Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1909 — FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE [ARTICLE]

FOR YOUR HEALTH’S SAKE

•.* , * *" Sunshine. * • _____ • * The sunshine is God’s great * * agency for health. Disease * * germs live and lurk in dark- * * ness and filth. Sunlight and * * air destroy them as surely as * * do the most effective germicides ♦ * made by man * * For 12 years a "health regis- * * ter” has been kept in every * * house in Paris. A study of * * these records shows that over- * * crowding and unsanitary condi- * * tions do not favor the spread of * * consumption as much as does * * the absence of sunshine.' Old, * * dirty, and even dilapidated * * houses with plenty of sunshine * * showed fewer cases of tuber- * * culosis than some of the new * * and costly apartment houses * * with narrow courts and con- * * taining rooms from which both * * sunshine and air were almost * * excluded and where there were * many servants. Many of these * * expensive houses were found to * * be veritable breeding places * * for consumption. * * If the sun is shining throw * * up the shades, part the window * * curtains, and give its health ’ * promoting rays a chance to * * flood every accessible corner of * * the room. * *#*****•*•**••*