enables him to follow to the minutest details what takes place during every movement of progression. The action of all the different muscles and joints are studied in this manner, and the result is, as already mentioned, that he has produced an artificial leg on which it is not only possible, but comparatively easy, to run. THAT Desoutter's success is in no small measure due to the fact that he is himself minus one of his legs since his un fortunate accident some years ago, goes without saying, ' since he is able to test for himself any new improvement and so fmd out where " the shoe pinches." That in itself is, of course, a great asset, but it is doubtful even then if he would have been able to find the best mechanical solution of the problem of imitating nature's engineering methods had he not also been a clever tnechanicien. It should be mentioned that his brothers, who are also of a mechanical turn of mind, have been of great assistance to him. MR. F. P. RAYNHAM, the well-known Brooklands pilot, is at present in a northern latitude on a special mission. During his absence the testing of Martinsyde machines is in particu larly good hands, Mr. H. Barnwell, of Vickers, acting as < locum tenens. —— To state at present the output of an aeroplane factor ' would be to court certain disaster in the form of irate censors, enforcement of punishment for breach of the regulations laid down in the Defence of the Realm Act, &c, but at the risk of being shot dailv at the Tower for a fortnight we are telling our readers that the output of the Bleriot works is one machine per month for every 10 employees, counting women workers and boys ; and taking these at -, the putput is , which is, we think, somewhat of a record. So now you know. Anyway, the Bleriot works have not grown very much smaller lately. That's all right. We know it is an Irishism, but it's an Airism of counterweight. BUT there is already a new large factory building " some where in England," and when this is completed the output per 10 men will probably be exceeded, and the total output very greatly increased accordingly. Under present condi tions the result already achieved is one of much credit to Mr. Chereau, the general manager, and Mr. Davidson, the works manager. ^- THE POINT OF VIEW.—The East Coast householder took his last look out at the night before retiring. Black masses of angry cloud were scudding across the moonlit sky. On the horizon a Scotch elm, plainly silhouetted, bent almost double under the fury of the gale. From a tree in his own garden a branch had been torn off, and carried halfway across the lawn. Part of the garden fence had been blown down, and under each fresh onslaught of the gathering gale the rest groaned as if in anticipation of sharing its fate. In the house itself every door and window rattled. He turned in with a sigh of content. " Another peaceful night, thank goodness," he said to himself. A WASTED LIFE.—KAISER (to Count Zeppelin) : " Tell me, Count, ,why didn't vou invent something useful, like the ' Tanks ' ?"—Punch. CLAYBURY AsYLUifstands on one of the highest points in Essex, therefore it was, of course, just the very spot to have .1 bonfire 8 ft. high burning on the night of the record raid. The dear 9W fire-tender, with the usual dray-horse intelligence of pulling whilst there is anything about to pull, pleaded that the fire had been burning the whole 15 years he had been there, and got fined £5. The Phil May " Come inside " would fit like a glove, but it ought not to apply to the gardener. Orders are orders, and the man seems to have suffered through the lack of them as much as through the lack of common sense in his own cranium. SINCE then the fire has been put out, and instructions given that it should not be lit again. If somebody again forgets to issue orders for its relighting when the wa* is over, 838
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