Evening star. [volume], August 03, 1941, Page 15, Image 88

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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Take The Sun - Right
Follow these rules for
safe and happy results
The two vacation months left on
the calendar will find millions
of pale-skins flocking to the sun
to stake out claims for spectacular
gold.
Less showy, but more substantial
riches are to be had, however, from
the sun’s vitamin D deposits, easily
tapped by every normal man, woman
and child. These help you to recharge
your winter-depleted system, and
they promise you more handsomeness
and, equally important, better all
around health.
The sun yields these nches, but it
is important to know the best way to
tap them. First of all, if you want all
of the benefits and none of the haz
ards, it is smart to regard the sun as a
powerful ultra-violet lamp and your
exposure to it as treatments, to be
wisely prescribed and systematically
observed.
Since the sun is a “fixed lamp"
which can’t be brought forward or
pushed back, switched from your up
pers to your nethers, or turned on and
off at will, these are adjustments your
body has to make.
In this respect there are some
medically-approved directions which
you can apply to yoursell, just as a
licensed physio-therapist would who
had to keep you under her eye and
prevent over-exposure.
A Chemical Pareto I
Your first need is a sun-screen for
every inch of exposed flesh. That is
one of the sunproof preparations
which shield your skin with a chemical
parasol. Perhaps you are in the habit
of pooh-poohing these lotions, creams
or oils, but if so you are not up on your
chemistry. Though the bases used in
them may be no different from bases
found in other creams, lotions and
oils, yet in addition they carry very
special chemical filters that absorb
burning rays before they reach the
skin.
Also in the line of protectors come
kerchiefs for the hair — important,
because the sun can wreak havoc with
the color of your hair. And of course
you need sunglasses for your eyes, be
cause they can't stand glare, as we
explained in an article several weeks
a on
Once you have provided the proper
“screens” for your body, you should
also be discriminating about the kind
of sun you get. When it comes through
ordinary window glass or through a
screen of clouds, smoke, or city soot,
it loses much of its value. The best
is the kind you get on a stretch of
white sand, fringing the water, where
reflections add to the intensity of
healthful ultra-violet rays. The best
time to get these — is early in the
day, as soon as the morning mist dis
appears. Then, the temperature is
mildest, the air is freshest, and the
sun is mqre apt to be cloudless than at
any other period of the day.
I he Deadliest lime
The deadliest time to take a sun
bath is between 11 a.m. and 2 P.M.,
when the mercury hits its all-time
high for the day.
Even when you pick an early morn
ing hour, however, it is well to insu
late your body against the heat and
keep your skin from going dry, by
drinking lots of liquids in advance, to
help you out when you settle down for
your sun bath.
It is best to take that in the alto
gether, since you want the whole-of
you to soak up the health-giving rays.
But lacking the privacy that enables
you to do this, wear as little clothing
as you can and still conform to the
statutes.
If you use cologne or toilet water
on your skin, leave it off until you
come out of the sun. Some oils in
these, particularly those derived from
certain fruits, have a tendency, when
smacked by the sun, to leave stubborn
stains on the skin.
Now, for the timing, the most im
portant factor of all. A minute too
long under the sun, just as too long
a stay under a lamp, often spells the
difference between a fluorescent-pink
and a lobster-red skin, between a
rosiness that will melt into a tan and
the redness that predicts an inevitable
burn.
There are no hard and fast rules
about timing. Each person is pretty
much a law unto himself since skins
vary in their sensitivity to the sun.
But the tolerance of your skin depends
a lot upon whether you can take a
tan or whether vou just burn red.
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your skin must be
able to manu
facture a tan.
Boosted by ultra
violet rays these
pigment-cells
make more pig
ment and give
you a natural
protection against
reasonable expo
sure to sun. Bru
nettes — that is,
all except the
fair-skinned ones
— reaany uikc a
tan. Blondes —
except the honey
skinned ones —
don’t. The very
most in pigmenta
tion some blondes
can boast is a
scattering of color
granules, which
show as freckles.
So, foy these
reasons tuning for.
the dark-skinned.,
and for the fan-t,
skinned person-!
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Even if you can take a tan, how
ever, you must give your skin time
to develop it, and that depends upon
repeated exposure. To be on the safe
side, begin with eight minutes’ total
exposure to the entire body, giving
each of the four surfaces two minutes.
Increase that total amount five min
utes daily for two weeks. If you want
sleek golden legs, dark enough to
pass as stockings in the country,
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give those extremities a little more
sun. But cover up the rest of your
body while you are exposing these
nethers.
At the end of two weeks you should
have an all-over flattering tan, and
enough natural protection to stay in
the sun with safety for two or three
hours at a time.
If you don’t tan, the thing to hope
for is a blushing pink, which, if in
duced by heat, and not by burn, soon
disappears. To avoid burning, cut
down the timing, prescribed above, by
half. After your two weeks’ condition
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be able to toler
ate a little more
of direct exposure
to the sun; but
for any protracted
stay out of doors,
you’ll need to for
tify yourself with
a big-brimmed
hat or a parasol
— this time the
actual thing — or
seek a spot where
you can be safe in
the shade.
