Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-07-19
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.

We have always had partiality for night
air, especially when "besprent" with the pearly
and luscious light of the full summer moon
For contemplatiou Or converse with bright eyes
and speaking" lips by ones side, it is "alto-
gether lovely" Florence Nightengale thus de
fends our position: and all logic must pale be
fore the sweet assurances Of beauty:
"An OK ,raordinary fallacy is the dread of night
nir. What air can we breathe at nj ght but night
air. The choice is between pure night without
and foul night air from Within. Most people
prefer the latter. An unaccountab!e choice
What will they say if it proved to be true that
fully one half of all the diseases We suffer from
is occasioned by people sleeping with their win
dows shut? An open window most nights in the
year can never hurt any one. This is not 10
say that light is not necessary for recovery
In great cities night air is often the best and
purest mir to be had in the twenty four hours. -
could better understand shutting the windows
in towns, during the day, than during the night,
for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke,
the quiet, all tend to make night the best time
for airing the patient. One Of our highest medi
cal authorities on consumption and climate, has
told me that the air Of Lcndon is never so good
as after ten o'clock at night Always air your
roam, then, from the outside air, if possible. -
Wintows are made to open, doors are made to
shut--a truth which seems extremely difficult Of
apprehension. Every room must be aired from
without every passage from within. But the
fewer passages there are in = hospital the bet
ter
Waterton thus beautifully corrohorates our
o,l El,,nuon rI, onininu
"Wby should man be 50 terrified at the ad.
mission of night air into any of his apartments
1t is natures ever flowing current, aud never
carries the destroying angel with it. See how
soundlv the delicate little wren and tender robin
sleep under its full and immediate influence,
and how fresh, and vigorous, and joyous they
rise amid the surrounding dewdrops of the morn
ming. Although exposed all night long to the
air of heaven, their lungs are never out OF order
ana this We know by the daily repetition of theil
song"
- The editor of the Cheraw Gazette, whose
fine description of Silver Spring We quoted some
time ago, Gays that the smallness Of the trees OF
the forests in many parts Of Florida indicate
that the country has not had its head above
hlSn water ioF 'HtHS Se"tulie7. Ih1 io'''" '"s3'
from the Ga=eNr also, suggests that the land of
flowers is not very ierru .frma; and that it may
ego back into its socket" again one of these
DAYS, like the fab!ed Atlantis Of old:
"Anothrr remarkable feature of the country
is the countless sink holes to be seen. occasion
ally in hammocks, hut mostly in the pine lands.
The whole peninsula rests upon limestone
formation that in places comes near to the sur
face This formation must be penetrated by
number!ess caverns through which the waters of
the lakes, prairics and the surface of the coun
try in tue wet seasons pass off. The lime stone
is bnt a crust in mhny places, and from m accu-
mutation of water or timber, or both, it often
gives way, sinking to u depth as yet unknown,
the tal!est pines being carried out Of sight be-
low the surface. These sinks from fifteen
or twenty feet to acres in extent, are all circu.