Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-31
a corset.

YAM glad 10 see that someone has
suggested what seems to me a very
fine memorial to the brave men and
women who died in the Titanic disaster
The suggested monument is 10 be
represented by a fund which will allow
all school children to learn to swim
of course. / think ] am rabid on the
subject of swimming 1t has meant
everything to me-fun, recreation. fame
and livelihood. 1t is to my swimming
that I owe all the success | have had
and If have good figure and good
health II is because of this one in
particular exercise more than any
other.
believe that swimming more than
any other kind of sport or physical cul-
ture. is especially beneficial TO women.
Swimming will reduce the fat woman
and it will build up the anaemic and
weak sister
good swim will drive away the
blues better than anything else, because
ii stimulates circulation easily quickly
and iovously.
No ~ Effects.
If one exercises ordinary common
sense there should be no III effects to
swimming. and the graceful, harmoni
Gus movements of the body are bes
adapted for developing the feminin
physique and for invigorating mind ava
body
Every child should be taught toJ
swim.
Thousands will be saved in time Of
danger. and the child who is taught to
swim early in life develops wonder
full sense Of fcarlessness and caution
because 1t knows Just how much it can
do. and does not go beyond its strength.
as do swimmers who take up the sport
later in life
OF course. II Is always better to
learn to swim in fairly still water. in a
shallow lake, or on softly shelving
beach where there are no sudden holes
and deep hollows.
If | had my way, every woman who
does not know how to swim now ould
be given some lessons at swimming
bath or a swimming poo and then
practice in the open
In preparing for the swimming sea-
SON the first question is the bathing
suit. Its a funny thing about the
bathing suit, and It's all a matter of
custom. On the English beaches, where
men and women battle together a
woman in pair of stockings is ex-
tremely conspicuous, because no one
else wears them.
remember one summer seeing an
American girl in her black silk Gibson
bathing suit and black stockings emerge
from her bathing machine very con-
scious that she was exceedingly beauti-
full to look upon Indeed. she was by
American standards Her suit was
belted in over some sort of corset; It
was quite high in the neck and had ell
bow sleeves. The other women on the
beach wore baggy looking suits that
were so unattractive that no man look
ed at them twice They did not wear
stockings, and when the young Ameri
can girl sauntered leisurely down the
beach there we're various comments.
Poor thing. Isn't it a shame? II
wonder what it is" said the old ladies.
And her complexion looked so nice,
too,'
The inference was obvious They
surmised dreadful disease. As for
the. young women, they thought he
frankly immoral to attract so much
attention
Changed Her Suit.
The next day she donned an English
bathing suit left her stockings in her
bathing machine, wore enormous and
very hideous bathing shoes, and no one
looked at her twice, for she looked no
prettier than any one else.
OF course al the big bathing beaches
like Brighton. where visiting Amer
leans are frequently seen, they are get
ting accustomed to the American bath
ing suit with stockings. and ! think
stockings will be universally adopted,
but hope our good English swimmers
viii not try To wear what is called the
fashionable bathing suit because
don't sea how they could swim IN it,
The fashionable bathing suit Of silk
or satin. embroidered and trimmed