The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-08
Don t Be a Shade Plant
By ADA PATTERSON.


IL you are able to do until
you stop being shade plants" said
tne doctor. He is an eminent pbysi-
r'an, who was talking OF women
and their nndeveloped powers.
ou VIII not achieve amply un-
W YOU become thoroughly awake
he continued. "Shade plants are
half asleep, would be nearer the
truth If | said they are half dead. -
ne is growing physician, one
or those who believe in little medl-
cine and a great deal Of sunshine
IN the soul and body. He thinks if
theTc Is enough in the body there
VIII be plenty IN the soul But he
says ono of the little follies of
woman IS to neglect or to fear the
sunshine.
| know that general statements
are likely 10 glance off the mind
instead of taking root in il. To he
enough impressed by a statement
we must know what is behind and
beneath it, These are the facts
about sunshine for the BODY.
We all know that when someone
IS pale and puny and istless and
inadequate to the world S demands
upon HIM or her that that person s
blood IS thin. In other words the
current of the life stream is pink
instead Of red We know. foo.
that when anyone abounds in vital.
ity, his blood has the crimson
tlnge. SO well is this accepted that
when we want TO pay tribute TO an
especially vital human being we
say, 50 He has good red blood in his
VEINS Manifestly it is desirable
to have plenty of the rcd fluid and
the way to secure it is to instill
aud distlll as much sunshine into
the body as possible.
For, so the doctor Iaboriously
cited the benefits TO me, sunshine
actually augments the number or
red corpuscles in the blood II a
drop Of your blood has been exam
med under a many times magnify
ing microscope, before You saunt.
cred forth along sunny path and
another were drawn from the body
and examined on your return from
that sunny stroll. there would be a
percePtbly greater number of red
coTpuscles after the walk than be-
fore. And pursued the doctor
truth. eff the blood is red enough,
ease can be cured
We have never thought, or if we
have thought, we haven t liked to,
that our bodies are poison factories.
We like to think of them as tenn
pies of beautiful spirit, and as
wonder machines, and so they are,
but they have another aspect, the
poison factory. Acids and vapors
are there manufactured and impris-
oned unless by wise living they are
expelled, Sunshine expells them.
Sunshine promotes elimination,
said the doctor.
And the nerves. the tiny tender
servants, so useful yet so prone to
prove traitors. Sunshine stimulates
them when they're tired. tones
them when they are haccid, and
soothes them when they are over
wrought.
So instead of merely accepting
and stTaightway forgetting the
general statement that sunshine is
a good friend let us remember
these three offices it performs and
TO be shade plants.
There are few plants that grow
we'll in the shade. Ferns and moss
'hrive and weeping willows like the
7Hdit pul IuoN are Ol HlclduGuOIN
mood. 1t is'natural for plants and
for humans to grow i'll the sun
shine
Persons who live as much as pos
'lble in the out.of doors seem to
-adiate that which they take in,
sunshine, Harrison Fisher told me
.hat of all The types of lovely girls
,is pencil produces the public likes
he best, as is shown by the sales
# the pictures, his out.of-d doors
.irls He draws tiaraed beauties Mt
he opera, and naughty damsels
lad in Paris frocks, with fingers
by Jewels at dinner. He
as shown them trailing velvets
nd furs in sumptuous folds about
hem as they stepped into or out Of
nrriages, but his best seller of all
is girls is she who was most SIM
ly frocked. who, instead Of show.
ng hundreds of dollars worth Of
strich plumes waving from her
cad, showed her own fair hair
nth the sunshine heeking it. The
ut-of~door girls, his simplest, is,
ccording to the public taste, the
EST product.
The out of door girl is wholesome
nd the world demands health from
omen Illness is no longer inter
sting. II carries with IL In many
lstances reproach of unhygienic,
unwiss living. The world has put
premium on health and sunshine
rings it. The shade plant has gone
1t Of fashion.