Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1870 — The Beautiful Sunshina. [ARTICLE]

The Beautiful Sunshina.

Persons who have been at Rome will remember that the charge for a south side room is nearly double that for one of northern, exposure. This is the result of a practical fact impressed upon the minds of the people from the observation of centuries, that sunshine is healthful; and yet very few seem to have arrived to that height of intelligence. Read over the advertisements any.. day for “ furnished rooms,” and thq' indispensable requisite, next to a “ high stoop, brown front, west side,” is that it shall be a front room; it may front a pig pen or a plank yard, a stable or a steamery, all the same; only if it is a “ front room,” tq overlook the street; as if we would die if we oouldn’t see something; as if there was nothing to

4o but ait U Um window ud gu* tX Uu punters-by by th* hour. A New York merchant noticed that all hia bookkeepers became eomtnmptlTe in a few years and died. One day it occurred to him it be the result of their occupying a roofn where the sansbine never entered, in oonseouence of high walls; next day he gave hie clerks a sunshiny room, and never had a consumptive bookkeeper afterward. Another New York merchant placed his son on a beautiful improved fkrm in Illinois. The best upper room of the house overlooked the-nrairle. Three years later the son returned to New York an invalid—the cough, the hectic, the death t On close Inquiry, he stated to the physidan always found his clothing damp and mouldv. “Did the sun ever shine in your room t" st/fi* 53* on the north side of the house.”—JEschartge.