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Show Back to Nature Cult Is Thriving in Old England Taking Daily Sun Baths, Minus Clothing, Is One of the Diversions. I . I j By International News Service. LONDON, Sept. 1. A "back-to-na-ture" brotherhood and sisterhood, known as the Kosinan Dawn, whose chief tenets ten-ets consist in wearing no clothes and taking sun baths in the open, has come to light at Rock House, near the village of Egg Huckland. in Devon. John Arthur Pratt and Muriel Boyle, who posed as keepers of a refuge for children, were summoned for allowing girls of from 11 to 15 year; old lo scamper about a seven-acre lot wlthnuL anv attire at-tire The teeanical charge was that thev had not registered the children with the authorities, as is renu:red. The evidence snowed mat the defendants defen-dants were frank and open; that the children chil-dren were healthy, clean and well fed. Flias Chegwiddon. father of four of the children, said he regarded Rock House as his home and the female defendant as hu housekeeper. The defendants said the object of their movements was to take orphans Irrespective Irre-spective of creed, cass or color, and train Ibcm up ai Falthlsl Brothers and Sisters, wco should take a sun hath .tally. The bench Imposed a line of shillings In each case where a child was not regls- The institution will continue. |