The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1906-09-11
SUNS MANY VIRTUES
BETTER THAN ANY MEDICINE
is GOOD COAT OF TAN.
Necessity for Beauty, Health, Hap
piness and Courage-Good Way
to Tan Without Getting
Sunburned.

The most timely thing this glori
Gus summer sun can fetch to the fore
front, with thousands of blessings fol
lowing in its train, is a good summers
tanning.
In summer the skin of brutes and
the bark of trees thicken and tougher
against the coming winter. In man
something similar takes place from
summers tanning.
The suns electric, resistl,ss ray
darts straight through the body ami
hardens the sheath skin surroundinp
the nerves, bestowing hardihood
fortitude, backbone and nerve. In
newborn animals the n.rla sheaths
thicken much faster in sunlight than
in the dark. The air tubes and the
air surfaces of the lungs are steril-
lied of noXious germs and hardened
against winters grip, pneumonia and
colds Tanning hardens and tough
ems the insides generally against APP
pendicitis, dyspepsia and a host OF
degenerations, diseases and decays;
stimulates and cleanses all cells of
that compound premature decay de-
scribed by Prof. Metschnikoff. Above
all, 1t fortifies potentializes and ripens
the red blood wine of life.
A scientific summers tanning is
serious necessity to beauty, health,
happiness, courage-to physical right
sousness, without which what would
be life's best blessings but gall AND
bitterness, disappointment and DEATH
Blanched plants and overhoused ami
mails are degenerative and have little
resistance against natural enemies
Such, when placed in sunshine, resume
their old strength and character. With
etiolated man tanning has the same
powerful involuting influence. He
perceptibly toughens throughout, he
undergoes biologic alteration OF
character, and becomes manly by re-
suming ancient wholesome instincts
and character, Sun, pure air and
food are the only 'cure alls" in which
there is no faint nor suspicion of de.
ception, because these be the womb
of nature whence we were born.
The best way to tan without getting
sun-burned is to expose as much of
the body as possible for 20 or 80 min
utes to direct, not reflected sunshine.
Wait seven or eight days for the tan
to show. Afterward repeat the dose
every three or four days until the
skin browns. Remember, it takes a
week or so to start the tan coming
well. Thereafter sunburn seldom
takes place.
My experience, writes a leading
physician, shows it a mistake to tan
face, hands and neck, because this is
apt to lead to leathering and wrink-
ling. These can be protected by
shades, gloves, etc, or by painting
with fluid annatto starch.
Physical Righteousness based on liv-
ing true to the elemental purity of ma.
ture is the highest ideal, truth an6
propaganda of the modern world,
Greater than Judaism, greater than
Christianity, more basic, more funda-
mental and evolutional, more direct
more practical, more human, more
needful. and because it is the finai
and sincere essence of both.
Spiritual treatment of the sick stun
within or the filthy slum surrounding
the body, without physical publication
and treatment thereof, is as arrant
and contemplate ignorance or quack-
cry as ever soiled the soul.
If man is minion of the sun, sun
bubble, an ethero-electric sun ma
chine, with the white mans white skin
permitting free access of sun Juice"
into his being-as the suns latest
geared, guaranteed and warranted best
patent of all living machines-then
one may be justified in hitching re-
ligion, philosophical great finalities
to a. so simple seeming thing as
summers summing.
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