Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1903 — How to Bask Properly. [ARTICLE]

How to Bask Properly.

“Basking in tlie son” Is In Itself of real and considerable benefit, and It Is no compliment to our human Intelligence to find that cals and dogs understand that fact better than we do. The love of sunshine Is naturally one of our strongest instincts, and we should be far benlthicr and happier if we followed and developed it Instead of practically lgnorlpg and repressing it How a sparkling sunny morning exhilarates us and makes us feel that “It’s too fine a day to spend indoors,” and yet how few holidays are taken for that reason! The wealth of the sunbeams Is poured out lavishly all around us, and we turn from It to struggle for a few pitiful handfuls of something else that is yellow and Bidding, but not half so likely to bring us happiness, and often has strange, red spots upon .It Give na. ture a chance, and we will find that there Is more than a mere fanciful connection between natural sunlight and that “sunny” disposition which, after all, la the true “philosopher'* Stone.*'—Exchange.