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Too Much Sun Is Bad For Baby
I Was called in as an umpire again to-day (this, I'find, is a posi- tion I am often expected to fill).
Jack and Pippa, who are young friends of mine, had been having a heated argument on the pros and cons of sunbathing for infants.
Jack says he does not want his fair-haired three-month-old daugh ter frizzled, and Pippa says that the Baby-Next-Door, almost the same age, is as brown as a berry...
TO CLOSE PORES
Ice is one of Nature's best cos- metico-use It! A make-up ex- pert, orders every star to rub a 'chunk of ice wrapped in a towel (or several pieces of tissue) över her face before applying make-up. It closes the pores, tones up the muscles and keeps the skin fine grained. Try it,
the sun is the next step,, but baby must have protection from 2 canopy, hat or sun umbrella, just letting the arms and legs have a sunbath for two minutes only.
Please be firm about this, and time it by the. clock; do not think it is overcautious or fussy, for it is not; it is common sense,
I found, on inquiring, however,
Then turn baby on his front, and that the Raby-Next-Door is dark-let him have the back of the arms skinned, so does not really compare and legs in the sun for the same with Miss Pippa Junior, as regards short time-still protecting the head suntan at any rate. (One point to gradually increasing the time and Jack.)
the area exposed.
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The time of day is all-important Actually, any healthy infant of-you should not choose between 12 and 4 p.m. Actually, between 6 two months can start sunbathing. but it must be very gradual.
The dark-skinned. infant tane very easily, as does the bambino of southern climes, and risk of actual sumburn is considerably less than in the fair-skinned type.
The skin is more than a covering to the body-it is a "third lung," giving off the body's poisons and waste matter and taking in light from the sun and sky.
and 10 a.m. is the best time of all in a Real heat wave.
Do not left baby be out in the sun just after a meal-that is an- other important point.
An overdose of sun-bathing may not always show itself at the time. It may be six hours later when the skin is burning and spotty.
If this unfortunate condition occurs, do not wash the skin, but dab on calomine lotion, as this is It can, as a matter of fact, carry soothing, and a little gentle applica- sunshine right into the bloodstream, tion of a baby cold cream will be and affects the whole and nervous system.
circulation cleansing.
One cannot just put a bady in the
sun and leave it at that.
A baby's skin is extra sensitive, and since he cannot just pick up
Sun-baths will, of course, have to stop for a few days, if this condi tion arises.
of
Other signs of an overdose of sun are irritability, lack of appetite his rug when he feels hot, and set and restlessness. off into the shade, very definite, After, say, a week or 80 graduated sunbaths must be ar-graduated sunbathing, nudity can ranged for him.
be reached, but do not let your little What exactly is the best plan to one wear his birthday suit, or even follow?
sun suit, all day.
I think for anyone under a year
Remember, too, won't you, that the
to lie in flecked shade, with no rays of the sun at the seaside are covering beyond perhaps a light accentuated, and these, coupled with frock, etc., but bare arms and legs, sand and salt water, play havoc with is the best start.
the tender skin, so accustom your Then to put the pram or a rug in child gradually before going away.
GIRLIGAG.
Four Lovely Girls Put On their Veils.
It's easy to think—“Veils are In!"-and rush out and buy one.
But it's not always so easy to wear your veil so that you look like a girl who is proud of her taste in hats, instead of a girl who is ashamed of her face.
These sketches show you four of the smartest veil fashions of to- day:
Cut the sketches out and keep them in a handy drawer of your dressing table.⠀⠀⠀ Then next time you're putting on your veil-use one of them as your model.
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