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A sand-bath is a hygienic luxury of comparatively ancient date, but the inventiveness of the Sandwich Island natives has given it a newer and more amusing significance.
Burying a man alive in sand has become one of the current jokes of the day.
The victim must be a willing one.
He stretches himself flat on the ground, and sand is piled
sidered in the light of artistic finish to get up a weeping-scene.
A score of men, eye-glass in eye, arrayed in the sweet simplicity of striped bathing-jerseys, amuse themselves leaning on each
other's shoulders, and pre- tend to sob in a most heart- breaking manner.
The long deal boards for surfriding look really unpleasantly like coffin-lids, and the whole business - as a theatrical eccentricity - stands without a rival in the annals and traditions of the bathing resort.

BURIED UP TO THE NECK IS SAND IN THE SANDWICH ISLANDS.