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A DIRECT BEARING ON YOUR the sun.

HEALTH.

Sunburn is not merely the matter of appearance, even of fashion, that it is often regarded as being. It is a condition of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun, which has à direct bearing upon its health, remarks the "Dally Telegraph." That condition be beneficial or the reverse,. occasion on which it comes under

may

The

the first heading is when it is caus- ed by the violet and ultra-violet rays-of which we hear so much in these days-altering the pigmenta- tion gradually, so that the deep tan which results is the outward and visible sign of a condition which has been brought about in the skin, enabling it to absorb the beneficent rays into the tissues without damage in the process. "Light"| treatments, which bring the same wonderful powers as these rays of the sun to bear upon the patient, have the same result in altering the pigment and causing tanning of the surface-not, it will be noticed, freckling, which, If it takes place, has none of these advantages. So important is this pigmentation that exposure to these health-bearing rays can be freely given only when the whole surface has become-tan- ned by short exposures of small

areas at a time.

never be touched with it for some time before and after exposure to The refreshing cold douche when one, comes in hot is responsible for any amount of burn- ing. During the summer those with delicate skins are therefore well advised to leave water alone except at the very beginning and end of the day, trusting to one of the soft, milky emulsions, such as La-rola, which will not only cleanse, but also nourish the skin. preventing the mischief, in drying, &c., done un- turally by heat.

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INTERESTING CAREER FOR WOMEN.

An attractive, even if not highly remunerative, career for women is librarianship, a many-sided oc- cupation, each branch of which de manda special aptitudes and educa tional qualifications, says a writer in the "Dally Telegraph." The prospects it offers to women were described by Lieut-Colonel Mit- chell, of the Carnegie United King- dom Trust, in an address to over 400 schoolgirls, who assembled at the Ministry of Labour at a meeting arranged by the Headmistresses Employment Committee.

On the positive side, only some thing impervious to the burning rays placed between them and the skin is of use, whether this "some thing" be a powder, liquid or dry, or a blue gauze veil. The logicni result of either is the same. It is not every skin which ordinarily will tan. Freckles, or

ugly An beetroot red, often take the place of the pretty brown. When this tan is desired, as it often is nowadays, it can best be obtained, without damage, by wiping the surface with a cold wet sponge, and exposing it to the aun, without the intervention of glass, very early in the morning, when the beneficent "cool" rays, and not the burning "red" ones, predominate.

WOMEN IN THE CIVIL

SERVICE.

The position and prospects of women in the Civil Service are dia- cussed in the annual report of the Federation of Women Civil Ser- Sunburn, however, as it is com vants, which states that little ob- monly found in these regions, is the vious progress has been made dur- effect of direct burning by the heating the past year on the question of not the light-of the sun. It is equal pay, though steady propagan- the red and infra-red rays, not the da je being maintained by the Civil violet and ultra-violet, which are Service Equal Pay Committee. affecting it. And this can only be Several recent appointments of described as damage, and poten-women to business posts carrying tially serious damage.

large salaries are elted as evidenca that women are capable of fling higher, paid posts in the Civil Ser- vice.

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To realise this we have to remem- ber something of the formation of the skin and its functions. These are varied, but ehief amongst them is the protection of the under- The question of opportunity for entry to the service, it is stated, re- lying tissues, It is because

mains where it was last year. One of the importance of thie, only ensured when the skin woman was successful in obtaining is unbroken, that Nature provides an appointment to an administra the wonderful system of minute tive post at the August, 1926, passages and subcutaneous glands examination, and a certain number from which in health a steady exu- of women have been appointed as inspectors of taxes. dation of oily moisture keeps the assistant skin flexible and soft-for that, and Owing to the redundancy of male not for the preservation of its officers still existing in the execu- youthful appearance and its pretty tive grade, no open competition has softness, which also result. The yet been held for executive posts, akin, therefore, is not the simple and women who hailed with satis outer covering of the body that it factfon their elegibility for this seems, but a complicated structure grade under the 1920 agreement of the minuteness of which does not the National Whitley Council are alter its wonderful character. First still waiting the absorption of a is the outer layer, the epidermis, ne large number of male clerks. we call it, consisting of hard, horny particles knit together with a cement-like substance; and, in- finitesimally thin as the layer seems to the naked eye, is not really one but two layers. Underneath is the carlum, or true skin, which, unlike its covering, contains blood vessels, and is fed by the life-giving blood stream of the body. In and through this, from the tissues beneath; run the glands and tiny passages, which open out to the surface in what we familiarly know as pores.

Protecting the Skin.

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There still existed, he observed, what used to be the only libraries-

These invaluable private ones, collections offered a very restricted but very good field, and a young, trained librarian had recently been engaged for the Duke of Devon- shire's library at Chatsworth.

