In the Mist (verse)
Higgins, John Lee
358 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, I929 investigators may arrive at different conclusions about the moral state of the University. In fact it may be found necessary to install new administrative...
...In fact it may be found necessary to install new administrative officers and it is even possible that Bishop Cannon aspires to the presidency of this time-honored institution...
...Coats of tan have become so popular recently that enterprising manufacturers of cosmetics have invented a number of skin applications that simulate tanning...
...They seem to think that every possible evidence they can secure of the action of the sunlight upon their skins is definite proof of the accumulation of solar energies in their bodies...
...They read: Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of The Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia...
...Should he do so it is inevitable that a president to the liking of Bishop Cannon will be named by any board appointed by Dr...
...Shortly before his death Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his tombstone...
...It is not unusual, therefore, in our city parks and especially along our beaches, to see young folks deliberately exposing themselves to sunlight during long periods...
...It is almost needless to say that under the influence of suggestive advertising, a number of young women are using them, and that some of the young men who slick their hair very carefully are also intent on acquiring a cheap and rapid coat of tan in the same way as their friends of the usually more cosmetic sex...
...He is sixty-eight years old and his health recently has not been of the best...
...358 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, I929 investigators may arrive at different conclusions about the moral state of the University...
...The young women are using it not only on their faces and necks but also on their legs and back for exhibition purposes...
...And my Helen never knows When I watch the mist beyond her, And in vale with you I wander Out of earthly woes...
...People used, as a rule, to seek the shade, but now, after having heard so much about the benefit of the sun's rays, many choose the open...
...For years he has wrestled with and successfully resisted the forces of Cannonlsm, the Anti-saloon League and the puritanical spirit which has swallowed virtually everything else worth while in the Old Dominion...
...They very properly indicate the various risks to health that are associated with undue exposure to the sun under very high temperatures...
...When hats fit closely to the head, as is 'the present fashion among women, they provide a minimum of protection against the sun's rays...
...We have heard so much in recent years of the wonderful health-giving effects of sunlight that there is danger lest people forget that overexposure to the sun on hot days may prove a source of grave injury...
...Now that the fad for not wearing hats is spreading among young folks there is distinct peril of sunstroke...
...Brown...
...Dr...
...Alderman is weary and may soon retire...
...Two-thirds up the little hill to his home, Monticello, surrounded by iron grating rests the body of Jefferson...
...JOHN" LEE HIGGINS...
...Carved in stone the words of this epitaph are discernible to all who chance by that way...
...But now Dr...
...And your lips are llke a bow Over which come sweetened arrows, Musical as white-throat sparrows, Arrows light as snow...
...Edwin A. Alderman, president since I9o4, is enjoying the sunset of an active life...
...Shirley Wynne, Commissioner of Health of New York City, suggested that vacationers should not try to get tanned in a day or two, since any such rapid change of the skin can scarcely fail to do harm...
...This advice has been refichoed by a number of health officials throughout the country and has been emphasized particularly by dermatologists whose expert knowledge of skin affections makes their opinion so significant...
...A coat of tan in the early part of the sea...
...Long experience in Egypt and India has demonstrated very clearly that cork helmets and other head coverings which allow a free circulation of air around the head and which carry brims large enough to protect the face from the sun's direct rays, are valuable precautions against what may appropriately be called the malign influence of the sun...
...In the Mist Often as the wind reposes In the lily-blossomed field, I have, like the wind, appealed To your lips of roses...
...You are but a dream I follow, Yet 'tis lovely all the way, Haunting with a misty fay Copse and tam and hollow...
...That possibility has thrown a shadow over the quiet University campus whose proud history claims as its own, Wilson and Edgar Allan Poe as well as Jefferson...
...SUN TAN: THE LATEST FAD By JAMES J. WALSH N A series of warnings to bathers in preparation for the great summer exodus to beaches and other bathing places Dr...
...Even if the present administration at Charlottesville is not ousted, it seems certain that the board of regents named by the incoming governor will have the duty within the next four years of selecting a president for the University...
...Unfortunately a great many people at the present time are quite convinced that a thoroughgoing coat of tan is a definite index of the greatest possible benefit to health...
Vol. 10 • August 1929 • No. 14
