The Washington herald., 1914-09-30
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MORE SUNSHINE.
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Begin this season OF cool weather with
the resolution to have more sunshine IN
your home than you ever had Defore-to
spend more hours in the sunshine your
self and to see to 1t that the members of
your family get more liberal doses of this
most potent Of natures remedies-sun-
shine.
| One obvious way TO get more sunshine
In your house is TO have more windows
cut into the walls. and this is often neces-
| sary in a house that was built q genera
ton ago before people understood the
value Of sunshine. Often an extra win
| dow cut in the side of a home lets in an
amount of sunshine and fresh air that
makes up for the cost Of the Improvement
In better feelings and better spirits before
a month is out. Then another means of
securing more sunshine is by substituting
glass doors for the old wooden ones where
possible. In some old-fashioned houses
the substitution Of two French ~ long
windows in place of the former smaller
ones has greatly added to the sunshine Of
the room.
OF course, II you are TO revel in all this
sunshine you must cease worrying about
having carpets and hangings faded by the
sunshine. 1t is a good rule to make in
buying new things for your house never
70 get anything that is not sunproof.
| Carpets and hangings and wallpaper that
have to be shielded from the direct rays
OF the sunshine ought to be banished
from every sensiUe household.
Another thing that keeps sunshine from
| our houses Is the time-honored article OF
] furniture-blinds and window shades. or
4 course, inside blinds are seldom seen
shiny climes. 1t is so easy 10 take inside
blinds down during the winter and re-
place them IN the summer that they need
not be a Source Of much trouble. Outside
| blinds. too. are going IN the wake of the
| crusade for more sunshine. But the in
side roller curtain. that seems to be so
important a part in every window, is still
persistent and in many rooms cuts down
| the amount of sunshine and light by
about half. A window with the roller
curtain drawn up TO the top is usually
| regarded as a little out Of order. Usually
| Il is certainly not a very pleasant sight
However, IL your windows are dressed
| with a side hanging and valance across
the top of the same material. the roller
curtain can be rolled all the way up and
concealed under the valance Of the hang
ing A window thus treated does not look
at all out Of order with the roller curtain
rolled all the way up.
In bedrooms, of course. II is necessary
to shut out the sunshine sometimes in
order to make sleeping after sunrise
possible. Yet the windows Of the bed
room should be opened at the top and the
bottom, and II the roller curtain is drawn
down to keep out the light It surely will
keep out the air. One very good way to
get around this difficulty is to roll up the
curtain and open the window so that
there will be abundance both Of light and
sunshine coming into the room. but in
order not to let the light come into the
sleeper's face to open a folding screen in
such a way that the light will be shield. d
from the bed.
T. 'es Marshall will be glad to answer
IN Ih.s column any question concerning
household subjects