Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1913 — By the Mile. [ARTICLE]

By the Mile.

A young married woman athletically inclined was very anxious to learn to swim. So she bought a bathing suit, joined the swimming class at a nearby Turkish bath, and plunged in. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday for an hour in the afternoon she tolled laboriously from one end to the other of the ninety-foot pool. On returning home after each lesson she carefully computed the~ distance she traveled and jotted it down in her housekeeper’s memorandum book. One night, with the help of her husband, she started in to balance her housekeeping accounts. “Shall I put swimming under pleasures or necessities?” “Bhe asked, undecidedly. The-husband glanced at the figures Indicating the number of nautical miles his wife had covered. “Why not put it down under traveling expenses?" he suggested.