ON SUNBURN.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume V, Issue 48, 29 November 1890, Page 14

ON SUNBURN.

M*>ST of us gentlewomen have an inherent dislike to being sunburnt. First and foremost because it is nnbecoming to most people, the sun having a way of preferring to put a red tint upon us rather than a pretty brown one, and generally increasing that red in brilliancy down the slope Im our nose. Secondly, because we do not "like, upon oar return to town, to have everyone exclaim, directly they set eyes upon us, * Oh, my dear, how brown you are": I never saw anvone sneh a colour,’ and ocher sweet little remark- which one feels at once are equivalent to saying in plain, homelv English, ‘ Why, you look positively hideous, dear.' "ell, those who fear this complaint, which strangelv enough is at its worst when the summer sun is shining upon snow, need no longer despair. A learned doctor has Jiscovered that one day, after he had -cseended a mountain, though everyone else was smarting under the effects of sunburn, he alone was c*>mfurtaide and unchanged in complexion. His remedy, too, was a simple one, bat I have a 'trv®g idea that the remedy is almost as bad as the disease. It is to paint ynur face brown Faney a prettv girt, who is going mountain-climbing, happy in the consciousness that she has a dress which is just the very perfectiryu of what a dress ought to be. and a little hat dangeions in its beeomingness, making up her mind to put the wise finishing touch ami paint her charming face a warm rich brown : lam afraid if this is the only certain reinedv, most of us will prefer the uneertaintv of sunburn.—Gentlewoman,

But for very many people, covering the face well with buttermilk after exposure to the sun. is sufficient to remove or greatly mitigate the trouble.