Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-08-11

healthy and happy. And now an going 70
ask your papa 70 build out here In the garden Q
| shines you must come out into the yard with
your nurse and take OF oil your clothes, and
play In the sunshine for half an hour, or until
your skin looks pretty red"
After q hearty laugh, the good papa asked III
was serious about 1t. told him was never
more 90, and when should come again, month
hence, II Susie had such q baptism In the SUM-
shine four or I'VE time week, I could promise
| that the headache and the sleepessness from
which she suffered SO much would be lessened,
and perhaps removed.
The carpenter was set at work, and Id two
| days the enclosure surrounding bed of flowers
| was completed At eleven o'clock the next
| morning. naked little girl, with very white
| SKIN; might have been seen running about
within the pen; papa, mamma. and the nurse
| clapping their hands and shouting. had been
careful to say that her head should be well pro-
tected for the first few DAYS with large damp
| towel, then with little fiat hat, and, finally,
the head must be exposed like the body.
| looked forward with good deal Of interest
| tony next visit. Susie met me with, .'Oh, am
| as black as an Indian"
"Well. but how is you health7"
or ane good mother said, .she certainly has
never knew her to sleep so we'll before"
WE TRY IT ON THE OTHER CHILDREN.
| There were four children in the family, and all
OF them greatly needed sun-baths. As there
were two boys and two girls it came to pass
soon that another pen was built, four naked
children received q daily baptism in the blessed
sunshine And these children all improved in
health, as much as the rose-bush did after We
removed its funny dress. The good Lord has
SO made children that they are as dependent
| upon the sun for their life and health as plants
| IN naE a hrr
lar rSRoved from the window, where the direct
rays " the sun cannot fall upon It, you know It
is small. pale and sickly; it will not long sur
vive Ii, In addition to keeping it from the win
dow, you dress 1t with the clothes which q child
| wears, 1t will very soon sicken and die fyou
| keep within doors, and not 90 into the sun
| shine, or II, when you do 60 out, your wear
shaker bonnet and gloves, you must, like the
honse-pant. become pale and sickly.
Our young folks will ask me, "What is to be
done9 Are We to 90 naked?"
RIGHT WAY TO MANAGE.
Oh no. not naked but 1t would add greatly to
your health and strength, and your ability to
work with both mind and body, IL every part Of
your body could be exposed to the sunshine a
little time every day. And II you are pale and
feeble, the victim Of throat, lung, nerve. or
other affection, you must seek q new life In this
exposure OF your whole body in sun bath But
II you go great deal in the open air, and ex-
pose your face and hands to the direct rays of
the sun you will probably do very well.
Just think of it, your whole body under the
clothes. always in the dark, like a potato vine
| irving to CROWN dark cellar. When you take
| on your dress and look at your skin, are you not
sometimes almost frightened to see how white
ana ghastly 1t seems? How elastic, tough and
cheerful our young folks would become could
this white, sickly skin be exposed every day to
the sunshine! In no other way could they spend
an nour which would contribute 80 much to
their welfare. Garry that white, sickly potato
vine from the cellar out into the blessed sun
shine, and Immediately 1t begins to get color,
health and strength Carry that pale little girl
from the dark parlOr, where she ia nervous. irri-
table and unhappy, into the sunshine, and i'm
mediatey the blood starts anew; soon the skin
takes on beautiful tinge, the little one digests
| better. her tongue wears a better color, she
sleeps better. her nerves are quiet and many
happy changes come
THE DEAD DARLING.
Twenty years ago I saw q dear, sweet child,
Of two years, die of Group. More than thirty
hours we stood around its bed, working, weep
Ing, praying. hoping, desparing; but about one
o'clock in the morning the last painful struggle
for breath gave way to the peaceful sleep of
death.
On the following Sunday we gathered at the
sad home to attend the funeral. The little cof-
| I'm was brought out under a shade tree and
placed upon chair, just under the window of
the bedroom where the little one had ALWAYS
slept and there the heart-broken mother and
iather, with many neighbOrs, and the kind min
| lister, all wept together. And then we all walked
to the graveyard, only little distance away,
and buried the little one in the cold ground.
| On the very evening OF that day, the brother
OF charlie. who was about two years older was
taken with the same disease. was called in to
see him. oh. how pitiful, how very touching,
were the meanings and grOanings ofthat mother
| When the sun rose the next morning the sufferer
| was better; as night came on he was worse again.
but on the following day was able to ride out
within few days sought an opportunity to
speak with the parents on the management Of
their little son. 1t was painful to tell them that
thought they might have prevented the death
OF Charlie. But said what thought was true,
and then advised new policy in the case Of the
remaining child. I said to them: "Your son
who has been taken from you was carefully
screened from the sunshine. When he rode out
In the baby-wagon. 1t was always under cover
And he slept ALWAYS in that bedroom into which
the direct rays of the sun never come; that
great tree makes it impossible. A child cannot
live where plant will not grow; and II you
| doubt what l ain telling you. try pot Of flow
ers in Charles bedroom. You will find that In
single month. the leaves will fall and the plant
| in that bedroom"
| The mother, at length, when convinced, cried
out In very anguish of soul, "What shall we do2
what shall we do7'
BEAUTIFUL TREES MUST GO.
"Well, said, my friend, II you would save
this child, and that sthe only available sleeping
room for 1t, I advise that you have the trees
which shade that part of the house cut down.
Trees should never be allowed to shade human
dwellings. They are very beautiful and noble
Objects to my own fancy more beautiful and noble
| than any other productions of our planet. and
would have them multiplied, but would not have
them near our houses"
A New Investigation OF Malaria
| From the New York Herald.
The Italian war Office has recently completed
work Of great interest on the distribution Of
malaria over Italy. The London Times, giving
in recent issue an account of this investiga-
ton, states that from the results obtained it
appears that scarcely 1.-THE of the sixty-nine
provinces of which the kingdom consists is free
from ague." These results are shown in q re-
markable chart compiled by the scientific staff
OF the war Office, giving the chief haunts of the
marsh fever and the statistics Of sickness, the
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