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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 4, Issue 170, 30 October 1880, Page 2

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not Mtiulity *ns,rtgsi ft* ftportpi f* t*io jy®H«^ n fmss. A Tipreicnbifivi of tba.lfar Tort Herald, how(-v*r, nppoM# tehar« the most daring exploits by tho msmb.-rs ■>f that fraternity which Wo have hitherto seen recorded. Alone and undisguised, this gentleman has visited, for the purpose of description, ft fashionable ladies’ bathing establishment in New York, and the account of his experiences | appears in tho Herald of a late date, ! Without any previous arrangement, the : reporter simply presented himself at tho j reception-door, and requested to be ad--1 milled, as though the request was the i most natural one in the world. Some objection was raised by the lady manager I who however, ultimately consented to | submit the proposal to the .lathers, and I presently returned with the intimation | that " considering the circumstance* ” the i young ladies had consented to receive , their visitor. A little delay was requested i for toilet preparations, hut, strange to | say, only ton minutes was thus consumed. I The adventurous scribe acknowledges to I having felt some embarrassment ns he was ushered into a long corridor opening | into a series of darkened dressing-rooms. I In a gallery running round the swim-ming-tank sat a number of ladies; and I as a proof the high-class character of the I establishment, it is recorded that they j had “ ten-dollar parasols beside them’" ; The sight in the bath was " worth waliI ing miles to see.” We rend that " sirens I from Fifth Avenue, naiads from Murray i Hill, and mermaids from Washington j Heights, weie coquetting with tho brine." They swam around " us if they were vivified statuary; thev dived, they leaped out of the water, and played pranks with each other, while some of the more agile performed marvellous ‘stunts’ on Uio horizontal bar, and turned somersaults backward and forward, until the place becniue a sort of South Sea Island, blushing with modern improvements.” They linked themselves together into what ! they called *• a railroad twin,” and tho j newly constructed figure " glided around i the reservoir ns gracefully as u sea tieri pent." The fair bathers, it appears, wore I encased in a species of modest ■ hall-room j costume, without trains, and in some inj stances the edges of th.- garments wore j ornamented with lace ruffling, which, ali though moist, contrasted pleasingly with j the snowy skin beneath. The Herald's ! reporter should remember the fate of Acta-on.