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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5456, 21 September 1878, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Horrors op Sea, Bathing.— On this point the “ New York Times” says In accordance with our false system of ethics it is held to bo the duty of every one who visits the sea-shore to bathe. Of course, no one ever leally wanted to put ou preposterous clothes and to wade out into disgustingly turbulent water in order to be knocked over and half drowned in the presence of an unfeeling public. Were, the diningroom of a Long Island hotel to bo strewn with sand, pebbles, and sharp shells, and were the guests then to be invited to put on the most ridiculous ofconceivable garments and walk barefooted over. the floor to meet a number of athletic waiters, by whom they.should bo knocked down and made to stand their heads, and forced to swallow quantities of salt water, no sensible guest would accept the invitation. Yet such an intertnimnent would be rather safer and more pleasant than surf-bathing. There is nothing more delightful than swiraing in a great pool or river, but to stand up for around with the Atlantic Ocean, with the moral certainty that every knock-down will be scored by the latter, betrays a painful degree of folly and bad taste. Women suffer even more than men from the tyranny of this atrocious custom of surf-bathing. For a woman to enter the surf involves along and abstruse process of undressingandre-dress-ing, which is a terrible strain .upon her strength and temper. Moreover, the act of bathing makes pitiless revelations concerning the female form. It is estimated that at least eleven thousand young men annually return from Long Branch with the .conviction that woman is wholly false, with the exception of a rude framework, intolerable to the aesthetic eye. True, there are exceptions. Every summer there are seen at our Atlantic watering places two or three ladies whose beauty even the surf cannot wash away, and it is credibly asserted that a few years ago there was a Boston lady who entered the surf at Nahant, and who, on emerging, could bo distinctly seen, even when her edges were presented to the spectator. Nevertheless, as a rule, woman becomes not merely impossible, but absolutely unthinkable, when the sea has remorselessly analysed her. Paradoxical as it may seem, It is this very fact which drives thousands of miserable' women into the surf.' The woman who does not bathe is instantly credited with a fear of exciting comparisons between herself and the women who do bathe, and is thereby suspected of unparalleled excesses in point of bones. When to the complex agonies which surf-bathing inflicts upon the sensitive female mind is added the struggle of deciding whether to leave olf the back hair, and thus confess its falseness, or to wear it in the water, and so spoil it, it can be readily understood that the sea is bitterly, though secretly, hated by the fair sex. Were mankind only to agree that surf-bathing should bo regarded as a crime against fashion, the. seashore would lose its horrors. A late learned and eloquent bishop was very anxious to convert a Parsec who was making some stay in liOndon, and, meeting him on an occasion favorable for private conversation, he opened an attack upon his peculiar tenets. VI cannot think, said he, “ how any man of intelligence and education, whose mind has been enlarged by travel and association with men of different opinions, can worship a created object, such as the sun.” “Oh, my lord bishop,” returned the Parsec, who had not been fortunate in the weather since his arrival in the country, “ you should see it ; you have no idea what a glorious object it is." Valuable Discovery tor the Hair. — lf your hair is turning grey or whit*, or falling olf, use “ The Mexican Hair licnower. for it wilt positively restore in every case Urey or White hair to its original color, without leaving the disagreeable smell of' most “ Restorers.” It makes the hair charmingly beautiful as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald spots,'where tlio glands are not decayed. ’ Ask your Chemist for ‘'The Mexican Ha‘r Bcnower,” prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493 Oxford-street, London, and sold -by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere at 3s (id per Bottle.—[Advt.] ' MoNsieur Taine on the Beauty op English Ladies.— The point which seems particularly to have Impressed itself upon the mind of this brilliantFronch writer, with respect to “English beauties” is the “ dazzling purity of their complexions.” Doubtless, Nature has richly endowed our'countrywomen in this respect, but art has d •mo no- less, -in supplying such an exquisite preparation as Howlands’ Kaxydor, which so far aids nature as to remove freckles, roughness of skin, tan, and sunburn, and produces a pure and delicate complexion. - Buy only Rowlands’, of 20, Hatton Garden, London. Sold all over the world by chemists, druggists, bazaar ard storekeepers.—Whole sale agents, Felton, Grimwade, &Co.—[Advt} Conveyances HASTWELL, MAOAEA, & CO.’S NEW TIME TABLE FOB COBB & CO.’S MAIL COACHES. • On and after Feb. 4, 1873. Leave per Train. Wellington Kaitoke Featherston Greytown, arr, dep, Carterton Masterton Masterton Carterton Greytown, arr. dep. Feathers ton Kaitoke 7.30. a.ra. First Coach. 9.30 a,m. 12 noon 1 p.m. 1.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 8.30 p.m. 7 a.m 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 9.30 a.m, 10.80 a.m, 2 p.m. 11.10 a.m. Second Coach, ■l.lO p.m. 3.40 p.m. 4.40 p.m. 4.60 p.m. 1 6'60 p.m. 6.50 p.m. 11a.m. 12 noon , 1 p.m. 1.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m. Arrive per Train . Wellington 4 p.m. 7.30 p.m. N.B.—Extra coaches may ho engaged on tho ‘ shortest notice for special occasions, but the above TABLE will' supply ALL tho regular traffic. NOT I U E.—W ELLIN GTO N T O FOXTON. Passengers by ooaoh are required to book tho day before starting, as there will be no stopping on the road. Full particulars to be obtained at tho hooking office, Mannors.ntreet. A, IvEDDELL, •\gont