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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THE

TUESDAY,

AT HOME in the

*IKE first real bathe in a baby's life is going to give a feeling of confidence or

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a ahrinking fear of future dips. Teach baby to love the water and feel happy in it and he will soon become a swimmer.

WATER

Easy Strokes

With very amali children it is best to treat the bath as a game, with plek-a-backs And jumping, and to include among bathing necessities an inflated robber ball or animal. Ten minutes in the water is simple for six-year-olda. En-. courage them to jump about without becoming too renturesome, and only now and then, in the fun of bathing. wuch on the groundwork of swimming. Water breathing be transformed into the fascinating game of "blow- Ing bubbles"-quito simple for even the amaliest. The young bather inhales,

then, with face sui merged, breathes out deeply.

by

JANET.

BASSET:

We all get a mouth- ful sometimes, but this trouble can often be avoided among Juvention by telling them to blow the water away.

Many a child will Kick away happily with a neat, but if you decide on this see that it gives correct support.

LOWKE

Wafer-wings are suitable, but rubber ring and tyres are bad, ni with them

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for

Beginners

the young bather's head is far out of the water and the legs deep, instead of the whole body being along the surface. The float to give true balance is like amalt pillow, which fastens round the waist.

With children from nine to twelve years bathing to a more regulated busi- neas, with a definite perlad allotted to practise strokes.

On a pleasant day, twenty minutes to halt an hour is not to long to stay in, but immediately signs of shivering are apparent, the offender should be fetched out and given a brikk rab down.

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a good idea to have a spare

tu vandag are devoted to practisiya the leg atrakes.

ROUNDABOUT

other

by The Showman

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day. browsing among those intimate ques- Tom from renders that are answered so sweetly and yet .50 sensibly in various publications,

very much like on Dac

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Came this:-

Jasmine: My fance is generally charminy, but wheneter I in walk- ing away after saying good-bye or good- night, he takes a running kick at me from behind. I can't help feeling a little hurt, What shall I do?"

You and I, of course, would advise Jasmine to advise her fiancé to take a running kick at himself, but that is no: the point. The point is that there seems to be a widespread disinclination ninably-to think for oneself, For example, Jasmine couldn't.

So Aunt Goofy is regarded as an oracle; and times were never so {TOS- perous for food-fools, psycho-sillles, and witch-declors. Yes, we are much to castly frightene:l.

Weli, here's a happy holiday to you, Rnd bucketful of water down your necki

Consolation

#docs turn out wet to-day, it may bo come consolation to you to know that I shall be working here as usual, and quite dry.

This is the traditional attitude of lenders when pleading with their fol lowers to be brave and carry on. Mean Host

"British pollers to make Coronation muge."

This is also the intention, so I read, of certain hotels which are already ruizing trobled prices for the Carona- tlon week.

Grouse Breeding

LIKE frankness, bad Mr. Jullan T. Bishop, A New York broker. pleases me. He says-and he says It straight out that he will leave the United States if President Roosevelt is re-elected.

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But that is not all. No. "In event of Mr. Roosevelt's re-election. Mr. Bishop will go to Canada and start a grouse farm." Yes, I assure you. A "STOuse** farm.

Gould anything be more appropriate? I heartily recommend the idea to a Certain Old Party who has had a grouse against Mr. Haldwin for years.

WIGS AND WHATNOT

I have been looking at a photograph of three fine girls who entered for n "lops hair" competition at a holiday

resort. Oli, metueriest Oh, years! Will long mir again be the funditon

Probably, for women

But A, 1 think for men. We have given p erowning ourselves with ciories of hoir. Only the Law remalix frankly Only Mr. Peter Peroxide, besigeed. the novelist, is prettily bobbed.

Wiga remind me, that false beards were once badges of the highest rank. thentsands of years ago in Ancient Egypt. Go to the British Museum: you will see the vast statue of a Pharaoh: there is a neat, brick-shaped benril on ila chi. That beurd was inlse and tied on in life: it was part of his regal dignity.

Thus do dictators, to-day, the on the air of omniselence.

What a Star Says

A flm actress anys that thirty beat age for marriage.

is the

She means, I think, that, by that thine, you tell have son most of your

eild divorces.

Musings on Swipes

REPORT of the decision of the Court of Criminal Appent resur rects that genial word "swipes," other- wise beer leavings in a cask.

I used to hear it from an old man to describe the small beer that was served out at slipper long, long ago at A wicked custom nown – his school. days. no doubt. but then-what of 17 It didn't harm those inds.

