Clouds of Steam and Birch Twigs; Buckets of Luke-Warm Water Although Finland is a peninsula, by reason of their long cold winter Finns are not great swimmers, says Joan Hope White in the "Sydney Morning Herald—they bath instead. She gives the following description of a personally experienced Finnish bath In the country every family has its bath-house, and the whole family makes way to the bath-house together, completely naked and entirely at ease. The result of this freedom is that nudity in art in Finland is as conventional and easily accepted by the stranger as it might be distasteful elsewhere, With very little Swedish and no Finnish at my command, I entered the impressive swimming hall of Helsingfors, Finland's up-to-date capital.
With many exclamations of" "Var so god," "Tac, Tac," and kindly gesticulations, I was led away by the smiling bath attendant (a Swedish-speaking Finn), who was suitably dressed in a white cotton dress, white handkerchief on her head, and-nothing on her feet.
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