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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.
Too Much Prudery About Nudity
THREE WEEKS' FEEDING!
Hungry and starving, a young Chinege stole a pot containing some hot food from a stall in the street. When brought before the Central Magistrate yesterday he admitted the theft frankly. In- spector Dick explained the youth was hungry. Mr. Wynne-Jonca sympathising with the off remark- "Each year, as our summerftury, and which Moliere carica- ed to the Inspector "shall we give holidays come round, the questured in Les Precieuses Ridicules. him three weeks' feeding?" "Action of nudity becomes for most This affectation, which came to cused was sentenced to that term. of us a practical, personal and England about a hundred years
pressing problemn," writes Gago, A Stoke-on-Trent, Staffs, man, Ward Price in the Sunday Pic people were too refined to bear assumed that well-bred who walked 100 miles to Woburn, torial.
even an allusion to the ordinary Bedfordshire, Police Court, to an- Our perplexity begins before physiological facts of life. swer a summons for not having a we ever reach the water's edge. Thus legs became "limbs," and third-party motor insurance policy,
"I want a bathing-costume, a woman about to have a baby was fined £1, and the amount was please," we say to one of those could only be referred to as "in paid by one of the magistrates.
attractive young saleswomen a certain condition." who ensure the success of the. We have got rid of most of Your Daily Smile.
men's haberdashery business-this mealy-mouthed hypocrisy, and she lays on the counter for but the bugbear of "nudity" THINGS I WONDER,
our inspection a curious garment which we are not yet frank How a nudist manages about in brightly-coloured stockinet enough to call nakedness-still
Its only substantial part is hia watch, money, pipe, tobacco, few square inches of material mind.
a besets the fussier type of British around and below. the waist. It is always the very good Above that there is an elaborate people, with records of un- cat'a-cradle of tapes.
blemished and undoubted virtue, "Twenty-five shillings," she who are most earnest in says, without even a flicker
of conviction that each successive ly. Well, surely ten is sufficient. her long eyelashes.
slight advance of natural 'free- "Is this er are they being dom is about to loose an orgy of worn like this " we ask diffident-licence upon the land.
...One respects their scruples, "Oh, yes," is her rather but in these matters the ex- patronising reply. "For sun-perience of those of us who bathing, you know." And we have mixed a little more freely
Abbreviated Costumes For Sun-Bathing.
CULT PROSPERS ON CONTINENT
cigarettes, matches, cheque-book, and such things.
Two Over the Eight.
"No more drinks should be served after ten," said a magistrate recent-
*
*
TRAGI-COMEDY.
The real tragedies nowadays. are the comedies that don't pay.
How to Keep Young.
sleep peacefully.
#
The China Mail ages. Cooks are on..the road,
looking for jobs or patrons wor-Serpent-ine Eden. thy of them. The actor, dancer, A woman doctor Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 26, 1932-juggler are nomads from the nudism at Lansbury's Lido.
first. See our old friend Socrates of exposing the hide in Hyde Park.
* moralizing at a show. An acro- batic dancing girl.
Of Two Evils ..}
The Wanderers.
danced, whitling hoops into the air and catching them, which set Socrates to propounding that wo- man's nature le not really in- ferior to men's.
one city
Poverty, exile after
ers in Early America," has given up and paints the breed:
The
But the ill caitiff of all toil in shy, And with a hell-deep maw doth
cringe about
For victuals..
*
A man has eloped with a seaside landlady. He may yet live to wish he'd paid her bill instead.
•
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•
their
ex-
more
Put them in cots and let them leave the shop carrying a with the world is of grenter costume which a few years ago authority. The truth is that all we should never have expected this. blather about "nudity," te see on anyone except Sergo "indecency," "suggestive advocates Lifar or Anton Dolin, dancing in posure" and the rest, is at the
Sort L'Apres-midi d'un Faune
present moment. doing Historians in some future age, harm to the morals of the analysing our vanishing social younger generation in this coun institutions, will be puzzled to try than would be done by the understand our attitude upon abolition of bathing-costumes al- The appointment of Canon
this question of bodily exposure: together.
"Police Eject Sun-bathers ati Patrice Flynn, Cure of the Church
Nudism Commonplace. Welsh Harp," they will read. If anyone should feel surprise of the Madeleine, a Paris-born
DON'T BLAME THEM.
poring over the faded files of last at this statement, they probably Irishman, as Bishop of Nevers faction had conquered another, as an undeniable fact that, like claimed by one school of thought learn that in some of the most The Bore: It la now recognized week's newspapers. This will be will be surprised still more to takes one buck to the chapter flight from justice or injustice, many other qualities, stupidity is as evidence for the theory that civilised countries of Europe, in Mr. T. R. Glover's "Greek the main causes, aside from ad-
kidnapping, piracy were among hereditary
the display of the human frame men and women, Byways" on "The Wandering venture and the love of power to talk about your parents!
The Bored: That's a nice, way was regarded as a heftious crime classes
of the best' of society, regularly Greek." The Corinthians used and gain, that sent Greeks into
against the community ranking bathe in summer completely *.. *
with embezzlement, non-conver-naked-not actually to say of the Athenians that far places. Their pottery is
WEAK-WILLED.
sion of War Loan and failure to but certainly within sight of together, found over the then known world. they were born neither to rest Even before they had colonies in hand, gazed at the smooth,
The strong man, gleaming knife pay wireless licences.,
each other on the same beach. "themselves nor to let anybody they were always edging or for-white body in the water.
