Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — SUN VS SEA. [ARTICLE]

SUN VS SEA.

The New Hygienic Treatment la a Hot Sun Bath. Doubtless those who understand the affair are convinced this is the right time to bring before the public the new hygienic treatment by means of sun baths, but in hot weather it is a brave person who will *top to consider the question when water is available. Scarcely any one would give up a sea or lake bath for a sun bath when the thermometer is dallying in the 90s. However, we are told, we shall yet

come to regard the Idea with favor. Sea and lake bathing, is a modern institution, comparatively speaking. A wholesale exodus to the sea or lake shore is rather new and whereas now everybody with a dollar to his name flies in vacation time to some such resort a century ago not 1 per cent of the population would have dreamed of sending whole families away to the resorts, as is now done. As, therefore; we have come to regard the sea and lake essential, it is said In time we will come to consider the sun bath necessary, though how it Is to be popu-

larized is the question. In the first place, it is cheap and will be common, for everybody can have it without moving away from . home. Speculative builders and hotel keepers will not like It for it will be a fad doing them no good. One advantage sun bathing will have is that people need not make themselves hideous in order to enjoy it Girls will not have to hide their pretty curls under caps and so transform themselves into monstrosities. Gowns can be worn that water would not permit and altogether the idea may become the fashion In time.