REMARKABLE STORY

Evening Star, Issue 22688, 30 June 1937, Page 4

REMARKABLE STORY

VANISHING BATHING SUITS A remarkable story about bathing costumes made of a fabric which dissolved immediately upon contact with salt water was told to an American newspaper correspondent assigned to the French Rivicria. The story was that a millionaire had a number of women’s bathing suits made from this fabric. Whenever ho gave a party the millionaire always suggested a swim in tho Mediterranean , explaining that he had some suits which the lady guests could wear. Immediately they were in the water, so tho story went, the bathing costumes disappeared. The correspondent cabled the story to America. The newspaper did not publish the story, hut an advertiser of 1

bathing costumes was informed, and ho expressed a desire to see several of these special bathing suits. The editor cabled his correspondent: “Important advertiser wishes several suits shipped him for advertisement purposes.” The correspondent got busy and discovered that he had been hoaxed. No such fabric existed. He had a brainwave, however, and cabled in reply: “ Cannot ship suits because would dissolve from salt sea air.” Back came a cable from the news editor: “Put suits in tin box and have them hermetically sealed.” The correspondent then placed several handsful of mashed breakfast food in a tin box and had it hermetically sealed. Upon receipt of same, the editor was convinced the suits could not be shipped across the Atlantic.