The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1872-06-19

my digestion grows worse and worse.
About your counting-room; is that
light (? is il sunny?"
"No, that is one nuisance we nave
in our store. The store is every way
pleasant. Sc that the counting-room Is
so very dark we haveto use gas sncar-
lv all the time
That's it, MIR. r, chat explains
your cancer"
"Of course YOU don't mean that /;
but suppose it would be better if
the counting-room was sunny
why, Mr. p, no plant or animal
can digest in the dark. Try il. Plant
a potato in your cellar. Now watch
it carefully. If there is a little light,
that potato will sprout and try to grow
But surround it with the best of ma
nure, water it, do the best you can
for it, only keep it in the dark, II can
not digest and grow See how slcn-
der and pale il is Now open WIN
dow in another part of the cellar and
notice how the poor hungry thing VIII
stretch that way. Or give the stalk
little twist and see how it Will he
down. 1t has no strength to raise IL
self again. No matter how much oi
the best food and drink you give H.
it can't digest The process OF digeS-
ton. the great function OF asslm'la-
ton. cannot go on without the sun
shine Whv, sir, with your excellant
habits. if vonr counting-room were in
a food of sunlight, you would be
better in a week, and well iii month.
Mr. p, did YOU ever go into the coun-
trv late in the Summer Of course
YOU have been. Well, did you never
notice where grain is growing in or
chards that the part under the trees rs
smaller than that outside and away
from the trees? The land is actually
richer there. For years the leaves
have fallen and decayed, but notwith-
standing this, the wheat is only ball
size and never fills well. Now, what
is the difficulty? The sun shines on
il more or less. Yes, that Is true, but
that under the tree does not receive
as much sunshine as that away from
them. That which is thus partly in
the shade can't digest 50 well. Why,
sir. if YOU viii move your counting
room upstairs, in front, and stand
where the sun can have a chance at
YOU. even though it is only three or
four hours IA day, YOU will begin to
digest your beef better within three
davs. Have YOU ever noticed that
the only grapes that become perfect
lv ripe and sweet, that the only
peaches that take on those beautiful
red cheeks, and offer that lucious
sweetness, are those that are on the
outside, entirely uncovered by the
leaves and perfectly exposed to the
sun? Gods laws are the same in the
animal world. 1t is just as true the
only girls with red cheeks and ssweet
breaths, the only girls who become
fully ripe and sweet, are those who
baptizc themselves freely in Gods
glorious sunshine. Don't you see a
good many pale girls in your stores
girls with a bloodlcss, half baked sort
ola face, whose walking, whose voice,
whose whole expression is devoid of
spirit and forcey Those girls are in
the green state. Look at their lips
and cheeks; they are not half ripe.
Send them out in the country, let
them throw away their parasols, put
on their ttlejockey hats, and live out
in the sunshine three months, and /
would give more for one of them in
any work requiring soul and spirit,
than for a dozen of those pale things
that live in the shade. A pale wo-
man she makes a very good ghost,
but not much of woman.