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HOW TO EMPTY A THEATRE
NEW COMMON SENSE ON THE BEACH
SUN-BATHING BARELY
A DECADE OLD
A
EVOLUTION OF COSTUMES
(By James Laver)
London. Iresorts to bathe very early in the
S you pick your way delicately morning when no one is about.
over a modern beach trying The bathing dress now began its your best not to stumble over along evolution, and from the blolo- for bronzed limb or put your foot injgical point of view it obviously the middle of a bare back, do you belongs to a degenerate species, for There is the rector of a lonely ever reflect how modern all this is, it has grown steadily smaller and place under the Bodmin moors who ar pause to wonder: "Who started smaller. At first women had worn has put a six-foot barbed wire it?"
garments like sacks or loose night-
barricade round
For modern It certainly is; sea-gowns drawn in with strings at the Several Alsatians word off in-bathing is less than two centuries neck, and in a way this was com- old, and sun-bathing is barely a paratively sensible, for the garment decade. The Greeks bathed, of floated on the surface of the sea course, and the Romans built them-and allowed the water to reach the selves magnificent baths, but with body beneath.. In Britain you must not have the decay of the Ancient World the But more elaborate garments more than 10 perts in 10.000 of human body vanished from respect- were soon devised, so elaborate that carbon-dioxide on the premises or able sight for more than a thousand one wonders if the water ever pene- hang hata and cloaks In the
From There were bath-houses in trated them at all. corridors.
the Middle Ages, but they were of throat to the elbow, and from the You have got to protect ontside ill-repute. Certainly nobody hath-elbow to the knee the body was atalieases from frost and Snowed in the sea, except by accident, hidden. Even the shape of the until almost the middle of the figure was lost In loose flounces and If you fit a door with an automatic eighteenth century.
baggy folds, and as late a 1910 bolt you must paint "Push bar to
There was one bathing machine there was a joke' in Punch which open" on it in block letters at least on Scarborough beach in 1735-so shows that from the other side of 4 inches high.
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much we know from an old engrav-a low barrier it was impossible to If you have an organ it must be ing--and we may assume that other tell whether a woman was dressed ventilated to the open air and you resorts had one too.
for bathing or just wearing her
must not have any revolving doors. But mankind needs an excuse for ordinary clothes.
There are innumerable precau- enjoying itself and throughout the
France As Pioneer tions for emptying a theatre quick-ages there has been none better! The French again led the way and ly: but no bints about how to fill than the plea of health. It was in some of the costumes worn on Con- it.
to dinner.
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1750 that Dr. Russell brought out tinental plages in the 'eightics were proceed without further delay to
his Latin treatise on the beneficent skin-tight-tighter, one might say, prepare to replace obsolescent Your Daily Smile! effects of sea-water, bath for ex-for they had corsets underneath. Hong Kong, Friday, Sept. 14, 1934. navy ships and double the air
ternal and Internal application, and And very often the costume includ- force. Even when so doubled,
Talkative woman "A vig man liko the great trek to the sea begun. ed stockings. Even the bathing the Royal Air Force will not you might be belter occupied than in People began to bathe, but they dresses of the years immediately Britain's Naval Strength number half the total of military cruelly catching little fak."
seem strangely aircraft possessed by that model this flah had kept his mouth what open and off-hand fashion.
Anglor "Perhaps you're right, But were still far from doing it in our after the war
The voluminosa in modera eyes, and the of all pacifists. Soviet Russia. he wouldn't be here."
bathing machine, enlarged and present type of costume was not To agitations urging that the The Admiralty's plans disclosed
improved, 'enabled you to
usual enjoy even
until the middle British Empire should persist. the proposals for new battleships
Tommy's Defense
your dip in complete privacy and, twenties. even if alone, in disarmament, to replace those of the fleet now Storekeeper: "This ten-cent
Once more an excuse was needed, in the middle of swarming crowds,{ there is a limit beyond which approaching the age limit. That doesn't ring good."
and once more the EXCUSE WEB' jour pacifists defeat their
own work and the further program-dime, a set of chimes?"
