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Show TEACHERS IIITED TO LEARli MB Two Pools Will Be Open to School Staff Members During the Week. School teachers have been invited by the managements of the Warm Springs and the &anltarium baths to enjoy the privileges of the swimming pools free of charge this week. Instruction will be given without charge at Warm Springs by Professor C. S. I-af from 3 to 10 a. m. The hours at the Sanitarium baths, 10 to 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday Thurs-day and Saturday, and from 3 to 4 on Tuesday and Friday. Admission and instruction in-struction here wil also be without cha rge. Miss Wilberta Whitney of the Emerson school is one of the swimming enthusiasts. She says: "I advise all women who can do so to take up swimming. Half a dozen lessons with an experienced instructor will make the most timid courageous. A good swimmer some day may save her own life or that of someone else. Swimming affords change from the daily routine of mental or physical labor. New sets of muscles are brought -Into action and the play spirit is rejuvenating and invigorating. invigorat-ing. Fifteen minutes' swimming a .day will keep one's body up to normal without with-out ensuing fatigue. "Beginners should take precautions against taking cold. In warm water at first the stay should be limited to a few minutes. Do not remain at any time ! longer than a half hour. Do not leave the bathrooms without thoroughly drying the hair and ears. While dressing it is well to insert a llttie absorbent cotton into the ears. A rubber stopple, especially espe-cially made for the purpose, is used by some swimmers and divers,' but the cotton cot-ton should be used just the same. "Plating within an hour or so of swimming swim-ming is harmful, even dangerous, and eating soon afterward is more so. The blood after the swim is far away from the vital organs and Is In the remotest parts of the body. A state of fatigue exists of which the mind Is not con-scous, con-scous, and food is only partly asslmi-I asslmi-I latod. Sooner or later the result Is a I clogged system, owing to poison from j undigested food with a resulting cold.' |