THE STORY OF ARTIFICIAL SILK University, New York City, made the startling discovery that Artificial Silk clothing admitted the Ultra-Violet rays. Cotton and woollen clothes are like armour- plate to these rays. They bar them from our bodies. Only our faces and hands are left open to the rays that are necessary to perfect health. When people wear broad-brimmed hats and gloves, they are shut out completely from these medicinal rays. Their bodies are wholly in the dark, so far as these rays are concerned. As we all know, the human race grew up in sunshine—sunshine that shone directly upon naked bodies. For hundreds of thou- sands of years the human race was a prac- tically naked race. It enjoyed 100 per cent. of the sun's rays. Clothes have only been worn in compara- tively recent centuries. First came the fig leaf or some other leaf, and then the skins of animals and then cotton and woollen clothes. Naked bodies were covered up. And what this has meant in weakness and disease we are only beginning to realize. After all, we have the same physical needs ¢) ¢