THE STRAND MAGAZINE. 
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knock my brains out in order to rob me. 
Hi* was rather taken aback by his reception, 
lor I have learned both boxing and ju-jitsu. 
In St. Etienne I came down with my mono- 
plane into a party playing bowls, to their 
great astonishment. Last year I was flying 
high in the air above Chateaii-Thierry when 
part of the monoplane caught fire. I extin- 
guished it almost by a miracle, otherwise I 
should have had a fall to death of over half 
a mile. 
“ 1 have been told that I shall one day 
end my life by an accident. I fully expect it. 
and do not fear 
it. When I am 
going to attempt 
anything especi- 
ally dangerous, I 
set all my affairs 
in order. I shall 
never Forget the 
surprise of an 
undertaker on 
whom 1 called one 
day in a large 
town where I 
went to attend a 
sporting fixture, 
when I explained 
that I had come 
to make all in- 
quiries respecting 
my own prospec- 
tive funeral ! 
u And now. to 
save you the 
trouble of asking 
any more ques- 
tions, 1 will tell 
you my future 
plans. For a long 
time past 1 have 
been a trained 
a n d certificated 
nurse of the Red 
Cross Order, and 
T am most in- 
to rested in 
hospital work. 
Now, what 1 
want to do is to 
place the aero- 
plane at the ser- 
vice of wounded 
soldiers. I would 
have a Depcr- 
d u 5 si n in o n o- 
plane to carry 
three, worked by 
a one-hundred-horse-power Gnome motor 
and fitted with wireless telegraphy apparatus. 
It would not be used to carry the wounded 
men, but to find them, to give information 
to the doctors, and to bring supplies to the 
ambulance stations. I have fixed on a very 
suitable type of machine for this purpose, 
which would carry all that is necessary. 
1 would call it after my unfortunate comrade 
in aviation, 1 Captain Fxhemen/ and 1 
intend to make a tour through France to 
find the proper mode of having it built. 
I shall collect the required parts in one or 
another school 
of design, and 
thus carry out 
my great project, 
the composition 
of a new aero- 
plane to succour 
the wounded 
•$ o l (1 i e r s o f 
France.” 
Great as is 
the devotion to 
sport of this 
remarkable 
daughter of our 
time, it is by no 
means the only 
distinction with 
which Nature has 
dowere d h e r. 
She has studied 
medicine and law , 
singing and elo- 
c u t i o n. She 
speaks four lan- 
guages, writes, 
carves in marble, 
paints, and is a 
capable actress. 
What an e x- 
ample for all 
women is this 
young French 
1 a d y, w hose 
passion for sport 
and whose ac- 
complis h ment s 
only emphasize 
in her the two 
great natural 
sentiments 
which inspire 
her — the love 
of beauty and 
the love of doing 
good [ 
MLLE. MAH V I N GT (UN JHli HIGH J') HAS I >E V J S 1 ) A CYCLE 
FOR CARRYING THE WOUNDED IN WAR. SHE PROPOSES 
AISO TO USE AN AEROPLANE FOR THtOR SERVICE. 
From ii f*hut\>yrap(\. 
