The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-08-23

yourself quietly in the water for hours. A thirty minute float is a very respec- table performance.
 In treading water you return from the fish position to your original at titude head up and feet down. To- gether with the dog stroke and float ing, it is one of the three basic ways of maintaining life in the water
 To tread water properly just imagine that you are going up stairs and move your legs accordingly. Keep moving your arms horizontally from the elbow in a semicircle, palms downward.
 Your head will be out of the water; a valuable point when you wish to sum- mon help or are about to receive It. An expert water treader can keep his head out of water while using his right arm to grasp line or signal for help. The dog stroke Is as simple as 1t is ugly. Throw your dog i'll and watch him. Then jump ill and initiate the dog. If you can't do 1t at Hrsl Keep on till you can There are no rules.
 You should now have the confidence necessary to start out on the resula- ton swimming strokes. The source of them all is the breast stroke. If you | have ever watched frog swim you will know what is expected Of you. | Initiate the frog.
 Go out as high as your shoulders: Face the shore, Imagine that you are in a tree and want to make leap 10 branch above your head. Crouch with your hands at your breast and your legs drawn up under you
 Now leap Send your hands out in front of you, palms down, and sweep them through the water until in line with your shoulders. At the same time you must kicks with the legs do un- ward, spreading the legs as much as you can, and kick with heel, not with toe
 For swimming in 8 rough sea there Is nothing like well developed breast stroke. It enables you to see at any time where you are going, so you avoid weeds or dangerous wreckage 6c.
 Remember this; leap forward rather than kick, and use your heels. Spread your legs. work the scissors grip before crouching, In flnging your arms out, it is palms down; in sweeping them back it is palms obliquey, and in bring ing them back to the breast position 1t is palms vertical
 If you have any difficulty in negotiat- ing the entire stroke, try the arm movement first then the legs, While holding on to rope, and finaly The complete stroke To insure your doing the breast stroke to absolute perfection, do it on dry first and prevail on a com potent man to watch you. Lie on your stomach across a bench and continue the movements till you get them right.
 Swimming on the back from the posi- tion of floating means a sweep of the arms and the legs downward from head to foot. Try the arms first. Ex- tend them in line with the shoulder, palms obliquely Sweep them through the water down the side of your hips. Bring them back with palms facing bottom, or rip them out of the water and fling them over your head, taking fresh purchase with oblique palms.
 With each downward or backward sweep of your arms goes a good strong knees and kick back with the heels so kick with your legs. Pull up your that the legs pass obliquely through the water, the feet as far apart as possi- ble. Again try the scissors grip of the legs in bringing them together so the heels touch.
 When this movement is finished, yuor arms should be ready and extended in line with shoulders to make a new sweep. The sweep of arms and the kick Is simultaneous. The scissors grip occurs as you whip your arms into position for another stroke. Swimming on the back is the most satisfactory and least exhausting stroke for long dtsfanre