The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-09-07
Sunshine and Fresh Air.

IT does not need much argument to con-
vince careful parents that their children,
especially during the summertime, need
TO spend good deal of time in the open
air, and TO have sufficient space 10 run
round IN, to make mud pies, and indulge
ID other Juvenile idiosyIcrasies II, how
ever, through ignorance or negligence
they attempt to keep their offspring cooped
up within bIick walls during hot weather
they become deblLitated or sicken, and the
kindly doctor whose assistance is invoked,
Is sure TO advise q change TO the fresh air
and the green fields of the country, so that
these protests of nature often secure for
children that liberty and ozone which their
thoughtless guardians deny them. As
healthy children, moreover, are apt 20 be
restless and noisy in the house, i is no
trial TO let them about out doors, except
when one would like to keep them in i'm
maculate starched dresses al day; so it
happens that in one way or another the
children of well TODD parents get thell fair
snare OF Open-alr life.
Not so, however, with the grown-up
portion OF the family, more especially its
female members. The men do not have
very much time to spend in the country.
and are generally proud of having laid on
coat OF tan which tells of exposure to
the sun, either ia fishing, yachting, hunt
ing, or boating, or perhaps in lazily
Longing oa the sunny side of the piazza
The ladies of the family go to the country
TO be sure, bat they dare do nothing to
spoil the pinky pallidness of their COM
plexions. They will sit up as late at nj ght
as you choose, especially if there is moon
and no danger of chills and fever, but if
they stir about when the sun is shining
they are mutfied as closely as an Eastern
odalisQue. Walls, parasols, gloves, prevent
the genial sun or The balmy zepnyrs from
kissing their cheeks or even touching their
tnger-tips, and if they do not return home
exhausted from their summers iauntiug
more cni0rless than when they left the city
there has at least been no sun painting on
their cheeks, and there is little ruddness
from well-oxygenated blood But we must
not be too sweeping in our assertions
Some ladies pass their summers thus in
the shade, but not all Many of them have
learned TO manage row boats as well as
their brothers, aud at croquet or horse
back riding are equal to any of their male
relatives or friends. They are not afraid
to walk, and do not object to an occasional
romp on the grass with their younger sis
ters, finding The sport both pleasing and
inyigoratiHg.
1t is not always comfortable to be ex-
posed to the direct rays Of a July or
August sun, but human beings need sun
hgat for perfect development and health
just as much as flowers. In treating many
OF the low tevers contracted by our sol
dlers, army doctors fould nothing was so
beneficial as plenty OF air and sunlight, and
these grand natural heaters have not lost
nj THAR tarc,. ,rS skill NOM,
who has fallen into a decline attributed to
consumption or some other wasting disease,
mas been cured by changing a contracted
artihCial lie tor free, rowing one III the
open air, and persons who go to the coun-
try 10 rccuperate often loose half its bene-
hts because they persist III keeping under
cover until late in the day, aud never draw
full, lung expanding inspiration of air
malt mile away from their hotel or lOdg
ing house. The old legion of Ant8us,
sou OF Earth. who received fresh strength
every time he touched his mother, the
ground, Is not without its lesson for Us at
tins season. The very early morning sir
is often charged with mlasma, anu ex
posure al nightfall may induce chills; but
the suDshiny hours and the daylight hours
are tulI OF health, strength and happiness
TO those who seek these blessings In the
fields and valleys, On the mountain tops,
or while padding over the surface of soule
river or inland lake If one is debarred
from going to the country, the large city
parks afford opportunity for considerable
fresh air smiling, and summing enough to
recuperate the strength of moderately un-
healthy persons, for of such we speak
Confirmed il lids must look to protes-
SIGNALS for assistance; and valetudinarians
rejoicing III Ill health do not care for sound
advice. To all others we say, do not cheat
your bodies of their rightful share of sun
shine and fresh air-KearM and Home,