SUN BATHING.

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 84, 3 January 1929, Page 4

SUN BATHING.

“I’m going to lie out in the-open and take a sun bath,” we say when the hot sun beats down on beach Dr lawn. An excellent intention if followed with discretion, but slight sunstroke, sickness, headaches, disfiguring blisters and blotches on the skin are the least of the evils risked by imprudent people. ! When you sit in the sun after a bathe, remember that eminent doctors recommend only ten minutes or so exposure at a time, at first, if you are uot fully clothed, until you become quite accustomed to it. and even then no one should stay out in the sun without moving position every little while, so that one side or part of the body is not in the full beat, all the time. Never remain in the sun without the protection of a large hat or sunshade for the head or the back of the neck. These are most vulnerable spots. Until they have time to become acclimatised. don't strip the little ones almost, naked to splash about in the pools and run on the unshaded sands all day. Tender, inflamed skin, headaches'and peevish discomfort is the portion of the poor children who pass from the broken sunlight and conventional clothing of cities straight to such extreme conditions.

Purple, blue, and green stockings are appearing with the spring in London (states an exchange). Not only in the evening, but with tailleurs of kasha and light weight tweeds will there be seen brighter and more colourful legs.