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(/EIGHT] a certain indescribable extension of the ear-listening aspect, also, unconsciously I will grant him, a way of overlooking papers and " matter " being read by his fellow. A man may tell a lawyer without the assistance of the carrying of the brief-bag, and the retired Indian officer has chutney written all over him. But what I am most concerned with is whether a man's occupation does really alter his facial anatomy, or whether it is that men of a certain cast of features and a certain shaped head enter certain professions. I have never been quite clear in my own mind whether the phrenologist reads bumps |hat tell him the business one is most suited to,'or whether he is reading the bumps produced, as I feel certain some are, by reason of a man having already been engaged in some particular business for a number of years. I have a shrewd idea that, like fortune-telling, one gives much of the information sought to a clever person able to see it and hand it back as original. Mr. E. Temple Thurston, in his delightful book " The Five Barred Gate," has some very interesting things to say on this very matter. Interesting they were to me, because he includes the flying man of the future in his category. He says that even now the FEBRUARY S, 1917. mark of their job is becoming stamped upon their faces. That in their eyes is the look of distance, and about their foreheads and upon their lips an expres- sion of resistance to " the swift rushing of mighty winds." And he goes on to say that in years to come, when men have flown until flying has become the habit of their lives, " Perhaps their type of countenance will be that of a propeller at rest." He adds • " They will not be handsome men." It may be true, that which he thinks of the flying man of the future, but I trust it will take lqng enough to mature to enable me to finish my little job on this rotating sphere. I don't want my friends to have faces like props, especcially props at rest. I have seen men of to-day, men who have nothing to do with aviation, who have been allotted by nature, or acquired by other measures—many measures it must have been—faces that look like nothing on earth so much as like a prop, but one at fifteen hundred revs., and a four-blader at that. As these " Reflections " are now passed on to our tame artist for " indenting," I do hope he will treat the pilot of the future with merciful consideration, so as not to unduly prejudice the Services. A SUPPLEMENT to the London Gazette, issued on February 1st, gives the following honours and rewards for valuable services rendered in connection with Military Operations ia the Field, with effect from 1st Jan., 1917 :— DISTINGUISHED SERVICE ORDER. South African Forces. Temp. Major G. P. WALLACE, Capt., S. Afr. Def. For. and R.F.C. MILITARY CROSS. 2nd Lieut. (Temp. Capt.) G. W. HOBGKINSON, Yeo. and R.F.C. 2nd Lieut. B. H. E. HOWARD, Manch. R. (S.R.) and R.F.C. HONOURS FOR R.F.C. . " ' 2nd Lieut. (Temp. Lieut.) G. St. V. PAWSON, Yeo. aad R.F.C. •;-.•: ;.,—,-:,.,; •".-•'•South African Forces. ' •' "• " Lieut. LIONEL COHEN, S. African Horse (attd. R.N.A.S.). Temp. Capt. E. C. EMMETT, Temp. Lieut., S. Afr. Def. For. and R.F.C.DISTINGUISHED CONDUCT MEDAL. Z 179 Sergt. A. J. HORNE, R.F.C.Z 150 Corpl. S. F. MARUCCHI, R.F.C.Z 8 Corpl. C. J. THOMSON, R.F.C.Z 31 Flight-Sergt. T. TURNBULL, R.F.C. Snap on the Front in France, Showing an aeroplane which landed on a house through engine trouble. Official photograph issued by the Press Bureau. . 132
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