Show F ADVENTURERS CLUB t ys l HEADLINES E A D L I N E S FRO FROM M THE L LIVES LIVESt I V E S Sf t f I OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU A Swim in the Ocean By FLOYD GI GIBBONS ONS FamoUS headline hunter H HELLO 1 ELLO Heres Here's EVERYBODY the story of an adventure that almost ruined a girls girl's irl's career That That's s the way Grace Grace Stoner of New York And Since since Grace g at it anyway is the CIty I looks ks girl In Inquest in well she ought to know hadn't she troll she i quest Id I'd put it a little it to me more strongly left up than But If you oU oUy G Grace race came doggone put it It I Id I'd d say y that adventure she i in near Grac Grace e I career was danger only her of wouldn wouldn't t sa say it was losing It Its Ite s sees cern chance ot losing her bel mighty good g life in that m she Sho stood n a little lilU e to me mc epi- epi episode Nicaragua in harbor bor at Corinto July 1922 ars sode ode in the ar s mentioning her career Grace was talking Maybe In g about the thing that mattered most Grace is a dancer ancer ld and 1 Ive I've ve heard It said that dancers take lake theIr careers mighty seriously But the point is that Grace risked her career and her life too for that a couple of birds made a couple of matter alter because sneering sneering- remarks about her sex It Happened in Corinto Harbor cruise when it happened The G Grace cc was off on a ship was anchor anchored d din in Corinto Conto harbor about a mile from shore It was late afternoon lust t a mor more peaceful l picture you ou never sundown and saw In before your file lite breath of wind blowing The sea Was like glass There wasn't a Oft Og in inthe n bathed In in shadow and nd the beach was the sun the distance was sinking of the Central American behind the towering peaks Sierras K KA the folks board aboard the steamer were A bunch of young splashing around improvised pool rigged up out ot of wooden work frame in the tiny and waterproof canvas on th the afterdeck There was a b bunch ch of young Span ish students aboard gom going home from rom the University ot of to and San Salvador in Panama They made their homes up most of the crowd The rest of it was Grace In a nice cool bathing suit and with half halfa a dozen handsome young fellows around her Grace ought to have been happy But the canvas pool was so small yoU could hardly ar ly t turn n around in It and Grace was casting longing eyes on the placid inviting waters ot of the harbor It would be swell fun tun she thought to dIve right off the deck and swim to shore Grace Wouldn't Take a Dare Grace mentioned her bel idea to the young Central AmerIcan students And that's what started all the trouble The boys laughed at her One of them said You A girl Why you wouldn't have the nerve to swim ashore And another one wanted to bet her ten bucks she have the nerve to try it It It made Grace see red They couldn't talk like that to her Just because she was a girl Without another word Rord she ran to the rail d dived ed overboard and struck out for shore Behind her the boys crowded to the rail shouting and gesticulating Grace wondered what thy they were making aU all the fuss about It was only a mile to shore and that wasn't much of a swim even it if she was a girt girL Grace knew lots of girls who could swim twice that distance She smiled to herself as she rolled along through the cool calm water Sled show those birds what a girl could do She was halfway across when she noticed a commotion ashore A bunch of the people had formed in an excited knot there They were waving ing and shouting Final Finally y two men in uniforms launched a canoe and began paddling wildly toward her Now what was the matter with those fellows vs anyway Hadn't they ever seen a girl who could swim be tore fore Or were they customs officers seeing to it that she didn't smuggle any grand pianos into the country in the folds of her bathing suit sull Swimming Toward the Shark Grace decided to have some fun tun with them When the canoe wa was about two hundred yards away she put on a sudden spurt swerved and swam away from it it Cries came from the canoe behind her but the themore themore more they shouted the faster she swam And then she saw it it Ahead ot of her a dark triangular fin was cutting the water coming straight for tor her A Instantly aU all aUthe the stories she had ever heard about those man eating monsters of the deep flashed through her mind Here was one of them coming toward her her- herand herand