Secondly, there were the special libraries owned by learned Institu- tions, and no country in the world was so rich in libraries of this kind' as oura. No branch of librarianship required such a high standard of education and devotion, and it was to be recommended to a girl really, fond of and really good at a parti- cular subject: The Society of Anti- quaries, for instance, had a magni- ficent library which was 140 years old, splendidly housed and well- kept. A librarian there would have to be well up in history. Libraries were kept by folklore, classical, art, and numerous other learned socie- ties. These valuable libraries were now being Haked together in auch avaliable to the general public.

way that they were becoming

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Positions in the national libraries

were limited to Civil Servants. The British Museum library was with- out any comparison the finest in the world, and no girl who con- templated this career should fail to examine that magnificent, col- lection.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1927.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and althof

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Another branch of the library Ber- .vice WAB represented by the municipal libraries. For seventy years it had been permissible for a district or town to possess a public library, and there were now 500 active horough libraries. So, far the opportunities here for women had been limited, but they growing, and there would probably be better salaries available in the technique-cataloguing and so forth near future. At present women mostly held junior posts, and there were only two or three borough libraries

were

but had a training in literature and the more intellectual and digni- Aed side of the work. In America chief salaries were

great deal better, and the librarian's status was un-

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The fifth and last branch of the deniably higher. He advised girls Ibrary service the country library | to train and afterwards get a tem- As regards women already in the—was a quite new organisation; anporary post in America, where every service, the report declares that the outcome of an Act of 1919 giving single country librarian was a wo- position shows little sign of im- the focal authorities power to pro- man, often working over areas near-

There provement.

still no vide amall services worked from a | ly as big as England, women of the Treasury classes at¦ central depot from which, collec- When thinking of the branch of| the Home Office or Office of Works, tions were sent out on loan every librarianship in which to specialise, while women's employment is dras- three or four months. In this parti- girls should remember, he added, tically limited in the headquarters cular branch women had taken that the children's section was of the Board of Education and the bly step forward, and secured a real real sphere for women.

The work Ministry of Health. In the Minis- place for themselves. try of Pensions women holding the was perfectly delightful, though a same supervisory posts as men are little strenuous, sa it probably. refused the same grading, In the involved going about with a push WAB the joy of accretariat of the Post Office, a de bicycle. There partment where women were first meeting them in their desire to get When the skin becomes literally employed over fifty years ago, there recreation and learning from books.. The highest paid and one of the burned by the scorching rays of the are now no women at all. sun this epidermis dries and from the women establishment of most respected librarians in the shrivels, breaking into innumerable cers, there is only one woman at county service was a woman; she tiny pieces with their dry edges the Treasury. In March last, seven worked in Kent, and got a salary of curling up, which is the reason such years after the first Equality Reso- & little under £500. The ordinary skin is rough.

The true skin is lution was passed in the House of salary was from £300 upwards for therefore exposed, and, following Commons, the Postmaster-General a senior post in the county service. the instinct of Nature to protect stated that it is not practicable to of the Government committee on the Alluding to the Impending report at all costs, rapidly throws up aequalise the prospects of promotion harsh, hard surface. If the burn- of men and women in the Savings subject of library services, of which ing is severe that there is no time Bank Department, each sex having said that when the report was pub- he is a member, Lt. Col. Mitchell for this, actual soreness. develop its own line of advancement, the lished it would call people's atten- ing even into cores, will result just, for the matter of that, as from 842 clerical men with 313 superior tion to the possibility of allowing any other burn. For the term sun posts and the 1,451 clerical women University women to enter the ser burn is a literal description of what with 124. As regards the Civil Service at 21 or 22. At present the age takes place. Apart from such a vice generally, the report contends of entry was about 16, and disaster, with its serious menace to that the number of higher posta trants rose slowly and gradually. health itself, the hurried hardening allocated to men le out of all pro- But a particular respect for litera of the skin to protect the tissues be- portion to the number allocated to, ture was not normally developed at neath makes it harsh and

coarse, women, and just as much blemished as the healed surface of any other burn,

as is very clearly seen

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many THEIR SECOND SUMMER THE discover what was likely to be of

chests to-day. It is obvious there- fore that commonsense protection should be afforded to the skin ex- posed to the burning rays of the

HARDEST.

16, and a University woman would be infinitely better equipped for the job, able to choose the best books, to follow the best reviews, and to

most benefit to the community.".

Until 1920 there was no proper training for librarians, who could Testhing and hot weather make only get it by correspondence with This protection has two sides to their second summer a trying time the Library Association. Students Summer disorder of passed six examinations and got a Ita position and a negative. The for little ones.

stomach and bowels and Infantile latter is by no means the less im- cholera may be quickly controlled and ploma. Since the war a school of portant. It consists in preventing sudering relieved by Chamberlain's librarianship had been carried on in the conditions which render the Colle and Diarrhoea Remedy. Easy University College, London. It was skin peculiarly susceptible to hurin, to take in a little sweetened water, most inexpensive, and the teaching First amongst these is the use of Always relieves. For sale everywhere. Was good. Students learnt not only

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