BATHING IN FRANCE.
Luxury of a Dip In the Blue with a Willing Attendant.
To begin with, the bathing-boxes are made attractive and light by their canvas covers stretched over a pretty-shaped framework of wood. A mirror and a rack of fresh towels, a basin and such necessities of the dressing-room adorn the interior, as well as a soft rug on the floor. The bathing master is in attendance, and a pull on the little bellrope which hangs inside the door brings his alert little person to the bath-house to do the bidding of the occupant. This cheerful attendant arranges Monsieur's bathing wardrobe and dressing-case, and provides him with warm water, all for the modest sum of one franc. When the bather is arranged in his bathing suit of careful cut, with his long mantle deftly adjusted by his valet of the bath, ho daintily treads his way toward the platform extending out into the water and which ends in a spnng-board. He makes up his mind as he wanders along to the shock of his first leap into the blue water. Another bathing man is ready to receive our gentleman as soon as he shall reach the first breaker, to help him to swim, if he shall need such assistance, or tell him where are the safe places. On the opposite side are the bathing machines for the ladies with a neat little coiffed maid in attendance. Here there is the extra garment of the bath — the cork jacket — which the polite little mistress of the bath insists that madame shall wear, willy nilly. Two hours is not considered too long for a bath at Tronville, while at a fashionable American resort half an hour is thought to be quite enough, if not a wicked waste of precious time. Such is the difference in people.—" Boston Post."
It is said of one fashionable young man that he never paid anything but a compliment. Mr Nimmo, the Victorian Minister of Public Works, is described as " the best reciter of Burns's poems in the Southern Hemisphere."
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Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 7
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345BATHING IN FRANCE. Luxury of a Dip In the Blue with a Willing Attendant. Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 221, 24 September 1887, Page 7
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