The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-09
BY KATHERINE MORTON. Copyright, 1908, by T. c. Mcclure,

Beauty has decided that the best thing for her complexion is swimming
 Besides adding roses to her cheeks and inches to her chest, swimming is foe to adipose tissue. Let a. girl take a swim daily through the seasop and she will not need to resort to a diet-that most melan- choly and depressing method of reducing avoirdupois.
 Then again-another reason why she means to learn to swim-she has visions Of long stretches of. white sand with curling green breakers, in the midst of which she thinks she will look uncom- monly well with her trim bathing suit and scarlet kerchief.
 She remembers how she used to stand around while her deadly rival swan out through the cool green water. side by side with the most eligible young man at the place. It was terrible. She had vow ed 1t shah never happen again.
 She recalls how 1t used to freeze her young blood with despair when this same rival went out for moonlight sails while she sat down crest-fallen under her moth- CTS veto because. she didn't know how to swim. She remembers and she rebels.
 Then, like the. brave girl she is, she puts her ''kickin" to some practical &C., count. She learns to swim.
 One way. and 8 very good one to teach a girl how to swim Is to toss her over the side of boat with g. rope about her waist. Let her plungs and tumble in the water until she finds. the movement. of arms and legs that carries her lightly along the surface.
 The girl. perhaps. protests against such heroic streatment.
 "It is all very we'll in theory" she says to her obliging brother. who offers to do the tossing. but, if you please. I will first take few turns on dry. land before trying the ocean,"
 Swimming on dry land is one way of learning the art of keeping the head above water. It is, indeed, considered the best way to teach girls and children.
 It needs no more arrangement than a few preliminary instructions, an easily arranged costume. and the seclusion of ones own apartments. The costume should be sufficiently loose to give free dom of motion to body and limbs.
 The dry swimmer first lies on her face on the floor, and .as closely as possible initiates the motions of swimmer in the water varying them only when the changed conditions make it necessary.
 From the time those motions are per fectly mastered the real benefits to the dry swimmer begin. by strengthening and a quickened natural development of almost every muscle of the body and a scientific -toning of the nervous system. Swimming brings into use more muscles than any other exercise.
 From toes to flnger-tips. with the palms downwards lie perfectly straight. Count ing one, turn the hands outward. bringing the arms around square with the shoul- ders. At two. the elbows are close to the sides and the hand brought under the chin. At three. the arms are straight ened out full length, the hands together. This movement must be energized, not done Imply.
 Next come the movements of the lower limbs Counting one, bring the legs up we'll under the body and outward. The toes should be pointed upward in order that in this stroke power may he applied with the flat of the soles. The toes should be, as much as possible, in a line with the elbows just before the kick. At two give | vigorous kick. pointing the toes downward and bringing the soles in use. At three. the heels meet.
 When hands and feet. or arms and legs, have conquered these movements separately. they must be worked to- gether. e."H
 At one. as the hands and arms apply the power the lower limbs are being brought up for the kick, which is made as the hands meet the chest, and the sweep with the soles of the feet continues las the hands are brought to the front