The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-16
THE RADIO ACTIVITY
OF AIR AND SUNSHINE.

-NNE Of the main medicinal values
Of the new substance radium con
- sists in its power TO produce
liquid sunshine which is drunk TO
the great betterment OF the internal
organs of the patient-that is. II seems
somehow to reproduce real sunshine
Nevertheless il 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
I have been greatly interested re
Gently in the story of a young lady
who cured herself OF what certainly ap-
peared 10 be hopeless consumption by
the sunshine exercise cure She was
so feeble she could not walk across a
room without fatigue She had left
only the VIII to be we'll After all
that is more than half the battle
The young lady resolved that she
would live, even though lung disease
had already carried of some OF her
family Il seemed TO her during the
winter months two years ago that II
she could only get out Of doors there
would be help for her She had to wait
till June TO gain her wish. By that
time she could scarcely walk Her
brother. a woman friend and a cook
accompanied her to a sunny spot in the
Adirondack mountains. where the little
party made a camp
For a month ali the girl could do was
20 creep out in the sunshine and lie
there. At the same time, she tried 10
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 month
OF lying outdoors. breathing mud sun
shine. she found herself able TO take
little walks. very short ones al first
but they gradually became longer. To-
ward the end Of summer she could take
walks lasting half a day at 4 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
till nearly Christmas. BY November
the weather became very cold. and she
was obliged 10 sleep in a log cabin in
stead of q tent Stin she stayed out
doors in the sun. When the hunting
season opened she shouldered a light
rife and went with a guide in search Of
deer. She wore for hunting a short
skirt, high boots. sweater and cOrdu-
roy jacket. Sometimes she got so hun
CRY on the long trarnps that she simply
had to stop and cook fapjacks upon a
fat stone somewhere It seemed to her
that nothing had ever tasted so good
as those flour and water fapjacks
cooked in the woods.
Before the season was over she had
the satisfaction OF shooting a deer She
says she shivered as though she had q
chill when she saw that large red stag
coming directly toward her Soon aft
IT shooting the deer the girl who was
resolved she would 1--we and be well
went home for the winter
The next summer the young lady
took with her a party Of friends and
The lakes Of the Adirondack wilder
ness The girls learned TO FISH and
1addle a canoe. which they did some
lines for days together II was coca
=ionally necessary 10 make a portage
hat IS TO carry their canoes over dry
and from one body OF water TO an
other. The canoes were Of cedar,
weighing some fifty pounds The girl
Who had been scarcely able to walk
'ound she could now bear a hand even
n the severe portage work She re-
urned IN the autumn. a noble speci-
men Of physical wonnanhood. with no
shadoyv Of disease about her The cure
was complete
Women who live in towns are starved
for air and sunshine In our country it
is held e hardship for a woman TO
work in the fields. but the woman who
loes is strong and healthy. while the
girl clerk or factory operative IN the
own is pale and i'll and does not know
what is the matter with her She does
not know she is ailing simply for the
1-ant Of natures radio activity Be
-ween working in the open air az gar
-ening. dairyfng or poultry raising and
lab0rfng in store or Office IN a city the
woman who prizes her health win
choose the pure air and liquid sunshine
every time
MARY GOULD LYLE
RaIIar.I.s IInreI,o.1r,d SIN