May 19, 1916. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 11 
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Information About Swimming—For Women 
N° doubt there are a goodly number of persons who love 
the water and yet magnify the difficulties which pre- 
vent them from learning the secrets or enjoying the bene- 
fits, and for such these lines are written. 
Do you fear the force of the wind, 
The plash of the rain? 
Go face them and fight them, 
Be savage again. : 
Go hungry and cold like the wolf, 
Go wade like the crane; 
The palms of your hands will harden; 
The skin on your face will tan; 
You’ll be hungry and ragged and weary, 
But you’ll walk like a man, 
“JF you want to be a swimmer, get a wash basin full of 
water, bob your face up and down in it, reversing the 
usual manner of breathing, and you have the most import- 
ant lesson in swimming. Any woman flung into the ocean 
by submarine warfare, motorboat accident or even from 
an upset canoe can save her life if she will do absolutely 
nothing but lie perfectly still on the water until hel» 
comes.” 
This is the advice of George H. Corsan of the Brook- 
lyn Y. M. C. A., who has taught more than 250,000 per- 
sons to swim in the United States and Canada. He said, 
recently: “that 99 per cent of the cases of drowning are 
due to the lack of knowledge of proper breathing in the 
water. I have never known of a person’s drowning from 
cramps alone. Upon being thrown in the water the first 
thing a non-swimmer does is to struggle and flop around 
in the wildest manner. 
“The thing to do and the one real chance to keep 
afloat till help comes is to lie perfectly flat on the back, 
legs and feet together and well extended, arms to the side 
and with the back of the head well submerged. Above 
all, inhale through the mouth and exhale through the nose, 
entirely reversing the manner of breathing on land. | 
have known of many cases where a person has been 
drowned when apparently provided with a good life pre- 
server. In these cases the foam from the waves dashing 
in the mouth has caused strangulation. A woman can 
float more easily than a man, and I wish this idea could 
be vividly impressed upon all of them.” 
HE, National Wemen’s Life-saving League, an active 
organization with a membership of more than 1500 and 
branches in several states, is conducting a country-wide 
campaign to have fair natatores take up and play water 
soccer. 
The officials of the association fully agree with the 
college directors of physical education, who recently went 
on record as advocating athletic games in preference to 
formal gymnasium or natatorium work, and they believe 
soccer to be an ideal indoor sport for the sex. 
Soccer turns work into fun. And the officials sav 
that they have yet to see the girl who didn’t become an 
enthusiast after once trying It. 
And along with this comes water baseball whica 
promises to become a popular aquatic sport. It is just 
as exciting and just as interesting as the great America‘ 
pastime on land. Two or three snappy games were played 
last season in the North Shore Swimming Pool at Mag- 
nolia. 
Water polo is a clever game that savors of football, 
but in water baseball we have a game that will delight 
all, and is bound to become a popular pastime at all our 
famous bathing resorts. 
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