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Show ; BALLROOM BATH CHARMS DIFFER Oy International News Service.) LONDON. As the Kvening News iiemurkv. Toiibridge, Kent, has KOiie in for mixed bathing ut the Municipal loatd, situated in a Qlump of trees and led by a purling bl'OOK, and It's a sud luaj iur vi, i Britiuh empire, loi did not Councillor Donald Clark, a passionate Scot, get up and declare that hundreds ot pulnie. brldea have been ' doomed to live lives of useless cellbaC) through that infamous in-famous institution known us mixed bathing " ' 1 have watched mixed bathing many years,' he told a crowded council coun-cil room, and hive come to the conclusion con-clusion i iint u has stopped more iiiai-rlages iiiai-rlages than any other cause. J u.st Imagine n young man Infatuated Infatu-ated overnight with the charms ui .l beauteous Kcntlhh maiden, dancing wah her at a dazzling ball, and then meeting her next morning St the public pub-lic swimming bath, clad In a ready-made ready-made buthlng costume that vulgarizes tier ilgure, her hair bunched lit a hideOUfl pap or stinggllUT over her eyeb i Ke i M t Scotch .i irn r's' Any worn-fen-respecting man would ever recall such s ipeOtaCle with horror " And then a vote was taken and by the majority of only one the council decided to allow miked bathing (01 the municipal bath nas been paving pav-ing proposition and Councillor Clark nad adduced nothing to show mixed bathing would make It less so Kven Clark'B impassioned appeal that the greatest need of the country way tho raising up of ail imperial iacc" and that no woman, however, beautiful, couid stand the tes; or appearing be-tcre be-tcre the man she had inspired in, the damp and bedraggled condition that was the Inevitable consequence of bathing" could win over the extra vote needed to debar mixed splashing. j "v London's magazines and pic -1 torlal newspapers, forgetting tin; high' taxes and other painful tacts of lire, have as one started a picture campaign cam-paign to prove to councillor Chirk and iferj (.-her "unmixed bather ' the facti that .' m.ilihn ma look lovely In the usual one-piece bathing dress and that British maidens are eerthlng but unallurlng In the hath |