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TO FOLKESTONE: OUR ROAD ROUTES

... now 25,000 but these are dry details. We will revel in a swim from Fagg's (we are not sure of the name) patent safety bathing machine, and then take a stroll on the lofty Lees, where the church parade of a fine summer Sunday morning is a thing to remember ...

THE GREAT FORENOON FIGHT AT OSTEND

... THE GREAT FORENOON FIGHT AT OSTEND. I say, Arclier, do you think we shall ever get a machine Well, the best plan might be to take our bath always on the following day. ...

Published: Wednesday 04 October 1893
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 33 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

SPORTS FOR LADIES: No. III.--SWIMMING

... ladies sprang (excuse the bathos!) foam flecked and attired in wonderful habiliments from the cold bath. Metaphor apart, until the daily use of a cold bath became fashionable some thirty-five years ago ladies never dreamt of learning to swim. Few, indeed ...

A FRENCH WATERING PLACE

... over him, while the bathing man holds him by the hands. Most French men are, however, excellent and bold swimmers, and the bathing season is to them what the hunting and shooting season is to the English. After the afternoon bath comes the table d'hote ...

A GREAT ENTERPRISE

... would be found in a first-class printing office type of all founts and for thirteen different languages, and machines, including litho-machines, totalling up to forty of all kinds and the best and most improved makes. There are printed here posters (including ...

SOCIETY ON WHEELS

... on the beach on One of the features of this new idea is that, in order to be strictly you must ride in a bathing-suit the smnnwac girl is always at her feist in a feMlnmy-swit. It also suits the smnwr young man, and thus there is little ...

Published: Wednesday 21 July 1897
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 878 | Page: 40 | Tags: Illustrations 

RAMBLES ROUND THE COAST--BROADSTAIRS

... their respective bathing machines, and, shutting the little windows, sleep through the autumn and winter months, only emerging again the following spring to greet the first visitor with the time-honoured remark, Nice day for a bathe, sir! Broadstairs ...

THE NEW CLUB HOUSE ROYAL ULSTER Y.C

... by 21 feet, with exit to the ve randah the strangers' room, ladies' rooms, the members' dressing room, with the necessary baths and adjuncts also the still- room, wineeellar, kitchen, pantries, sculleries, and servers. The first floor contains what may ...

OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: THE FATAL CARD

... enabled tlio .assassins to gain access to old Austen's oflicc lias been thrown into a stream in which Burgess, unseen, was bathing. He recovers the key, and suspects Marrablo so does his daughter Margaret, from this and other circumstances. It is at her ...