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Show LEARN TO SWIM. Physical culture is a science now generally adopted and cultivated. This should be supplemented supplement-ed with a knowledge of swimming. How many lives might be saved if children were only taught how to swim in early life cannot be estimated. Both children chil-dren and adults, if taught this simple art, would not, when , placed in ( dangerous circumstances Jose control of themselves, when thev come iri contact con-tact with water. It is well known that persons, who are otherwise brave, become helpless in deen and often, without an attempt to move hand or foot' sink and are drowned. In fresh water, for one who h cool and collected, it is possible to keep afloat with deep inhalations. In the ocean it requires but little practice to float. In its dense waters the human body is as buoyant as an ordinary log of j wood iu fresh water. Yet timid persons, who cannot can-not swim, are apt to be drowned in the Great Salt Lake, as in any other body of water. When affrighted af-frighted and alone, even in shallow wafer, persons have been often in imminent danger of bein-drowned. bein-drowned. The writer has witnessed manyuch cases, and even saved some. It seems strange that such could happen in a body of water where one can stand erect, and actually walk in the water, and where it is impossible for one taught to float to sink. A baby thrown into the water instinctively moves its little hands to save its life. Many who jumped into water from the burning steamboat Sloeum sank without making an effort to save their lives Thoughtless and hysterical when they came in contact con-tact with the water, they forgot the Kfe preservers which nature gave them. All creation is endowed with the instinct of self-preservation. self-preservation. The worm that crawls instinctively fees danger and will use the natural means at his command to save his life. Why not teach the young 1o swim and float in the waters. In the Great Salt Lake all that is needed is, first, to inspire confidence in the child or adult, and, second, teach him how to balance himself when floating. It is simply an art that anyone may learn in ten minutes. The most difficult part of the training is to teach them how to get on their feet, after they have learned to iloat. lhat simple knowledge, when once learned can never be forgotten. It makes bathing in the lake a great luxury, and may in case of some future j emergency be the means of saving one's life. The bathing season now on is the time to teach the young and the old this simple yet useful art. |
