WHY WOMEN SWIM WELL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9307, 9 March 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHY WOMEN SWIM WELL.

Their precious bones are lighter and their flesh is more buoyant. The records of the humano socioties on both sides of tho Atlantic show that of late years a fair proportion of their medals fall to the lot of girls. There were sovcral notable instances of rescue from drowning last summer by girls under 20 years of age. Many women are accomplished ewimmers. This is but natural. As their bones, are generally lighter than those of men, and their flesh more buoyant, they have less difficulty to overcome in acquiring the art. Some of them could float at their first attempt if they could acquire tho requisite faith in the power of the water to hold them up. Swimming is very much an act of faith, for it is generally tho case that when a person believes sufficiently in the buoyancy of tho water to trust it to his precious body, lo ! ho is a swimmer. There were young girls at Newport last summer who could float on the surface of the ocean with no more difficulty than they experienced in lying upon a sofa. They could Imvo floated for hours if necessary. Somo of the most famous .swimming feats have boon accomplished by very young women.