Woman's World Miss Kirsinger, The Champion Swimmer Of Paterson The Hair To Be Worn High--woman's Part In The National Campaign--wise Women Marry Late--swinging The Arms. New Silk Waists--she Does Not Exist

There were a number of men and womeu in Rauchfnss' swirnming bnsin, below the Passaic falls in Patersoa, one afteruoon abont a fortnight ago when Miss Maggio Sullivan was seized with crarniis and uttered a shriek for help. The basin is only ten feet deep, but that is more tlian enough to drown a helpless girl, and several stroug swimmers did their best to reach her in time to give aid. Among the farthest away, and swimrning away from her at the moment, was Miss Bertha Verónica Kirsiuger, bnt the hand that first clntohed the sinking girl and bore her safely to the float was Miss Kirsinger's. Meu wlio had esteemed themselves good swimmers had been distanced in the race. This is by no means the only feat that has entitled Miss Kirsinger to be coiifidered the local naiad queen. She is the only woman who has ventured to cross the falls basin to the edge of the oataract Whirlpool, and a few days ago she went through a test of endurance such as few amateur swimmers of oither sex would care to attcmpt. Accompanied by two boats - ouo containiug Miss Annie Lister aud Miss Kate Farrar, the other her brother, Alderman L. Kirsinger, and Eugene Levy - Miss Bertha started from Lister's boathouse, above the fails, to swim to Lincoln bridge and return, a distance of two miles. Tne conrse she was compelled to take to evade grasa and weetls iu the stream probably rnade the rtistance actually traversed nearly one-third greater and the current was sufficiently strong to make the swini to the bridge a hard one. That portion of the feat was, however, suecessfully performed in a few mimites over an hour. Then without leaving the water she returned to the starting point and was within less than 100 yards of Lister's float when crarnp attacked her left leg and she was compelled to accept her brother's aid frorn the boat. She had been in the water two honrs and fiftp.eu minutes. From her point of view the achievement was incomplete, and she contémplales making bef ore the swimming season ends another attcmpt to accornplish the long swim without aid from start to finish. Below the falls is her favorite place for natatory exercise. Outside the artificial basin it is 40 or 50 feet deep, and in one spot is popularly supposed to have no bottorn. Only the strougest, bravest and most self reliant swimmers venture there, but that is Miss Bertha's favorite field, its'dangers mnking it the most free. Again and agaiu she had tried to dive to the bottorn, but that remains one of the things yet to be accomplished by anybody but Torn Streng, who went down in July last and got the body of a man who had died of some kind of fit in the water. Miss Bertha V. Kirsinger is a member of the Paterson Turn Verein gymnasium and the best alj around female athleto in the city. Shé learued swimming three years ago and took to the exercise so naturally that in five lessons she became an expert. Her eider sisters, Elvira and Anna, are both good swimrners. - ]