Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1881 — Effect of Sunshine. [ARTICLE]

Effect of Sunshine.

From an acorn weighing a few grains i a tree will grow for 100 years or more, i not only throwing off many pounds of i leaves every year, but itself weighing i several tons. If an orange twig is put i in a large box of earth, and that earth i is weighed when the twig becomes a I tree, bearing luscious fruit, there will Ibe very nearly the same amount of earth. From careful experiments made I by the different scientific men, it is an ! ascertained fact that a very large part ' of the growth of a tree is derived from i the sun, from the air and from the water, and a very little from the earth ; and notably all vegetation becomes sickly unless it is freely exposed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but condensed sunshine, which contain three important element.; equally essentia! to both vegetation and animal life—magnesia, lime and iron. It is the iron in the blood which gives it its sparkling red color and its strength. It is the lime in the bones whjvh gives them tire

durability necessary to bodily vigor, while the magnesia is important to any of the tissues. Thus it is, that the more persons are out of doors, the more healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the longer will they live. Every human being ought to have an hour or two of sunshine at noon in winter and in the early forenoon in summer.