BATHING — NEGLIGE COSTUMES. 
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ing : a wooden net-work, on which one stands, 
covers a floor of flags, and the water flows 
quickly out by a wide drain. The manner of 
bathing is exceedingly refreshing, and is less 
fatiguing than a plunge-bath. As I returned to 
my room, at every ** cottage ” door sat the occu- 
pants, the gentlemen lying back in their' chairs, 
with their bare feet extended over the long 
ledges which are there for the purpose. Ladies 
sat by them, and baboos and “boys” (male 
servants, waiters and valets, men of all ages, are 
“ boys " here) hurried hither and thither ; the 
hustle of day had already commenced. Did 
you ever have a nightmare, the misery of which 
was that you imagined you were walking out in 
your night-dress ? That was exactly my feeling ; 
and the fact that I wore a dressing-gown made 
me an object of greater curiosity and regard, so 
that it was with the utmost thankfulness that I 
gained the shelter of my own room. 
All this publicity of private life is the effect 
of climatic influence. The easy attitudes and 
neglige costumes 1 describe appear fitted for a 
high-walled garden, or a country retreat, not for 
a public hotel ; but gradually one comes to feel 
that these habits are natural in the climate. 
You have heard of the sarong and habia ? 
