Downstream

song was ‘This is My Lucky
Day – l’m Going to Win
Through’, and she was
determined to have it playing
on a gramophone on the
accompanying boat, saying
she could swim much better
to music. Her motto was ‘No
slimming for swimming’; just
like Agnes Beckwith and
Annette Kellerman before her
the effect of swimming on
women’s weight seemed to
be of some interest, although