Health Wedding

''Our goal is the healthy mind in the healthy body. This is not only a creed but a way of life. Sun, light and air are vital conditions to human wellbeing. We believe these elements are insufficiently used in present-day life, to the detriment of physical and moral health."--Pronunciamento of the International Nudist Conference.

Fervent converts to this "way of life" are Jim Goodman and Susie Wise. He has been a practicing nudist for four months, she for three. Nothing makes Jim, a California railway conductor, feel better than to go to a nudist colony for weekends, strip off his uniform and "romp around."

Last week Jim and Susie decided to get married. For altar they chose a well beside a tree in a nudist colony near Elsinore, Calif. To perform the ceremony they chose Rev. Clarke Irvine of the Temple of Nature Church. For their attendants they chose James Mack as best man, Constance Alien as maid-of-honor. For wedding clothes they chose nothing at all.

Down the path from her bungalow one day last week skipped Bride Susie wearing a kimono. Groom and preacher, naked, came up another path merrily singing to other colonists, "Won't you come and join us?" A young painter with a Van Dyke beard and some young women in slippers answered their call. So did others less adorned. Cheerfully the witnesses ranged themselves around. Susie slipped off her kimono but kept hold of her bouquet. Preacher Irvine mounted a box. Bride & groom exchanged their vows in the sight of Nature and a camera.

Chirped happy Mrs. Goodman, before starting to dress for a honeymoon trip to San Francisco: "I married this way because I like the simplicity and freedom."

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