New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-13
A NEW OCCUPATION.
How "Them Two Fool City Women" Found
Novel Work in the Country.

In their desire to live In the country, two
women, one a nurse. the other a specialist In
cooking have discovered what is regarded by
every one to whom they have communicated the
plan as an entirely new profession for women.
They have a farm in the Adrondacks, where
they have spent the summer for the last FIVE
years and every summer they have felt an in
creasing Discrimination to leave it At last they
began to ask themselves II there wasn't some
way that they could make the place support
them. Then the cookery expert remembered
delicate little relative who had been sent to
mountain farm for two three years and, with
only such care intelligent farmers wife
could give him. had recovered his health. There
must be many such children. she reflected and
wouldn't the country air be much moro bene-
fetal IL combined with scientific feeding and the
Intelligent of trained nurse? The
trained nurse thought it would when the
idea was impaired to her. and all the doc
tors and nurses who were consulted said that
the plan was an ideal one and would meet
long felt want which no one had ever attempted
to meet
The two women had no idea at first that their
plan was original but diligent inquiry has con-
WINGED them that it is almost certainly so.
There are places where imbecile children
be sent" said the cooking teacher. talking TO a
Tribune reporter, and there are institutions for
the and treatment or cripple chlIdreH, Out,
so far as we can learn. there is no place for the
child who is simply delicate. and no place COM
binng ordinary home life with intelligent trained
care. We have heard of one woman who takes
one delicate child at time and gives it good
intelligent and whatever education its
heath permits, but she has special training
for the work.
I'VE intend to do Just what this woman is do
ing only in a scientific way. We will keep our
family small, so not to destroy the home feel
ing We Will send the little folks to school or
have a governess, as seems best. and we under
stand enough about Kindergarten work TO do
little of that ourselves. We will give special at
tention scientific feeding, and have OPP
portunites for all sorts of outdoor ADJUSTMENTS,
both in winter and summer. We are both fond
of children, and my partner has a marvellous
work would be impossible. because the control
of the children has much to do with their health.
A person who Worried fretted them would be
fatal to all success.
I'VE believe and doctors tell us that there are
many children who need Just such care as we
can give them and whose parents would be will
ing to pay literally for such care. There are
extremely nervous children who need not medi-
cal care, but scientific feeding and the quiet
watchfulness Of a trained nurse. They ought
to be taken out of school. hut their education
should not be neglected and they should lead
an ordinary home life Such children are often
wofully neglected. Not infrequently the moth
ers ashamed Of them. and they are left
children who simply under vitaiZed, with
nothing definitely wrong with them, but who
will suffer all their lives il thew do get just
the right care in childhood. We will take Grip
pied children and conValescent children, and
would have no objection 10 perfectly healthy
ones but could not take who had any kind
OF serious malady with the exception of bone
tuberculosis which would not be dangerous to
the other children.
Yes, think there ought to be room for any
number Of such homes as this. provided they
did the right kind of work We do not expect
to have more than three four children al a
time, at the very most six. and that certainly
will not meet the demand. Considering how
overcrowded the nursing profession is and the
floods Of nurses being turned out all the time
from the training schools. l think some OF them
might turn their attention TO the kind of work
L have described with very great profit
The house which these two women intend 70
use for their work is a charming. quaint old
farmhouse, overshadowed by great trees nearly
one hundred years old. They have furnished il
with great simplicity and supreme comfort hut
In style so different from that of their r1IraI
neighbors that during six summers the latter
have not been able 10 get used TO it. They refer
to the divans with which all the lower rooms
are furnished as beds in the living rooms" and
they are In the habit of speaking of the pro-
prietors OF the place them two fool citv
women" -N'