Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — Shade Trees. [ARTICLE]

Shade Trees.

Dr. Lewis in St. Louis Magazine. The shade trees about our dwellings have done much to make our wives and daughters pale, feeble and neuralgic. Trees ought never to stand near enough to our dwellings to cast a shade upon them; and il the blinds were removed, and nothing but a curtain within left to lessen on the hottest days the intensity of the hoat, it would add greatly to the tone of our nerves and our general vigor. The piazzas which project over the lower stnry always make that less healthy than the upDer story, especially for sleeping purposes. I am sure I have cured a great many cases of rheumatism by. advising patients to leave bed rooms shaded by trees or piazzas, and sleep in a room and bed which were constantly dried and purl-, fled by the direct rays of the sun.