Enjoy Sane Sunbathing

Taranaki Daily News, 20 November 1937, Page 13 (Supplement)

Enjoy Sane Sunbathing

Putting Shape Into Muscles

Grange Puffs. Ingredients: i cup butter, 2 eggs, 11 cups fiour, | cup castor sugar, \ teaspoon salt, li teaspoons baking powder, grated rind of 1 orange and juice of 2 oranges (strained). Method: Beat butter and sugar until light, stir in egg (wellbeaten),. orange rind and juice, then fiour sifted with salt and baking powder. Pour mixture into well-buttered cups until each is half full, cover cups with buttered paper and steam for 45 minutes. Serve with whipped orange sauce. Sauce: Beat to a cream 4ozs. butter and 6ozs. sugar. Place in a saucepan, add i cup boiling water, stiffly-beaten whites of 2 eggs and juice of 3 oranges. Beat over fire until light and foamy. Serve hot with the puffs. Peach Dessert. Half a pound of dried peaches, 1 lemon, 1 pint packet jelly, 1 cup whipped cream, loz. almonds, 1 pint water, 4 cup sugar. Method: Wash the peaches in several waters, tlien pour over them enough boiling water to cover and let stand for one hour, then pour off and allow to soak in cold water overnight. Remove the skins from the peaches and arrange in a glass dish. Make a syrup with the pint of water and J cup of sugar. Boil for five minutes, remove from fire; dissolve the jelly contents in it and add tlie strained juice of the lemon. While it is hot, pour half over ' the peaches— leave the rest until it beings to set, then beat the whipped cream through it. Place this on the jellied peaches and decorato the top with blanched split almonds and crystallised cherries. Fish Gustard. This is a a good way of using up any fish that may be left from another meal. Choose the most delicate white fish. The following quantities could be increased, according to the amoimt of fish left over. . Remove all skin and bones from the cooked fish, and flake a tablespoonful linely; sprinkle it with salt and pepper. Beat up an egg wit'i | gill of rnilk, add Ihe fish, put into a buttered paper, and steam for about 15 minutes or until set. Turn on to a hot dish, garnish with parsley, and serve. Stewed Cheese. Take 3 large onions, 6ozs. cheese arid 2ozs. butter. Peel the onions; boil untii tliey are soft, then chop them and return to the saucepan; add +he cheese, roughly grated, stir in the butter, salt and pepper to taste, and a few drops of lemon juice. Stir over the fire until dissolved, then serve on hot, buttered toast.

With the first warm rays of tlie summer sun, it is a great temptation to lie relaxed, absorbing all the warmth your sun-starved body craves. But be wise! Don't be a sun hog!— early in the season, anyway; or before you have decided whether you are going to be black, brown or brindle. Overseas a deep tan was not considered smart during their last summer, the trend being toward pale toast and beige shades — very good for blondes For brunettes, a milk white skin is the correct thing. The trouble with sun-tanning, once started, it is so difficult to control and it seerns no time before it gets to the mahogany or "burnt black" stage. There are many reliable sun-tanning oils to assist and hasten the tanning process, as there are protective creams and lotions. Some are to prevent sun-burn and promote tan, others to act as a complete protection against the sun. Most of the oils and protective creams make good powder foundations, but if make-up bothers you dispense with powder and rouge— but never your lipstick. Superfluous advice this, for most women would rather go without a meal tlian discard their lipstick. If the lips are dry, it is a good idea to use a white emollient lipstick under the coloured one, or there are coloured emollient lipsticks, which keep the^ lips in good condition, but do not stay "put" particularly well. Remove Make-up. After exposure to the sun never fail to remove whatever make-up is used with a soft emollient cream— cleansing creams have a tendency to irritate sunburnt skins. If you are a soap and water addict, then use warm water, or if ^ very burnt, hot water— but be sparing with the soap. Afterwards apply a generous allowance of the emollient cream. This takes the place of the natural oil of the skin dried out by exposure, in addition to healing and soothing any soreness. Skin that is frequently exposed without adequate protection, is easily recognised by its thickened coarse appearance. Glare glasscs are a distinct comfort and prevent squint wrinkles. If your skin persists in browning in spite of all precaution and you feel that your charm lies in an ivory wliite pallor, or a pink and white fragUity, then give yourself a weekly bleaching pack. There are many bleaching preparations on the market, but the following is an effective home treatment: Mix ' bout two tablespoons of fuller's »

earth to a paste with equal parts of peroxide and witch hazel— apply evenly with a brush or a moistened pad of cotton wool to the already cleansed skin of the face and neck. Give the arms and hands an application too, for they are probably more tanned than the face. The pack should be left on for quite 30 minutes and kept moist with warm packs made by wringing a towel out of hot water. The heat hastens the bleaching action. To remove, sponge with warm water and when it is quite certain that no trace of the powder is left in the pores, apply liberally a ricl. skin food. This counteracts the drying tendency of the peroxide. Expert's Advice. If you want shapely muscles, sunbathe! Dr. Fritz Duras told school-teachers at Sydney in a lecture that ultra-violet rays in sunlight seemed to have a shaping influence on the outer muscles, and sun-browned skins often showed the muscular structure more clearly than others. Dr. Duras, a German expert in physical education, is now director of that department at Melbourne University. Sun-bathing should not be mixed with air-bathing, he said. Tlie former was a much stronger stimulation, and care should be exercised, especially in the lirst exposure of the body to direct sunlight. For this, 10 minutes was probably the limit. Exposure to Air. "Air-bathing is a wonderful tonic," he said. "Exposure of the body to the fresh air stimulates the skin vessels to contract and dilate, improving the tpne of the skin, and the circulation, respiration and general metabolism. "Heat regulation of the body is performed tlirough tlie skin, and here is the real key to the hardening of the body against colds and such ailments, since this depends on tlie skin's ability to react quickly to external changes." Children should not enter water _ for swimming im.mediately after undressing, said Dr. Duras. There must be time for easy adjustment to air and sun. Swimming, by improving respiration, built up resistance to tuberculosis. Children should learn different styles of swimming, and not be specialised too early. The exercise should increase chest expansion. Swimming was the only exercise which gave this relaxation to the spine; the body was carried by the water.