Show Nice Day Today It May a Depend on Ions in Air Its It's Pleasant With Sun High and Barometer Rising a H HOW nice is a nice day 1 1 If you rush off to work in inthe inthe in inthe the morning with the sun shining shining shining shin shin- ing and the barometer rising the chances are arc you'll youl say Its a pleasant day At least that is the the conclusion conclusion sion slon reported In studies by Yale university's university's un un- laboratory of ot hy hygiene lene on 1400 business workers and school children In New Haven Ha Conn Speaking before the Chicago meeting of the American Society of Heating and Ventilating En Engi Engineers Engineers l. l Prof Prot a 0 E E. E A. A WInslow and andL L L. L P. P HerrIngton director and assistant as ns assistant director respectively of oC the laboratory told of their fifteen months of study to determine If there Is any relation between factors factors factors fac- fac fac fac- tors of climate and a persons person's reaction reaction re reo action as to the pleasantness or unpleasantness of the outdoor at nt Taken From Records Weather records the votes of ot the test volunteers and the absence records records records rec rec- of the school children and business workers furnished the data from which the following conclusions conclusions conclusions con con- were obtained 1 The weather Is more likely tobe to tobe tobe be pronounced pleasant In fall and winter with decreased temperature but shows no such relation In spring and 2 2 The Tile judgment of or pleasantness Increases very markedly with decrease decrease decrease de de- de- de crease In relative humidity 3 It Increases still more marked markedly ly Iy with Increase of ot sunshine I 4 It Increases with rising bar bar- ometer 5 G. It Increases with a n decrease In total Ions In the air Explaining Ions I IThe The last point the Ion content of the air Is the most obscure Item on the above list The Ions are molecules molecules mole mole- cules cuJes of ot atmospheric gases which I have become electrically charged The presence of such Ions permits per mits among other things the passage passage pass pass- age of lightning strokes The Ions too can help create what Is known as a n live atmosphere Instead of ofa a n dead lead one The latter may best be described as ns the kind of or air one finds In a n room closed tightly for tor some time Some- Some Investigators I have maintained that air without a n normal normaJ Ion content to 12 12 to each cubic centimeter Is less Invigorating than otherwise The al airs air's s 's Ion content from Professor Pro Pro- lessor fessor WInslow and fir Mr r. r Harrington's Harring tons ton's findings ranks third In to the ph physical factors present when one judges judes a day daj to be pleasant The amount of sunshine and relative e humidity hu 1111 nudity both rank runk b before fore It |