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Show . WBattle-Creek ,v 5 girls would submerge their arms, hands and faces in a buttermilk bath. This time-proven cosmetic was cheap and plentiful in those days. It had twioe the potency of the modern "woman's roll-on," and what could smell sweeter than fresh country butter. In fact, for the more affluent in those days, there was a product on the market mar-ket called "buttermilk soap." Well anyway, fashions change with the years. Even to us older gentry, a sun-tanned beauty in a one-piece bathing suit stimulates more side glances than the gals of yesteryear in their four-piece longies used to do. However, someone' is always taking the frost off the cookies. A Chicago skin doctor said last week that over-exposure to the sun ages the skin and can cause cancer. The dematologist in question, Dr. William Becker Jr., said that many women work hard to convert con-vert a peaches-and-cream com- Our granddaughter, JoAnn Heidenreich and our niece, Carol Ronnow, have returned from a two-week's vacation in Las Vegas. Veg-as. The fortnight was spent primarily pri-marily lounging about Carol's father's backyard swimming pool. Both being decided brunettes, they looked like a couple of A-pache A-pache Indians. Their skin was burned to a brown crisp and their hair resembled the mane of a black desert cayuse. This all goes to show what extremes ex-tremes girls will go to and to what torture they will submit in order to be fashionable. We Old Tuners well remember some fifty or sixty years ago, when for a girl to acquire a " brown skin during the summer, was the horror of horrors. The country girls of course, aped the city girls, who abhorred summer tan as they would the plague. It made them look like "Country Janes," they said. Back in the 1910's when the rural lassies thinned beets, picked pick-ed berries or performed other outdoor chores, they covered every ev-ery square inch of their skins possible. With long-handled stockings stock-ings drawn over their arms and side-curtain sun bonnets on their heads, no young swain was stimulated stim-ulated to give them a second look. It wasn't safe. The girl he whistled at might turn out to be her mother. However, in spite of all these precautions, a little summer tan usually resulted. So in order to combat this dread malady, the plexion into the "sun-battered skin of a desert rat." And that's going a bit too far, he added. The good doc, may be right. But the present habits of the sun-worshippers sun-worshippers will not change overnight. over-night. So far nobody seems to be too much worried about skin malignancy resulting from sunbathing, sun-bathing, i According to the medicos, a lot of things reportedly can cause . cancer. It requires a lot of sidestepping side-stepping to avoid them all. So long 'til Thursday. |