Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

Page 23 text:

THE MISSILE” STAFF I

Page 22 text:

V ' V Sun Tans By Virginia Cook AVE YOU ever thought just how much a really nice sun tan means to a person, how many long, trying hours are spent getting one? I bet you have. I’d like to see the person who hasn’t tried or at least who has not longingly yearned for one. One of the first persons who come into my mind when I try to picture a perfect sun tan is one of these big, broad- shouldered, footballish looking lifeguards at sea resorts. Oh, the time they must spend on them, the oils and lotions they must secretly apply to attain them ! These bronzed heroes nat- urally have an advantage over most of us, for generally their sole means of living during those wonderful months of June, July, and August comes from lolling in the sun. There’s always one lovely thing about a nice sun tan, though. No matter how many hours one almost broils in the sun, how many times you’ve been so sore you could hardly move, or how many bottles of oils have been manipulated, you always have and always will have that wonderful, that utterly perfect feeling of satisfaction when that new brown coat is acquired. There are quite a few kinds of sun tans, as we all know. For instance, there is the kind that just naturally comes from being in the sun a lot, and that’s all there is to it. This kind is, as a rule, the smoothest and brownest and, of course, the most envied. Then there’s that other kind, the fiery red coat; this, incidentally, is the kind I always manage to keep throughout the summer .... the coat that, no matter how much systematic work or guaranteed tanning lotions are made use of, always re- mains a beet-red. I really believe the most pleasure one gets from having a nice coat of tan is the fun of comparing it with those paler speci- mens. The real joy lies here. One may think that it requires endless hours to acquire a beautiful tan, but just think of the time we spend during the winter months wishing that we’d never basked beneath old Sol. We really think it goes just lovely with our summer costumes, but have you ever found anyone who felt the same way about its harmonizing with one’s winter outfits? Oh, of course, if it .... Page eighteen

Page 24 text:

THE DRAMATIC CLUB jk J iWW A, mM i Bl. .... Page twenty