Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-09
THE RADIO ACTIVITY
OF AIR AND SUNSHINE.

nNE OF the main medicinal values
~ OF the new substance radlum con-
sists In it's power to produce
liquid sunshine which Is drunk 10
the great betterment OF the internal
organs OF the patlent-ihat Is. Il seems
somehow TO reproduce real sunshine.
Nevertheless II can IN no measure I'm.
prove on the real sunshine which we
have all around us and which we can
avail ourselves Of always.
j have been greatly interested re.
Gently In the story OF young lady
who cured herself OF what certainly ap.
peared to be hopeless consumption by
the sunshlne-alr.exercse cure. She was
so feeble she could not walk across a
room without fatigue. She had left
OILY the will to be well. After all,
that Is more than half the battle.
The young lady resolved that she
would live even though lung disease
had already carried off some OF her
family. II seemed to her during the
winter months two years ago that IL
she could only get out Of doors" there
would be help for her. ,-le had to wait
I'LL June TO gain her wish. BY that
time she could scarcely walk. Her
brother, woman friend and a cook
accompanied her TO a sunny spot IN the
Adirondack mountains, where the little
party made a camp.
For month all the girl could do was
to creep out IN the sunshine and lie
there At the same time, she tried to
take deep breaths OF the mountain air,
which carried the purest Of fluid sun
shine into her poor lungs She Kept
up her courage and her high resolve
that she would not die. After a month
Of lying outdoors, breathing fluid sun
shine, she found herself able to take
little walks, very short ones at first,
but they gradually became longer To-
ward the end Of summer she could take
walks lasting half day at a time,
resting when she was weary watching
the wood life and keeping up brave and
cheerful still breathing In all the air
she could hold
She remained In the mountain region
TIL nearly Christmas. BY November
the weather became very cold. and she
was obliged 10 sleep IN log cabin In
stead Of tent. Stll she stayed out
doors In the sun, When the hunting
season opened she shouldered a Hight
rife and went with guide IN search Of
deer, She wore for hunting a short
skirt, high boots. sweater and cordu-
roy Jacket Sometimes she got 80 hum
cry on the long tramps that she simply
had to stop and cook hapjacks upon a
fiat stone somewhere. il seemed TO her
that nothing had ever tasted 30 good
as those -four and water flapjacks
cooked In the woods.
Before the season was over she had
the satisfaction OF shooting a deer, She
says she shlverod as though she had
chill when she saw that large red stag
coming directly toward her, Soon aft
er shooting the deer the girl who WAS
resolved she would live and be well
went home for the winter
The next summer the young lady
took with her a party Of friends and
went for long canoeing trip among
the lakes Of the Adirondack wilder
ness. The girls learned to fish and
paddle u canoe. which they did some
times for days together. II was occa-
sionally necessary 10 make q portage
that IT, TO carry their canoes over dry
land from one body OF water TO an
other. The canoes were Of cedar,
Weighing some nifty pounds, The girl
who had been scarcely able to walk
found she could now bear a hand even
In the severe portage work. She re-
turned in the autumn, a noble spoo-
men OF physical womanhood, with no
shadow OF disease about her. The cure
was complete.
Women who live In towns are starved
for air and sunshine, In our country II
IL held hardship for Il woman to
work in the fields, but the woman who
does is strong and healthy while the
girl clerk or factory operative in the
town is pale and III and does not know
what Is the matter with her She does
not know she IL aIling simply for the
want OF natures radio activity Be
tween working in the open air az gar
dening, dairying or poultry raising and
laboring In store or office In city the
woman who prizes her health VIII
choose the pure air anu liquid sunshine
every time,
MARY GOULD LYLE,