Sunshine in Dwellings

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, Cal. · May 6, 1875

Sunshine in Dwellings.

THE time will very likely come when sunshine, or sunlight will be so utilized as to be the entire remedy for many diseases. That it is a wonderful vitalizer none can doubt who knows anything about it. But how many houses are constructed with a view of getting all the sunshine possible, especially when so much is needed in winter and spring? The living or sitting room, at these seasons of the year at least, should have a full southern exposure, with large windows to let in sunshine. Sleeping rooms, wardrobes, closets, and passage ways should receive the cleansing, vivifying influence of the sun. Sickly persons should court the sunshine as much as possible—sit in it, lie in it, luxuriate in it. It does not cost anything only appreciation. A room warmed neither by the sun nor by fire is unhealthy, and not fit for human habitation. It is a poor theory that sends men, women, and children off into a cold room to sleep, on health principles, when warmth has been excluded for a day, or a week, or perhaps months. The change in the temperature of a room, having both fire and sunshine, after the sun goes down is exceedingly marked. A perceptible chill is felt.