Tommy: "What do you want for to have the sea to yourself.
health Not only was sea-bathing · cause. The Bishop of Birming-me for cruiser replacement will)
Bathing Machines Vanished
good, but sunbathing was good also, ham's recent address in Eng have to be initiated next year of
Bathing machines, now geem and once that was gonerally accept- and was an example. He regard- in 1996. If British building_re-| Grandfather was taking a nap and almost to have vanished from the ed the cause of "modesty" was lost. ed war as such an evil, he said. placement should be thereafter his little grandson was sent to call him earth, but most of us who are over For bathers were no longer cou- that he would have the British further delayed, still without
Intent to rush furtively into the sea "Was he asleep?" asked his mother thirty must remember them. people refuse to fight in any any international agreement to when Tommie came back.
deed, I recently found them in full and rush out again. They persist- event whatever. "I would have limit armaments, then the po- "All but his nose," was the reply.awing (swing is the word) on the ed in lying on the beach in their my own country disarm, and for licy desired by Dr. Barnes might
beach at Zandvoordt, in Holland. bathing costumes, and the designers its safety trust in a policy of in-jseem to be on the way.
A Word in Time
A wooden box on wheels stood on of those costumes cut more and ternational righteousness," even
"That's a very shabby office coat!” The British Battle Fleet, the "Aye, mr, it's the one I bocht withe sand. You entered the dark more out of them until from the though it might end in disas core of the Navy's strength, is ma isst zine."
and smelly interior and undressed. back they were nothing but a pair ter." In this cause, he declar-getting old. The "battleship
Then a horse was put into the of drawers, and sometimes from ed, he would denounce the Trea holiday" agreed upon with Ja- "The average man is always cou-shafts; the crazy vehicle lurched the front nothing but a pair of ty of Versailles and restore to pan and the United States at teous to a woman if she is young, forward, swung round, backed into drawers and a brassiere. Germany all her colonies
pretty and nicely dressed," says 14 now the London Conference in 1980. writer. Provided, of course, that he is the sea, and when you opened your Men's bathing costumes have a under British control. Dr. Barnes expires on December 31, 1938. not married to har.
ttle front door the vast horizon somewhat different history. At said he urged this because the If the international conference
was before you and the salt water first men in the shelter of their alternative policy, so far as he of next year should not agree to
"What
it caused the rumpus at their lapped against your wooden steps. machines wore nothing, then little could conceive (an importanta further modification of probouse?"
If you chose to keep near your striped drawers, then those horrible, condition perhaps), will lead ul-grammes, then Britain will have thing to give as bridge prizes at her refuge it was almost impossible for ill-fitting one-piece garments which
"She asked him to bring home some- timately to a large-scale warto build to her own needs. There club and save her a trip to town, and anyone to see you, unless the shore would have turned Apollo himself But whatever the danger of is no need for alarm, the Admir- he brought home couple of cockery curved very sharply, and even then into a scarecrow. It is only within such results from the "alterna-alty is ready with its plans. But books."
the watcher needed a powerful the last decade that men's bathing tive policy," there is no doubt there is need for the public to
telescope.. that Britain's abandonment of understand the value of support- Facts You Did Not Know Even these precautions, however, an offence,
costumes have been anything but her naval position, her denunciaring its Government in the re-
seemed insufficient, and until quite tion of the Peace Treaty, and presentations to foreign Powers
(Continued on Page 11:) The United States exports rubber late in the nineteenth century her resignation of her interna- now being prepared for the products to virtually every other women's bathing machines were tional authority and prestige, 1936 conference. At the end of nation, including some from which it fitted with a canvas' hood which would start a world-wide war 1938 Britain and the dominions obtains raw rubber. Therein Australia would prompt-possessed 58 cruisers. 39 of them
If you opened like an umbrella. ly have to seek a foreign ally, within the age limit and 14 of duced the fuel consumption of an auto- outside this structure, for under its An Englishman claims to have re-were very shy you never ventured possibly Germany as occupier of them above it. These old cruis-mobile 50 per cent, by stream lined canopy you were in a private bath New Guinea, or Japan as occu-era are now becoming over age body that he has designed. pier of Singapore, and stand to (death-traps in war) at the rate arms for her life. Soviet Russia of six a year. Even with the Mounted on two rollers, a foot rest If you were more daring, you would descend upon Southern building now going on, Britain
has been invented to be connected to descended your steps under the An order for the expulsion Asia to begin her plan of world cannot till after 1926 put into rock while reclining.
