Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1866-05-19
OLD SERIES, VOL. 26, NO. 80.
Sunshine.

By the use Of this term we 90 not mean
merely sunlight, but the rays or shine of the
sun. Mankind arc dying for the want of it.
We build our houses, to be sure, with a
world OF windows, but they are chiefly put
IN to make handsome display outside. We
| are careful to curtain them inside and blind
them outside, 50 as to shut out the precious
rays OF the sun. 1t is a good argument in
iaVor OF curtains and blinds, that ii the light
oe iet In TOO strongly it will fade the carpet.
30 iar as carpets are concerned this is true,
as they are generally made, but can we have
no colors in carpets which the light will not
seriously affect If carpets fade by letting
the light in, there is another thing that
fades by keeping the light out, viz, tho hu-
man being. On the shady side of the street,
the hospital and prison, cholera, scrofula,
bilious complaints, and nervous diseases
are more frequent and fatal than on the
sunny side. We advise everybody to live on
the sunny side of their houses. The room in
which the family spends most of its time
should be on the side where the sun can
find its way into it. Let the parlor, if it be
seldom used, be on the shady side. We OBJ
serve that there is not a cottager 50 ignorant
that will not set her plants, if she have
taste enough to grow them, in the east win
dow in the morning, and at noon carry them
to south window, and in the afternoon put
them in west window. But perhaps she
is careful! to keep her children in the shade,
and her precious self, SO far as possible, out
OF the rays of the sun. The plants in obe-
dience to natural law, are kept healthy,
while the children and mother, being kept
III the shade, suffer in consequence.
Light Is beginning to be considered a
great curdtisc agent, and we apprchend the
time Is not tar distant when there will be
sun-baths. Corridors with glass roofs will
be so adjusted that persons can properly re-
move their clothing and take bath in the
sun Tor an hour or two, much to the i'm
provement of their health. The chief ad-
vantage of going to the country is to get
into the sunshine, and to be in the pure
breezes. If we desired merely to keep cool,
we should stay in the shady city. People
talk of "hot walls" and burning pave
mcnts;" it is much hotter in the country,
for the breeze that plays there in midday
brings only heated air in from out doors
But in the city the breeze brings air ir
from the shady side of the street, and the
lower rooms ofa city house are consequently
much cooler in midday than the exposed
houses of the country.
Our soldiers, who were able to bear the
labor and fatigue of war, are invigorated by
the outdoor life they lived. We know u
young man in New York who came back
from the war and resumed his former occu-
patton of book. keeping, and lost thirty
pounds weight in six weeks. 1t would do
him good to be a farmer
Parents can do nothing better for their
puny sick boys than to put them on farm
for three or four summers, and let the sun
bathe them the iivelong day. They will,
by such life, grow rapidly, and become
tough, brawny and broad. We have seen
this tried to the highest advantage in more
than one instance under our advice.