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Show FIRST, TO KEEP COOL SOME ADVICE FOR THE VICTIMS OF ACCIDENTS. Those Who, Fully Dressed, May Happen Hap-pen to Fall Into the Water, Have Every Opportunity of Escaping Es-caping Death. Mr. Handley advises the swimmer who falls overboard fully dressed to first turn on his back and float, and while in that position to remove the coat and the shoes and then keep on floating. He points- out that swimmer swim-mer can float indefinitely, but may easily tire of swimming, and, tiring, may be seized with panic, which will drown the best of watermen. "In floating," says Mr. Handley, "one can shout all one likes, to attract at-tract the attention and still retain one's strength. And will not the chances of rescue be decidedly better if one lies comfortably awaiting developments, de-velopments, or propelling one's self gently by an easy back stroke, than after using up one's energies in treading tread-ing water or in making violent efforts to reach land by swimming? "Of course, this advice is hard to follow, because it is contrary to every instinct of self-preservation to quietly quiet-ly await developments after an unexpected unex-pected and unwelcome Immersion. Still training will accomplish It. As, however, it is impossible to train the body in this case, and the mind must be relied upon to offer the right sug gestion at the phychological moment, one should prepare by mentally rehearsing re-hearsing what is to be done in case of a spill. Just picture to yourself the contingency of being thrown unexpectedly unex-pectedly into the water and school yourself to turn Immediately on your back in a floating position, at least until you have had an opportunity to recover from the shock and to size up the situation. Then you can decide comfortably on the course to follow. ' Don't let panic seize you. Let the fact be always uppermost in your mind that clothes have no tendency to drag you under water, that they are a help rather than a hlnddrance If you only know how to take advantage of the assistance they offer. Never forget that, clothes or no clothes, your body floats naturally, so that you can stay above water almost indefinitely if you will only keep your wits about you, and the cases are rare indeed in which assistance does not come within with-in comparatively short space of time." Reoreation. |