Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-12-30
B-R-R-R-, GIRLS, 1T is
TO SHUDDER. WHO WANTS
TO BE AN ALLIGATOR?
Annapolis Nymphs Will Dispor. in The
Severn New Years Day If
But They VIII

DHl ILes VIII
Care TO take a little swim out in
the Severn next Wednesday. girls?"
This is the somewhat unusual invi-
alton Annapolis girls will be receiv-
ing this week and it is said there has
been a wager that Annapolis girls are
so game that they viii just fall over
themselves TO accept the invita- ion.
Annapolis is just bit conservative
about adopting strange customs and
il is possible that this thing of a
swim in the Severn on a cold January
day may not appeal TO young lady res
idents whose accustomed swim on New
Years day has been confined to the linn
its of a porcelain tub in water of at
least body temperature and Sher-
mometer in the room with the mer-
curry reading somewhere around eighty
degrees or more.
However this may be. there's a
bunch of midshipmen who believe An
napolis girls are as game as their
western sisters out in Portland, who
feel tina, life is a disappointment to
them if they cannot have New Years
day swim out at the beach.
w. G. Ingram, Eric Lewis and Van
Rathbun are three midshipmen whose
homes are in Portland, Ore, but the
air is SO suffocating to them out there
that they spend great deal of their
time in Alaska getting cooled off. Par
ticularly on New Years day do they
feel the oppressiveness. So they. in
common wi h the other members of
the Multnomah club, don their bath
ing suits, arm themselves with axes,
and go out TO the Willamett river
where they' break few hundred
square yards of ice and enjoy a lux
urious swim. 'Tis said the heat does
not bo her them any more the rest of
the day.
These young men feel that the whole
of next year will be topsy-turvy for
them if they cannot indulge in their
exhilarating Ii tie pastime this New
Years and have therefore arranged
for swim in the Severn next We'd
nesday at the Severn Boat clubs
beach.
"Oh yes, it wouldn't be a real New
Year without SWIM" they told some
of their comrades down at the Acad-
emy the other day. Its an Alaskan
custom and the members of the
MuHnomah club out-home have. adopt
ed it,
Not girls too?". demanded one of
the group of hearers.
Sure" replied the Portlanders.
bet you couldn't get fifteen Annap-
oils girls to take a swim New Years
day." declared a skeptic
you're on" the sea lions from Port
land answered.
So that is why some fifty Annapolis
young ladies are going to receive
neat little invitation from the Alaskan
Alligator association to play mermaid
in the Severn Wednesday at 10:3O in
the morning. 1t is understood that
there is to be no restrictions as to the
amount of time they may engage in
this sportive little pastime, those de-
string to do so being privileged to re-
main in the water until evening If they
wish. There is an expressed belief
that many will not care to remain in
SO long however, because of the usual
round of New Year engagements de-
manding their attendance, much to
their regret. If the Severn is frozen
over Wednesday, the gentlemen men,
bers of the Alaskan Alligator associa-
ton will see to having the ice proper
ly broken so that the lady bathers will
experience no discomforts.