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Bellows Falls, Windham County, Vermont
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An article advocating the use of sunlight as a vital remedy for diseases, emphasizing house designs that maximize southern exposure for living and sleeping rooms, especially in winter and spring, to promote health and vitality.
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But how many houses are constructed with a view to get all the sunshine possible, especially when so much is 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 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, 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 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, perhaps months. The change in the temperature of the room having both fire and sunshine, after the sun has gone down, is exceedingly marked. A perceptible chill is felt.
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Sunlight is promoted as a vitalizer and future primary remedy for diseases; houses should be built for maximum sun exposure in living and sleeping areas, especially in winter; sickly individuals should seek sunlight; rooms without sun or fire are unhealthy, and sudden temperature drops after sunset are chilling.