Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-28

WHAT THEY ARE
TALKING ABOUT.


Open air for consumptivcs is treat
nent now apparently successfully car
ried on in several places. A sanitarium
for the treatment of tuberculosis, estab-
lished near Plymouth on a spot open to
the keen air of the Atlantic as it sweeps
across Buzzards Bay, goes even farther
than the colony of consumptives living
in tents near Denver.
The consumptives of the Plymouth
sanitarium live in what are practically
three-sided shacks, open to the air at all
times. and part of the treatment con-
s:sts of exposing their naked bodies to
air and sun for certain part of each
clear day.
1t is a remarkable colony in every re-
spect. but the patients seem to have
found the treatment beneficial.
The colony is established on hillside
| sloping toward the south. The patients
| dwellings are small three-sided, wooden
| structures raised slightly above the
ground On the fourth side the only pro-
/ lection is a screen, which is pulled down
only in rainy weather.
1t is not intended to keep out the air.
In fact every method possible to keep
+ the air moving thru the little dwellings
! is utilized There are little windows on
the wall sides screened by lattices so ar
ranged that the air can be kept con-
stantly changed, even when it rains.
/ The shacks themselves are about
| twelve feet square In each one are an
J iron bedstead, bureau, wardrobe, pa
! pers and books. The rooms are like sec
tions of hospital ward out of doors.
! About the grounds hammocks are
hung, in which on the coolest days pa
| tents, wrapped in warm clothing, some
! even with hats and mittens, swing as II
| it were summer. 1t is open-air treat
ment carried to the limit.
| Sun baths and hydropathy combined
complete the course. On the top of the
\ sanitarium proper, which once was CO.
| lonal mansion, large open space has
| been arranged, fitted with cots and sur
| rounded by lattice work.
On the cots the patients are COM
PEELED to lie naked for certain length
of time each fine day, turning their
bodies about so that they may receive
on each part the rays of the sun direct
The whole cuticle of each patient l.
soon as tanned as the neck and arms
of summer yachtsman.
! Following the sun bath comes the
hyodrathic treatment. The patient, af
ter exposure to the sun, is made to I'M
dergo a needle BATH the temperature
| of which is regulated by the operator.
ending with sluicing down with cold
water forced upon the patient at high
pressure.
A rundown comes next, leaving the
cuticle in a glow, and then the patient
/ Is dressed and sent out of doors. 1t
may be imagined that no drafts are to
be feared after this ordeal.
Very little medicine Is used in the In
stitution. AS to diet, milk, butter
cream and eggs are lavishly supplied.
but the patients may eat almost any
thing.
| ut Is one of our rules that patients
should have everything within reason"
said one of the physicians to q reporter.
TT is part of the treatment. We find
that the appetite calls for certain
things and we supply them as we do
| in health, If the food seems to agree
with the patient. We have large
vegetable garden that we use freely
turnout the entire year
| Patients are not to visit one another
| in their rooms and necessary rule
| against expectoration is rigidly en-
forced. both of course with the idea of
avoiding infection.
The managers of the institution as
sert that it's methods have been bene-
fetal in every case treated in the last
year. 1t is pointed out, however. that
| the sanitarium is not intended for pa
tients who are past cure.
L ;e,r fnr inciniant of fllher-
culosis and lung trouble which can be
treated in such a manner as to put
vigor in the patient and send him
home with renewed interest in life.
Tho color line at college is again to
the front. The Hartford Courant says
in a recent editorial that the Rev. w. L.
Roberts liz a young Williamsburg cler-
gyman, the rector of Bruton parish. lie
seems to be an impulsive young clergy
man. few years ago he wrote ahes
forwarded to the constitutional conVeh-
ton at Richmond memorial over MS
official signature as rector. He asked
the convention to forbid the approprla-
ting of public money to any college, aot
controlled by the state. he Expressed
the opinion that William and Mary COL
lege is the feeblest and most inenicleht
college in all Virginia. He said further:
The president of William and Mary
College at the present writing has
daughter at Wellesley College The
daughter of Booker I. Washington is at
this writing pupil at the same college.
In this college the daughter of the negro
Booker Washington is the social equal
of the daughter of the president or VIII
lam and Mary College. Was It CRIME
against society for the president OF the
United States to sit down at the dinner
ah,e with Booker Washington? Then II
must be equally criminal for the daush-
tar Of the president of William ana Mary
College 10 sit in the class room ana at
40 dinner table with the daughter Oh
Rocker Washington The daughter aoes
This of course, with the knoWleuse anu
consent of her father.
craat was the agitation in Wiilams-
burr when Richmond paper puolishea
bynopsis of the memorial with ex-
trocts Friends of DIR. Tyler made
haste 10 explain that his daughter was
sent TO Wellesley at the request OF
wealthy kinsrnan who lives near that
Yankee institution and is paying the
girls bills; that as she does not board
in the college, she does not meet the
girl from Tuskegee a! dinner: more
over. that she does not even meet her
in the claes room, as she is not taxing
the same studies. The wardens anG
yestrymen of Bruton parish held
,,,oa+;pr apd reoraSted MIR. Roberts TO