Show GO 00 SWIMMING IN ICY STREAM Paris Enjoys Sight of Suffering for Sport Sport PARIS Dec By 25 By The As- As As Associated Press Preas In In In the th bitter cold ot of the Christmas Christina t thou thou- thousands thou sands of ot Parisians shivered and this evening at the th spectacle ot of a swimming race in the th almost Icy water of ot the Seine It n was the coldest Christmas the capital has experienced In more than thon 20 0 O years but this did not de- de deter de do deter ter a score of swimmers from plunging Into the tho th river whoso tern tem was waa hardy barely ono one degree above freezing point TIe The Th atmos atmos- atmosphere 1 phere here was almost down lo to 20 degrees de- de grees Fahrenheit and a 0 stiff sting sting- stingIng In Ing wind mad made It fo fool I even colder For this reason th the annual annulli Christmas race Instituted long lone be before tore fore tho the war bar seemed more mor droll titan than ever before and since there thero herIs I Is nothing a Frenchman relishes more than something om droll droll the crowd co of ot spectators spectator wax wu the lar- lar larcat l cat rc-cat wet cat ever e assembled for the tho mid mid- int r s |