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OLD MOTHER ADVOCATE PULLS IN SKIRTS AND GROWS WINGS

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Although Old Mother Advocate still lingers on, it won't be long now before she makes her appearance with a pair of wings, not the feathery kind that grace Gabriel and his cohorts, nor the horn-leathery ones of the Land of the Eternal Fire, but rather the modern everyday type made famous by Birdman Lindbergh and Flying Post.

For when a bankrupt flying organization, among whose creditors was the Advocate, was liquidated a short time ago, the Old Women of Plympton Street drew this contraption out of the bag, and for want of better, firmly intends to harbor it on her roof.

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