In his crusade against mixed bathing Councillor Clark, of Tunbridge Wells, has sustained a_sct-back by the action of the Bath Mineral Baths Committee. Hitherto used by male and female bathers separately, the Royal Hot Mineral Water Swimming Bath is in future to be the scene of mixed bathing.
For the moment this joint occupancy of the bath is to be limited to one afternoon per week, but it is a beginning, and the time may come when the sexes may intermingle as freely as in the days of Beau Nash, who, though no opponent of mixed bathing, was very severe upon any bather or specta-for who was guilty of any breach of propriety. In close proximity to the Royal Bath is the more famous Kings' Rath, which, in Nash's day always furnished an animated spectacle with society notables of both sexes indulging their gambols in the sight of an interested and sometimes critical assembly. It was on such an occasion that the Beau, overhearing a flippant remark by a gentleman with reference to a very buxom lady in the bath, took the incautious gentleman by the heels and lifted him over the balustrade into the water, to the surprise and consternation of the disnorting bathers.
Nash's rules regarding bathing dress were very stringent, and woe betide any swimmer who failed to observe his decrees. Councillor Clark may be satisfied that Bath to-day will not be less exacting. and that revived mixed bathing will be marked by the utmost decorum.
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