Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-05-28 | Page 7 | Jump in and Swim! Dan Beard Tells How!

RUMP TUMP IN INAND AND SWIM DAN BEARD TELLS HOW HOW If L- L u Ii Hj- Hj DAN BAN Nt lonal no Boy Hoy Scout o Know how to swim boys boys' No No No- 11 that's serious Every boy and girl Irl too loa for that matter should know how to o swim before their tenth birthday has be bern been n passed It Is almost as Important as knowing how to read and ami wr write ie There are a great many different ent ways of or learning how to swim In tn my day on the Ohio river it was thou though h han an excellent method to fling a youngster young young- ster off the dock or 10 log rafts The contended that th swimming swimming swim swim- ming was just as natural to a boy asIt as asit asit it was to dog No o one ov eV ever r r. r taught a dog how ho to swim they just em m m him overboard and he swam In th th th same wa way they would pick up a a. boy by bv the slack o Of the pants and throw him In too Of course the boys usually swam because swimming Is natural to all human beings NOT OT A GOOD GOOI I But too often otten the boy bov climbed climbed drip drip- ying ashore so frightened and 2nd terror en that forever after he lie had a fear of the water and did not get the full tull fun tun and out t o 01 ol swimming swimming swim swim- ming minI that every bo boy should set get et The Ohm Ohio river method was never d. d good i method The best method I I. I know for it Is safe and sane is to learn to swim by using the chump raft Any An Anho ho boy can build a a. chump raft and 11 31 the youngsters youngsters young young- in town can learn to swim on os It it Two logs four tour or five inches in diameter and boards that can be found in In any pile of ot driftwood driftwood on shore and anO I I with some nails and a i g o. piece vf tf r rop pe and and some canvas to tomake make a sling tj b y E I 1 i I are all the materials Aban ADan- railroad ties will serve servo excellently excellently excellently excel excel- for the logs Refer to the drawing o Figure 1 The two logs are l together by crosspieces crosspieces' fore and aft aft Hoards nailed r 1 c upright ht wita a a. crosspiece betwee i support sup sup- port the sling in which the tyro can paddle and splash to his 1115 hearts heart's content content content con con- 1 tent into any nn depth of water wate yet in absolute safety r r Another not e. e excellent cel assistant s I t to young oung II swimmers is the ducking duckins port sho shown I In Figure ligure 2 2 This too in LT be easily constructed by the boys o 0 of the tow town n and nd is a valuable contrivance to leave Jene I on the banks df dr f every swimming hole DID YOU KNOW KNOW- That sponge cake should Uld be baked in pans That a rotary flour sieve will strain the cranberries cr finely That with a cloth dampened with I turpentine you can remove powder marks from the neckbands of dark clothing I That a whiskbroom will clean the corners corners' best ns i U Beware If of th the too tight corset It spoils the natural line lino of the e figu-e bringing 1 the curves in t the wrong place by and should flattening the back d too o much I They l I always b be laced with two strings one from the the bottom hotton top and one from rota OIT OI T fabrics Soft materials the will wilt lead in fall coat the name is self self- explanatory will be one of ot the he numbers strong I l FOR OR GLASS SS I To bring out ot th the lights in m glass first w wash sh it In your cut warn warm then hen polish soapsuds it wi with h I mois Oi skin sawdust and cha cha- I U