The Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1903-1909, 1906-08-21
SUNS MANY VIRTUES
BETTER THAN ANY MEDICINE
rs GOOD COAT OF TAN.
Necessity for Beauty, Health, Hap
piness and Corage-Good Way
to Tan Without Getting
Sun burned.

The most timely thing this giori
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
hardens the sheath skin surrounding
the nerves, bestowing hardihood
fortitude, backbone and nerve IL
newborn animals the nerve sheatha
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 O.
that compound premature decay de
scribed by Prof, Metschnikoff. Abov'
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
eousness, without which what would
be life's best blessings but gall and
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 sam.
powerful involuting influence. He
perceptibly toughens throughout, he
undergoes biologic alteration OF
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
is to expose as much of
the body as possible for 20 or 80 min
ltes to direct, not reflected sunshine
Wait seven or eight days for the tan
% show, Afterward repeat the dose
every three or four days until the
skin browns. Remember, it takes
week or so to start the tan coming
we'll. Thereafter sunburn seldom
axes place.
My experience, writes leading |
physician shows 1t a mistake to tan |
ace hands and neck, because this is
Lpt to lead to leathering and wrink
ing. These can be protected by |
shades, gloves, etc, or by painting
With fluid annatto starch.
Physical righteousness based on liv.
ng true to the elemental purity of ma.
ure is the highest ideal, truth and
of the modern world
ireater than Judaism, greater thar
more basic, more funda
mental and evolutional, more direct
more practical, more human, more
leedful, and because it is the ina
nd sincere essence of both.
Spiritual treatment of the sick slum
within or the filthy Stun surrounding
he body, without physical publication
nd treatment thereof, is as arrant
nd contemplate ignorance or quack
ry as ever soiled the soul.
If man is minion Of the sun, sun
hubble, an ethero-electrtc sun ma
hine. with the white mans white skin
free access of sun Juice
nto his being-as the suns latest
cared, guaranteed and warranted best
atent of all living machines-then
ne may be justified in hitching re-
Igion, philosophical great finalities
to a so simple seeming thing as a
ummerg summing