Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Out-Door Bathers in Britain. [ARTICLE]

Out-Door Bathers in Britain.

I found myself at the Serpentine at an unusually early hour the other morning, says a writer in the London Graphic. A little way out in the watcr, € in front of the diving board, was a ladder lying on the ice, and in front of the ladder were two trestles. Between the two trestles the ice was broken away, leaving a space to dive into about ten feet long by five or six feet wide, the trestles being placed there for the purpose of keepingothe miserable little plunge bath select from the skaters. To the left of the trestles was another ladder lying on the ice. Near the bank I found a policeman who was communicative. The bathers form a kind of a club and number about twenty, he told me. They bathe every morning. No matter what, the weather Is, in they go just the same. AM classes of people,belong to the club, I was further informed, and some of them came from a good distance. One enthusiast is 75 years old. His hair and beard are white as snow.