SUN-BATHING

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3754, 14 February 1928, Page 4

SUN-BATHING

“Get into the bathing suit and get into the sun.” That is the latest advice for health. Although the value of the sun’s rays, their sterilising and energy building powers, have been thoroughly Recognised, it is only in latter years that they have been at all courted. Modern science has even made it possible that they can be captured and a treatment of sun-bathing given indoors. By this means, the desired nut-brown colour is obtained, and even the skinning process is gone through. Here, in this temperate climate, however, especially with the return of the “oldfashioned summer,” sun-bathing has become a rite. Witness the fact by the, healthy appearance of the New Zealanders after their season of swimming and lying on the warm sands. Although it is a fine thing to see the golden effects of systematic sun-bathing, and understanding goes to those who take their bronzing seriously, it is a foolish thing to aim at drastic results. Yet it is done. Again and again, flaming faces and peeling noses flaunt their unattractions, their owners bearing up bravely under the strain of pain. But they suffer gladly, for they know that after the agony the desired colour will appear. It is not wise to indulge in too much sun at a time, but if through inadvertence this should happen, here is a treatment which will take out all the heat and not fade the shade of the ambitious sun-bather. It comprises milk and ground chalk, mixed to a paste, and lavishly applied to the affected part. Its results are marvellous —only appreciated by those who have writhed under the slightest contact of clothing agaipst the burnt skin and the incessant hot sting that comes when the sun goes down.