The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-04

good many of 'em so after the same nr similar trouble or themselves.
 We have lot of bother. 100 with young teiiows who, just after learning the flfst few strokes of the game. get too confident and try to ovefplay them- selves. They're not smart Aiecs. but they're rash. They're lads. tor the most part. who never started in to learn now to swim until Just a while before they get into trouble, and when they get so they can hit tip a few strokes, and make a little progress. they get to
 thinking that they'd like to do 1t just like the other fellows that've been swimming all their lives-that learned how to swim in a crick when they were kids. When they make these stabs they, often go wrong and have to be picked out. There's a little vanity in this business of the lads trying the deep water. They think that 1t makes 'em look cheap to be padding around with the womer- hanging on to the ropes. But, as tell you. vanity drowns heap of men in the course of bathing season.
 "A lot of people stay in the water too long. too. and get in trouble that way. Their muscles become all drawn up and cramped. and when. as often happens, they get this way into deep water. they are helpless and have to be yanked out. About three-quarters of an hour is long sea bath for folks that are not used to 1t.
 Another thing. people that go sea
 bathing ought to spend most of their time in the water. Sitting on the sand in the hot sun makes 'em liable to be cramped. after they've been in once when they so in again. Talking about
 that, dye know that there are lot of pretty boys fin pretty bathing suits
 who do as much pretty posing on the
 beach as some of the girls do? Fact.
 I have seen lots of yaps who have not done much more than wet their pink toes, and then spend about three hours
 showing their bathing suits on the sand. The funny papers get after the girls who never go Into the water. but they ought to get their hammers for the lovely pieces of work with short hair that nowadays perform the
 same stunt.
 We call about three-fourths of our cases during the bathing seasons false alarms. We mean by that women who
 think tha tthey are going down to a
 watery grave in eight inches of salt water. don't know just why it is
 that a woman's head is so much
 heavier than her feet. but everybody knows that's a fact. A woman slips and gets her head in foot of water
 when ske's only five feet from the beach. and she thinks it's all off with her in this life. I've seen women picked out of the water under these conditions that've been at the point of death from fright. And they tell all
 of their friends afterwards and their grandchildren when the grandchildren come along. about the time they came near being drowned by accidentally getting out of their depth.
 Its an old story. and not worth
 talking about, that most women ran to learn how to swim, because they haven't got the confidence. Some wo- en are just naturally born never to learn how to swim. I know coast suardsman like myself who has spent six years trying to teach his wife how to swim and she cant hit lick yet. and never will She's afraid of it, like
 the great majority of women. Young girls have more confidence than grown women. and they should be taught to swim when they're young. Most ot the fine swimmers among women, that you see doing the mermaid stunts around the beaches were taught how to do the
 trick when they were children anu had their nerve with them"