Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1877 — Sunny Rooms Make Sunny Lives. [ARTICLE]

Sunny Rooms Make Sunny Lives.

Let us tnk» tlje airiest, choicest ami sunniest room fn the house for ottr living room —the Workshop where the brain and bodv are built up and renewed. And there let us have-ajjay window, no matter hew plain in, |»lruclHre, th'rough which tlie good twin angels—sunlight and 1 pure air—-can freely enter. This wjndow shall be the poem of the house. It shall give freedom and sdope to the sunsets, the tender green and charming lints of spring, the glow rif summer, the pomp of autumn, the white of winter, storm and shine, glimmer and gloom—all these we can enjoy as we sit in our sheltered room, ns the changing I years roll on. Dark rooms bring depression of spirits, imparting a sense of confinement, of isolation, of powerlessness, which : is chilling to energy and vigor; but in light is good cheer. Even in a gloomy house, where walls and furniture are a dingy brown, you have but to take down the dingy curtains, open wide the window, hang brackets on either side, set flowei pots on the brackets and ivy in the pots, and let the warm air stream freely in. Western Hural.