Paris, May 29.
If one is in a hurry—which seems to happen to a good many people nowadays—to get from Paris to London or vice versa, the way to do it is by aeroplane. Last week 200 people used this method of travel between the two capitals. A new "D. H. 18 Continental air express" is now on this service, and it has a cruising speed of 108 miles an hour, so that tha journey is done well within two hours and a half. It is quite easy to have breakfast at a normal hour in Paris
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One of the innovations of the new express is the printed lists of hints for passengers, displayed in the saloon. They are informed, for instance, that the machine is perfectly steady in its course, and that if a few "bumps" are experienced they are due merely to gusts of wind and should in no way inspire fear. The passenger is also recommended to relax; to take things easily, to sit comfortably in his chair and not feel himself impelled to hold on tight. It is also pointed out that moving about the saloon makes no difference to the stability of the machine, as some nervous passengers seem to think it may.
The public, of course, is not yet educated up to air travel ways. That will come in the not far distant day when this form of travel will cost no more than a first-class ticket by rail. Already one can go by air between Paris and Brussels for 175 francs and, incidentally, save a good deal of time and fatigue.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.