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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JANUARY ( 12' 1914.

· Radio in mail airplan

Above is shown the cockpit of a United States air-mail plane, showing the radio equipment with which the pilots keep in touch with all stations along their route. The receiving and transmitting apparatus is just visible inside the body of the plane, directly in front of the pilet's seat. The antennae reel is shown inside at the right, while at the foreground are the vacuum tubes, ordinarily covered and

out of sight when flying.

For Pruitt, Ma Sinil

Above is shown the first photograph of the U. S. dirigible "Shenandoah" as she appeared when lashed to her steel morning mast at Lakehurst, N.J. The mast is 172 feet high and is designed to hold, the dirigible in calmi weither instead of taking her into her immense hangar. The first attempt to lash her to the mast filled, but a week later three officers and fifteen men moored ner securely. Three hundred men are required to "walk the ship" into the harigar.

Viscountess Nancy Astor, only American woman ever to sit

in the British Parliament.

The-Kaiser Wilkelut -

The

upper picture shows

Wilhelm as he appears now, bearded and aged. The lowe piture shows him in the height of his power in the World War.

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Miss Mabel Pihl, pretty Mount

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Miss Harriet Camas, daughter of

Dr. O. N. B. Camac, leading New

York surgeon, and herself a Holyoke Mass.) College senior prominent member of the Junior won the 1923 Sarah Streeter Cup League and a leader in society, has awarded annually to the most,

turned her back on the frivolities

physically perfect senior. She says she has no regular rules for of her social set and opened a health. She is fond of sports and eats what she likes.

women's shop near her home.

How to walk

Professor L G. Kranz, Physical Director, Northwestern University Evanston, III., is engaged in teaching the co-eds there to walk properly. In the first place, he says, the shoes should be so fitted that the toes may be wiggled easily. Then the toes should be turned in a trifle, and one should, so to speak, walk on the outside of the foot. Miss Margaret Anderson, of Northwestern, illustrates the professor's specifications. He will not let the girls wear high heels.

Newton J. ("Pa") Smith and Mrs. Anna ("Ma") Smith, owners of a 1ig farm near Hoopeston, Ill. live for just one thing to bring Sappiness into the lives of the unfortunates. In the past twenty years they have adopted, "mothered and fathered," fed clothed and educated 17 little waifs. Unfortunate elders, as well as children, have shared in the Smiths' bounty. "Mo" Smith is shown superintending the music lesson of litle Vivian Kite, 10-year-old girl, they have adopted.

Ready

for bandLE

The wave of hold-ups of bank messengers in New York, with attendant murders, inspired the girl clerks in the Brooklyn Mortgage Corporation to prepare to meet the stickup men on an equal footing They are becoming good pistol shots, under the instruction of Mies Nanna McLaughlin, an expert shot

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Harry Sluclair's international champion, Zev, Is shową defeating In Mernorjam in their $30,000 match rice at Latonia, Ky. The finish was so close only the judges could decide the winner. Zev (on the outside with blinkers) appears in this picture to be a nose benind la Memoriam, but that is probably accounted for by the angle at which the picture was made.

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