The Archive · 1930

BBC. and Bathing for Star

The question of bathing for typists has apparently been puzzling] the heads of the B.B.C. at Savoy Hill fever since one of the girls on the staff came back half an hour late {from lunch after bathing at the Lam.

th baths. She then plunged into typewriting with such vigour] that they' swimming must] bbe good for the mind as well as the figure. The girls at Savoy Hill are now allowed an extra half hour at Junch twice a week on condition that] they bathe. Men are envious of the concession granted to the girls, and office boys who have buried the grandmothers several times are con-Sidering whether they cannot bring swimming into their excuse next time Hobbs is batting at the Oval.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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