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394 A STROLIi THROUGH HAMBURGH
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As I Stand On The Deck Ofthe Hamburgh St...
communication .. Fronting the shops is the Alster Pavilion , a restauran and t _, _gentlemen built out over are the enj water ing , with themselves a verandah in the all open round air , where over ladies their
ices and coffee , and watching oy alternately the gaily painted craft upon the lake , and the gaily _dx-essed promenaders in the avenue .
Under one of the hotels opposite is the entrance to what is considered a great . ornament of the" city , the Bazaar , a sort of Lowther
Arcade on a grand scale , adorned with granite steps , encaustic pavementmarble-faced and ilastered wallsand Crystal Palace like roof .
. Arcades , , however , have p a natural tendency , to gloom , increasing in proportion as they aim at grandeur ; and in spite of all these
decorations , the spirit of dulness , banished from every other part of the townseems to have taken refuge here .
- the Pursuing roadw , the that path divides round the the water Inner , I Alster recognise , on the in a other low- side roofe of d ay
building * , looking like a collection of sheds growing out from among the water-lilies , the public baths ; and on requesting to be allowed
to see themam shown at once into one of the little pile-supported . rooms view , where On the , , however farbher , side I step of the back room shuddering a portion at of what the flooring meefcs my is
. - cut away , about six feet by two , and in this space , about a yard _Tbelow the level of the floor , is enclosed a portion of water , looking
like a " watery grave , " for though it may be shallow , the bottom cannot be seen , and it is only divided by a palisade of stakes from
the main body of the stream beyond . If the basement story of one--of our old city houses were ... to be overflowed with water so that it
_shoiild fill the narrow area before its railed kitchen window , this , : & sseen from the streetwould just represent these awful-looking
"baths v of the Alsterfrom , which I could hardly imagine any one , emerging alive . The ladies' baths I visited in Berlin were on a
similar plan , but there the space for the water was greater and was in the centre of the room , having no visible connexion with the
/ stream outside ; the depth was regulated by means of a pump , _according similar to the contrivan pleasure ce here of the also b . ather At , the and farth there er is end probabl of , the y
. some building is the women ' s swimming bath , avowedly very deep , and into which therefore none are permitted to enter but those who can
be alread taug y ht swim the , art or , the who pup are ils prepared being well to secured pay 12 by marks ropes ( 14 held s . ) by to
the teacher . It is a circular pool surrounded by little dressing rooms , and though the unpainted wood alway iece s exposed of the to Alster the
action of the stream , for this too is but a p inclosed , gives the place a dank unpleasant look , it is much _, patronisedespeciallby irlsa number of whom were
jumping in , and swimming y young about with g _, a boldness and agility which certainly did credit to the quiet-looking young woman who was
announced to be the teacher of natation .
Quitting the _Ibaths , I soon reach the Damm Thor , one of the
394 A Strolii Through Hamburgh
394 A STROLIi THROUGH HAMBURGH
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/34/
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