How Belles Bathe.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 669, 2 September 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

How Belles Bathe.

pJTiL PtTcnEß,' writing from the branch, Informs the New York World that : < f Women do bathe. I have seen them. But (entre nous) I don't believe thoy ever do, in the sea at I least, unless there is provision made for spectators. I Why, the girl of my heart, the bouncin<jest belle of Weat End, never has the faintest desire to go into the •■ unless there is a goodly array r J t p eop i e on the bluff. And th*en- -and then— knowing, while she pr«- jCendB to de • it, that beauty ur ddorned) and 80 forth —she comes .Q. Q ft rav j Bning bathing suit that; gnameB t ne devices, the pads, th° carves,c 'arves, the outlines of art, as the » f/flus of Milo shames a candy doll. And then she cries ' Oh, dear,' in the piercingest pathos as she treads on a smooth clam-shell and tries to look like Narcisse, and hopes to heaven there is no ground swell or sharks in the two inches of water running through her pink toes, and then she wades out like Aphrodite and looks up the bank for sympathy — ami so like a divine jelly fish goes on to the scrcnp glory in the safe ripples. Men come the way from Dakota to see r> And I dare say her intuitions tell her so. Nay, mor^—that they buy lorgnettes on t r ae way . When th^ s business has reached its proper a^tandard wo shall no doubt have ' Cae tuning costumes of the D &'cherB chronicled in the society plays. ' The fascinating Mias D — X. Q— , wore a superb mantle of blue flannel trimmed with violet silk, and trousers of serge, cut flowing, with lace ornamentation, and was the observed of all observers !' Bathing dresses of the present fashion are, however, objectionable to most society women. They are very »pt to betray the age of the wearer by revealing certain lines of the figure which all other dresses are constructed to conceal Still, I believe science will join with Rood taste in the wish, for the sake of the whole race, and not alone that ■mall part of it that sits on the bank, that women never wore anything else.