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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1936.

AT HOME in the

'HE Arst real bathe in a baby's Ufe is going to give a feeling of confidence or

'a shrinking fear, of future dips. Teach baby to love the water and feel happy in 1 and he will soon become a swimmer.

WATER

Easy Strokes

With very small children it is best to treat tho bathe as a game, with plek-a-backs and jumping, and to include among bothing necessities an inflated rubber ball or animal. Ten minutes in the water, is ample for alx-year-olch. En- courage them to jump about without becoming too venturesome, arid only now and then, in the fun of bathing. touch on the groundwork of swimining, Water breathing can be transformed into the fascinating game of "blow- ing bubbles"-quite simple for even the smallest The young bather inhales,

by JANET

BASSET

LOWKE

then, with inco aut merged, brenthes out. 'deeply.

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

Many a child will kick away happdy with a font, but if you decide on this see that it gives correct support.

Water-wings are stillable, but rubber rings and tyren are bad, as with them

T

HE

for

Beginners

the young bather's head is far out of the water and the lega deep, instead of the whole body being along the surfaco.

The float to give true bainace is like sama pillow, which fastens round the waist.

With chlidren from nine to twelve years bathing is a more regulated buat- ness, with a definita period allotted to practice strokes. On a pleasant day, twenty minutes to half an hour is not too long to stay in, but Immediately signs of shivering are apparent, the uffender should be fetched out and given a brink mib down.

Ta good idea to have a sparo

bed few bestong in ateinaming are devoted to practising the leo simtes.

ROUNDABOUT

other

by The Showman.

day, browsing

among those intimate ques-

· Linns from readers that are answered so sweetly and yet an censibly in various publications. I came on one very much like thils:-

Jasmine: "My fiance by generally charming, but whenever I am walk- ing away after suping good-bye ar goud- night, he takes a running kick at me from behind. I can't help feeling a ittrie hurt, What shall i do? “

You and I. of course, would advise Jasmine to advise her fiancé, în take n Tuning kick at himself; but that is not the point. The point is that there seems to be a widespreng disinclination atnably-to think for oneself. For example, Jasmine couldn't.

So Aunt Goofy is regarded as an oracle; and times were never so pros- nerous for food-fogia, psycho-silles, and witch-doctorn. Yes, we are much

to estly frightened,

Well, here's alpipy-hotulay-Lo you and a bucketful of water down your neck!

Consolation

F It does turn out wet to-day. It may be some consolation to you to know that I shall be working hero as usunl. and quite dry.

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

"Bellish potters to make Coronation mugs."

This is also the intention, so I read, of certain hotels which are nirendy asking trebled prices for the Corona- tion week.

Grouse Breeding

I LIKE frankness, and Mr. Julian T. Bishop, Now York broker. pleases me. He says-and he says it straight out-that he will leave the United States if Prealdent Roosevelt is re-elected,

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

Could anything be more appropriate? I heartily recommend the idea to a. Certain Old Party who has had a * grouse ngainst Mr. Baldwin for years.

WIGS AND WHATNOT

I have been looking at a photograph

of three fino girls who entered for a

'lope hair" competition at a holiday

.

resort: Oli. memorient Oh, years! Will long huit again be the fashion fast women? Probably. 11 not, Think for men. We have given up crowning, ourselves with glories ot hur. Only the Law remains franšiły bewinged. Only Mr. Peter Peroxide. the novelist, is prettily bobbyť<i.

Wigs remind me that false boards were ince badges of the blghest rnick, thousands of years ago In Ancient Egypt. Go to the British Musgum: you will see the vast statue of a Pharaoh there is a acnt, brick-sluped beard on 14 elin. That beard was false and tlest on du life: It was part of his regal diguity.

Thus do dictators, to-day, fie on the air of omniscience,

What a Star Says

A film actress says that thirly is the best age for marriage.

She means, I think, that, by that time, you will have sown most of your

dieorces

Musings on Swipes

A

REPORT of the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal resur reels 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 at kupper long, leng ngo at his school. A wicked custom nowa. days, no doubt, but then-what of it? It didn't harm those lads.

No fanatical letters, please. I am only taking a genial swipe myself at all extremists. For n lttle of what you fancy does you 'good-If you can take It, hish (as the gangster Buld to his friend when slugging him on the jaw with an iron bars,

Subtle Move Exposed THREE thousand more members of

the American Olympic team were suspended and sent tionic yesterday.

