The Alaska citizen., 1916-06-26


 but l did get very modest admission of her heroic con nection with them from the young lady in question when l went to in have discovered that for several years Fairbanks has been harboring q true heroine without knowing it. Here k the story as l had il from the lips of the heroine herself. al though she would say nothing Of the affair until l had assured her that knew enough of it to make me want to know it fully and com pletely.
 The "swimmin pool on upper First avenue Is growing 10 be tine meeting place of most of the young people of Fairbanks Particularly is this true since the hot weather started. For nothing is more en- joyable while the heat waves hover over Mother Earth than a cool plunge into the water.
 A young couple agreed to meet at the pool one afternoon last week She" arrived there first. and not finding him. repaired to dressing room to prepare to enter the pool Before doing so, however she whis- pered to the man in charge, When Jack comes don't tell him I'm here Jack" arrived not long after. He looked around and did not see her but decided that he would get ready anyhow. Of course she" had heard him. so decided that she would wait until he was in the water then go out and surprise him. You see, Jack had told her that he couldn't swim a lick, but she didn't believe him Therefore she thought that by waiting she would catch him swimming around.
 So Jack got ready and went out on the end of the spring board to do. but it wasn't long until some body else decided his line of action for him For he suddenly found himself pushed off the end of the spring board into deep water.
 His last words as he plunged into the inky blackness beneath the spring board were, Help. can swim" But. of course. nobody be lieved him The result was that he came to the top the first time gurgling.
 But that agonized appeal had been heard by one other than that circle of grinning idiots who werew atCh- ing with much glee the efforts of the young Tolovanaite to swim in the deep water. She bethought herself of what he had told her Of his inability to swim. Therefore she did not wait to wonder whether or not he had been telling her the truth but. bursting open the dress ing room door, she made rush for the pool and jumped in, just IS the young man was going down for the second time.
 And when he came up for the third and last time, she nailed" him. That is, she grabbed him by some part of his scant swimming attire or was it by the hair of the head, (she was so excited she is now unable to state positively and swan to shore with him amid the plaudits of those who witnessed the brave act She left him where he could get 6 grip on one of the side lines and tow himself into shallow water
 Whether or not this hero stunt novels yet remains to be seen. New Styles Let's take a walk ' Of Dancing I looked around when Brought In. heard the remark, for
 it seemed to me that the occasion for taking walks was rather inauspicious, as the place where the request was made was the dancing floor of the Auditorium. The time, the Midnight Sun dance on the evening of June 21. l didn't want to appear curious, but 1 did want to know who 1t was that want ed to take walk.
 But when l looked I did not know the man who wanted to take the walk. I did, however, have the honor of being acquainted with the young lady to whom the walk was suggested, and waited for her an swer What she said was: Where do you want to go?' And then he put her wise" to the fact that he wanted to do a one-step with her. They call 1t walk on the Outside now That is. they do in the east, for I afterwards dis covered that the young man in ques- tion is an customer but lately ar