The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-02-17
THIS rs REALLY TERRIBLE!
BY N. ID. Cochran

Areevour thoughts pure?
Perhaps you don't know You may think you do
Your thoughts may be satisfactory to you. In your
judgment your pure thought batting average may be
right up with Babe Ruth's baseball batting average
But don't get overconfdent. Don't be too
When the Universal Pure Thought League gets
around to you and gives you the once over you may
be surprised. You may get awful jolt.
Just how this new league will go about mancuring
impure thought hasn't developed yet although we are
given sample of impurity by enthusiastic pres
dent and general manager, Mrs. Bee Jennie Hyde of
Denver, Colo. She says there are several thousand
members SO far, and adds:
I'VE are strongest in Sioux City, Council Bluffs
and Omaha"
Many a good thing has come out of the West
Gathering Roadway in the wide open spaces where
are men, and where of the good are now
specializing in pure thought, this movement may
become regular tornado by the time it reaches New
York, Baltimore and Washington.
Wearing skirts that reach down to invisible ankles,
Mrs. Hyde Informed an inquistive reporter that the
league was incorporated ito save the human family
from total destruction by opposing to utmost ALI
public display Of the nude human form"
She consders>modern art magazines to be great
menace as modern-day short skirts, but what makes
her righteous indignation climb clear up over the
boiling point is picture of human legs.
Pictures are legs-egs-legs,' says President Bee
Jennie Hyde Of the Universal Pure Thought League.
1T seems to be veritable epidemic. Pictures of
women prisoners emphasize legs. And pictures of
bathing beauties-an legs-awfulr
Describing what she thinks is a proper costume
for women, Sister Hyde says: "The skirt is long and
ample The bodice is loose, comfortable and graceful
The human form is not dispayed-it is not even indi-
cated--and that is what have. Remember.
our grandmothers' knees invsible-and our
grandmothers seldom frequented the divorce courts
The reporter who wrote the story for the United
Press omitted something of both news and psyche
logical value. He didn't tell what kind OF a locker
Mrs Bee Jennie Hyde is 1t would be much easier to
apprase the value of the estmable ladys opinions if
one had some notion of how she would look either in
one-piece bathing suit garment that drags on
the sidewalk.
But even that anatomical information wouldn't
make clear just how pure thoughts result from
making Of the human form divine impenetrabIe
mystery.
Clarence barrow defined perfect feminnity
as being made up of per cent intellectually per
cent spirituality and 81 per cent anatomy. barrow
may be wrong about it. suspect he is. But if he
happens to be right the woman of smans dreams
would disappear from off the earth With the spiritual
Ty and intellectually being invisible because nippon.
derabe, and woman dressed that the human form
would be not only concealed but not indicated,
there wouldn't be anything to look at at ALL
Even masculine old age, which through eyesight
may still enjoy this worlds most delightful scenery
would be deprived Of what little Joy there
make hanging on to life worth the effort.
But I'm afraid what the pure thought President
Hyde is thinking about is thought at ALL If she
VIII search the best poets she will find that some of
the best and thought generated on this old
world was INSPIRED by beautiful femiHirty. And no
poet found inspiration in Mother Hubbard gown.