Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1892-10-21

. list would be that We should find
comparatively few public men in the
list. Nearly every man who gets to
congress is q man who has in some con-
spicuous way shown his superiority to
the average citizen Of his district bat
when It comes to the great 'doers" We
Do not look for many Of them within
ne walls Of the capitol
One Of the men whose right 10 b In
The hst OF oAs hundred people mighA
differ about 70 Henry Willard But Ma
Willard retains the rrssidsnsy Of the
great consolidated electric company In
spite Of the statements Of the New
York financial writer's that he would
not remain there His position seems
70 be . strong one He told . friend
the other day that he now had ell the
money that he wanted. He has got %
least ten million dollars, and this tina
he proposes TO hold on to II
come In . series Of three. somstimea
the three are small and sometimes afs
very heavy. but - rule the sequences
run about ths ssms sisA Imagine .
bathsr inside the surf line with The
surf breaking over bar shout Atty OF
one hundred feet from shore. Those
big green waves that rise higher and
higher ~ they come toward him do NOT
seem very formidable The FIRST one
rears its head before II reaches him
with IN angry swish; Q CURL Of foam
like feather edge crops out along the
top and hlls the air with spray. Then
the wave takss . most decided shore.
ward curl. the line of foam becomes
deeper, there u Q craah a. IL drops 70 Q
level and the bather hnds himself
thrown down In ealdron OF ssstAins
surf. Say he 10 In three feet Of water
ON the level Altar the wave has passed,
he struggles to his feet choking, gasp
ing and half blind with the Salt watsr.
He doesn't really know what has hap.
pened, but he has . dim idsa that
something has hit him. Before As haz
time to COLLECT his senses the ssoonS
Of the series Il upon him. and he gosa
down again. He Ii dazsd and confused,
and he founders around hopslssA The
third wave Ia always the finishing
stroke, and gives the nfs-savsr. II there
is one. . chance 70 do some work.
Guided by an outstrstshsd arm thrust
above the water involuntarily. or BY q
bobbing head with which the surf h
playing foot ball, he drags the unso-
phisticatsd one out ON the sand. That
Is the most common danger Of the surf
To- surf-swimmsr II represents NO
danger Ut all. Notice the difference
between the two The experienced
surfman knsws 70 dot the strength of
each wave, when IL viii break and
whether or not an undsrtow will Be the
result In describing how TO battle In
the surf am going 70 give The lam
guage of perhaps one Of the best swim.
msrs and surfmsn On the New Jersey
coast He IL Mr.. T. u. Lillagors and
he has not yet Lost the siS and bearing
Of . graduated oollegiaA- He u BID,
brown and strong. with decided per-
sonanty. and gives one the imprsssica
that he could liok goal without much
trouble and would Be Q hard man 10
meet II he lined up on the opposing
team He has been Spending Ais SUM
mers on the coast ever since he oan re-
member and can talk more lsarnsdly
about the surf than all Of the Nfs-savers
from Barnegat to Sandy Hook.
"A good surfmsn," he said. ~ he n
on . strange shore where there are La.
BILE to be any currents, will study them
before he enters the water, buA a. Q
rule, dangerous currents are few. II
he knows the coast he will wait until q
wave IL about to break, then make q
dive through II; not too deep . dive,
though, for sand will scrlrs like ala
II the surf Ii heavy and rapid, - soon
rs his head 10 out Of the water he will
look for and expect the nsxt one. II IL
break before it reaches him he will dive
under the whirling stretch Of foam and
save lot of his strength II not he.
will either ride over II or dive through
II. But he never becomes careless He
looks upon the surf - an enemy II he il
not careful, and - . means Of irving
him pleasure II he handles himself e
he ought The most dangerous bath
ing Is where there IL . sss-push, or, -
the sailors osu II, . ssa-pusA II h .
current VIII ich runs from the shore
along channel between two sand bara.
The waves breaking over the bars meet
on shore and run out together IN the
deep channel. There 10 no chance Tor
the ignorant swimmer who IL caught In
q sea- push. The experienced one Will
never swim against il; he will 20 with
II, keeping his feet well up, until ~
gets q chance to GROSS it.
THE danger of the undsrtow h act
great except in rare places But In tAs
cases of women and children the under
tow might be considered a. rather q
bad thing in this way: II strong sea
breaking well on shore by its force
knocks a woman or child down, in 70
ceding il will invariably drag them out
. short distance with il. Butthe force
and power of the undertow have been
very much overestimated, and there ID
really not much danger in It. When
fatal accidents occur l find they are
generally caused by exhaustion or caro-
lessness The surf-bather should not
take long swims outside. He can have
all the excitement he wants by sticking
closely to the surf Let him find .
sand-bar at low tide, where the surf
breaks two hundred or three hundred
feet from shore, and with a little prac-
tice he can learn to ride on . breaker
for any distance up TO three hundred
feet in water that II he were standing
up would scarcely reach to his waist
-Harpers Weekly.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.