In making the turn the monoplane flown by the Cuban aviatrix could not negotiate it at as sharp an angle as Peggy's machine, owing to its not being equipped with an equalizing, or stability device.

There were tons of Red Cross supplies on boardcotton, chloroform, peroxide; Belgian soldiers patched up and going back to fight; and various volunteer nurses, including two handsome young Englishwomen of the very modern aviatrix typecoming over to drive motor-cycle ambulancesand so smartly gotten up in boots and khaki that a little way off you might have taken them for British officers.

And yetthis little madcap aviatrix disclosed a winning directness and simplicity which charmed and surprised him.

'Aviatrix' I despise.