The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-29


them, for If her watch be withdrawn they
soon sieken and die.
Have you'ever tried the experiment of in
ducinglplants to grow In window which
the direct rays of the sun never visited? If
| you have you know the poor things strug-
gle after tho light how they strive, by
stretching out their long, pale arms, deck
cd with sickly leaves, to get u draught of
sun light and IL they are very tenacious of
life will still continue to drag out msera-
bic existence, but in most cases will at last
succumb to fate, and despite your most
watchful, and tender care, die before your
| eyes. Take the poor starvcling into a
sunny room and mark the change. In an
hour you will see difference. There Is an
energy in the long, pale stcms-w which soon
lose their palcness-and a picking up of
the hall-deal leaves, which is almost won
dcrfu to see
But if the race of plants, the grccny
things Of the earth, the grass, and the
leaves and the flowers are so dependent on
the sunshine, what if the race of humanity
which in its lower nature is not so very I'M
like the great plant world
Do VIC not with these, and with all, or
nearly all animate things, rejoice in COM
mon in the sweet sunlight?
Let the gray cloud-shadows hang be-
tween the earth and sky for two or three
days and how eagerly we watch, how i'm
| patiently we wait for the rift in the dull
| curtains, that shall show MS the azure sky
and It the slant yellow beams flow down
in tide of golden splendor on the earth
Why, if were not quite so old and quiet
as sedate, | should be up and away with
the little children God bless them > in a
wild frolic Of fun for without knowing it
they catch the very spirit Of the sunbcams,
and looking at them, one cannot rcpress a
sigh that one must grow old. OF
course am not writing this for
| people who live in the tropics. | presume
were | there to-day and this same sun were
as pitless in his rays as he is said to be in
those burning regions, | should be only too
| glad to put a bar against his fiery beams
but not being dwclcr in tropical lands,
but the rather leal child of New England,
| maintain my devotion to the sunlight.
Among these northern hills, during these
cold winter days, you may see some of the
rarcst tints when their snowy tops are
bathed in sunlight, whether in the morn
ing, in the full moon splendor, or at sunset,
when the purple glory drapes the noun
tains as in mantle and trausfgures the
rugged submits with beauty. And have
| this very season. seen mountains, all bristl
| ing with flores; trees, when these had been
hung with snow crystals, break into per
feet miracle OF beauty when the first glitter
ing arrows of sunlight shot athwart them
sing the glorlcs Of the sunlight the chill
dren love it, the birds love it; the forests
| love ii The grass and the flowers and the
whole earth rejoice in it; but, there are
| human beings in this northern land of ours
benightcd enough to account it an enemy.
At least such would seem to be their senti-
ments, for they carefully dcbar it from
their houses they fear to let it kiss their
checks, when its kisses are better than
medicine for their paleness they live in
the darkest, dicaricst rooms. with shutters
half closed, or curtains drawn, if they
chance to be on the sunny side, where the
yellow wings of sunlight are tluttering
against the walls outside. And then You
will see besides, not seldom, the house so
surrounded with trees that even in winter
the thicl;ly interlacing branches, wrestling
close to the caves and before the windows.
exclude nearly every ray that might find
entrance but for them. What wonder then
that the household members are hollow.
eyed and wan; VIII the infinitely more
tender and susceptible human organism
thrive without the direct rays of the sun
when the plant grows sickly and pale, or
droops and dies:
Nay, my friend, | am not model house
keeper, for in the home where preside.
Gods sunshine must have free access for
the roses in the children's cheeks are
thousand times more precious than the
roses III the ingram or tapestry, or brussels
on my floors and when the rays of the
sun are not too ardent they shall flood my
house for aside from the health and life
with which they are pulsating, 1t is next to
impossible to keep a morose and sullen
temper, or to cherish bitter and unkind
feelings when around you, and about YOU
bright, and CHEEKY and beautiful, the sun
light is streaming. So, whether viewing
it as moral agent to assist III banishing
the evil spirits of the household or as |
sanitary measure to dilfusc its subtle intlu- |
ence through the atmosphere till the GRIM |
son tide Of health goes leaping through the |
veins OF all with renewed vigor, | would |
fling the shutters wide and draw the shades |
from my windows, and welcome the golden |
messenger thousand times
If, during the burning heats of summer,
too fiery and too ftrvent are its beams, so |
that compelled in self-defence, the windows
must be darkcncG. and the cooling shad-
ows courted yet shall not cease to glorify
the sunlight. In the early morning, when
every blade of grass and every hower-cup
is fringed and weighted with dew, is it not
the sunlight that transforms the crystal
beads into millions of sparkling gems?
What is it that hangs the ineifably gor-
geous pageant of the sunset in the western
sky at the close of summer day?
Yea, for all these good and lovely things
we thank thee, thou glorious, thou benef-
cent, thou radiant sunlight Let us not be
guilty cf shutting thee from our homes
when thy smile might prove more potent
to bestow the health and life we coyet, than
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