The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-23
NATURES SANITARlUM
is ALL OUTDOORS.


exandra retaining her youth anc
beauty. King Edward retaining
his health, such as it is. through cleo
trio light baths. and WORKOUT court
bellies of Europe getting back theiI
good looks through the same means
patients with chronic skin ailnenes
getting rid of them through Eowerfu
light rays upon the parts affected. VIC
let light rays curing this, that and the
other; troubles of the digestive organ
dispelled through drinking liquid sun
shine" a preparation made by the US
of radium-these we read Of day afte'
day. You viii observe that every or
of the marvellous remedies is in on
form or another nothing more or les
than light.
1t begins to look as If the human race
is at last entering into an understand
ing of the profound and mystical sig
nificance of the first command ever is
sued on this earth by the Creator. lie
there be light!'
OF course for royalty and nobility arr
Millionaire folk the light cure wout
not cure unless they had to pay IS :.
$40 for a bath in it The windows o
their houses are so draped and darken
ed with costly curtains that they have
to go away from home and pay a grea
price for their light. and call it some
thing else into the bargain, in order f
have it strike in on them. All man.
women would have to do would be t
tear away the dust gathering mumm!
castings from their windows and let II
the great, healing, creative sunshine
but they would rather be ill than dc
without showing OF the costly curtains
So there you are!
o thou sunlight, returning to US anew
rolling upon US rivers and waves an6
oceans of healing and eternal life, We
greet thy coming as the sun worship
ers greeted X thousands of years agei
In thy rays we battle and renew ou'
lives, and--it does not cost us a cent?
The ablest physicians of today insist
that their patients shall use natures
remedies-sunlight and open air exer
else Many a consumptive has beer
permanently cured by these remedies:
many a poor. nervous dyspeptic has
been set right in his inward parts
through unsparing use of them.
1t is best to take our sunshine and ex-
ercise through the medium of some
useful outdoor work. like gardening and
Horticulture. The sweet earth, too, has
a healing power in her magnetic cur
rents. And while we are drinking
through our lungs and every pore il
the body great drafts of golden life We
shall also be buoyed up not a little
by the knowledge that others will profit
A4OAl lnc 4IullSs the NC5GNdbAcS anu NAAN
flowers we raise.
If we cannot get our outdoor exercise
by means of useful work we can walk
or cycle in the sun and air certainly as
often as once or twice a week. Hill
climbing enlarges the lungs and en-
forces that deep breathing which SEN
sible people are learning to make ha-
bitual. Mere carriage or automobile
riding gives one pure air, but affords
no change from that motionless and
stupid sitting position which is a habit
with us.
1t is well for women that cycling is
to be fashionable again, for it is the
best exercise ever devised. 1t breaks
up woman's habit of staying indoors
behind her curtained windows till she
/ becomes like a potato sprout in dark
cellar. Woman has not today the prop
| er use of her lower limbs. nor has she
enlarged her chest or developed the
muscles of her shoulders and arms. The
royal exercise of cycling viii give the
tions and will give her, besides a sense
of joy and exhilaration that few of Us
past the age of childhood ever expert
ence. Many Of US remember with re-
/ greet the jolly cycling picnics of a few
( years ago, the spin over the hard
smooth roads and the dewy country
lanes in the morning the rest and
4 luncheon at some roadhouse in the
/ middle of the day and the return home
as the sun sank low. Why can we not
have some more of them7
MARY GOULD LYLE.