OCR Text |
Show Tub Suffekisg of Women fkom Suw Bathing. Women suffer even more than men from the tyranny ol this atrocious custom of surt bathing. For a woman to enter the turf in volvea a long and obtruse process ol undressing and redressing, which is a terrible strain upon her strength and temper. Moreo?ur iho act ol bathing makea pilileca revelations concerning the female form. It is eutimated that at least 11,000 young meu annually an-nually return from Long Branch with the convictiou that woman is wiiolly false, with the exception of a rutin framu work, iutoleruble to (he tcthelic; eye. True, tuere are txifptio:is. Eveiy summer there are seen ut our Atlantic watering places two or three ladies whose beuuty even the suit oaunnt wash away, and it :s creditably eserUd that a lew years ago ther'v was a Boston lady who entered the tsnr! at Nobant, and who, on euicrg iiiK, could be distinctly seen, even when her edges were presented to the spectator. Nevertheless, as a rule, wuniau becomes not merely impos siblc, but absolutely uu'.hiukaole, when the Bea has remoraely analyzed t or I'.iradoxicai as it may seem, it is this fail which drives thousands of rnit:jrabe women into the mill. The woman who doea not bithe is instantly in-stantly credited witli a fear ot exciting conij nrisous between herself and the wunteu who do bathe, and is theroby MiMpecled of unparalleled excesses in point of hones. New York Tunes, |