Then these research students One need only go, as I have been. will turn to the picture-page of myself, to some of those creeks else "rest" The latter part of cing their way in. The first "I cannot do it?" he groaned. the same newspaper, and find and islands on the fjord below the saying may be neglected as great peregrinator, that heroic "It's not a man's work." Tears photographs of a dozen leading Stockholm, to see family parties the dig of a rival, though some guished as a beggar was taken
confidence man, Odysseus, dis-streamed down his cheeks. Society beauties, spreadeagled on of Swedes and groupe of friends The woman, with a look of utter the shelves of the Eden-Roc of both sexes undressing on the observers might like to apply it for a tramp in his own home. acorn, seized the knife and finish-bathing-place at Cannes, without sand, and running down without to Americans, Mr. Richardson No doubt the tramp is pre ed pealing the onion!
enough material on the whole lot a stitch of clothing on them to Wright, in "Hawkers and Walk-Achaen, pre-Mycenaean.
of them to dress a baby's doll, the sea, where they mingle in treacherous goatherd sizes him Facts You Did Not Were these people moral Bolthe water without any more a picture of the roaming ped-
ahevika?" they will ask "exiles constraint. than if they were all Know. dlers, carpenters, doctors, prea-
who had fled their country to attired in the "neck-to-knee" perform the forbidden, ritual of costumes so dear to the dour chers, and so on, of the West
Designed to draw slivers of metal the Sun-god in some other minds of our seaalde borough from 1800 up. It is a sort of
Work is offered to the supposnet installed in a Minneapolis hos-
from patients' eyes, an electromag land?"
councillors. text for Mr. Glover, if his owned tramp. Will be plant trees?pital is rated at ten horsepower and remain as great a mystery as the be something scabrous in naked- The whole thing will probably To the imagination there may Will scale is larger. The artisans of walls?
he gather stones for is powerful enough to draw a flat-
Then he will be iron across the floor of a room.
heretical activities of Tutankh ness. As a physical condition it Greece, despised by Aristotle as sure of food all the year
Amen are to us, for, no archaeo- soon comes to appear commion foreigners and followers of round, good clothes, sandals.
8
logist in the far-off future is place as anyone who has been & government decross mean life, had been welcomed to The old rascal knows how to Costa Rican bakeries will be re-likely to stumble upon the simple even to the Quat'z Arts Ball in
play his part. He is an "A num-quired to mix ten per cent of yucca fact that all this fuss about Paris will agree. Athene by Solon, and became, ber one workman, but you've flour with wheat flour used in bread nudity is the result of a stupid When you order a bath at one with other exiles and aliens, the got to give him just the type of for two years after next June and and out-of-date convention from of the large hotels in Stockholm, force that made Athens "the work that he is fitted to do. So 15 per cent for the following three which the British public is only a chambermaid is in attendance centre to which "brains and the principles of his profession.
the Homeric tramp was true to years.
gradually liberating itself.to soap and sponge you. I ex- ideas, art and industry, "na-It was already crowded in Ithaca:
The "Naughty Nineties." pressed to the manager my sur turally gravitated."
To teach aviation students to How the next generation will prise at this practice... The cir Find we not vagabonds enough to control planes & New York man has laugh at the vapourings of our "But in England hospital cuit-rider and missionary
invented a stationary cockpit, sur indignant faddists against the nurses give baths
to their represented
rounded by a semispherical shell, indecent spectacles" which they patients, don't they?" was his names as St. Peter, St. Paul,
Mr. Glover might have added painted with a landscape, that an in allege are to be witnessed on reply.. St. Thomas, but the new faith to his collection that strange structor tilts to give the sensations every beach in England during "I suppose they do," I said.
peripatetic sophist, Apollonius of movement. was widely spread by obscure of Tyana, whose adventures and
the month of August! We getWell, to these girls their the same sort of feeling our duties seem just as normal as to itinerants, "mere laymen of the wonder-workings are set forth in
Two Australians have developed a selves in reading about the your nurses. road "The trader, beginning the Tomance by Philostratus sugar cane harvester said to equal "mashers" of the naughty (Continued on Page 6.)
the hand labour of 200 to 300'nineties," who actually used to with the Aegean and hugging the which pretends to be a life of its labourers, cutting off the cane below walk about the streets "quiz- AUSTRIAN FACTORY coast, was often a pirate. The hero. The latter was able to be the surface of the ground, dividing zing the girls ankles if, by any skillful or lucky physician might in two places at once, identify it into short sections and removing accident, one of them were so
FOR SCOTLAND. find royal patients and patronage and destroy the plague in the at the Persian or Egyptian court shape of a dog, fill with winea
unfortunate as to show a single or with some tyrant of the Ae- well somewhere below the Third
inch of (hush!) stocking Pure Silk Mill To Be gean Islands or the mainland or Cataract and thereby put to
CHURCH MARKING self-antised, complacent, hard- The Victorian age was one of Asia Minor. Foets went to Si-sleep and capture a satyr that ST ANDREW'S DAY hearted humbug. A lot of its
Established. cily or Macedon for protection was scandalizing the women of or a fat fee or a more sympathe the village, interview Achilles,
cant still Ingere with us yet (Reuter's Special Mall Bervice).. tic public. In the Imperial who appears, twelve cubits high,
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My London. timea philosophers, often better from the mound where he is
America, where, in some States A pure silk factory is to be es described as sophists, sometimes buried. "Pleased to meet you,
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After a twelve months' Investf- conduct by kissing his wife, in Interests, when we were the golden days of profes- knew to the interviewer. Bunday to St. Andrew's Day, the One does not need to be. gation throughout the country. Mr. sors The forming of modern Ireland, with its heroic, sagas Patronal Festival of St. Andrew's very old to remember when Marks Scheffer, a Viennese silk universities for degrees is small and foretime, its clans and kings, Church, Kowloon will
Was
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Beggars, the bane of feasts and
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unmentionables, and going a menced almost immedia portions little further back, we find that A number of skilled foreign
to Dickens, workers will be brought
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