Bathing in Diamonds.

Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 267, 9 November 1889, Page 11 (Supplement)

Bathing in Diamonds.

At Long Branch, tliey batftein diamonds* Pray hold your breath yet & moment.- Tfie votaries of folly have not: yeli foll6W^ft ilMiiil JSgyptian prototype to the length of melting down- their gems. Ofl the j eoMritry,! they cling tol them so tenaciously ifoafi they have adopted the fad of wbarling them even . whefl' th^y life- down . by the surf and take' a suii- BatK otf the beach. They get tne crMitiof prut dence, too. In. forme* season's rdTJTJeiies of batlr-houßes have been numerous: This year a sagacious belle; with »'p*int of jeyfelsi evolved the idea that her genis"-^ouTd-Bb' safer on her person than if left in s the bathroom, or even given into the cfustbdy ot the batli-hpuse keeper.- SH& might Have lefb them in the-safe in the hptel, t6»bei cure» bat in-charity ib'may Be assumed) bhlstt ttis simple1 idea never entered her head-. In" any event the< Spectacle" shel preßented tiff tHe sands, with* the limitations of her i?gdiblii?red bathibe; dress eked^out in splemdotir afrlettsti with-diamonds and sapphires, strudlc therest of femininity as soatfcractite'tihatSn'jaslif about two» days* she had scbi'ea 1 o£ cottrpanions. Any. of these hieavy1 brelkdrs'tfiaif • plunge upon the: beach would" make sfert work of a; diamond necklace^ y t ot gapphira: earrings, or a turquoise bracelet ffi ife^weriß given, halt a tchwicej but iH> imi%: The* lovely oreatures ar6* Wise > ins tKeir; dayj and the' furthest' ' that ariy= ■of them will dare go in her coquetry with Neptutiff * is-to permit the" playful foam to ruri up over her'jdainty bathing^ slipFiei(s~antf*fii4' round her ankles; But- tHey'maii'e' d picturesque; exhibition posing' on tHe sStidii, gems, sparkling.' irx their earsi and' rouira: their throat» and- on r theii* fingerSi; TE^Jr' khowrthcr value"'of their stage, tbb, and are making the most of it). 1 ' ;