Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-03-13
TO AVOID DROWNING.
1t Is a Safe Rate to Turn Upon the
 Back.

1t Is Safe Rate to Turn Upon the
 Back.
 X correspondent of the Jacksonville Metropolis says: A guest at my sum- Mer place, a few miles from Pablo, while bathing WAS carried out to sea, and when almost out of sight, and all hope had fled, 10 our surprise we sud denly saw his body impelled foreibly toward Us. Then We saw it recede a few feet. and then again. as it were, shoot twenty feet toward the shore. This continued until my son and my self at last able to reach him, bore him insensible to the beach. After recov- cry his story was that after losing all hope. guided by some mysterious inn pulse, he had turned upon his back, when he felt himself carried rapidly forward. He had been turned over upon his face to get his bear ings. when he was carried out further from the land, and OH again placing himself upon his back. The surface waves brought him rapidly to the shore, a rescued man. It is an error that the drowning man is attacked by tramp except in very cold weather. He. drowns from heart failure, induced by the violent exertion and the upward pressure of the water upon the ab domen diminishing the space and inl- peding the action of the heart By turning over on the back this pressure is removed, the back being almost en- tirely a strong wall of bone and mus cle. Also when on the back, the entire body is nearer the surface and the surface waves tend toward the shore, the under-current out to sea. even the legs, when upon the back, being less exposed to the current that tends to- ward the sea. By floating gently upon the back the heart, relieved Of it's pres sure, becomes calm and quiet, and the swimmer can regain his strength and float for hours. The bather, whose heart is weak should always present, when standing erect, the right side of she body to the waves, and thus avoid ehe Sullivanltke blows of the incom- ing waves upon a crippled heart. In every bathhouse should be posted the injunction: In case of exhaustion or accident turn @pou the back
 LONG STOCKINGS DOOMED. Women Initiating Men Now in tho
 .earing of Socks.
 While melt have been graphing with the shirt waist question women iofI ino ton from [ long stocking. The re- suit is that next season the extended sock, which will reach just below the knee, will probably be ill vogue. Thus there will be a fair exehanGe-.the mans sock for the womanS shirt waist. Already the alert hosiers have planned the extended sock. This will be 19 inches long, and it's ribbed top, exactly like that of the mans short sock, will, in cases more or less num- erous, Obviate the necessity of wear ing garters. Many women last sum- mer who were not sufficiently courage ous to adopt the sock outright looped the long stocking in folds and gar tered it just below the knee. While this gave measure of coolness it was not artistic. and plainly is doomed to give way to the new extended sock.
 An official report from Consul Mar shall Halstead a1 Birmingham to the state department has just brought to light the f&ct that American women find it impossible to buy desirable stockings in England. The usual American stocking is 2S inches long, with small ankle and trim foot. The English stocking is 24 inches long, With shapeless ankle and elums.i foot.