East Saginaw courier., 1865-09-06

TuE ART OF SwIMMINo.-The art
should be taught to every child
Generally boys learn it without much
teaching, particularly when they live
by ythe water side. Girls should learn,
and when they do they are always cx-
perts. 1t is healthful sport--invig-
Grating and esthetical, it is often
useful, enabling person to save his
own or fellow creatures life. In
cities there are safe swimming baths,
where the art can be learned. But
without instruction of a higher order,
it can be easily learned if you will
watch and initiate as nearly as possi-
BILE, the deliberate, easy movements of
frog in water. The prevailing faults
with learners, especially adults, are
quick, jerking movements, and q fear
to settle well down in the water. A
erson stretched out in water, with
his head leaning back, and his mouth
barely above the huid-no matter if
water runs in his ears, it won't hurt
him-displaces very nearly his weight
of water, thus requiring little effort
to keep from sinking. BY turning
npon the back, with just the mouth,
eyes and nose out of water, the hands
lying by the side, folded across the
breast, or locked behind the back, a
very little pushing with the feet will
enable a person to float and rest after
fatiguing swim. In striking out,
bring the palms of The hands together,
then push them forward, open the
palms downward and outward, and
make long, deliberate stroke or pull,
drawing up the legs at tho same time
so as 10 give good push with tho
feet as soon as the hand stroke is ac-
complished. We prefer this alternate
hand and foot motion to tho simulta-
neous striking out of both. But re-
member that GOODNESS and deliberation
are essential to success, and-don't
stay in too long.
The above and other items of SINH
lar import which have been going the
rounds of the press for years, meeting
the ordinary fate of practical sugges-
tions upon matters not instantaneously
exigent, slight, careless attention, or
no attention all have been rem
dered unusually interesting by reason
of events connected with the recent
sinking of the steamer Pe,odbic. The
saving OF the life of Mrs. WRrGnr by
Miss ADA Brush, was SO far out of the
range Of ordinary exhibitions on such
occasions that it has marked tho, au-
thor as heroine for all tune, and yet
the plain, sensible advice, which if
followed, as it may be without difficult
ty, by the young of both sexes, and
in every sphere of life, would qualify
any and all for like noble effort
in like emergency, fails entirely
to interest those most in need Of its
benefits, save when some startling OK
ample Of its efficiency is exhibited, as
in the case to which we allude. The
lesson thus taught ought to make
deep and lasting impression upon the
minds of all, young and old; and in
duce regard for this art, so natural
and necessary, and yet so much neg
lected, an art, ennobled by the expert
many Of the wisest and best of men,
and finally beautified by this latest act
of heroic Michigan girl, which would
lead to its requirement as generally as
that of the elementary branches of an
English education.
1t is reproach to this section that
in all the length of Saginaw River
having an adjacent population of
not less than twenty thousand souls,
there is not one establishment afford
ing the requisite conveniences and ia
cilities for bathing. We certainly
have superhuity of enterprise in
some respects, will not some one give
the current humane and beneficial
turn in this direction.