[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I was delighted to
read your remarks in " A Spectator's Notebook" last week on the above subject. We may pride ourselves on being "white " but from the East we learnt the habit of bathing our bodies, and also the tenets of Christianity with which to keep our souls cleanly.
It would be interesting to know how many of those white people who attend the Kent swimming bath content them- selves with a weekly bath (if that) in their homes, and the name of Christian without even the weekly practice of their creed. Personally, 1 have felt fewer qualms when bathing in Eastern seas and swimming-pools than do in some of our home waters, because I have seen Mahomedans, of all classes, in all places, scrupulously washing themselves five times a day before praying.=Yours faithfully, Cobdens, East Ashling, near Chichester. IS BEL Hievrt.
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