The arrangements for bathing are on the same primitive scale asthe rest. On the upper part of the beach are two rows of cabins in which there is just room to sit down, stand up, and turn round. The furniture jand fittings consist simply of bench to sit on, and afew pegs. Such luxuries as a basin.of water to remove the sand from between one's toes are quite unknown, nor is it considered necessary to clean out the interior. A British bathing machine is far superior in every respect to these cabins. Still, they can be avoided by using one's bedroom at the hotel. Between eleven and twelve o'clock most of one's fellow visitors are transformed into weird sheeted apparitions shuffling in sandals towards the beach or returning from it and leaving slimy tracks, like snails, along the passages and staircases, ite a regular thing to leave bathing suit on the.banisters to dry. The beach possesses a line of three or four posts extending seaward and connected by @ rope to which the nonswimmers cling. A square float, moored about fifty yards out, affords a springboard for those who can dive. The children and ladies are supposed to be under the care of s weather-vested individual known as the "maitre baigneur." Ho is very picturesque and good-natured, but one cannot help thinking he would be more useful in an emergency if he could swim; but his mastery of the art of bathing has never attained this point.
Thrifty Hotelkeeping.
The hotel accommodation here would not suit the fastidious. The food is good and plentiful, but owing to the Proprietor's invincible reluctance to engage extra help, the attendance suffers, At present we have s man and a woman to wait on forty hungry people in the salon, which has been turned into a dining-room for the time being, and the real dining-room is run on similarly economic lines. The waiters, to save time, generally ran at full from th we been several hair-breadth one end of the room to the other, and
escapesof disastrous collisions. The aforesaid waiters, being much too busy to care about ap; or even to look out for tips, have a far from professional look. They wear moustache, shave at irregular intervals, go about in miscellaneous coloured garments and are quite innocent of black coats, shirt-fronts, or white ties. The parlourmaids have to fill up their time as chambermaids, poor things, and when one's room is left untouched until four or five o'clock in the afternoon one has not the heart to complain. The bed rooms are furnished in the most summary way: a bed, chest of drawers, small table for a diminutive jug and basin, an erratic looking-glass and one chair make up all that is considered necessary. Speakit generally, the inferiority ofthe French standard of comfort, as compared with the British and American, makes itself strikingly manifest at Little Flagstones,
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