The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1885-02-18
Heaithr Homes.

Highland houses include, indeed, the
finest residences Of the old and new
world-Probasco country seat at Cliff
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 Heidel-
berg, Gastein, Salzburg, Linz. Pau,
Perugia and Medellin, Lismore Hill, the
seat of the Duke of Deyonshire, the
abbeys Of Johannisberg and Monte
Casino and the Incompatible Wilhelms-
hohe, near Cassel 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 a
fair prospect; the changing Gardens"
of Semiramis 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 acropolis, with the stables and out
buildings at the foot of the hill, but
never vice versa, for drainage cannot
Dc W luC VI PLOACSt-
ing the cellars of a lower house. Houses
at the foot of
HIGH MOUNTAIN
are liable to other objections, being exc
posed to rock and snow slides, water
bursts, etc, besides the disadvantages
incident to a circumscribed prospect
and INSTRUCTED air currents. Only the
French kings evinced a remarkable
prediction for valley palaces-per-
haps, as Wieland suggests, because
they cared more to he 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 projects our forests and
ought TO countermand the impending
crusade against shade trees. Leafy
trees in the close proximity Of 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. Il shall
not attempt to explain" says Ben
Franklin, .'why damp clothes occasion
colds, rather than wet ones, because !
doubt the fact: | suspect that neither
the one nor the other contributes TO
this effect, and that the causes of colds
are totally independent of wet and even
OF cOlu.
That our ancestors emanated from
the shades of tree land is one of the
few points on which
MOSES AND DARWIN
agree, and it 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 sum
shine becomes preferable to shade,
trees do not obstIuct 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 roof imperyious not only
to the direct light of the sun RAYS, but
also 10 their warmth, which is felt
through shingle roof as panty as
through flimsy sunshade. But shaie
tree, with its hundred strata of light
absorbing leaves, interposes an etfectual
barrier to the hottest sun; and, more
over, plants have a 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 a treeless dis
trict is considerably warmer than the
atmosphere of shady forest on sunny
days. DR.. Felir 0Svaid IN Lippinc0tt's
AfYrf0~ts.e