Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 11, 1915, Page 19

SUNDAY BEE MA\GAZ]INE PAGE / stChampion. am Shows Just how Little Catherine Brown Swims Breast Stroke, Diagram 1 Shows the Be- ing of the Stroke—the Hands Together at the in, Palms Turned Down, and the Knees Drawn up. Forward Hand Movement, lln Feet Still Moving Backward. Diagram 4 Shows the Completion of the Hand Movement, Each Hand Having Described a Semi-Circle and the Feet Having Been Kicked Out The Baby mpion Executing ~ TP Pive, Cha ITi'ls Catherine Brown 1s undoubt edly the greatest swimmer of her age. She is only five years old, but ehe has made a name for herself as a swimmer and diver. Her skill and ealm confidence in - herself put to to shame other children mm In her naive way, father must be fooling little walk!" minutes. had thus been endangered. fused to see any wrong in the could indulge ‘in. The cordingly dismissed. a bathtub, AM five yéars old. 1 like swimming and diving better than anything else. Papa tells me that some people ~—grown-up people, too—can't swim at all, but I think he is only kidding me, because swimming 1s just as easy as walking, and everybody cap walk. Ne matter how deep the water Is I am not afraid. . Sometimes when Alfred, my brother, takes me out canoeing he tips the canoe over and we both fall in the water, buf that's nothing! Falling in the water doesn't scare me at all, because all you've got to do is to swim around until the canoe is righted and then eltmbd in. you are mear the shore you can easily swim in. 1 don't remember when I first learned to swim. It must be ever so long ago— when I was a tiny baby, Papa always used to play with me in the bathtub. It was lots of fun: - He used to fill the bath- tub up right to the very top and them I used to get in. The water used to go in my eyes and cars and mose and mouth and I dida't whose lves are ennmmy n ‘how.to swhm. s . jeopardy: because they don't know.- S oy 1o m v whe nhe says some grownuss can't swim, because “swimming is just s easy as walking, ahd everybody ean Miss Brown is tdauchhto!cw- Alfred Brown, of College Point, L. 1, a professional swimmer, who won the world's distance champlonship in 1907, and last year broke the record from the Battery to Comey Island, covering the distance in ¢ hours 22 little Catherine Brown gave an exhibition of her dlvhl:.;rg:l::'zt the Sportsman’s S8how, Mew York. , For this ner father was halled to court on the ground that the youngster's life florts of the Gerry Seclety, however, the Court re- b gty . uluhlloum the chi;d ht‘a ‘Ivton. h‘lfil" ‘were the very best sports ‘cl ren ing that diving and swimming B LA el e By Catherine tells just how mothers ought to teach their blblz!lcb‘: swim as soon as they are big nonn to paddle around in By Ca&crine Brown, Baby Champlon Swimmer. i Diagram 2 Shows the Second Movement—the Hands y as Far Back as Possible. 'am 5 Shows the Ansursorwu‘dlndtlul’utAnl- ing to Finisl d&osmhwithtlnhg rought Together Move Back. Diagram 3 Shows the Comp! the and Preparation for Starting the First Position Again, u'r' long- ke that very much, but papa eaid if T would float on top of the water the water would not bother me at all. < All you've got to do is to Me perfectly still on your back, with your head aimosi under the water, and you stay right on top. It's Jjust Hke Iying in bed. It's lots of fun, Then papa showed me how to swim. Of eourse, you can't swim very much in a bathtub, but paps showed me just how to move my hands and feet, and when I was only a little girl, two and & balf years ola, he showed me exactly how to swim with- out taking me into the water at all! Papa used to give me swimming lessons in the parior. It sounds fumny, doesn’t it, swimming in the parior where there isn't any water? But that is what he did. What do you think we used for water? The plano-stool! Yes, papa used to lay me on the plano- siool and then he would tell me just how to mpve my hands and legs—just as if 1 was in the water. And it seemed fust like I was in the water, tos, because some- times the planostool would turs areund Queer Germ That Makes Bread Ropy R. GUY L. QUALLS, of the Medizal Corps of the United States Army, e has béen making s sclentific study of ropy bread, and has confirmed the an- nouncement that it is dus to the infection of bread with & disesse germ called the bsceillus mesentericus, or potato germ. This germ produces a definite malady in w“hflummw baocillus does in men. Ol\nmnmbthcnudw the dough in them. It has been found to grow with the yeast plaat, and ordi- nary bread-making heat does net destroy it. The entire bread supply of the Second Army Division was recently infected with the “ropy germ.” The bresd had been stored in temts to cool and dry. At first {hore was no change in it. A!ur.l‘"' ' however, the loaves, when cut, gave forth an odor like unripe cantaloupes, and a tew hours’ later, yellowish-brown spots with soft, sticky centres began to appear in them. After another day the loaves were actually almost liquid in the centre. The eause of the trouble was fnally located in the yeast and the fact that much of the flour used had been stored on Goyernment