The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1884-03-27
Healthy Homes.

Highland houses include, indeed, the
finest residences of the old and new
world--Probasco's country seat at Gift
ton on the Ohio. Dom Pedro's Petropo-
oils. Captain Nichols ,octagonal castle
near Mount Yonah in the North Georg-
ian Alleghanies. the castles of Heidei-
berg, Gastein, Salzburg, Linz, Pau,
Perugia and Medellip, Lismore Hill, the
seat of the Duke of Devonshire, the
abbeys of Johannisberg and Monte
Casino and the Incompatible Wilhelms-
hohe, near Cassel, a fairy realm of
fountains, terraced precipices, mount
ain forests. lakes and orange gardens.
In an absolute plain an artificial mound
need not be very high to command
fair prospect; the Hanging Gardens"
OF Semlramis were IN truth nothing but
home made hills covered with garden
earth and planted with trees; and who
knows if the hillocks of our mound
builders were not the pedestals of their
dwelling houses? On plateaus of
limited extent the residence may form
the aeropolis. with the stables and out
buildings at the foot of the hill, but
never vice versa, for drainage cannot
~ kOhI4o otiCo w tho CAiCAb Va PlOtSOS-
ing the cellars of lower house. Houses
at the foot of
HIGH MOUNTAIN
are liable to other objections, being ex-
posed to rock and snow slides, water
bursts, ETC., besides the disadvantages
incident to circumscribed prospect
and obstructed air currents. Only the
French kings evinced a remarkable
prediction for valley palaces-per-
haps, as Wieland suggests, because
they cared more to be seen than to see.
On the slope of high hill the south
and west sides are, on the whole, pre-
ferable, Few people can be persuaded
to rise with the sun, but all enjoy
lingering sunset; beside that, in the
higher latitudes, west slope plantations
have the advantage of the afternoon
sun. Four hours after noon on about
six days of the week the weather is
warmer and less cloudy than four hours
before noon.
Science protects our forests and
ought to countermand the impending
crusade against shade trees. Leafy
trees in the close proximity of a dwell
Ling house are supposed to make the
lower rooms damp and chilly; but the
Golden Age would still flourish if the
causes of human disease were limited
to dangers from that source, II shall
not attempt to explain" says Pc
Franklin, ''why damp clothes .,ooos;or
colds. rather than wet .,nes becanse T
doubt the fact: suspect that neither
.he one nor the other contributes to
.nIs effect, and that the causes of colds
are totally Independent of wet and even
of cold"
That our ancestors emanated from
the shades of tree land is one of the
few points on which
MOSES AND DARWIN
agree, and 1t seems hardly probable
that the descendants of forest race
should be damaged by little tree
shade, especially where that shade is
confined to the six warmest months in
the year. After October, when sun
shine becomes preferable to shade,
trees do not obstruct the rays of the
sun. They merely moderate its sum-
mer glare, and at noon offer the best
possible refuge from the brooding heat.
No human contrivance can rival the
anti-caloric arrangements of a leafy
canopy-free access to all the winds Of
heaven. and a roof impervious not only
to the direct light of the suns rays, but
also to their warmth, which is felt
through shingle roof as plainly as
through fiimsy sunshade. But shade
tree, with its hundred strata of light
absorbing leaves, interposes an effectual
barrier TO the hottest sun; and, more
over. plants have direct refrigerating
influence, analogous to that of animal
bodies in generating warmth. Even
under the blazing sun the juice OF
oranges, watermelons, apples, etc., is
from ten to fifteen degrees colder than
that OF stagnant water, and on cloudy
summer days the air of treeless dis
trict is considerably warmer than the
atmosphere of a shady forest on sunny
days.-Dr. FelGr OSa0ald in Lippiascott's
E1Odzi7le