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Updated: May 2, 2025
There are bitumen walks and gas-lamps, lodging-houses, shops and a <i>teatro diurno</i>. The bathing-establishment is bigger than before, and the restaurant as well; but it is a compensation perhaps that the cuisine is no better.
A partition in the middle divides the ladies from the gentlemen, but allows them to continue their conversation while they sit and splash in their respective compartments. The houses are even more quaint than the bathing-establishment. The whole settlement consists of a square field surrounded by little houses, each with its roof of palm leaves and indispensable verandah.
"They," as I presently learned, were the authorities of the bathing-establishment. Pethel had promised his daughter he would take her for a swim; but on their arrival at the bathing-cabins they were ruthlessly told that bathing was defendu a cause du mauvais temps. This embargo was our theme as we sat down to luncheon. Miss Peggy was of opinion that the French were cowards.
An officer writes home a tale of yet another one of the comforts of home added to the equipment of the trenches: "We are clean people here. Thanks to the ingenuity of , we are able to take a warm bath every day from ten to twelve. We call this teasing the 'boches, for this bathing-establishment of the latest type is fitted up would you believe it? in the trenches!"
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