COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 6, 8 January 1925, Page 9

COMFORT IN HOT WEATHER

Few girls know that orange is the one colour that keeps off the harmful effects of the sun. On the water a gay parasol of which orange: is the dominant colour effectively prevents the skin becoming blistered (says a writer, in an exchange) Cay paper, affairs are preferred to expensive silk parasols.-.. ■ . v The neck is particularly liable^tb become blistered. Many lawn tennis enthusiasts wear a silk handkerchief to prevent-this—and the colour must asain be orange. .-'."■ Treatment for.. blisters, should they form, is to cover them with boracic oint-' ment. Lead solution is more immediately effective, but this should only be applied when properly' prescribed by 3 _doctor. „ . . J ' Perspiration of the hands— and the consequent annoyance of a slippery erin —may -,be cheeked by washing in formaim soap.. Nothing; is better, however than to :dip. the hands from'time to time in. sawdust. „ Sawdust boxes are provided, at, great tournaments, and they might very well be part of the equipment of every lawn tennis club. Bathing-the, feet in warm water to which permanganate of.potash has been added ckecks perspiration here. On grass courts simple "gym." shoes are preferred to any other, type. Their soft L'rip prevents blisters. ■ . ... You must definitely avoid the use of soap when you are hot. 'The beat thing for the complexion is a sponge down with plain warm—never cold—water. J The best dishes for picnics' are made of ripe fruit—bananas, particularly, must always be eaten when extremely I ripe—and green foods. j Athletic exercise, free perspiration bathing in plain warm water, : and a brisk "rub down '.' formed "*the, basis of the Greek system of beauty culture..