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THE CHENA
SEPTEMBER.
WHY I AM A NUDISTVAL
CAN understand perfectly why
Psychologically, one might ex- them than in any other
so many people get indignant pect it to finish the false shame and of human beings.
at the mere mention of nudism. sex obsession that so many Mo-*
Now if we all had beautiful decis have. It ought to provide an bodies
pioneers
cranks. Their followers cer
not
but think of the people incentive to keep one's body fit and Possibly the with treble chins and quadruple beautiful. corporations”
BUT HOW WOULD IT WORK
HENRY HARRIS
has written this article "I'm sorry if I shock you,
meezes it cle
Just an excense for indecent curiosity. I should leave those de-
tails to doctors possibly artists" IN PRACTICE?
ovelist was
"Nudists are just cranks, maybe perverts. They get a kick out of My companion-a shocking people just being differ- just as inquisitive, but completely ent. It makes them feel more im- cynical. He was sure all nudists portant. I'd spray the lot with had indecent or perverted minds. syrup and put the bees on them, that's what I'd do?".
That afternoon was a revelation to both of us. (I tell you later about that).
It was nothing but curiosity that : To my surprise all my funk dis led to my first nudist experience. appeared with my last garments Why up on the slopes of a pine- But the three preceding minutes -wooded forest under a warm were uncomfortable.
continental sun. The setting was perfect.
I wanted to see what sort of peo- ple these nudists were. Why it had become a cult
Men, women, families of all shapes and sizes. Swimming. splashing or fooling in the pool. Dezing or sunbathing on the grass. Playing games. Stunting and re volving on a gigantic double wheel gymnastic apparatus.
If anything, nudism stabilise and cranky, prudist people.
or sex
F-obs
What struck my friend, the cynic, was that ugly people look no ngher in the nude.
There was a particlarly, hand- some couple who had come for the first time. But in contrast with the sun-tanned, air-flushed skins of even elderly and obese nudists, their skins seemed pale, sodden, un- pleasant by contrast.
Curiosity gratified, man can then go on to things that matter more. Friendship, love, justice, happi-
for all ness, beauty
The world is full of important things outside sex.
I don't expect you to accept what I say
You may be shocked. You may decide I am just a cran
Well, my answer is this.
dvance
Mere prettiness finds its own Conduct your life as you choose. level among the nudists. A pretty But I don't feel you can judge fact with a poor physique and a thing until you've tried it. crimped fashionable stoop looks more than I could. merely ridiculous by the side of a healthy beautiful physique, with I've looked since for eccentric. lovely natural posture and move it was healthy (though wearing neurotie, or unpleasant people in ment. shorts would not have made it less "audie camps. I've never been able to find a larger percentage of so)..
At one time, there were three million of them in Germany. In theory, it seemed good. Physically,
THE
I
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
AM a loafer.
What has amused me most is the way in which the most indignant anti-audists are the first to become hot-gospelling fanatic nudists the when they've given it a trial.
Here among the nudists homely girl with a healthy beauti- ful physique has nothing to fear
from the competition of her prettier, sisters.
Amazing, too, how it seemed to urge people to take a pride in developing their bodies.
My friend the cynic has since be- [come a hot-gospeller for nudism. I remain sympathetic, but no fanatic.
It is not by far - the most
This is a boast, no mistakes, commits no sins, per- not a confession. I love loaf-petrates no crimes. He is like unto ing, and I believe in the morality that one in the scriptural image important thing in the world. of it, and the spiritual value of it, that expected a guest, and swept with all my heart. It ought to be and prepared the guest-chamber. He
I prefer my nudism in semi-
a respectable way of life, and that is like the lies that neither toil nor private Among congenial friends it is not, merely proves that the spin, and take no thought, no worry, and acquaintances. But that is not public has a false idea of it. no fret, for the morrow. Indeed, it practical for all hence the They use the word loafer as a term is hard to loaf properly, completely, "andie" clubs.. of reproach, whereas it is a com-jentirely, and who calls himself a
pliment, too often undeserved. Half loafer makes a large claim. was My own conclusions are these. a loaf may be better than no loaf once arrested in a small village, and ng, but your temporary, spasmodic, run in, and when the Inspector ask intermittent loafer is not the real ed me what I did for a living, thing. He is of the dilettanti Says said I did nothing, which was the dictionary (forcing me to re-that time true. call Dr. Johnson's definition of the
"Ah! A loafer, eh?”
man that makes one, as a drudge") a loafer is a vagrant who subsists by shifts." How little thought was here devoted to the money."
at
"Huh! Loafing on better men's
Does Your Back Ache?
There is no need to describe back pains; everybody who has experienced them knows how torturing and depress- they can be. What does vitally as are the problems of se and
Physically, nudism is an invalu-
concern Scientists now know able tonic. that the skin is a vitally import organ. It is a factory It needs sun and air.
hemselves. And, best and quickest way to from this s
If you covered the skin of a from worry, grief, plant it would die. By exposing for excesses of only our faces and hands we rob they also are o
rheumatism
ourselves of nature's medicine. by poisons in
take an air-bath in the nude every girls and wo for the physical effects.
ties.
matter. At the very outset, a vagrant “No. On my own, that was hard is of necessity an energetic person, earned and honestly got. You ap- who moves from place to place, pear to think that a loafer mustering What time he is vagranting, he can be a sponger.” not be loafing. As to "subsisting
by shifts," we all do that. You do
"That's what it means.”
it. The things do to eam da "Indeed it does not. Do you, living are all shifts to subsist mere policeman, pretend to teach Nor is a loafer necessarily idle. In me, a journalist, my own language?" ne sense he must be lazy, physically It is a good job there were wit lazy, but that attitude would be
Eciently down
world
or I believe he would have He looked as if he wanted
jalone.
But psychologically, nudism is even more important. It tak from sex the unhealthy emphasis
which most moderns have to some degree.
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