Sunshine in Dwellings

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Apr 26, 1877

Sunshine in Dwellings.

THE time will very likely come when sunshine, or sunlight, will be so utilized as to be the entire remedy used for very many diseases. That it is a wonderful vitalizer, none can doubt who know anything about it.

But how many houses are constructed with a view to getting all the sunshine possible, especially when so much needed as 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 the sunshine. Sleeping rooms, wardrobes, closets, 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 doesn't cost anything, only appreciation.

A room warmed neither by the sun nor by fire, is unhealthy, and not fit for habitation. It is a poor theory that sends men, women or 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 the room, having both fire and sunshine, after the sun goes down, is exceedingly marked. A perceptible chill is felt.—Ex.