AN APPEAL FOR SUNLIGHT [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—For the sake of the nation's light-starved children I pray you let me appeal to your readers for their help, now that the blessed sun is coming again, with health and healing in its wings. Last week you let me say how the Sunlight League last year gave the light of life to many children in Kenwood and elsewhere, with consummate success, medically recorded, with many illustrations and other authoritative articles, in our journal Sunlight (to be had from our office for ls. 2d., post free). Now we ask for members (10s. 6d. per annum including the journal) and for donations, urgently needed, if we are to spread the light and serve childhood as we should. " There is no darkness but ignorance," and, as unfortunately there seem to be still a few people of influence who do not read the Spectator, we must enlighten them in order to lighten the children. Not a penny will be spent on artificial lamps. My honoured friend, Lord Knutsford, one of our vice-presidents, asks for tens of thousands, nobly spent in cure—not least by the light treatment brought to London from Copenhagen in 1900 by our patron, Queen Alexandra. For preventive and creative medicine, the dayspring from on high, we now ask only a few hundreds : the yield in life is thousands per cent., and the finest hospital that ever was or will be cannot approach it.
Any sums, large or small, sent—very soon, please, for spring is in the air—to our hon. treasurer, the Marquis of Graham, 37 Russell Square, W.C., will be gratefully acknow- ledged on behalf of many shadowed lives which we hope to lighten ere long. No readers who had seen what even our English sunlight did for those children of ours last summer could refuse now to send all they can spare, thus making themselves partakers of the divine nature, saying, " Let there be light."—I am, Sir, &c.,
C. W. SALEEBY, M.D., F.R.S.E. (Chairman of Council, the Sunlight League.).
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