Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1895-07-21

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about 125 pounds. But this is imma-
terial, as the girl is not going TO carry
her boat under her arms across country.
The oars are important. Cedar IS the
best, but unfortunately cedar oars are
costly. Any light wood is good, but the
weight should not be over three pounds
apiece. The length is best put at SIX
feet. Any longer than that IS bulky
for the girls arms, for she often has
10 carry her oars to the boat house, anG
anv shorter will not do good work.
In. case of accident aboard, there are
regular rules learned by the llfe-pre-
servers. which should be pasted III the
hat Of every summer girl. The hrst
one of these is to keep cool, but as cool1
ness is better preserved when one
knows lust where one stands as to life
chances. here are few suggestions.
If YOU see you are going TO run INTO
ANYTHING. that collision is absolutely
unavoidable, do not reverse the oars
to take you back away from the on
coming object
If YOU are too late to turn out OF the
way YOU are TOO late to reverse the
boat, which takes a second longer. IN
stead of that, drop the oars into the wa
ter and hold them there. Hold them
fast and firm with the blades at right
ANGLES with the surface, and you bring
the boat to standstill, as quickly as
though it were suddenly anchored there.
This keeps you stOck-still, while the
other boat hits you Ii it come hard
enough it will send you along gracefully
on the water while the force OF the
blow falls upon itself. II 1t is your
boat that is running into danger you
can stop it by lowering the oars, as
just told.
ABOUT LIFE-PRf1SERVERS.
Before girl starts out in her peace
full little row boat she should obtain
life-preserver. There is a little pre-
server that looks like a sausage. 1t
lies flat like a hot wateC bag before
blown up. but inflated it has dignitied
rOundness. DO not wait until there Is
an accident after blowing this up; at
tend to it on shore, just as you attend to
placing your oars in the boat. Now,
should cratic spring a leak, should
saucy lake steamer knock hole in its
side. should both oars drift away and
the boat & eide to drift into whirlpool
grab the Z le sausage preserYer and tie
il around under your arms. Don tie 1t
around your waist, nor around your
neck, but right where your belt goes
with one of those new josephine dresses
Ouch! Ooghl You are in the water
II is cold. desperately cold, and awful!
There are waves coming and going ana
nasty watery reptiles! But don't you
carel Kick at them with your feet! Tho
harder YOU kick the beJteri Ii scares
them away-and more! 1t helps to
keep YOU above the waterl BE kick
err now in earnest Keep those feet 60
ing and The head vii take care OF itself
Look around little, enjoy the situa-
ton And there, yes, right over there.
Surely. yes, there is q boat coming to-
ward you, Somebody has sen all
about il and is coming TO rescue you.
As soon as you and your deliverer
have reached the shore ask Tor a little
alcohol. Don't drink it, but put it in a
saucer. and set fire to il, first placing
yourself in a tiny bathhouse with the
burning alcohol close TO your feet and
the doQ closed. In three seconds the
heat viii be so great that you cry to
have the door opened, and when You
walk out after thirty seconds in the hot
room you have forgotten all about that
chill you were intending to have when
you came out of the water.
IN rowing for business, as the summer
girl often does, crossing stream to her
meals, maybe or get the family mail,
I would say, always understand your
tide and never row gainst it, 1t is dan
eerous and difficult. If YOU are going
to a house right up stream, and the tide
is going down. do not pull up, row your
self diagonally across, and back in the
same way, gaining a little on yourself
every time. You viii reach there safer
hnd sooner than though You set to worA
to thwart the water.
RoWboat exercise is the most enjoy
able and the healthiest OF all summer
sports and it is certainly the safest if
the girl who rows the boat viii rcmem-
Der that she is negotiating with The
most powerful element in the world;
and if she has the sense and skill to
make the water her ally instead OF her
enemy.