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

unhindered by
a corset.
TAM glad to see that someone has
suggested what seems to me very
fine memorial to the brave men and
women who died in the Titanic disaster.
The suggested monument IS to be
represented by a fund which will allow
all school children to learn to swim.
OF course. think l am rabid on the
subject of swimming. 1t has mean
everything to re-fun, recreation, fame
and livelihood. It Is to my swimming
that I owe all the success | have had,
and If I have a good figure and good
health. it is because of this one in
particular exercise more than any
other.
believe that swimming more than
any other kind of sport or physical Gull
ture is especially beneficial TO women.
Swimming viii 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
il stimulates circulation easily, quickly
and ioyously
No III Effects.
If one exercises ordinary common
sense. there should be no IN effects to
swimming and the graceful, harmoni-
Gus movements of the body are best
adapted for developing the fcnniu.
physique and for invigoratng mind an"
body
Every child should be taught t."
swim.
Thousands will be saved in time of
danger. and the child who is taught to
swim early in life develops a wonder
full sense of fearlessness and caution,
because IT knows Just how much 1t can
do. and does not go beyond its strength.
as do swimmers who take up the sport
later in life
OF course, il is always better to
learn to swim in fairly still water. in a
shallow lake, or on a 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 a swimming
bath or a swimming pool and then
practice in the open
In preparing for the swimming sea-
SON the first question is the bathing
suit It's a funny thing about the
bathing suit. and it's all a matter of
custom On the English beaches. where
n
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 bcauti-
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? l
wonder what 1t is said the old ladies'
and her complexion looked so nice,
tool"
The inference was obvious They
surmised a dreadful disease. AS for
the young women. they thought her
frankly immoral to attract so much
attention
Changed Her Suit.
The next day she donned an English
ba thing 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 at 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 J think
stockings win be universally adopted.
but / hope our good English swimmers
viii not try 10 wear what Is called the
Fashionable bathing suit because /
! don't sec how they could swim In H.
The fashionable bathing suit Of silk
or satin. embroidered and trimmed