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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5456, 21 September 1878, Page 4 (Supplement)

Tue Horrors of 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 really wanted to put on preposterous clothes and to wade out into disgustingly turbulent water in order to bo knocked over and half drowned in the presence of an unfeeling public. Were the diningroom of a Long Island hotel to be strewn with sand, pebbles, and sharp shells, and were the guests then to be invited to put on tho most ridiculous of conceivable garments and walk barefooted over the floor to meet a number of athletic waiters, by whom they should he knocked down and made to stand on their heads, and forced to swallow quantities of salt water, no sensible guest would accept the invitation. Yot such an intertainment would be rather safer and more pleasant than surf-bathing. There is nothing more delightful than swiming in a great pool or rivor, but to stand up for a round with the Atlantic Ocean, with the moral certainty that every knock-down will be scored by tho latter, betrays a painful degree of folly and had taste. Women suffer even more than men from tho tyranny of this atrocious custom of surf-bathing. For a woman to enter tho surf involves a long and abstruse process of undressingand re-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, intollerable to the sesthetlo eye. True, there are exceptions. Every summer there are seen at our Atlantic watering places two or throe ladies whoso beauty even the surf cannot wash away, and it is credibly asserted that a few years ago there was a Boston lady who entered tiie surf at Nahant, and who, on emerging, could be distinctly seen, , even when her edges were presented to the spectator. Nevertheless, as a rule, woman becomes not merely impossible, but absolutely unthinkable, when tho sea lias remorselessly analysed her. Paradoxical as it may seem, it ia this very fact which drives thousands of miserable women into tho surf. Tho woman who does not bathe is instantly credited with a fear of exciting comparisons between herself and the women who do bathe, andistherehysuspccted of unparalleled excesses in point of bones.; When to tho., complex agonies which surf-bathing inflicts upon tho sensitive fomale mind is added the struggle of deciding whether to leave off 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 tho seals bitterly, though secretly, hated by tho fair sex. Wore mankind only to agree that surf,bathing should be regarded as a crime against fashion,- the seashore would lose its horrors.

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Conveyances Hastwell, MAO ABA, &. CO.’S NEW TIME TABLE • FOB COBB & CO.’S MAIL'.COACHES. '■ On and after Eeb. 4, 1878. , , W.B,—Extra coaches may be engaged on the shortest notice for special occasions, but the above TABLE will supply ALL the regular traffic. 0 T I C E.—WELLINGTON T 6 EOXTOEV ; Passengers by coach are required to book tho day before starting, as there will be no stopping on tho road. Pull particulars to be obtained at the booking office, Manners-street. A. KEDDELL, - Agent