Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1914-01-23

man Is too warm to prance
between the shafts and goes
along with you at a Jog trot
When that degree Of heat arrives you
wouldn't change places with him for
rubber mine. Adelaide, the capital
OF South Australia, has a breathless,
whlte, staring summer heat that lasts
for weeks at time. 1t hurts the eye
slght, as successive teams of English
crlcketers have found out to their
cost, but Is otherwise not unhealthy.
One OF the most uncomfortable
places In the world on a really hot
Gay Is Melbourne. The SUN blazes
with an intolerable glare, and the
br1ckfielder" "a scorching north
Wind sweeps along the city's wide
streets thick with dust and the smoke
OF the distant bush fires 1t has
brought down from the country.
whence it whirled with the velocity of
hurricane that morning The smoke
gets into your. eyes and makes them
smart, and the dust and other refuse
make your clothes filthy and get
down your throat, into your ears,
your nostrils, everywhere.
As to London Heat.
London heat, writes Arthur J. Rees
In the London Evening Standard re-
sembles the heat Of Auckland. New
Zealand's most northern city. It is
humid. close, sticky, oppressive and,
above all, dense. But Auckland has
what London hasn't-a beautiful har-
Dor that makes you cool to look at
1t. The Maoris call the Auckland har.
Dor Wa1-te-mata, which means gilt
tering waters" and the sparkling blue
Of that volcano guarded bay holds you
Its lover while you are in Auckland
and ever afterward. 1t is the color of
forget-me-not, and you never do for
get It. You see the harbor from all
parts of the city-from some spots
the whole dazzling sheet Of forget
me-not blue spreads out before you,
at others just a patch Of ripping
violet glancing shyly up at you as
you turn the corner of one of Auck-
lands winding streets.
Sydney harbor is beautiful-you
will not praise Auckland harbor to
Sydney people If you are a wise tray
eler-but 1t lacks the enhancing blue
and the lights and shades of the Har-
Dor OF Glittering Waters. And Auck-
lands harbor is still natures own
a 50-mile gulf whose cliffs and head
lands are wrapped in a grand and
gracious solitude.
The subject Of heat brings us nat
urally to the subject of bathing. The
Australians, particularly those living
near the coast, are a bathing people.
The children take to the water early
and stay in late. An Australian boy
will pass the whole Of long summer
day in the baths, with alternate
splashing and sand sprawling spells.
All the state schools have swimming
clubs for boys and girls, from the
youngest classes up. where the chill.
dren are taught to swim.
The schools have a series of inter.
club swimming matches during the
summer, when rivalry is keen and ex.
cellent swimming results. AS a nat
ural consequence Of this splendid sys-
tenn most Of the Australian boys and
girls in the large cities can swim well
and drowning fatalities are rapidly
declining.
Sea Baths Around Melbourne.
They have plenty Of sea baths
around Melbourne, but no surf bath.
ing such as Sydney people revel in.
Melbourne's great bay, Port Phillip,
is landlocked, so there are no break.
ers worth mentioning. There is also
a further obstacle In the shape Of pe-
riodical invasions Of large sharks,
which have calming effect on the
enthusiasm Of those who advocate the
charms Of bathing IN the open. Three
or four miles from Melbourne is the
fashionable suburb Of st. Kilda, which
has the finest swimming baths in Aus.
tralia-half dozen Of them.
Bathing by night under the electric
light IL favorite amusement Of the
Melbourne people. For those harder