Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-08-30
HOW TO TAKE A HEADER.
Points ON Diving in Deep and Shallow
Warer.

Water.
"Of what use is diving?" Well, for ex-
ample. in bringing up an object from
the bottom and in saving life, where it
is almost always necessary to owe down
n ter the body. Outside of the purely
utilitarian consideration it is a delightful
sensation and adds greatly to the pleas
ure in swimming. Everybody can learn
to dive and practice it without any bad
results 1t is held by many persons that
diving produces headache. 1t may do
this at first, but if the diving is done at
the right time of day and not to excess
the temporary rush of blood to the head
will do no harm.
The art of diving is best learned by
gradual approaches. After you are ac-
customed to putting your head under
water and keeping your eyes open, stoop
by the waters edge with your elbows
resting on your knees and your hands i'll
the position of a breast stroke. Now
plunge in, but do not open your eyes I'M
til your head is under water, striking
the water with eyes open will cause them
to become bloodshOt.
Continue this until you can dive from
q higher posture and finally when stand
ing erect.
The most natural position for dive
is to hold the arms forward. inclosing
the head as wedge. the chest inflated,
the knees together the body bowed slight
ly toward the water. In striking the
water one must be careful not to fall fiat
but to throw the legs up in the air and
to cleave the water with the hands.
In swimming under water the breast
stroke is the best When you want to
go down deeper raise your hands in maxi
ing the recovery and when YOU want to
come up paddle til" wat" down under
Your stomach and chest. The plunge dI:-
fers from the dive in that the body is
held rigid without moving muscle. The
great thing here is to have as little re-
siStance as possible. the head and chest
are thrown back. the legs together and
the feet laid straight out. The swimmer
comes to the surface simply by turning
the palms of his hands upward and de-
scenls by turning them downward. The
depths of water in which it is possible to
dive varies as the bulk Of the swimmer
and as the angle with which he strikes the
water a thin man can so deeper than
a heavy one on account of the resistance
of the water. and one man will dive twen-
ty-tiyc feet into five feet of water without
striking bottom, and another would strike
it from a height of six feet. A good
depth for an average dive is eight feet
!. B. johnson. who for some years held
the championship in this line. diyed eeigh-
ty-fiye feet into six feet of water. Last
year a young Swedc broke this record
by diving in Lake Michigan n distance Of
40 feet but into water of great depth.
Steve Brodie dropped from Brooklyn
bridge, also 40 feet, in Il second and a
half. Before doing SO, however, he
weighed his feet down with forty pounds
of lead. which insured his landing right
side up
Salt water is much moro buoyant than
fresh When Il diver is sent down 800
feet to a sunken vessel he is weighted
down with 800 pounds of lead. 1t is
about impossible to go deeper than this
for the pressure is so great that it almost
brushes the copper head piece, while the
buoyancy is such that diver can scarcely
keep from coming to the surface.
Perpetual Motion Once More.
Antonio de la Tornc. Il little Italian en-
gineer who lives in San Francisco, be-
lieves that he has at last discovered the
secret of perpetual motion. and has con-
at the continuance which he has built to
prove his theory. The machine is 4 form
of the revolving circle, driven by rolling
balls, such as inventors have been expert
menting with for years. In some in
stances limited motion has been acquired.
but without power. This machine seems
to put no limit on the power it can sup
ply. The inventor is now building large
machine on the lines of his first model.
He has been at work upon his idea about
three years. The suggestion came to him
from an automatic balance or see-saw toy
screw. He has already made several
fortunes by his inventions, and has
promptly spent them all.
Tom Prevented Wreck.
Tom. the 12-year-old son of Tom Dick
inson of Pendleton Ind saved a score of
lives the other night. A passenger train
was sidetracked at that city waiting for
a fast freight to pass. BY some oversight
the switch was left open. Tom. who was
playing near, happened to notice. that it
was open. He grasped the situation,
grabbed the handle, and when the engine
was less that fifty feet away. threw the
switch. The next instant the freight
rumbled past the passenger coaches. As
the freight was going at a high rate of
speed the'wreck would have been terrible.
The Postal Card Law.
A postal card must not be mutilated.
There is a clause in the postal laws which
says that if q postal card is torn or mutt
lated or interfered with in the slightest
degree. either by cutting down or enlarg-
ing. extra postage will be charged or the
card sent to the dead letter office.