New Britain herald., 1926-09-10
GLORIOUS WELCOME
 GIVEN MRS. C)RSON
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(Continued from Fist Page) children in mind. becase she knew that if she made the svn their lives would be filled with ccnfort and not the hardships which he had faced most of her life.
 Delighted atDfers.
 She was of coursedelighted when told by Cal Harris, Ssociate of Arch Selwyn, that more han 2,000 offers had been received for her service, that contracts amenting to s250,000 were in sight.
 She remarked hat this was very different from te way she arrived in America for he first time seven years ago. He husband, who &C., companied heron the swim of the channel in a arowboat, also came home with her
 Saw Stcks of Dishes.
 She raised laugh when she said that one of He chief thoughts she had while stually swimming the channel was the large amount of dishes she gould have to wash if she didn't rake it.
 Mrs. Coron would not discuss the use of tuf in channel swimming, saying tht it is simply matter whether ne has the money to ex- pend.
 q ha s3,ooo which was loaned to me | Walter Lissberger to make the camel attempt" she said, "and Itried to hold my expenses down Q that it would not go over the 5000"
 Glad Backer Won.
 A eporter told her at this point thatMr. Lissberger had won S10O.- on0over her swim, and she replied: "I1 very glad of that. I wish it had ben moro"
 Praises Miss Ederlc
 Mrs. Corson declined to consider sy contrast with Trudy Ederle. speaking of Miss Ederle's chievement she said:
 It was marvellous that a girl of only 20 years should be able to do thing like this. I did not believe that she could do it, but she did.
 There are two important phases in woman's life. One when she is young girl and the other when she is a mother. Gertrude swan r;,1 sWam if as the mother of two children"
 Describes Her Swim
 T trusted to my mind rather ihan my body" she said. in de- 7cribing her swim, ''after a man or woman is in the water for ten hours it is no longer a question of what kind of stroke they use but nlugging ahead and this I did. I swam with my will. "l made up my mind when I started from America that I could swim the channel and when I told English reporters that could, they began calling me the daugh- fer of the viking "All the time l was in England I'D to the time I did the swim whenever they wanted to poke fun It me 1t was always to say there goes or there is the daughter of the viking"
 Might Try Again Mrs. Corson was asked if she vould swim the English channel I gain and replied that she would ike to swim from Dover 10 France i, md might do so next year. The for this. she said, is that no ] swimmer has yet swum both ways i 
 She said that after she had been 1 put from Cape Griz Neg she was seized with cramps and suffered | severely for about 20 minutes but 1 would not give up. 1 When I reached Dover although | here must have been a hundred notorboats and people all about 'elling and screaming, for two minutes I did not see a single ob- ect and my voice seemed to have !, lied In me. Then my eyesight came pack to me and I screamed thank tod"
 Mrs. Corson was told that a swim was being pro- oosed around Manhattan island ,etWeen her and Gertrude Ederle She said she knew nothing about {.
 Appears Bit Awcd
 Mrs. Corson was taken from the lner Aquitania at the quarantine