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Bubble and Squeak: Stories from Everywhere

... thoroughly delights in a joke. Once, in his younger days, he was at the seaside indulging in a bathe when some of his friends locked him in his bathing machine for fun. In vain his lordship tried to get out, until at last one of the practical jokers said ...

Published: Wednesday 08 March 1916
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 980 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... is already asking the wild ass to stamp on its head. THE BATH-TOWEL GIRL. (The Bath-Towel Girl, dressed in cotton ratine, will be a most attractive feature this year at the seaside.) Clad in bath-towelling down from her towel hat Right to the hem of her ...

Published: Wednesday 01 May 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 986 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Highway of Fashion: Old-world Modes

... behind in the bathing machine. lhe bathing dress bag in fancy waterproof sateen is another little accessory that should be included. Neither must it be forgotten that the medical faculty strongly advocate the donning of corsets while bathing naturally they ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1911
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1408 | Page: 34 | Tags: Illustrations 

In THE SILVER SEA: SOME NOTES ON BATHING COSTUMES FOR THOSE WHO SWIM--AND FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT; Bathing Ten ..

... scarlet of our bathing-dresses. We were modest, too the bathing-dress of ten years ago was clearly not an object for reckless exhibition. Knowing that we looked like guys, we hurled our selves shrinkingly from the discom forts of the bathing-machine into the ...

Published: Wednesday 29 July 1914
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 968 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

CUFF COMMENTS

... CUEF COMMENTS mra By WADHAM PEACOCK. WITH THUMB NAIL BATTERSEA has taken up mixed bathing in its baths, but no one can be a mixed Battersea bather unless a member of an approved club or provided with a pass signed by the Town Clerk, a Borough Councillor ...

Published: Wednesday 29 May 1912
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 924 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Seaside Peep Show

... young women approached the policeman, and asked if it were permissible to bathe at that point. He replied that one could bathe anywhere provided one hired the bathing-machines which were at the disposal of all. The young women set up a joyous laugh of ...

Published: Wednesday 23 August 1916
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1427 | Page: 32 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LOOK OF THINGS: FROM A BYSTANDER'S POINT OF VIEW

... Americans is an automatic spanking-machine. Schoolmasters in this country who are in the habit of saying that it pains them to cane a boy as much as it pains the boy to be caned should be glad to hear of this little machine, unless, of course, they believe ...

Published: Wednesday 28 August 1912
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 609 | Page: 28 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LOOK OF THINGS: FROM A BYSTANDER'S POINT OF VIEW

... supply and de livery of Personal Weigh ing Machines. No doubt Councillors tend to grow fat, but one would hardly have supposed that the ratepayers of London would be ex pected to pay for a personal weighing machine for each of their representatives. gOURNEMOUTH ...

Published: Wednesday 20 July 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 24 | Tags: Illustrations 

WATERING PLACES 100 YEARS AGO

... fashion and a kind of saloon where the waiting bather might divert himself by thrumming a pianoforte. To bathe from Margate's especially commodious machines, the invention, strangely enough, of a Quaker, costs Is. 3d. to Is. 6d., a sum which included the services ...

Published: Saturday 30 August 1919
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1457 | Page: 20 | Tags: Illustrations 

BLACK FEELINGS: THE RETURN-TO-TOWN EMOTIONS OF AN OVERWORKED PARLIAMENTARY PRIVATE SECRETARY

... and hound- ful chief. Bluebooks for 1 bathing, motions instead of motors, and statistics tor sunsnme and smiles. Oh, for the life of a man with a big M an open-air man, a sailor, a boatman, a mixed bathing-machine woman. How tanned you're not, fool chief; ...

Published: Wednesday 21 September 1910
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1528 | Page: 18 | Tags: Illustrations 

PRISCILLA IN PARIS

... way I under stand sea bathing, don't you, dear I think that nothing is more stupid than the silly splashing about in four inches of water indulged in by no doubt very charming but rapid ladies who want to show off a 15 -guinea bathing costume and what is ...

Published: Wednesday 24 July 1912
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1041 | Page: 10 | Tags: Illustrations 

THE LOOK OF THINGS: FROM A BYSTANDER'S POINT OF VIEW

... little piece of advice from the Mail. Adults when bathing should remember not to remain in the water too long. A good way to remem ber would be to tie a knot in one's pocket-handkerchief and ask the machine proprietor to bring it out to one at the end of ...

Published: Wednesday 16 August 1911
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 658 | Page: 14 | Tags: Illustrations