Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-09-22


vitality. In the crowded suIns of cities, where
people shut up of the time in poorly lighted
rooms, they usually anemic and the mortality
among children is trighttul.
Give Them More Light
A Ii the efforts made to improve the condition OF
\ sum jewellers in the congested centers of popula
ton in the direction of giving them more light
though the ostensible objects in view provide
more fresh air and cleaner quarters. Undoubtedly
fresh air and cleanliness of great Importance;
but essential of all is light When through the
aid of fresh air funds and other charitable means
the children of the su1ns enjoy the advantage of
vacation IN the country, 1t rs the opportunity of
limited light that does them more good than any
thing else.
While a coat of tan is regarded as accentuating
feminine beauty, because it is the very hue of health
the girl who freckles is usually reluctant expose
herself to sunshine 1t is pity, because the freckles
like tan and for the reason, properly to be
regarded a sign of physical vgor. A Young woman
who is subject to freckles is likely to find that she
feels better in proportion to the number of freckles
she has. In the winter time of she has COM
parativey few, because of relative nonexposure. II
she wishes get rid of them altogether, she can do
so by remaining in the dark. But what would be the
effect of such of procedure upon her health,
Mark Twain has remarked that IN
truth white people, as we choose to call ourselves.
but colored folks; and he adds the Negroes are
dscolored.' There is verify in the observation,
lnasmuch as complexion is in reality of a pink
ish yellow hue. This color is due to a pigment that
is present in the layer of skin tissue Immediately
beneath the epiderms. outer skin. Exposure TO
sunshine in some individuals the pigment
to collect in little patches, visible through the
transparent epidermis, which called freckles.
Conquering Races are Blond
TT cannot be said that freckes are beautfying. Yet
there may be some consolation in the knowledge
that they almost peculiarly characteristic oi
the blond type of human beings, which by some
eminent anthropologsts is declared to be the higher
type, in evidence of which attention is called to
the fact that the conquerlng of the world have
possessed light hair and blue eyes But whether
this is correct or not it is safe to fall back pon the
hat oro6 hao1t
to go together.
A recognition of the health giving powers of light
is evinced by the recent introduction into medi-
cal practice of the electric light BATH in which
the patient is exposed to a flood of electricity
powerful that if its rays concentrated
upon any spot they would burn severely. This
method of treatment has been adopted very
fully, it is said, of internal trouble of various
kinds, and particularly in the of digestive dis
orders.
Exposure to sunshine seems to have remarkable
efficiency tonic for the capillary blood vessels.
Long ago the efficacy of the BATH so called for
invads was recognized, and at the present time
sort had to treatment of this kind conSidera-
Bile scale at some sanatorlums Even the seaside
hotels have taken up the idea and the sun pavil-
ion of glass is advertised attractive adjunct
of many salt water caravansary. Nor should it
be forgotten that light in various forms such the
Fnsen light is now being used with excellent results
for the of skin and other diseases In this
energy akin to light has various effects of
which harmful The X rays, for example, will
burn severely, and will even destroy hair Electric
light under certain circumstances will make people
bald Accordingly, precautions must be exercised.
The is the source not only of all light, but of
all the energy of whatever description that is mani
tested on the earth Our very bodies may be said
to be built out of this derived energy and the
work done by our muscles and vital organs all pro-
ceeds from the origin. When for instance