No fanatical felters, please. I am only taking a genial swipe myself at all extremists. For a little of what you tancy does you good-if you can take it, huh! as the gangster said to his Ertent when slugging him on the jaw with an iron bar),

Subtle Move Exposed THREE thousand more members of

the American Olympic team were suspended and sent home yesterday.

This is thought to be part of a subtle move to have the whole affair trans ferred to America.

Wags' Corner.

THE stationmaster hoard a crash on

the platform. He ran out of his office. The express was disappearing rapidly, and, among milk cans and luggage sprawled a young man.

Was he trying to catch the train?" naked the stationmaster of a small boy who was standing by and gaping.

"He did catch It," said the boy, but it got away 'agnin,"

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costume linndy. Then the children are free to sunbathie. They may catch cold if left to run about in wel costumes.

Today children begin to learn the latest strokes quite enrly in their water career. Back crawl is nullable for the nies, but schoolboys and schoolgirls ean tackle the modern crawl.

The first bathes are de voted to Icg practico, which is an up and downi irash from the hips, keeping he knees ankies straight.

and

The toes are turned in the slightly, and, thrash improves, the first beat in three is accentu- ated, 1 2 3, 450 the rhythm of the standard 6- beat crawl.

First this leg stroke in practised at the side of the bath, then the young swimmer attempts in the shallow and holding a cork support or rubber float, as in the Illustration,

This young

#timmer won't artik from taking the

plunge.

The next development, COH paddle with the hands, does away with fonts. It is a circular pedalling; movement under the chest, resembling the swimming netton of a dog, and combines well with the leg kick

Good Arm Action

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Meanwhile land practice of the art Ten wful. Alroke exceralingly minutes auring the day will speed thi learning of the crawl surprisingly, andi. the young novice can also keen the surm Joints by arm swinging.

For the arm stroke, the right arm slutes forward into the water on a line with the right eye, pulls steadily down the line of the body. Then approach- Ing the thigh moves outwurfs to the surface, the little farer leading The forearm swivels remd o

elbow, and, parsing the ear, the whole arm extends to dip once more.

The felt arm action is the shme, and Arm the movement is alternate, one eblering as the other leaves the water.

There should be one full breath for cach stroke, the bend turning sidewayA to whichever side is the more natural if to the left, the for the swimmer, swimmer sers the right arm begin the underwater pull and then turns for the short intake through the mouth, re- turning with the recovering left ar to the normal front position, brenih- ing out through the nose,

In the first reason of water exer- eises, endeavour to keep the children's inthes kert and enjoyable, with plenty of lay between practices.

Tomlinson Wright on

How to Please Men

AVEN in these fiercely feminist

EVE

days many women still find It] pays to study thetr menfolk. Here, then, are a few helpful suggestions for those who would have happy and, therefore, profitable hubbles:"

Give them novels in which the hero is cruelly misjudged by his wife. All men feel

this way. Hence the strong masculine appeal of Bindle and Mark ("I Winter Comes") Sabre.

2. Let them buy their own neck- wear, hosiery, and pipes. Men find it so embarrassingly dificult to -keep auch tasteful gifts from their womenfolk in decent seclusion.

3. Cook them simple, changeless meats, Bacon and eggs for break-

beef fust. roast

or steak-und- kidney pie and a boiled pudding for dinner. Never try to improve on these,

4. Never visit a man at his place of business. Most men

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popular aftructive: Contrary belief, many men do not notice this until it is pointed out to them.

6. Always urge a man to po aut alone and have a thoroughly good time whenever he feels like it. Few men ever really feel like doing anything their wives urge them to do.

SEPTEMBER 15, 1936.

POEMS

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

Much have travell'd in the

realms of gold,

And many goodly States and

kingdoms seen;

Bound many Western Islands

have been

Which bards in

Apollo hold.

Oft of

realty

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of one wide expanse had

1 been told

That deep-browed Homer ruted

alls demesne;

Yet did I never breathe s

pure serene

TOI I heard Chapman speak

out loud and bold;

like some watcher Then felt

of the skies

When a new planet swings

into his ken

Or like stout Cortez, when

with eagle eyes

He stared at the Pacife-

all his men

Lic' at each other with a

wild surmise-

Silent upon a peak in Darlen

JOHN KEATS.

TO LUCASTA, COING TO THE WARS

Tell me not, Sweet, I am ui-

kind,

Thot from the nunnery.

. Of thy chaste breast and quiet

mind

To war and arms 1 fly. True, a new mistress now i

chase.

And

П

The first for in the field;

with stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such

As thou, too, shalt adore;

I could not love thee, Dear, so

much.

Loved 1 nut Honour more

RICHARD LOVELACE.

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