The Archive · 1929

Learn from the Coolie

Now nature pours out copious perspiration on an overheated skin' but perspiration does not cool. It exudes from under the skin and cannot possibly be cooler than its place of origin. It is the evaporation of perspiration, that cools and the more rapid the evaporation the! greater is its cooling effect. But he_ has effectively prevented evaporation. by the stupid double thickness of bandages which he has covered his self with.. Supposing it was possible for him to play naked to the waist—what is there uncomely in a man's torso? Sculptors love to mould and boxers appear in the ring without covering because they must have Perfect freedom of movement—the ing wind would play on his body and, though the sun might be hot, his skin would be cool to the touch. He [would breathe through the exposed [Pores of his skin as well as through his nostrils and would have an exhilaration in his exercise that would make him a better player and give him a keen delight in movement hitherto unknown.

Look at the coolies one sees toiling!

our streets. They are poorly fed and badly housed but they have skins the colour of tanned leather Jand smooth as satin, They suiter from neither prickly heat nor pimples of the skin. Dress them in the tennis player's double armour! Jand 60 per cent. of them would be {in hospital in a week.

The World's Boobs An American paper, desert the lux a coterie of millionaires who took, exposures to violet ray tres See them in the gorgeously appoint~ ed room naked, with a loincloth and huge goggles lover their eyes, lying limp in. the hot atmosphere under the huge lamps. It is costing them dollars er minute for their treatment and they feel that they are enjoying (enduring) the latest scientific method of absorbing health from artificial light. They are great financiers and. are, in their own estimation, wide-awake men of the world. AS a matter of fact they fare, in the expressive slang of their} great country, "the world's boobs." Artificial sunlight indeed! And outside the whole earth is ful of God's ree they had as much sense as the same number of squirrels they would walk outside, just as they sunshine, where is to be had for the asking, awn bowls or golf or t luxurious grounds of the exposed to the healthful sea breezes fand would get more health in one. hour of such free-for-nothing exercise than they will get in a month of gasping hot air under the huge artificial light lamps.

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