Evening star., 1943-08-12

hehfy Me1more' containing reel
pes from home made remedies for
the prevention of sunburn have
come in by the score, as well as let
ters of deep sympathy from other
redheads who know the pain and
the shame Of having to wander
around looking like a lobster In
search of mayonnaise.
Up until now I have tried half
dozen of the remedies suggested.
Aside from causing lot of COM
ment by passersby, who were puz-
zled by the seemingly strange ritual
I was going through as I sat hope
fully and uncomfortably on the
beach, no good has come Of the
remedies as yet.
Tea Torture Tried.
Mr.. r. j. Van Horne, of Eliza
bethtown, KY, was the first whose
advice followed. The recipe which
enabled him to tan is this:
Take handful of tea and steep,
or rather boil 1t so that the resulting
liquid amounts to about half . pint.
After it is cool, apply to all ex-
posed portions Of the body and stay
in the sun for a period of about Is
minutes and continue to apply the
tea while you are in the sun. Do
this at least four times day. grad
ually increasing the time. you spend
in the sun. Don't stay out in the
sun If you begin to feel any burn.
I brewed my tea, repaired to the
beach in front of the house, and
started sloshing it all over me. A
friend of mine informed me later
that a number of people asked him
what he thought I was doing. He
said he told them he knew what
was doing-that I was having my
tea.
He said the general reaction to
this was that most every one felt
that my trip to England had so gone
to my head that was not satisfied
with Just having tea IN the after
noon, but felt that had to pour It
over myself all morning. Being the
kind of friend he Is, he didn't set
them right.
After four days Of the Van Horne
tea torture I was as untanned as
ever, which leads me to believe that
Mr.. Van Horne may have forgotten
to tell me whether he used lemon
or cream in his tea.
DR.. Royal Lee Of Orlando, Fla,
sent me a package of vitamins with
instructions as to how many of them
to take a day. I followed DR.. Lees
instructions and found that I had
no time to stay out in the sun as
every few minutes my watch would
tell me that 1t was time to dash to
the kitchen and take another vita
min.
Root Water Suggested.
Another homemade recipe called
for me to dig up palmetto tree,
boil the roots, bathe in the root
water, run out into the sun, bathe
in the root water, run out into the
sun, ad influitum
The man who suggested this, q
Mr. Albin Holder of Buffalo, N. Y,
forgot only one thing-he didn't
mention how long to keep up this
treatment. I have feeling, though,
that to make this cure stick a fell
low would have to make it a career.
Having tried these and many 9TH
er recipes I have about come to the
conclusion that Mrs. Kenneth H.
Munson of jamestown, N. Y, has the
best answer to my problem. She
writes:
II want to join your red-headed
league. I have suffered embarrass-
ment, isolation, blisters, peeling and
freckles for years. This is the first
summer of my life that I have had
the perfect cure. I've opened a day
nursery for children in my home
and don't have time to 60 out and
get sunburned."
Now, If can just find Is sets Of
parents who are willing to trust
their children to my care, I shall
open day nursery and let the chill
dren drink the tea, play with the
palmetto roots, and throw the Vita
minis at one another.
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