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September 18, 1869.] THE TOM AHA WK. 127
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for To moving all Spiritualists furnitur...
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part of the programme . To wait from 9 . 30 or 10 o ' clock , to 4 awa a . m ke ., . is There not pleasant is no deli . You htful can train ' t go like to bed that , and on you the can Chatham ' t keep to and the Dover boat , Line starting , which at takes a g most you convenient quickly and hour surely , and , almost enabling up yo The u to authorities arrive at of Calai the s just Newhaven in time Line to have played an excellent a pleasant supper little . prac instruction tical jok , and e on warning Tomahawk to others , which . Wishing he begs for to a private record , cabin as an for Calais himself boats and , he spouse inquired , such at the as are Telegrap always obtainable Office whether on the he to could could Newhaven , get and such in the for a thing one innocence . on The the result of Newhaven his was young that boat heart the . , He he telegrap was worst told berth hed he in a small stuffy cabin ( the only one for , ladies ) was very reserved for his company wife ' s use should . Tomahawk induce him thought to waste it his strange money that in a telegrap benevolent hing for The what passage they must to have Dieppe well ! what known misery he could ! The not get most . uncomfortable boat—the deck occupied by contributors to ocean ' s The store— passage the cabin is just occup long ied enoug by contributors h to make it to impossible steward ' s to basins keep — awake supposing all the one time could , and do not so long , to go enoug to bed h to ! make Then it you worth arrive while at wait Dieppe an — hour at least before , we the did , luggage at 5 o ' clock could in be the passed day , and . This had to is cheerful Calais and . We Pari recommend s , if they can all persons afford it going , and , to if . Dieppe they can to not go , to y go lace somewhere the London else . Chatham In spite and of D its over fina Line ncial first catastrop of all lines , we in p , , as Eng concerns land for comfort , civility to Calais , and while punctuality decidedl —at last least for , as com far - fort we , lace civility the , passengers and London punctuality and Newhav , and ; e for n Line every or other whatever y good it quality call , itself p . , may consists But Dieppe of two parts is reached . The at one last part . is It a is long a queer terrace old j town or rather . It which collection we may of houses call La of P all laze sorts , and and the sizes other , l ooking number on of the houses sea , looking absorbing on through to each their other noses , or , to if they nothing have any particular , the most , but horrid all smells . Cologne must yield to Dieppe as a " bouquet de parfu as mes the most naturels impudent . " The and shop most keepers exorbitant may be which briefl we y described have ever had even they happ rob iness you to while encounter they . bow There and are smile a few . exceptions Nearly every , but the other articl shop es is in a carved " magasin ivory d' would ivoirerie ( if , * ' they or otherwise could feel a shop shame where ) be b d y yed their red proprietor with blushes . We at do the not monstrous write without prices some asked experience for them of the various " marchands . " We have " kept house " at Dieppe ; * pric and es ca , the n safel butchers y say of that Dieppe for insolence cannot be , imagination matched . , The and high only civil robbers are the fish women in the market . We have not i th ncluded e odoriferous " Le P portion ollet" in of our the town description will be of found Dieppe in superlative ; but there al for most m ; shaken It is a study the proud for amateurs boast of of Tomahawk dirt and squalor that for . It down has - right The filt hotels hiness ot and Dieppe horro are r Seven well known Dials . had They no rival are c in omfortable Europe . is and more expensive cosmopolitan . The Royal , and swarms the hostess with Engli has a sh pleasant . The Imperial way of sitting at the receipt of custom . Dear as these hotels unany doubtedl English y are hotel , it , is not possible withstan ding get an what y am oun n ever of m got endacio yet u s professions Many worse , vi pla z * c , a good might bottl be se e lected of wine for a at te a mporary reasonable home price than . th th e e Hotel ecent Im re at erial deb , Diepp in the e . S Here enate Prince descend Nap ed from oleon , hero m of for great a short effort time of oratory to refresh . Tom his ahawk mind , and saw body the noble previou individual s to his he more wore than a once white , and hat . he Perhaps remembers for onl the y same one thing reason about as him the , miller Life , to at keep Dieppe his head may cool be varied . at your pleasure . You can the commit very suicide high and in two steep way cliffs s j rapidl j slowl y , y b , y by jump walki ing ng down about the m smaller streets of the town . Other modes of self-destruction will can suggest drink iced themselves soda American to the drinks ingenious — this . For mode example is slow , , yo but u
