Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-09-08
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 to run
round in, TO make mud pies, and indulge
in other Juvenile idiosyncrasies. If, how
ever, through ignorance or negligence
they attempt to keep their offspring cooped
up within brick walls during hot weather
they become debilitated or sicken, and the
kindly doctor whose assistance is invoked,
is sure to advise 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, it is no
trial TO let them about out DOORS except
when one would like to keep them in inn
maculate starched dresses all day; 80 1t
happens that in one way or another the
children of well .to-do parents get their fair
share of open-air 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
a coat of tan which tells of exposure TO
the sun, either in fishing, yachting, hunt
ing, or boating, or perhaps in lazily
lounging on the sunny side of the piazza.
The ladies of the family go to the country
to be sure, but they dare do nothing to
spoil the pinky pallidness of their com
plexions. They will sit up as late at night
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
laH nj 90 N
odalisque. Walls, parasols, gloves, prevent
the genial sun or the balmy zephyrs from
kissing their cheeks or even touching their
| hnger-tips, and if they do not return home
exhausted from their summers jaunting
more colorless than when they left the city,
there has at least been no un-painting on
| their cheeks, and there is little ruddiness
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.
Uers, finding the sport both pleasing and
invigorating
1t is not always comfortable to be ex
posed to the direct rays of a July OF
August sun, but human beings need sun
light for perfect development and health
Just as much as flowers. In treating many
of the low fevers contracted by our sol
diers, army doctors found nothing was 81
beneficial as plenty of air and sunlight, anC
these grand natural healers have not los
any of their force or skill. Many maj
who has fallen into decline attributed I,
consumption or some other wasting disease
has been cured by changing contracted
artificial life for free, rowing one in th
open air, and persons who go to the coun
try to recuperate often loose half its bene
fits because they persist in keeping unde
cover until late in the day, and never draw
full, ng-expanding inspiration of ai
half mile away from their hotel or lodg
ing house. The old legion of Antieus
son of Earth, who received fresh strengtl
every time he tonc."ii. !. L. i-.,;ii ih6f u th
Se.iIS season. -l'he very early morning al
is often charged with miasma, and ex
posure at nightfall may induce chills; bu
the sunshiny hours and the daylight hour
are full of health, strength and happines
to those who seek these blessings in tn
fields and valleys, on the mountain tops
or while padding over the surface of som
river or inland lake. If one is debarre,
hom going to the country, the large Cit
parks afford opportunity for considrabl
fresh air smiling, and summing enough L
recuperate the strength of moderately un
healthy persons, for of such we speak
Confined invalids must look to profes
sionals for assistance; and valetudinarisn
rejoicing in i'll health do not care for soun,
advice To all others we say, do not chea
your bodies of their rightful share of sun