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

Wags' Corner

THE stationmaster heard a crash on

the platform. He ran out of his office. The express was disappearing rapidly, and, among milk cans and

·luggago 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 again."

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costume liandy. Then the children are free to sunbathe. They may catch cold if left to run about in wet costumes.

To-day children begin to learn the latest strokes quite carly in their water career. Back crawl is suitable for the tinies. but schoolboys and schoolgirls can tackle the modern arawi,

The first bathes are de- voted to leg practice, which is an up and down tharash from the hips, keeping the knees and ankles atraight.

The toes are turned in slightly. And, as the thrash improves, the first beat in three 18 accent- ated, 129, B8 the rhythm of the standard 0- beat crawl.

First this leg stroke in practised at the aldo of the bath, then the young swimmer attempts in the shallow end. holding a cork support or rabber float, as in the illustration,

This youny swimmer won't shrink

from taking the

plunge..

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

Cood Arm Action

Meanwhile land practice of the arm

stroke

is exerediagly useful. Tes minutes during the day will spred the fearing of tiw erawl surprisingly, and the young novice enit also loosen the are joinia by arm swinging.

For the art struke, the fight arm slides forward into the water on a ne with the right eye, pulls stealfly down the line of the body. Then approach. ing the thigh moves outwards in the surface, the little finest leadir;

The forearm Bwivels Sound ma ihr

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

The left arm action is the same, and the movement internnic, one arın entering as the other leaves the water.

There should be one full breath for each stroke, the bead vurning sideways to whichever skle is the more sutural for the summer. If to the left, the swimmer sees the right arm begin the underwater pull and then turns for the short intake through the mouth, re- turning with the recovering left arm to the normal frant position. breath- ing out through the nose.

In the Brst reason of water exer else, endeavour to keep the children's shes rhort and enjoyable, with plenty of stay between practices.

Tomlinson Wright on

How to

Please Men

EVEN in these fiercely feminist

days any women still find it) pays to study thefr menfolk. Here,' then, are a few helpful suggestiong for those who would have happy and; [ - therefore, profitable hubbies:"

1. Give them nuvels in which the hero is cruelly misjudged by his wife. All men feel this way. Hence the strong masculine appeal | of Bindle and Mark (“If Winter Comes") Sabre.

2. Let them buy their own neck- weur, hostery, and pipes. Men find it so embarrassingly difficult to keep such tasteful gifts from their teomenfolk in decent seclusion. -3: Cook them simple, changeless- meals. Bacon and eggs for break- fast. roast beef or steak-and- kidney ple and a boiled pudding for dinner. Never try to improve on these.

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

6. Always urge a man go out alona and have a thoroughly nood time whenever he feels like it, Few men ever really feel like doing anything their wives urge them to

do.

As far na possible selcet the chuldren's toys with one eye on their healthy boyish appeal. There is nothing like, say, a good model railway for keeping a man at home.. 8. Always defer outwardly to the preposterous prejudices of a man's mother. No nian can ever quite persuade himself that his mother may not-be-her-boy's best friend.

9. Arrange with a theffut ally to hint at the approach of wedding and other important anniversaries. It gives men such a noble feeling to think they have remembered these. Above all, never remind a man that, whatever he may say, most widowers marry again. quite out-of-the-ordinary women. He may say that most old lags also

4. Never visit a man at his place of business. Most men to their. best at the office to foster an in- pression that

are

their

wives

5. On no account suggest to a find it less inconvenient to go back to man that his secretary or typist isi prison.

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POEMS

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER

Much have I travell'd in the

reuling of gold,

And many goodly States and

kingdoms seen;

Round many Western lainnds

have I been

Which bards in fealty 10

Apollo hold,

Of of une wide expunse hadl

I been told

That deep-browed Homer ruled

as his demesne;

Yet did I never breathe its

pure serenie

Tu heard Chapman spenkt

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of the skies

When a

new planet swings into his ken:

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with eagle eyes

He stared at the Pacific-and

all his men

Look'd at each other with a

wild surmise---- Silent, upon a peak in Darien

JOHN KEATS.

TO LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS

Tell me not, Sweet, 1 am un-

kind.

That from the nunnery

Of thy chaste breast and quiet

mind

To war and arms 1 fy, True, B

new mistress now I

chase.

The first for in the field; And with {1 stronger

faith

embrace A sword, a hørst, a shield, . Yet this inconstancy is such

As thou, too, shult adores

I could not love thee, Dear, un

much.

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