ShuttingOut Lights.

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 84

ShuttingOut Lights.

' Some pebple''SaVe''an extraordinary .terror of tight. °They^ I go' to immense 'troubJe. putting .tip" curtains * l an ; d blitids and -and generally -lj«frrica*dirig tiiemselves. as if "against- an. '.enemy. Ifc makes one, sad to •go into houses tiiat aro'in -a perpetual state of'-half-'inouming, ".their .-inhabitants* 1 "hidingbehind - several -sects . of > bHnds .and < curtains. One fancies, that^if^a >wU<I -wind suddenly blew, all these defences 'away there would be a, sudden scurry into holes like cockroaches 1 or, centipedes,,, 4inv_-dwe}lers.,jpader stones. fSoTmad ejfeif "plight to be,i«l}le.to bear "the ;|i^ht". r liiglifc ■p;bn"ly t ,.an.'enemy; to "'the" microbes' ;- -he" fe .-meroiless, te^hem. lietjliim Mnto^-'yfliut %ou^S;- !&© vv is a' goocl doctor,' and '-foe- as"te^d''fie". 'jftuch -"of the pallor. observable. in ! thSßrffeoes" 6^ ifibs^wiose lives -ire passeH in -gloomy courts;- and alleys, and , underground' 'workshops 'isL due to -insufficiency of . light. No r«nondej','"stiien, r that children 'rearedT.in badly_-Jighfed'*»nur-«eries, and, ''aesthetie", ,peoplej^who -delight in .stnall wi">h-,colojiredij*las6'j-stilli further to light.,,should pay the ' inevitable .penaltjr , in, pale ..laces and impaired., health..' _ ( J? %£ _, ,[ ;