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The
THE HONGKONG
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 country women of her age she was thirty-nine- she did not join study clubs to
for resolutions pass voting or children's grounds.
honest play-
Her only club, except flying groups, was Zonta, a busi-
ness women's organisation.
She did not echo the international housewives who moan over cooking,
LADY?
LINDY
Made her last
or the literary crusaders who plead year · ago.
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.
(m
Six years ago Miss Earhart private life wife of George Fulmer Putnam, wealthy publisher) lew
She
was
TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,
HI
made: light of his wife's aerial ex- have a ruilier ploits. would baby,' " he told reporters after Miss Earhart's 2,400 miles i a single- Honolulu to engined plane from Oakland, California. In private he sympathised with her ambitions.
spent weeks selling him the Idea," Miss Earhart admitted after her solo flight hero from America.
"Doesn't he object to your devot-
Ing so much time to your career?" she was once asked.
"I never interfere with his pub- lishing business," MIES Earhart replied.
As
S with most women who like to accomplish things, Miss Earhart ran her home efficiently, re- garding clothes as a necessity rather than an entertainment, In her Now York house, or in the one she had in the California mountains, ale pre- shirts. ferred wearing slack and "They're comfortable," she said.
Simplicity marked her antecedents
childhood.
and
She and Mr. Putnam lived simply. Born in Atchison, Kansas, she was educated in a school in Chicago, and later at a fashionable finishing school for girls, Ogontz, in Pennsylvania. She prepared for her sucial worker's career at Columbia University, Now
flight a York made her fest Atlantic flight
officially
presumed dead on July 17,1937,
after being lost for several weeks
the Atlantic alone, the rst woman in the
to de 9,
Some OR asket her:
"Do you think women will make as
good thiers ns men;"
That was the point where most
women would have turned coy und
flight
course of a trans-Pacific
said: "We're not as strong as you and her orange and silver Lackheed etreumstances do not
*
of course," or pounded Electra plane.
Women
table and rated, "We
fighting our way in the world. are as good as you up","I
INSTE
are
INSTEAD she said, "I don't It's want to be a feminist. all a question of individual tempera- ment and eupneity. People who y
interest in her
bother her.
before her father, Edwin 3. died.
TI sho sald There is no reason," unce, "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 married. But so did my husband."
In
homes she served simple food, entertained at small dinners, with authors, Holly od stars, odds and ends of interesting people among her
kept buttermilk guests. She constantly on hand in her refrigera- tors, likes green salads with every dinner, know and sometimes im- her proved the recipes by which Brytro servants cooked. In public she drank milk with luncheon.
PURPOSE of her last, and fatal adventure, Mins Earhart
already proved themselves reliable.
She explained that the £4 was all said, was to test the human factor But her receptions by the Press her husband gave her. She wore in a long flight. Since 'planes had We continued to be enthusiastic because a borrowed frock
It would not be lack of funds, nor she wanted to find out what long she liked fioralliness unse! gave you a lively intered in exchange for your parsimony, but rather the certainty hours of flying, of watching and in- that his wife could look after herself terpreting complicated Instruments, оп weather re- Mr. Putnam's of constant checking thnt would dictate
á Mier's nerves. She wanted to know Na grey morning a year age banding her such a casual sum as ports and landmarks would do to
I saw her stride through the £4 for an Atlantic crossing.
the endless, mon
monotonous Kurd toose-
enormous Much of the that
expense atport in Chicago
her of planning and effecting her fights, against death imposed too grent a An in- Jointed way characteristic Which was typical of her
wontan after whether she wears slacks or an even from Honolulu to California, from strain on human balance. dividual Arst und a
ing gown. Sim as ever, and tall, Maxleo City to New York, had been wards, her appeal to the thousands she was dressed in hetge with fox to his contribution.
who have met of newspaper men
stories alch it about her shoulders, archids written friendly her and about her was not primarily that of a woman, evets an attractive and valiant one,
do it because they love flying."
It was of 1 personality which shines gally from her grey eyes. vibrates in her voice, indicating the telligence, vivacity.
beneath her chin.
are you?"
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NE-TIME explorer
She could remember roaring ahead
in blackness across the North Atlan- tie with the exhaust manifold of her the engine broken, flames bursting from
tuntee nine bro
1rm
A host of friends were down to himself, Mr. Putnam sought out Miss She could remember her altimeter see her off, but, spotting me in the Earhart with business in mind while going wrong, and pushing ahead with bustle, she called out. "Hello, how she was still social worker, learn- no earthly indication that she was
had been two years
getting anywhero. She could not Ing to fly for fan, in Boston.
fle arranged
Best fight tell whether she was 20,000 or 200 for her With the hundred gadgets ou the ice had interviewed her.
sa passenger across the Atlantic. feet above the ocean, and a petrol dashboard of her "ying lab He wanted his publishing
to leak
ut the dashboard doubled the Since 1928, when she first
tury." weather reports and landing across the Atlantic and into head- felis to think about, Miss Euchart print a book by her on the adven- lunger of the motor flames. Thick She wrote the book, "Twenty black clouds made mirages of land lines, she had been unwilling 10
und Mr. ahead of her. "It took all my cour- talk about her private life. She dis spent little time revealing to her tours, Forty Minutes,"
with her. In age to force myself to keep to the Ilked dramatising what she bonestly public her personal sensations of the Putnam fell in love
"Lady compass," she reported afterwards.
Thnt wus six years
ngo. She's showed courage in plenty since then. dramatic.
SILE had nothing but dying Lindy" very quietly at her mother's Only a
few years ago she refused
clothes to wear in London to klas her husband in front of a when she reached there in 1932 after camera, and accounts of her Inst trip her Atlantic sole fight, and only £4 Putmuns
ESELL such sureUSS, were limited to
geography.
breeches pocket. winds, in her
- nodestly considered
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HOW IT BEGAN Beranier
THEORY OF
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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 BETANIER
CLOSER TO THE TRUTH.
BOSPHORUS
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The BARBARY APE,
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PERHAPS
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THE SUN.
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ALLEY OOP
IF THAT BAMBOO WAS LONGER ITO GIVE US A STREAM RIGHT DOWN ALONGSIDE
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[SHUX! LOOKIT THAT! STEADA [GOIN DOWN TO OUR CAVE
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OUT TOO FAR!
SURE,I KNOW, THATS
WHY I CUT EM IN TWO BY JOINING'EM UP THAT'S THE JOB THEY'LL DO!
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