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The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
woman
they call
AMELIA EARHART was
the world's number one feminist. But the distinc- tion never occurred to her.
She had no violent interest. in improving the status of women. Unlike her countrywomen of her age she was thirty-nine- she did not join study clubs to pass resolutions for honest voting or children's play- grounds. Her only club, execpt flying groups, was Zonta, a busi- ness women's organisation.
She did not echo the international housewives who moan over cooking,
LADY
LINDY
or the Ilterary crusaders who plead year for equality between the sexes. She triumphed in a man's world, which happened to be her favourite realm, with no contention that the female Is as capable as the male and there- by proves It.
Six years ago Miss Earhort (n private life wife of George Palmer Putnam, wealthy publisher) flew
Made her last flight ago. She was
presumed dead on July
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1988.
made light of his wife's acrtal.ex- plains:
"I would rather have baby," he told reporters after Miss Earhart's 2,400 miles in a single
Honolulu engined plano from
to Oakland, California. In private ho sympathised with her ambitions.
"I spent weeks selling him the Idea. Miss Earhart admitted after her solo fight hero from America.
"Docan't he object to your devot-
ing so much time to your career?" che was once asked.
Miss
"I never interfere with his pub- fishing business,"
Earhart replied.
AS
S with most women who like to accomplish things, Miss farhart ran her home efficiently, re- garding clothes as necessity rather han an entertainment. In her New. York house, or in the one she had in the California mountains, she pre- ferred wearing slack and shirts.
she said, comfortable,"
marked her antecedents
Timplicity
and childhood.
She and Mr. Puinam lived simply. Born in Atchison, Kansas, she was educated in a school in Chicago, and inter at a fashionable finishing school for girls, Ogontz, in Pennsylvania, She prepared for her social worker's career at Columbia University, New York, made her first Atlantic flight before her father, Edwin 5. Earhart, died.
a be
officially
17,1937,
after being lost for several weeks
the Atlantle alone, the first won in the course of a trans-Pacific
to do so. Some
naked une
her
"Do you think women will make us
good fiers as tuen?"
That was the point where most women would have turned any and
flight
•
said: "We're not as strong as you and her orange and silver Lockled greumstances. Inca, or VOUPS," OF pounded
Tabte and oraled, "We Women fighting our way in the world. are as good as you we."
INSTEAD she said.
Electra 'pinne
do not
There is no reason," she sald once, "why a girl can't have a home. be as feminine as she likes, and still do things. I gave up certain liberties when I I married, But 60 did my husband."
her
In her homes she served simple food, entertained at small dinners, with authors, Hollywood stars, odds and ends of interesting people among guests. She kept buttermilk: constantly on hand in her refrigere- tors, likes green salads with every dinner, knew and sometimes im-
which proved the recipes by
her USE servants cooked. In she drank milk with luncheon.
public
PURPOSE of her last, and fatal
adventure. bother her.
Miss Earhart She explained that the 44 was alt said, was to test the human factor C But her receptions by the Press ber husband gave ben She wore on a long fight. Since planes had We continued to be enthusiastle because we be hack of funds, nor the wanted to find out what long already proved themselves reliable, a borrowed frock, she hiked friendliness and gave you I would
and in- lively interest in exchange for your persimony, but rather the certainty hours of dying, of watching
that his wife could look after herself terpreting complicated instruments, That wouki dletate Mr. Putnam's of constant checking DA weather rc- a grey mumming a year ago banding her such a ensunl sum as ports and landmarks would do to dier's nerves. She wanted to know if the endless, Much of the enormous expetise
monotonous guard against death imposed too great a strain on human balance
#1 don't
interest in lin.
want to be a feminist. It's all a question of individual tempera-
ONE Push the turn Auntie erste ment and capneity. People who fy do it because they love dying."
wirport in Chiengo in that Jose- Jointest way characteristi Df her of plaining and effecting her flights, Which was typleal of her. An in- whether she wears slacks or an even- from Honolulu to Califomin, from dividual Arst and a woman after-
ing gown. Slim as ever, and fall, Mexico City to New York, had been wards, her appeal to the thousands she was dressed in bete with fox to his contribution.
newspaper men who have met match it about her stuhlers, orchids her und written friendly stories about her was not primarily that of breath her chili. ́n“Womun, even an attractive and vallant one.
telligence, vincity,
NE-TIME explorer ไม่ the Arctic and dilettante fler
She could remember roaring ahend blackness across the North Allan- the with the exhaust manifold of her engine broken, Blames bursting from the motor.
She could remember her allimeter
was
not
A host of friends were down himself, Mr. Putnam sought out Miss see her off, but, spotting me in the Earhart with business in mind while going wrong, and pushing head with bustle, she called out. "Hello, how she was stil i svelal worker, learn- no earthly indication that she It was of a personality which shines gully from her
are you?" It had been two years ing to dy for fun, in Boston, grey eyes,
getting anywhere. She could vibrates in her voice, indicating in- since 1 hind interviewed her
le arranged for her first flight tell whether she was 20,000 or 200 With the hundred gadgets on the
as a passenger across the Atlantic. feet above the ocean, and a petrol dashboard of her Since 1928;when she first
"ying laborn-
to leak at the dashboard doubled the tory, weather reports and landing He wanted his publishing firm across the Atlantic and into head- fields to think about. Miss Earbart print a book by her on the adven- danger of the motor flames. Thick Jines, he had been unwing to
ture. She wrote the book, "Twenty black clouds made mirages of land talk about her private life. She is spent title line revealing
Forty Minules," and Mr. ahead of her. "It took all my cour- In uge to force myself to keep to the 1031 fie WDS married to "Lady compass. she reported afterwards. That was six years ago. She's
flow
trip
in
her
Hours.
liked dramatising what she honestly public her persunal serisations of the Putnam fell in love with her.
CHE had nothing but lying Lindy," very quietly at her mother's showed courage in plenty since then.
modestly considered Un-
and
dramatic.
Only a few years ago the refused
clothes to wear in Landon
me.
to kiss her husband in front of a when she renched there in 1932 after
Good friends as well as lovers, the camera, and necounts of her last trip her Atlantic solo fight, and only 24 Putnams made their marriage + were limited to geography. winds, in ber breeches pocket.
Fluf such success,
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ANCIENT HINDO AND GREEK PHILOSOPHERS SAID LIGHT CONSISTED OF TINY PARTICLES STRIKING THE EYE, IN MODERN) TIMES THIS WAS REPLACED BY THE THEORY THAT LIGHT IS A WAVE-MOTION, BUT „TODAY'S RESEARCH INDICATES THAT THE ANCIENTS WERE CLOSER TO THE TRUTH. ́ ́
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ALLEY OOP
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WHY 1 CUT EM IN TWO ]BY JOINING'EM UP
THAT'S TH JOB THEY'LL DOI
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OUR CAVE...!
{SHUX! LOOKIT THAT? STEADA
GOIN DOWN TO OUR CAVE WHERE WE WANT IT, THE WATER'S SHOOTIN' WAY
OUT TOO FAR!
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