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MAY I, 1919 fury—she leaps and -writhes as a living horse to the bloody spur, we race across the sky in a series of cartwheels, rolls, and Immelmanns. I put her nose into a spin—the earth rotates round and round my head as if swung on some gigantic cable . . . the sudden jolt of her undercarriage hitting the ground . . . oh, the cruel, abrupt disillusionment of it all! I look up into the sky, and a lump comes into my throat at the thought of nevermore treading those pellucid path ways . . . ." Something about the soulful diction of the above makes us think that the Fashion Editress has strayed off her rightful page! Others may swear by Belloc and kindred prognosticators of the more expensive reviews, but for our part we cleave to Old Moore. At twopence (war price) he is wonderful value, entertaining as a revue, and informative as the reference wing of the British Museum. Advertising matter is deftly blended with prophecy, and to judge from the former most of the seer's apostles must be afflicted with distressing minor ailments. In deference to the susceptibilities of our reader* we can only indicate a few: That entrancing one, " How Drunkards are being Saved ; These Eighteen Pictures tell their own Story, a Child could understand them ; send for Book ' Confessions of an Alcohol Slave,' " with ingenuous and revealing letters from former slaves who now shun the DESCENDING BY PARACHUTE FROM AN AEROPLANE.—Miss Sylvia Borden is seen on the left immedi ately after leaving the Handley Page at 1,000 ft. Note at this first stage of the opening of the " Guardian Angel " parachute, the position, head downwards, of the parachutist On the right the next stage is seen with the parachute fully inflated and the Handley Page machine travelling away in the near distance Miss Sylvia Borden, immediately after alighting on terra firma in the " Guardian Angel " parachute at Crickle- wood, takes the apparatus in hand for gathering together prior to her next demonstration
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