Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Necessity of Sunlight [ARTICLE]

Necessity of Sunlight

Instead of excluding the sunlight from our houses lest it fcde carpets and curtains, draw flies and bring freckles, i we should open every door and window and bid it enter. It brings life and heshhand jov; there is healing in its beams; it drives away dwesm, dampi ne«, mold, megrims. Instead of doing this however, many careful housewives do* the binds, drawdown the shades, lock the doon, shut out the glorifying rays, sad rejoice In the dim and musty coohs—and twilight qf their unhealthy

apartments. It is pleasant and not unwholesome daring the gbune of the noontide to subdue the light and exclude the air quivering with heat, but in the mormngaud in the evening we may freely indulge in tbs tun bath, and let it flood all our rooms, and if at its very fiercest and brightest it baa frill entrance to our sleeping rooms, so much the better for us. Wire netting in doom and windows excludes not flies and mosquitoes only, hut all other insects, and those who nave once used it will continue to do ao. With this as a protection from intrusive winged creatures one may almost dispense with shades and shutters, and enjoy all the benefits of an open bouse without any annoyances no frequent in warm weather. Bnt better the annoyances with sunshine than freedom from them without it. Statistics of epidemics have shown that if they range in s part of a city, they will prevail in houses which are exposed to the least sunshine, while those most exposed to it will not be at all, or very slightly affected. Even in the same house persons occupy ing rooms exposed to sunlight will be healthier, and resist epidemical influences better than those occupying rooms where no sunlight enters. —Manufacturer and Builder.