San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-09

the wood of the trawl beam so that
the knots started out of it.-Boston
Traveller.
The HsALTHFuL SUNSHINE.
1t Is a Natural DIsinfectant ana Thorough
Cleanser.
There is a popular idea that sunshine
is wholesome, and this has been re-
Gently proved by science. In bacterio-
logical experiments it has been dis
tinctly shown that the growth of bac-
terra is retarded by light, while dark
ness and heat offer the very best con-
ditions for the growth of disease. We
often speak of a thing fostering in the
sun. The correct expression should be
fostering in the heat. The presence
of the light is now found to hinder
rather than force forward the work.
As in winter the earth is purified by
frost and cold, so in summer the natural
disinfectant is sunshine. The unclean
rooms from which the light is excluded
and the fly, natures special agent for
the publication of the air, is shut out
offer the very best conditions for the
culture of disease. That spot must be
very foul where disease germs will
long exist with the direct rays of the
sun striking them. 1t follows that if
we shut up our rooms to exclude the
heat we nsust be especially careful that |
they are kept In spotless cleanli- |
ness. Because they get the di-
rect rays of the sun, the south |
ern rooms Of the house are more
desirable for living rooms than the
northern ones, and the eastern rooms
than the westerns ones. 1t is far wiser
to give up the northern side of the |
house to pantriesr storage rooms or
hall space, and TO build all the living
and sleeping apartments so that they
will get as much as possible of the sun
shine. Not only will these rooms be
cheerful, but they will be more
wholesome dwelling places. If one
must leave the debris of meals, dust
and dirt to accumulate, it is better to
the window open for the light to
in, though it brings the neat and
the buzzing fly, which in spite of it's
waysriso ma OF the most
useful of insects.
All wholesome plants thrive in the
sunshine, but the foul molds and fun
gold growths wither' away before it's
health-giving rays. ALI these facts
have long been known and even the
used the sun-bsth as a means
Of restoring strength. Like the plant
grows indoors the Individual who
lives without going out in the sunshine
air becomes pale and anamic and
~ chic 4-nl,t,o, Coll, u
disease.
The Importance of light should be
in all house-cleauing. Prop
sr ventilation demands the admission
IF abundance of light as well as air.
The air that drifts throyagh h~alf-open
does NJ such, work as the sun
shine and air that pour in freely from
windows thrown open wide. At least
a day the windows of every liv-
.ng room should be. thrown open for
i've or ten minutes. Thus the morning
afternoon sun and the coolest air
the day are allowed to flow in. The
heated air of midday, should never be
admitted.
This heated atmosphere meeting the
cooler air within is liable to precipitate
The moisture always, present to some
extent in the air and make the room
lamp. 1t is as essential that heated
lir be kept out as much as possible as
t is that light be admitted. :
The practice of drying clothes in
lrtiicially heated rooms has every
hing to condemn it Not only do
dried in this way miss the
bleaching power of the sunshine but
is disinfecting power. The difference
between clothes dried in the sunshine
md those dried in the house is readily
perceived by the. odor. IL is not posi-
BILE to destroy disease germs in clothes
within doors, except by the use
such powerful chemicals as would
certainly be injurious to the fibres of
the cloth. The close heated atmos-
ohere of the drying-room of the steam
laundry not only offers no means of
1isinfecting the clothes, but actually
becomes a culture-room for all manner
IF evil germs left after washing.-N.
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