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Show I , Annette Kellermann "Perfect Woman" Miss Annette Kellermann, the fascinating fascinat-ing Australian beauty, swimmer and diver, who Is now on a tour of Ibis country, who lias been formed "the perfect per-fect woman" by Dr. Dudley A. Sargont, physical director of Harvard college, and who said of her to his class of young ladies: "Miss Kellermann Is the first woman wo-man wo have over had tb appear here to show just what can be accomplished. She is a woman who has made a record in athletic work, but who, in doing 30, has lost none of her femininity. SI1.3 Is tho most symmetrically developed pretty woman I havo ecr sen, and shows conclusively con-clusively that It is within the reach of overy woman to have a good Hgure- uno" to regulate her weight." Last summer Miss Kellermann amazed the people of Boston by swimming from Cbarlestown bridge to Boston light, twelve miles, in sis and one-half hours. The course Is tortuous and full of strong currents, but. she was never in troublo ami Ilnlshed strong. But ono man had rvcr accomplished the feat up to that time Miss Kellermann performed other swimming feats that throw this Boston performance Into tho shade. When 11 j ears old she swam the Yarra river. Australia, Aus-tralia, ten miles. In less time than it had been done by the one solo person prior to that time. She swam the Thames from Putney to Blackwcll. thirteen miles, in less than four hours, and covered over twenty-one miles of the Danube, from Tulin to Vienna, In three hours and eleven minutes, fifteen minutes faster than the previous record. The course was full of rapids and whirlpools, and several swimmers had lost their lives In attempting at-tempting to cover IL Badly piloted by an Ignorant boatman, she got Into a whirlpool and nearly drowned, but got out unaided. In an elgbt-milo race In tho Seine, through Paris, Miss Kellermann swrnn against Paulus. champion of France; Holbein Hol-bein and Burgess of English fame, and others of the greatest men swimmers or Europe. Sho beat Burgess out In tr Jast 100 yards, and ilnlshed second to Pan Jus. Next she broke tho record from North Foreland to North Goodwin in the English channel, making seven miles in :::3-J. Miss Kellermann s greatest feat was her swim from Dover to Ramsgate twenty miles, llr lime was 1:20. and it was asserted by the English papers that It hail eclipsed tho record of anv man who had done tho distance, and thev included in-cluded ' W'oltr. Bolbcln. Ys'ebb and other celebrities. Miss Kellermann holds almost overy woman s swimming record for from fifty yards to twenty miles. Sho has defeated every woman who ever swam against her She is one of the most expert divers iu the world, and, withal, she Is remarkably remark-ably pretty, with a ilgure of symmetry and beauty. She docs not look muscular, her lines being long and graceful. Miss Kellermann says swimming flll improve the health and figure of any woman, and, after a look at her one would think this undoubtedly true. |