Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-11-02
VOLUME XIV. NO. 29.
4 BATHING SCENE IN SWITZERLAND. :

4 BATHING SCENE IN sWtTzERLAND.
A correspondent of the New York Eve
ming Post thus describes the bathers at
Lent-a famous Swiss watering place:
AT five o'clock each morning bell is
rung for the bathers to return to the bath,
end then COMES one of the most whimsical,
scenes that can be imagined. The baths
are great covered Reservoirs, capable of
holding from twenty to fifty persons, and
into these the patients plunge up to their
necks in seethiog water, where they remain
no less than four hours at time, and ma.
ny OF them twice day. Men and women
enter the same banks, swimming about at
will, or fixing themselves behind little float.
ing tables, on which they take breakfast,
read books, or play games Of domuoes,
and chess. 1t is necessary to relieve the
tedium Of so long an ablu,ion to do sotne-
thing for amusement's sake, and the songs,
tire speeches, the repartees, the cloruses
the roars OF laughter, the shouts Of ap-
plause that follow each other are endless.
all the resources of French vivac;,y are
brought into play to pass the time, and the
effect of half hundred lie DIS, which is all
you can see of the person, thus vatously
engaged, is to the last degree, droll. Why
they are required to be kept so long in the
, water the doctors must tell you; but YOU
can easily conceive that four hours INNER.
sion for twenty five days together must be
completely eficacious to either kill or cure
the sufferer. But as no one is known to
have been killed, and many are reported to
have been cured. the logical supposition is
that the bathing does good.
A HAPPY WoMAE.-Is she not the
very sparkle and sunshine Of Hfe9 A wo-
man who is happy because che can't help
} it, whose smiles even the coolest sprinkle
Of misfortune cannot dampen2 Men make
terrible mistake when they marry for
beauty, for talent or style. The sweetest
& wives are those who possess the magic
, quaiity of being contented under any cir
cumstances. Rich or poor, high or aews
. it makes no difference; the bright little
fountain of joy bubbles up just as musi-
cally and purely in their hearts, Do they
live in log cabin, the FIRE that lssns up
on ito humble hearth becomes brighter
ban the splendid gilded chandeliers in
A. 'addins palace. When isthe stream of
life so dark and ubpropitious that the Sun
shin, >of happy smile falling on the tur-
h;a =, % will not awaken an answering
p,eama Why, these ;jeyous tempered
Deon]e d., mt know half tbs- good they do.
Won n MT 'oAqou :1r.-You can't
catch Il bov, 'ana girls. You may be as
f,eet q. tbs -, telope, or you may fy as on
tbe wings Of a. eagle, yet you cannot
overtake it. .s-. .-,
Cannot ovsrtats wbar7
The bad word ~, ioh has passed your
lips! It has fled to b Sa'en, and wrote it.
self on the Book of Go. : foa can't catoh
Tho wicked deed you oefao'nedt It
scared to the Judgment and "as steteo-,
Typed on the memory of the ~ adge' .Yea
can't catch it. %.-.y.
The sinful thought you iudulg % IL
image was caught by the light o, GODS
eye, and photographed on the roll Of, Yonf
history. You cant catch 1t. - W :
Beware, then, o my children, What you
'h'ns' what you do, what you say: s.'s
WORTH THE CHARM Young men ara