TRY A SUN BATH.

Cromwell Argus, Volume LIII, Issue 2793, 6 November 1922, Page 7

TRY A SUN BATH.

OLD SOL'S LIFE-GIVING BAYS.

In a small village north of Winchester there is a sanatorium where patients take sun baths. Bathing in the sun's rays for health is. an ancient ceremony, handed down to us from the earliest ages. Wiseacres in bygone times used to bathe in the sunshine, believing in the great value of light as a destroyer of disease. Light - was the secret and universal medicine by whicbr they cured many diseases.

Sunlight is the greatest factor in our planetary existence; if it failed all life would perish. One has only to look at Nature for potent examples. In vegetable, animal, and hustrongly manifest. Compare the vegetation in the gardens of a back street away from the sunlight with similar growth in the open country. Compare the children of the country with those living down a narrow street of an industrial town.

For creating good general health and happiness no medicine is so effective as the direct rays of the sun. A sun bath consists of letting the rays of the sun bathe the skin each day, preferably during the morning. The body is, of course, wholly or partially uncovered.

Of course, this must not apply to the head when the sun is very strong,, although sunlight is a greater beautifier of the skin and hair than any prescription of a beauty specialist. Sunlight exercises a most soothing and beneficial effect upon the skin by rousing its dormant energies, thus stimulating the whole nervous system.

People who live in the sun are far more cheerful and healthy, heing almost entirely free from the "nervy" tendencies of those who live in the this statement can he made with one's friends on dull and sunny days. Watch them ! The effect of sunlight upon a highly nervous subject is marvellous.

Sunlight is life ! One touch of the sun brings smiling Nature back to instant life. Where people are in the habit of getting as much sunlight v as possible it is found they are optimistic, healthy affectionate, well-met people, with a big heart and a clear eye.

In England, where there is a sixmonths' winter of grey days, it is imperative for health that people- get as much sunlight as possible. What is more pleasant than a sun hath before the morning dip in the sea, or the cold tub in one's own home. The magnetic rays re-charge one's nervous tissues, electrify the blood, and purify the skin. A fitting completion to the sun bath "cure" is to drink a glass of water which has been exposed to the sun's rays for ten minutes. It is one of the.finest tonics in the world—and the cheapest !