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414 OPENING OE THE SWIMMING BATH FOR LAD...
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deli and p ht lunge for the at dweller once into in city the refreshing confines , just element passing . And from oh the ! hot what and a
dust exhilaration g y streets , which to leap free into exercise this clear in the flood water , and always feel that bestows sense , and of
which before could only be gained at the cost of a country journey , or at least was utterly unattainable for aught of womankind , within
the bounds of this vast metropolis . How different from the only bath hitherto within their reach , the solitary stepping into a narrow
box of water merely to lie prone for a few minutes in listless inaction , is this dash of sparkling drops over the headthis expanse of ambient
, fluid buoying up the frame , with space for the free play of every limband with pleased friends and companions around , sharing and
, hei To ghtening some this the item enjoyment of companionshi . p may present itself as possibly
cost objectionable of admission , but is ther very e need moderate be no , fear being on onl this y ei score ght- , pence for thoug , this h is the a
and higher therefore price than quite is charged sufficient for to any keep other it select bath . in We the have establishment certainly ,
no wish that St . Marylebone should ever present such a scene as ; was customary , not so very long since , at Bath , where , as Anstey
describes it , ( c All T _' w wading as a glorious with gen sigh tlemen t to see up the to fair their sex necks , : "
but it would only be an unreasonable prejudice in any lady to demur at sex being , even in thoug the water h strangers in the societ ; for y albeit of respectable a denser medium individuals than of air her , yet own the
be contact space far here less with is vitiated them so much in by a well greater her filled nei , t g hat hbours omnibus , in reality than . On , when the the atmosp contin sitting here ent in , would where close
such institutions have been long in vogue , ladies of high rank do not Frankfort scruple the to Bar enter oness the Roth bath schild with their often fellow be seen citizenesses in the , crowded and in may
water with her little one in her arms , teaching it to take part in her natatorial pastime . the fact of this bath
being to it But for opened , however the means to them interesting b , which there is so to another desirable women ground is an end has for been drawing accomp new attention lished y
merit ; also some comment in . these pages , since it is mainly by feminine exertions that it has been effected . Some articles written the
by a woman in a paper . at that time conducted by the staff of of Eng the lish Committee Woman ' s Journal of the , St were . Mary by lebone them broug Baths ht ; and under thoug the notice h the
unwonted suggestion visitants of throwing was so open novel this as to part be of rather the startling building such to such an
, idea having never before presented itself , a promise and was it at oiice
most given opportunel that it shoul y that d be taken it was into just consideration then in contemp ; lation as to happened erect a out that if
new additional bath of the kind , hopes were held a
414 Opening Oe The Swimming Bath For Lad...
414 OPENING _OE THE SWIMMING BATH FOR LADIES .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1858, page 414, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081858/page/54/
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