Sun Tan: the Latest Fad
Walsh, James J.
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...
...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...
...It is easy to carry exposure to the sun too far...
...But now Dr...
...At Avignon the Aubanels were, and still are, hereditary printers to the Holy See...
...In the Anthology of Occitan Literature, the fame of Aubanel, only a little lower than the glory of Mistral, occupies a place akin to that of Catullus in relation to Virgil, or of Petrarch as compared to Dante...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...JOHN" LEE HIGGINS...
...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...
...It must not be forgotten that exposure of some of these materials to sunlight immediately before consumption of them seems to add to their energizing qualities...
...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...
...Alderman is weary and may soon retire...
...Twenty-flve tears changed into diamonds" has been said of these elegies which exhale the same torment, the same chaste and passionate melancholy as the Canzoniere of Petrarch or the Winterreise of Schubert...
...And my Helen never knows When I watch the mist beyond her, And in vale with you I wander Out of earthly woes...
...In the Mist Often as the wind reposes In the lily-blossomed field, I have, like the wind, appealed To your lips of roses...
...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...
...Est modus in rebus," moderation in all things is best...
...He chose as a title, La Miougrano-entre-douberto (or The Open Pomegranate) therein alluding to his own everopen wound...
...Coats of tan have become so popular recently that enterprising manufacturers of cosmetics have invented a number of skin applications that simulate tanning...
...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...
...Brown...
...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...
...Their cutaneous pigmentation protects them from sunstroke and other evil effects of the sun in tropical regions, but it does not increase their immunity to disease...
...And your lips are llke a bow Over which come sweetened arrows, Musical as white-throat sparrows, Arrows light as snow...
...No one thinks for a moment, however, that because of the presence of this color pigmentation in their skin, the Negroes are ever so much healthier than the whites...
...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...
...and this pigmentation of the skin under the influence of sunlight is one of them...
...On the contrary, they are distinctly less healthy and have ever so much less resistive vitality than the white people living in similar conditions near them...
...THE LAST TROUBADOUR By THI~RI~SE LAUBAUDEN HE city of Avignon has celebrated the centenary of the birth of Theodore Aubanel, the greatest lyric poet born in Provence since the far-off days of the troubadours, when a Peire Vidal or a Bernart de Ventadour taught courtly Europe the most exquisite and delicate modes of singing of love...
...The fact of the matter is that when white people acquire a coat of tan that is rather deep in color, the further beneficial action of the sun on them is very largely prevented...
...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...
...We may wisely recall that the dwellers in Africa and our own colored inhabitants, their descendants, are exceedingly well tanned as the result of many centuries of exposure to strong sunlight...
...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...
...You are but a dream I follow, Yet 'tis lovely all the way, Haunting with a misty fay Copse and tam and hollow...
...Nature reacts to shut out certain harmful rays of the sun, and in so doing also excludes rays that might be beneficial...
...Shortly before his death Jefferson wrote the epitaph for his tombstone...
...Toward I855 there lived between Arles and Avignon a...
...A coat of tan in the early part of the seaAugust 7, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 359 son is usually supposed to be evidence that the possessors of it have been to Palm Beach for several months of the winter, basking on the sands and enjoying the sunlight down there...
...The old tendency to get into the shade and stay there on hot days represents a very precious instinct...
...Two-thirds up the little hill to his home, Monticello, surrounded by iron grating rests the body of Jefferson...
...Some of them are extremely precious and we have only just begun to learn their value...
...Until the revolution of 1789, which robbed the Papacy of its "Comtadine" territory they bore the papal arms, as an exclusive privilege, over their door...
...This is particularly true with regard to tuberculosis and other affections that are usually supposed to be very much benefited by exposure to sunlight, and with regard to which we might naturally think that the energizing rays of the sun would increase resistive vitality...
...There is no good reason to think, however, that tanning in itself is of any particular service to health...
...Nature, in fact, has very wonderful checks and brakes on human tendencies to exaggeration either in the matter of food taking or exercise or exposure to light or any other unsalutary habits...
...358 THE COMMONWEAL August 7, I929 investigators may arrive at different conclusions about the moral state of the University...
...Here it was that the man came into the world, who, but for an unfortunate love affair, might have been, instead of a great lyric poet, just one of the humble and unknown artizans of that period of literary and political renaissance in Provence called the F61ibrige...
...The young women are using it not only on their faces and necks but also on their legs and back for exhibition purposes...
...The present fad for acquiring a coat of tan, either by the direct action of sunlight or by artificial means, is almost inevitably certain to prevent the very valuable action of the sun in heahh-giving ways thereafter...
...Carved in stone the words of this epitaph are discernible to all who chance by that way...
...There are many different rays in sunlight...
...Now that the fad for not wearing hats is spreading among young folks there is distinct peril of sunstroke...
...It is now known that children who are fed on cod liver oil, or for that matter on cream or other fatty materials the vitamin content of which has not been impaired by having been subjected to heat, derive more good out of these materials if they get out into the sunlight...
...Aubanel left only one book, a collection of verse {nspired by a single theme, his youthful love for a friend who became a Sister of Charity at the age of twenty-six...
...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...
...Their dark color is due to the gathering of pigment in the so-called pigmentary layer of the skin, so as to protect the underlying tissues from the actinic rays of the sun and particularly from their tendency to produce heat effects deeper than the outer layers of the skin...
...Negro children are more liable to suffer from nutritional diseases, and especially from rickets, because the large amount of pigment in their skin actually shuts out the energizing rays of the sun and thus prevents or at least impairs the full activity of vitamins...
...Dr...
...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...
...Trees may not have been invented for the purpose of affording shade but they are marvelous contributors to health as well as to the joy of life...
...It represents nature's protective reaction against the sun, and the human system is quite capable of setting up such barriers as will prevent injury from sunlight if it is only given the opportunity...
...Edwin A. Alderman, president since I9o4, is enjoying the sunset of an active life...
...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...
...They very properly indicate the various risks to health that are associated with undue exposure to the sun under very high temperatures...
...In Negro children, however, this exposure to sunlight is much less efficient than it is in white children since the actinic rays of the sun cannot penetrate so deeply into the tissues...
...The human body has no accumulators but must get its supply both of food and energy every day...
...He is sixty-eight years old and his health recently has not been of the best...
...His poems are the outpouring of confidential lyrism, the overflowing of a heart broken by love which, however, made of his ill fortune an enchantment...
...The health that is obtained during summer outings is not in direct ratio to the coat of tan that has been rapidly acquired...
...Others are rather seriously disturbing and mankind has known about them for a long while and has invented certain precautions which the fashion of the moment is thrusting aside with results that will surely prove to be harmful rather than beneficial...
Vol. 10 • August 1929 • No. 14
