Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1906-07-25
SUNS many VIRTUES
BETTER THAN ANY MEDICINE
rs 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 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 a
summers tanning
The suns electric resistless ray
darts straight through the body and
hapdens the sheath skin. surrounding
the nerves, bestowing hardihood,
fortitude, backbone and nerve. In
newborn animals the nerve 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 host of
degeneratiops, diseases and decays;
stimulates and cleanses all cells of
that compound premature decay de-
scribed by Prof Metschnikoff Above
all, it fortifies, potentializes and ripens
the red blood wine of life.
A scientific summers tanning is a
serious necessity to beauty, health,
happiness, courage-to physical right
eousness, 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 a biologic alteration Of
character and becomes manly by re-
Stunning 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, 1t 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 and
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 final
and sincere essence of both.
Spiritual treatment of the sick slum
within or the filthy slum surrounding
the body, without physical publication
and treatment thereof, is as arrant
and contemplate ignorance or quack-
orxy DC ovnr cOi1pd tho cOuI
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 Q
summers summing.