SEA BATHING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8475, 28 January 1891, Page 3

SEA BATHING.

Sir, —"Auspex" desires to draw a redherring across the scent in his reply to my. brief note showing that bathers need not fear going to the cliff end of Cheltenham beach for a bath or swim. He pretends to plead for the ladies on the ground that it is the only shady place. Are there not lines of pine trees along the beach frontages ? If it were not so the plea would seem reasonable. But the fact.is " Auspex's" ladies take what is known as a sua-bath, after their bathe, and hang themselves out to dry on the rocks, without even the semblance of a iig-leat covering. I suppose it is recommended by the faculty, but decency forbids it, and Ltail to see why all other bathers should be warned off because the "Auspex" viragos persist in this practice. _It seems that the spy-glass of the objectionable female to which 1 referred is used to discern when the coast is clear, but a resident told me he had seen sights that would make a Solomg-i Islander blush amongst these festive females, who are _ careless of the presence of males. If one did undress and bathe within a-iew yards of them, as "Auspex" complains,,it must surely have been as a protest against their indecency.—l am, &c., Vacxhall.