and what was worse she herself was swimming toward IT Now she knew the meaning of all the shouting and of gesticulating the commo- commo commotion commotion tion on the beach and the two men in the canoe Why hadn't she reo re that these weren't the northern waters she was used to s swim swim- swimming m ming in These were tropical seas infested with sharks barracudas and all sorts of other aquatic dangers For a second or two Grace was paralyzed with fright She was much closer closer to that shark than to the canoe And that ominous fin was steadily diminishing the distance between them Then suddenly Grace collected her wits again She lit out for that canoe with a speed that would have shamed an Olympic champion No Notime Notime time to look behind and no reason to Either she won that race or sh she didn't Her IIer life was at stake but strangely enough It was her career she was thinking ot of most What if that shark bit off a leg or two There just wasn't any such thing as a legless dancer One Yard Between lIer and Death When she reached that canoe the shark was just ONE YARD be- be behind be behind hind her One man hauled her hastily hastily into the boat while the other beat the shark off with a paddle The passengers and crew were hanging anxiously over the side of the steamer when at last the canoe her back and then there was a first class brawl The officers In the canoe cance bawled out the captain ot of the ship for tor allowing Grace to go swimming an in the thc harbor and then the captain turned around and bawled Grace out The only who ones didn't have anything to say were the boys rho hadn't thought much ot of a girls girl's swimming ability and especially the one ane who bet her ten bucks she wouldn't have the nerve to try il it And incidentally says Grace I collected that ten I Edison Inventions From Signal Device to Rubber Some ot of the Important Inventions accredited to Thomas A Edison in eluded the fOllowing TelegraphIc signal device 1863 the repeater 1865 the voting ma ma- ma chine machine 1868 improved stock mar mar- ket market ticker 1869 s typewrIter 1871 quadruple telegraphic reo re- peater repeater 1872 district signal box 1874 automatic telegraph trans mitten mittel 1875 I mimeograph carbon 1875 1675 telephone transmitter 1875 phonograph 1877 incandescent lamp 1878 electric dynamo 1880 electric motor 1881 trolley 1881 electric car meter 1881 ore separator 1881 valve electric gear 1882 railway railway turntable 1832 signal system 1885 process pro pro- cess for tor making plate glass 1887 extracting gold from sulphate 1888 sleeping ores picture doll 1889 motion picture camera 1891 composition brick 1893 rock crusher dryer and mixer 1897 1807 alkaline battery 1900 reversible storage battery 1901 improved galvanic mixer 1902 a Photographic cement 1903 recording tUrn film improved telephone 1905 phonograph 1908 1903 starting a system for tor 1912 talking automobiles light flashlight pictures 1913 flash flash- 1914 Improved 1918 transmitter plating electroplating 1919 disc phonograph records 1923 proved improved radio im- im receIver 1926 betic syn rubber 1931 1 31 Signposts of the Sea Must Be Kept in Order need as The ocean highways much repair and patching es as the of at atthe roads on land The signPOSts the sea must be kept In perfect at O or- or order der Thousands of buoys are placed p lac lacour dan danger marking the around our coasts ger points and directing the way up UPriver river rier mouths and into ports says a Magazine writer in London Answers Scores ot of lighthouses warn of rocks and sandbanks and out to 0 tosea sea lightships are stationed cannot i where ere te buoys and lighthouses caan placed subjected All these seamarks are of clad Dd to ceaseless battering the throughout the year and wave and carried out when repairs have to be weather permits Naturally enough most winter damage dam damah vh ah Is incurred during the and hoist conditions are at their hair for tor be they when it is not uncommon and fig crews of lightships for a to be cut off from the land and gales ot of g end Because month on I frequently it Is gigantic seas repairs duz sible to carry out the winter are a J A large number ot buoys instants c no- no at an ready kept ways li It a arre and Uee tice at the depots of at once occurs wreck buoys areAS are site AS s 's staken s staken taken out to mark the the hS hSIn i In n brow are darts rule the Ule small bUOYS the lar for tor overhaul annuallY ones every three threll years yearl II s |