A Practical Nudist
Answers the Scientists

Permit me to say at the outset that i think the title of the article, “Science Studies the Nudists,” in the February issue, is misleading, for the the scientists are not studying the nudists but the effect of nakedness on themselves, presumably not nudists. It hardly seems scientific to say that, because of their own reactions to an environment to which they have not become acclimatized, they have discovered anything that justifies the title. My own experience and, more particularly, that of my children—all of us have been nudists for twelve years—is that systematic exposure to the sun and air renders the body more and more immune to temperatures that the average body would find too hot or too cold. And here is something your scientists should be interested in. During the twelve years, my children have been free from all illness, except for a few colds which have occurred only on their return to school. One of my children, now eighteen, has never experienced a single day’s illness. I feel that if we consider why chickens or lambs born when the snow is on the ground are hardier than the later ones, or why the first leaves of sweet peas stand frost better than the later ones, we are getting nearer to the science of the subject, which is one of heredity, environment, and acclimatization, rather than one of temporary, artificial rise and fall of temperature.—C.W., Redwood City, Calif.