a rocking chair, enabling a person to protection of the hood, and then, threo Filipines, Clodaoldo Arrie conquest. The League of Nations service more than 31 to 95 cruis-
with only your head viable, you ta, Mauro Doyan, and Memecio showed yourself to the would expire overnight. How era within the age limit. And the A street lined with shops, a
great Cristobal, who were charged with jimmensity. much of international righteous-minimum number required in size tennis court and a commodious
entering the Colony without Male and female bathers were valid passport last week, was this ness would Dr. Barnes and his the event of a great war would chapel are included in the cabins of fellow extremists in pacifism be-70. Does anybody-believe
new French passenger ship. of course, vigorously segregated, morning made by Mr. E. W. Ham- then have to offer his compa-that inaction by the British
and children were not allowed to ton at the Central Magistracy. triots?
CLERK CHARGED Government in face of these
play in the water, but were violent- Detective Sergeant Mottram Mere talk in this strain by facts will encourage world peace?
WITH THEFT
ly ducked by sturdy bathing women said that arrangements had al- These bathing women also ducked ready been arranged to send de- men who can command public The decision Britain has taken attention does immense harm is to prepare provisional pro- $1,059.40 Stolen Within seriously. It was all highly medi-Empress of Japan which leaves adults, and took their duties very fendants back to Manila by the abroad. The interpretation grammes. None of the Treaty] abroad that gradually becomes Powers has yet bullt over the al-
A Week
cinal, no doubt, but not, one would here at mid-night, · · accepted is that the British Em-lotted treaty strength; what
{think, one of the pleasures of life pire must be ready to collapse each is doing is to prepare a Wong Chi-fung, a native of
Relaxed Restrictions That is simply not true. The sus-building programme, for reduc- Chiklang Province, and a former As the fashion picion, and perhaps in places tion purposes if the conference clerk employed by the Commercial seaside spread, bathing machines the hope, that it may be true can reach a bargain, and for put- Press. Limited, was this morning multiplied, and gradually. (oh! so only incites foreign Fowers to ting into operation if the confer-charged before Mr. Q. A. A. Ma gradually) the restrictions were rearm for the possible day. Bri-ence fails. Japan is reported fadyen at the Central Magistracy relaxed. But no real progress could tain's abdication of her sea pow-to be pressing for parity instead with the theft of $1,059.40, bebe made so long as the bathing er would invite competition, in of the 5-5-3 ratio. This is part-tween September 1 and 7. armaments - and then in war, ly, no, doubt, a bargaining move. Mr. W. A. Mackinlay, of Mesars. beach.
machine rode rough-ahod over the Antonio Martios; a Peruvian, among the likeliest successors. The Japanese newspaper "Asa Deacons. appearing for the prosecu-who first undermined its authority, Mr. E. W. Hamilton at the Cen
It was the wicked French was this morning charged before But leaving such Bedlamite hi recently reported from Lon-tion. asked for a short remand for they began to erect little tral Magistracy with entering the nightmares aside, immediate ef-don an Indication of Britain's saying that further charges may be stationary cabins out of reach of Colony without a valid passport. fects tend to leave the pacifists willingness to discuss a ratio of made against defendant. The case the tide.. stranded. On the morrow of 5-5-4. But in any case Japan's was remanded until Monday,
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THREE FILIPINOS EXPELLED
Deported To Manila By Empress
of
PERUVIAN WITHOUT
PASSPORT
Been In Colony For Long Time
Detective - Sergeanh: Mottram What an innovation! For now stated that defendant had been in
the reckless bathers were compelled the Colony for a long time, and
Dr. Barnes's address the British claim is not the only obstacle.{:: Government declared, fo the re- France, and Italy both declined Mr. Yu Yu-jan, President of the Con- Hef of the immerse majority of to be bound by the London trol Yuan, who arrived in Sl-An, to walk down to the water in full asked for 24 hours remand, to the the public, that the weakness of Treaty restrictions, and their Shens, vasterday from his native dis view of the watchers on the beach vestigate accused's, story. Defen British defence forces constitut-new buliding is causing great next few daya Mr. Yu has been re-
trict, will return to the capital in the A-women's journal of the eighties dant was remanded until to- led a temptation abroad to breach concern in London.">
opperating for the last several months, Warns modest people at Continental morrow.