These rules ap
ply to normally
healthy people.
Those suffering
from skin or sys
temic diseases—
particularly those
who have or have
had tuberculosis
— should follow
strict medical
counsel about
going in the
sun.
But where nor
mally healthy
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rules, there will be no need to go
to the bathroom cabinet for relief
from smarting skins. But if you have
such need, there are aids that help.
One of the simplest is laundry starch,
which by softening your bath water
serves as a dependable demulcent.
The invisible film that stays on, after
you blot yourself dry, continues to
soothe and to reduce further any
irritation.
STRAIGHT SHOOTER
Continuod from pago ton
Toward the end of the first nine,
Burt growled: “Lucky for my repu
tation as state champion that you've
got a bum shoulder; if you didn’t have,
you’d be out-driving me on every
hole, instead of only half of them!”
“I honestly don’t know what’s
struck me,” Anne said frankly. “It
isn’t so much that my — my shoul
der is all right, but 1 wasn't in the
mood — 1 was all tied up in knots—’’
“Well, keep tied up then,” he ad
vised, "for a few more holes.”
Even when she caught a glimpse of
Stan, trailing along a little apart from
the rest of the gallery on the second
nine, it didn’t affect her game.
She and Burt won, of course. There
was the usual acclaim afterwards —
more than usual, so it seemed to Anne.
Even with Burt to share the victory,
they seemed to be determined to give
her the spotlight. They were making
her not only a champion, they were
making her into a heroine. They were
playing up her illness, her marvelous
sportsmanship, her courage in saving
the day in spite of it; they were turn
ing. her run-of-the-mill Anne Sawyer
smile into the laughing-with-tears
in-your-eyes kind. She felt like a heel.
She made her escape as quickly as
possible. By a circuitous route Anne
reached her car without a following —
or so she thought.
Automatically, she glanced into
the rear-view mirror as she turned the
ignition key, and saw Stan Elliott
practically upon her. He opened the
door and slid in beside her.
He said: "A crowd can be fooled
about almost anything — if it wishes
to be, can’t it? Even newspaper re
porters. The way they lapped up youi
act — what was it you called il?”
"Bursitis,” Anne snapped. "And
you don’t need to tell me you didn't
lap it up —11 know you’re far too
clever, far too much a mastermind
for that!”
“Not too clever—too interested.
Too much in love, if you want the
whole truth.” ..
His voice changed suddenly, be
came strangely husky. “But I’m be
ginning to see why you did it — I hope
I am anyway — I mean inventing the
lame shoulder to keep you from play
ing today, refusing the dance chair
manship and working like a flunkey
at a dozen thankless little jobs no one
else would do.”
"Why, how — I didn’t think — ”
“I said I was interested, didn’t I?
But, even so, it took a lot of figuring,
a lot of proof, to make me believe
that a girl like you, who had always
had everything handed to her, could
care enough, want one man enough,
to try to change — for him — ”
Ohe turned upon him then. “You
think I was doing it for you?” she
gasped. “Of all the conceited, in
sufferable — "
“Weren’t you?”
“I suppose I was,” she admitted.
“But you see I couldn’t change. I had
to play today. I’m still sitting on the
throne, captaining the team — even
breaking par — the sort of girl you
despise— ”
“Today was different. You had to
play today. You had to win when you
wanted to lose.”
"You did understand then,” she
marveled. She found courage to look
at him and she liked what she saw. ■
“You don’t — ”
“Oh, I’ve been holding your train,
blowing a trumpet, cheering your
shots, ever since the beginning,” he
groaned. “The biggest fool of them
all. I suppose that’s why I’ve fought
against it so hard — ”
“You didn’t give me a chance the
other night to tell you I’d hate a man
who’d be Mr. Anne Sawyer. And if
you really want a girl who is under
par—in everything—to be Mrs.
Stanley Starwell Elliott, I know the
very one. She can’t cook; she can’t
sew; she can’t scrub — ”
“Then kiss me!”
She could do that — yes — per
fectly.
Tit End
PORTRAIT of an ARTIST trying to draw a picture
of a plateful of TOLL HOUSE COOKIES (from memory)
Our idea was to show you a picture of a plateful of TollHouse Cookies
so that you could see how delicious these famous cookies look. The
artist decided he’d eat just one ... for inspiration. Look what hap
pened! He is very much embarrassed. He says that as soon as you
eat a Toll House Cookie (with morsels of Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Choco
late in every "bite) you’ll understand why they disappeared.
Being a modest man he assures us that the Toll
House Cookies you make will look better (and
certainly taste infinitely better) than any he could
draw. He wants us to remind you that the original
Toll House Cookie recipe is on Economy Size Bars
and on the bags of Morsels of Nestle’s Semi-Sweet
Chocolate and that these delicious cookies are as
easy to make as they are hard to resist. You can
get Nestle’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate in 7 oz. Econ^
omy Size Bars or bags of Morsels at your grocer’s.
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