transports, where it had become infected with the rope-bacilli. All gorts of methods of killing germs, including lactic weld, fumigaiton with sulphur, formaldehyde gas and heat, were tried without suceess. A pint of a 10 per cent solution of vinegar to each hun- dred pounds of flour finally solved the prodblem,.and the army's bread, although nu::lu reduced in food value, was serv: /& bit and I would think ¥ was really golng through the water. That was how I learned tite -breast- stroke. The breast-stroke is very easy and papa says it is the stroke everybody should know, because it doesn't make your arms or legs ache and you can keep it up ever so long. Of course, you can't €0 so fast when you are swimming ‘the breast-stroke, but you can keep in the water longer that way. When brother. turns over the cance ‘and we are a long way from Bhore all I've got to do is to use the breast-stroke and I can get fn all ight even if it takes an awful long while, be- cause you mever get tired swimming the breast-stroke, When ! was learning the breast-stroke on the planostool I would start with my arms and legs stretched out just as far as 1 could, my hands open, but mot palm to palm, just the sides of the first finger of each hand being together. My toes were stretched out just as far as possible. Then papa would say “One” and I would part my hands and make half a circle with esch one so that at the end my hands would be at my chin in the same way as they were when they were stretched out. My legs would be drawn up at the same time by drawing up my knees so that they would nearly hit the legs of the plano- stool. I would mot draw my knees up to- sether, but just a little apar’. Then papa would say “Two” and 1 would shoot niy hands forward again and, at the same time, kick out with my feet just as hard as I could—just as if I had shoes on them and wanted to kick them off. Whea I kdeked out like that I would keep my feet very far apart, as If I wanted to kick one shoe off in one direction and the other off in another direction. Then psps would say “Three” and 1 would bring my lege together again as they were at fivst. - T used to do this ten or twelve times a day for ever so long, and it made my arms niee and fat and T didn’t get tired at all like I did when I first tried fit. Then when Symmer came and papa used to go inte the water he took me slong and, of course, I wasn't afraid st epyright, 1015, by the Star Company. *Great Britain Rights Reserved Five Year Old Miss Catherine Brown Tells How Every Mother Can Teach * Her Baby to Swim in the Bath- tub and on the Piano Stool. Catherine Brown, 5 Years Old, the Youngest Expert Swimmer in the World, Showing How to Jump Into the Water Like a Little Frog. because papa cen swim just like a and he took me out with him into the water. When he let go of me, of course, 1t seemed as if I would go down under the water, but then I remembered how I used 1o float in the bathtub and I tried that and it was very easy. It was even easier in the water then it was in the bathtub. Papa says it 1s because the sea s salt ‘water and the bathtub is fresh water and it 18 easler to keep up In salt water. Then papa made me do my swimming lesson in the water just as I had done it in the parior, only, of course, there wasn't any planostool. But papa just put one hand under my chin and counted, “One,” “Two,” “Three” in just the same way, and before I knew it I was swimming all by myseif. I really think paps must be telling & fib when he says some grownup pecple can't swim, because it is 50 easy. Then when I could swim the breast stroke papa taught meé how to do the “dog paddle” and the “overhand” stroke. They are not very hard and you can go much faster, but they tire you more than the breast-stroke. Diving 1is the greatest fun, Of course you've got to do it right or you get an awful pain in the stomach #f your stomach hits the waler. But after Alfred and papa showed bow to dive I wasn't afraid to On the Left She Is Seen Taking a Dive. dive off anything, no matter how deep the water was. ‘This 48 how 1 dive when the water is shallow. 1 stand up perfectly straight with my hands at my sides, then I bend my legs a little and draw my arms back of my body and jump forward, getting my arms in front of my head as I near the water, with my legs and feet close to- . gether, and turning my hands upwards as soon as I am actually in the water. If you turn your hands down you go down, but if you turm your hands up you ceme up right away. Papa says I will be a very good swim- wer if I keep it up. He says I will be as good as he is, but I guess I won't. When | gave a diving exhibition at the Sportsmgen’s Show I wasn't at all afraid, because I knew I couldn’t hurt myself. It was lots of fun, but some woman said I was too young and papa had to go be: fore some judges about it, but they said it was all right and so I guess I can just g0 right ahead. If you can’t swim, of course, you might hurt yourself if you dive; but if you can sawim and dive I guess you can't hurt yourselt at all. Any ' msmma or papa can take their baby as soon as it is big enough to paddle around in the tub and tesch it (o float and swim—just like me.