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SUN BATHING IN THE
WEST END
DOCTORS AND BARRISTERS
"AS MEMBERS.
GAMES UNDER GLARE OF ULTRA-VIOLET, RAY,
A West End Society with 300 members-all of Public School and University education-is the Intest development marking the increns- ing popularity in England of mixed sunbathing in the nudo.
LORD BADEN-POWELL'S
HEALTH SECRET.
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work, and thinking far more of their pleasure than their work. This leads to self-indulgence in forms never even con'emplated by: previous generations."
I could see that this phase had troubled Lord Baden-Powell, Wo on to discuss the modern boy's reaction to religion.
went
"I believe, despite all have The society the Britash Sun said, that the boy of to-day is ve bathing Leagus have been holding ligions, the Chief Scout declar indoor meetings, during the wintered with emphasis,” bathing in artificial aunlight pró- vided by giant cftra violet ray
lam
I talked with, one of the foundera of the League, saya a Press corres- pandant. He is a well-known prac tiling barrister, is married, and hge Ave children. He told me that the male members include:
Nino doctors,
Three barristers, Six solicitors, and Members of the Stock Ex-
change, of Lloyd's and of the
Baltic,
The teague, he said started in this way. Last summor a number of meu with their wives got to
"I will aver say that he is an religious as his father was, but his religion takes a different form. It is no one, thing, so churchy.' It is less a religion of form than
spirit
Then you do think," I naked, that the boy of our day is really As good as his father?"
How can one help thinking so when one comes into close contact: with thousands of boys, as we do in the Boy Scouts ?
I, who am always thinking of these boys of mine, Gad is signide
ant that in these days of financial depression beys are finding the money to visit other Boy Scouts in different parts of the world. It
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perience. It shows a practical iden
hathing. Although the weather was anything but propitious, they is. found that their health benefited to such an extent that they decided to continuo indoor sun-bathing dur- ing the winter. So they founded the longue..
Credentials.
Any person, man 0% woman, applying for membership was inter. viewed and had to provide unim peachable credentials before being accepted by the League.
Nevertheless the menborship grow so rapidly that soon it was considered necessary to introduce some form of regulations. Accard ingly the League was divided into three sections-mer's, women's and a sleet or mixed section.
INTERNATIONAL UNDER- STANDING,
"Not long ago I attended the Arst world Rover Seout moot pi boys from eleven parts of the Em pire and 23 of the 45 countriga which have adopted the movement. This was held at Kandersteg, in Switzerland. At that moot we expected perhaps 300 boys. Actual ly we got 3000, and feared that we could not provide accommodation for them.^^
I suggested that many regarded the Boy Scouts movement nstone of the best peace-making mediums in the world, and I recalled his awn address 45 Kandersteg in
leave you a legacy of war. which he had said: "We old 'uns War was made by men, not by God, and
The handquarters of the League were set up at a small ball in the West End. about 35ft, long by 18ft, wide. At one end of the hall the the cure for ib must be made by altra-violet ray lamps were instalmen, too."
- His reply
Wax encouraging. "When boys of differing races and civilisations have got to the point, In our scouts did in Switzerland, of chafing one another about their respective countries, we have ac
led at the other end exercising devices and gear for games such as ping-pong and ring-tennis placed.
wero
My barrister informant explain- od to me that when a man is 20- cepted
дя member he is askedcomplished something which even whether he objects to seeing other
the diplomat, at times fails to se men in the nude, or to appearing
cure. Mutual understanding is the s himself to the sun-bathing meet-
best road peace." ings. If he has any hesitation, he is intruditeed and weara alips or shorts.
Actually, members rarely dis- erd all their clothes, except when taking a close-up sun-bath, or while taking part in one of the games or exercises.
I put a final question to Lord Badon-Powell about the future of line Empire.
I have been astonished," he declared, at the interést shown ia the Empire wherever I have travel. led. The Empire is a going concern -but not in the sense that its" ene-
The procedure is the same in the mies wish," women's section.
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The Mixed Circle,
The Lengue profor that entrants to the mixed circle should be man and wile together, an "engaged couple, or a couple about to be- como engaged. Everything is ex- plained to them beforehand, I was told, and if there is the alightest hesitation, the applicants, first at tend the separate sections for men and women,
to be remembered that our regula tions are most strict, and that every member, is of responsible character and position in life.
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"Not long ago, after certain anonymous letters reached me and my wife, and also the police, "we invited the police to investigate the league. They made two visits and were thoroughly convinced of the soundness of our organisation."
"If I could give the names of A couple attending their frst some of our members there could night of a mixed night are asked to bo no doubt loft as to the bond arrive early. First of all they are fides of our league. introduced to the other bathers, the
"Many members have written
man making friends with another telling me of the extraordinary. man, while the woman is taken good sunbathing has done for their care of by another woman. When health.
they have settled down the lamps Our members include people. aro turned on, and the sun bathing who have spent some time in the begins. Generally games start im- Tropics. They suffer from à form mediately, such as a form of in of sun starvation. door football and tabletennis.
"Wo and that sitting about "for half an hour chatting and smoking evaporates the self-consciousness and embarrassment of most
The uninitiated may be inclined to look askance at this experi ment," my informant said. "It has (Oontinued at foot of next colum.) people."
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