opera sure ; at or the you Casino can go —thi and s method see the is performance slower , and of a comic quite ordinary as sure , as you of passing may fall their asleep days in during vogue the with process the visitors . The up to this in " elegant morning and fashionabl and go e to watering the Casino place ; " bathe is to , get go to back dinner to , breakfast and after , that back again to the to the Casino Casino ; . This back plac agai e of n amusement provides balls and concerts gratis for subscribers . semi It also -theatrical , as mentioned entertainments above , occasionall . We do not y provides as theatrical be believed or go that with the instrumental the mob . But music , speaking was fair , and one that , concert one may , of the singers say , was very fair . But her style ! Grasping her music ( in a roll ) looking with both at hands it ) ; meanwhile , she fidgeted she it oscillated round and the round upper ( wi half thout of ever her board body in the a manner steamer . hig She hly suggestive did not keep of one time ' s either experiences with the on music or with her body . Our advice to the very fair songstress fearful is , " Play creatures as often , a as local you favourite like , but , sung never , throug sing . " h several One of layers those of throat , some & utterly inaudible words . The whole concluded with concert a comic was for opera the , which benefit , we of rejoice the poor to . say If , was the hissed incapacity . This of nature the performers of the objects in the of opera the charity fairly represented , let us hope the the incapable receipts were enormous . The bathing at Dieppe is excellently and modestly managed of the in account the . This Gen , tlemarts given Tomahawk by Journal some most prurient . positivel We snob were y assert a amused few , week sp for ite s been ago some who time possessed by trying such to a guess vivid and who cleanl the y fellow imagination could ; have but it of William decided . Wi that ggins he , proprietor was probabl of y bathing some relation machines of the at Rams widow - gate The most and Margate remarkable —perhap thing s at the Dieppe immortal is that Mr the . Knox people himself on the . men terrace are trouble allowed themselves on the women with ' anything side , not but even the husbands bathers . with No their wives , while no women ever are seen on the beach by the men Every ' s bathing precaution place is . taken Men against are not allowed any accident to bathe ; in with fact women such a . thing hawk as does a person not think being that drowned everything is is almost managed impossible in France . , Toma better - than a quiet in . England place in ; but South certainl Devon y bathing . Here is women . Last year bathed we , visited not in a tunics few yard and s trousers of men , . but They in bathing displayed gowns their . limbs They very bathed liberall within y . French This was costume considered . A mob proper crowded . One around lady venture her machine d to bath . " e How in a been improper just before ! " sneered floundering the virtuous about matrons in limp dressing and virgins gowns who . had at As a very for me quiet n ' s bathing lace in in Yorkshire England . , Tomahawk There were used four benches bathe with within women one yard . The of the men men bathed ' s bathing stark machines nakedand —always that crowded in water above so shallow your that knees for . twenty The Chief or thirty , as a yard gentle s it hint did , , not always come bathed much ' ridicule in a coat in and this pair case of trousers to admiration . He was . jeere It d was , but at this preferred quiet village in modest England that the clergyman once saw a without whole girl any ' s school more protection undress on than the shore conscious and go innocence into the water could g withhol to ive send the d m a the . troop Scenes name of of wo pure rs the - e minded than place this onl inquirers y mi g e ht cause be there witnessed we . But not . there wish We m was ore no than one ther to interfere e was with one these to exhibitions nt a of n modesty bather , who any got out of his depth bei any ng drowned instantl preve y . If y people want not to bath to a e quiet comfo watering rtably and lace modestl in England y , let . them go to Dieppe , The country round Dieppe p is beautiful . It reminds one conyou stantl get y of such English butter landscapes as you do ; at but the nowhere farm-houses in England about here can . It is worth being bilious for . Very few things are .
September 18, 1869.] The Tom Aha Wk. 127
September 18 , 1869 . ] THE TOM AHA WK . 127
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for To moving all Spiritualists furniture—the . br — oker Take , Notice !—The real medium
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Tomahawk (1867-1870), Sept. 18, 1869, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_18091869/page/3/
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