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»fii 11 .1,to he to the charity con'^ wth the Exhibition.WEB A’frDJ? AT THE SEASIDE.THE editor of the standard.IhwTi* you P*™1*1 • v*«tor to England to expressand wonder at what see nit to him the ^»wa state of nakedness in which children are per-gj te display thaw tehee at tee-side reaorta ? OnSyy B*te children to such placet, I find that my cannot play on the sand without being sur-Intiw *viV- cro'Vf,‘s °f boys who, aa far as tho essential CTi?!r!lrc,othiT,K*r® concerned, are at naked aa I were born.fa*1* **‘-n t‘1is at Scarborough, Bournemouth, ‘rpw?'. and other sea-side resorts, and, permit me to in *'*uhia. 1 do not know that I hare it, * ■aeahere to any such oxteut. I am fully fact that it is not we*.l to be a piudeoutters, but surely, nu’.e-s i.U modesty is _ ■ all clothing a’ mistnko, end all civilisationwee is a i;ne ^ ^ ,in,wn in such i natter* on .■•Ba of what the South Sea Islanders consider 1 cannot conceal n y amavcn*ent that in ao country as England it should ie taken as h gy*af Cl ime for hoys to run around naked amid a Er*“*-uous crowd of adults and young girU, and that Jgjirflh wares should »»e held tosan.tif akdj*’'®' if it occurred c'.6ewbere, would invoke the Tjjwceof thepoUce.told by some of my English friends that, oT* n “ quite proper for their daughter to walk among unclothed boy* of tan year* of age, it jg^Ba agnally improper if the boy* were fifteen.Mg “ beyond me; and 1 confess that the yBaveseen at English watering place*have mate-§English modesty, soncanun*SSay^^j** p**to ■*d tba coaB*J’ 1
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London Standard

London, Middlesex, GB

Tue, Jul 28, 1891

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