Evening star., 1933-04-13
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

accept statements of fact which they
are neither able to verify or to disprove.
Yet they never once stop to question.
At the same time, without doubt.
there are thousands Of persons who
pay no attention whatever to the
--latest findings Of science" but go
right ahead leading a life In curl
ously wrought universe. That is their
business.
If they prefer to feel that the
warmth of the sun, rather than the
invisible rays Of the sun, is what
counts, that, too, is their business.
Surely the pleasant warmth of these
first real Spring days is something to
rejoice over.
Maybe the world of recent years has
gone too much in one direction, that
of sun-tan, and not enough toward
the goal Of pleasant sun warmth.
This, too. is worthwhile, in an esti-
nation of those blessings with which
the Creator has lowered the world
At certain seasons one may tend to
think the sun heat a bit too much, at
others not quite enough. but from now
On, at least for one or two months or
thereabouts, most of the inhabitants of
these parts will prefer to believe 1t just
about perfect.
This attitude of mind (snd skim
will depend more than they realize
upon the amount of moisture in the
air.
Probably all heated homes have
shown hygrometer reading of 35, or
even less, all Winter long. despite the
use of radiator pans and the like. A
small hygrometer, actuated> by the ef-
feet of moisture on human hair in
it, has shown the comparative dryness
CT living quarters, unless they were
mcistaned by automatic devices capable
CT throwing relatively large quantities
of water into the air continuously.
With the lessening of indoor heat at
this time of year, barometer readings
therein have advanced to around 55
points, which Is about perfect with a
temperature of IA to rs degrees by the
thermometer. 1t Is our belief (Which
is not at all scientific, but merely a
matter Of commonsense observatory
that mankind is happiest when the out
door thermometer naturally stands at
&C degrees and the hygrometer at
point SIS.
If we were to believe some of the
scientific pronouncements. no ultra
violet rays can get through ordinary
window glass, yet it is matter of COM
mon knowledge that plants placed in q
cool room, whsre they get plenty OF sun
nevertheless manage to grow and bloom
nicely
Aquarium owners whose tanks may
not be made of so-called ultra violet
ray-admitting glass nevertheless find
that, under the influence of the SUM-
shine coming through ordinary window
glass, their aquatic plants grow and
send up oxygen.
These well-known facts might be in
stanced as showing that it is the heat,
after ALL which does the work, but we
do not know whether that would be
true. 1t may be that a certain small
amount of the ultra violet rays, OF GER
tain lengths, do manage to get through
ordinary glass after all, and that this
email amount does achieve great results
in little.
Whichever way it is, those who do not
want to bother with science. because
they have the supreme common sense to
know that they do not know anything
about 1t after all, will find that the
warmth Of the sun. In these days, Is a
bsnediction to body, mind and spirit.
It is no wonder that certain peoples
worshiped the sun and that millions of
persons still worship it, in different
sense. And, whether 1t is rays or heat,
it is all the sun.