IN PRAISE OF SUNLIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1924, Page 9

IN PRAISE OF SUNLIGHT

Dr. Saleoby, .very well-known in Eng r land ns a pioneer of modern sun worship; describes some of the results of his investigations into the various sunlignt cures practised to-day. Sunlight—by no means necessarily sun heal —is nature’s preventive and cure for, we learn, the •‘diseases of darkness,’ ’among which the author classifies, wholly or in part, rickets, tuberculosis, urban nnaemia, and various pulmonary affections. In a “chapiter for mothers,” on sunlight and childhood, Dr. Saleebv remarks upon the mistake which is made: by so many mothers of letting their children play, nearly nude, on the shore all day in the sun’s light and Beat. “It is possible,” he says, “to have too much of a. good thing The bench is incomparable. It gives the child everything. . . , But we must use it. with intelligence. Tho evident danger points are two, tho head and the eyes. If we could really get our children on the beach soon after dawn, and obtain thpir unique value from those early morning hours, bright and 'cool, which are only a rumour for most of us, there would he little, need to warn parents! that the beat of tho sun, beyond a very low point, is not our friend.” Dr rtaleebv recoinmendeds for the child on the beach a cap such as the South African cricketers use-a loose, light, perforated, white, soft, linen lint—or cap, with a brim all round. Bathing and paddling, hut especially bathing, are recommended, in reason. “Some one has 'blundered, something is wrong if the child on tho beach has a headache, nr cannot eat or sleep,” says the author. “But if we do not blunder, we shall see for ourselves what nature can do when her children respect and try to understand her."-