"The doctors say it was the swim that did it, plus those two terribly strenuous years when I was in the water too much and never had any chance to rest. I'm not sorry I did it. But it wasn't worth while." So says Miss Gertrude Ederle who jis now quite deaf and teaching swimming in a broad walk pool in New York. Four years ago she swam the English Channel. When she returned home she was the heroine of America and her triumph was obviously supreme. There was subsequent Vaudeville tour which netted, along with her investments, small fortune to Miss Ederle, She has more money than many fand, apart from her deafness, she is too many successes are not permanent, The aftermath of famed publicity is often the saddes [According to Miss Ederle, worth while."
Miss Elsie West in her present disappointment,
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