SUNLIGHT BATHS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

SUNLIGHT BATHS.

Sunlight is as essential to health as are fresh air. wholesome food aid pure water, says the "Now York World." Yet how many of us pet more of it than a few moments in a day? Our citv homes are usually sunless; our country home are too often shaded from the sun by thick trees; we put shades and curtains on our windows; we cover our bodies with garments through which the sun cannot penetrate. We rtll know how essential to p'ant life is sunlight, but even our doctors "do not know, or. knowing, fail to heed tlie necessity for the admission of sunlight to their homes,''' as Dr J. W. Kime, superintendent of the Boulder Lodge Sanatorium. J'"oit Dodge, la., writes in the "Medical Record.'-' "The human typo confined indoors," he says, "is pale' and weak and bloodless, if blood there be, it is but tinged with red; the deep red colours which only tho sunlight paints are reserved for those who' live outdoors. Light is an energy of wondrous power. Great trees bend and grow towards it. Light paints the colours of every flower, and tints the cheek with the glow of health." The blood takes up the energy from the sunlight and carries it to every part of the body.