The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-04
ADVENTURES OF ELIZABETH.


 A German Girls Experiences With
 Cranks in a sanatorium, Mental Sci
 ence School and Cooperative Colony
 This is the story of the first year of an immigrant girl in New York She was a German girl named Elizabeth, and, like the Elizabeth in the story, she loved gardening. She was graduate of a German school for gardening, ana had an imposing looking diploma packed away in her steamer trunk to- gether with testimonials from employ CTS as to her efficiency.
 But Elizabeth had her mind fixed on America as the land of freedom and good wages for women, and through correspondence she had found New York man who wrote her to come right along to New York and she could be the gardener at the sanatorium Eliz- abeth arrived in New York last sep tembe:, and then her adventures De- gaH.
 Her new employer met her very po- litely and sent her out by rail to hls | sanatorium, which was some distance from the city. She could do whatever l was necessary, he said, to get the or chard, shade trees and shrubberies 1 ready for the following spring Eliza beth, With European baths Tn mlnd had large ideas of a sanatorium She 1 found a. sand-heap with two small houses on it in the heart of forest, on a mountain side, miles from the near est village.
 The patients, when they were there in summer, lived and slept in tents. They were all gone now excepting one old man, who refused to go when the summer was done He was slightly crazy though quite harmless and ami cable. He had retained the summer garb of the patients when they played
 in the sand; union suit of flannel very low in the neck and very short in the legs. This was the first object
 Elizabeth saw when she reached her
 new sphere of labor
 Running and skipping was he, like a
 young goat" said Elizabeth etrnestly in relating this story
 The only other occupant of the sana-
 torium was a young German working
 man, who had been in this country
 only a month, and was there to painf
 the buildings. Elizabeth found plenty
 to vex her thrifty German soul in tht planted portions of the place Sht
 found more than a thousand dead frui
 trees. Of all her American experiences
 this is the only one which reused hei
 indignation. All the rest seem to bt food for mirth, but this slaughter oi
 the innocents makes her almost inco , hercnt
 One thousand dead trees found |,
 she said. hinging arms of wrath aloft
 q tell you the man Is crazy, crazy crazy"
 Elizabeth, trimmed and pruned an' uprooted dead trees. She carted rock
 away in the wheelbarrow She took ul trees carefully .agn to the last root let, and laid them in trenches to b 2, transplantcd in the spring The tw'
 men had been cooking for themselves
 Flizabeth had never cooked but shi
 could not stand the mems cooking, anC
 cook that portion Nf the communal du
 ties upon herself The young mai went on painting, the old man contm
 ued to run and skip like young goat 7 The ony work he could be Induced t
 do was to wash tho dishes, Elzabetl
 casting over them a subsequent war , eye. Finally fuel gave out, and Eliza
 beth and the young man got a lon saw, which they operated betwee them, to convert the dead trees int stove lengths, singing German peasan songs over their labor. It was all
 hilarious adventure f1r Elizabeth, an she was busy garnering up a quee collection of ideas about America,
 But the cold winds of Novemhe came. and the snow sifted through tn . cracks of the summer sanatoriun The doctor came out and took them a e back tl town He paid the bills the had run at the grocery store, but ! , never paid Elizabeth anything for he d labor. He took her to his winter sar c atorium in New York, where all kint $ of healing seemed to be going on e1 - cept medical,
 Now" said he i've charge one hur n dred and fifty dollars to teach or course of training here. Why don you take our course? We won't chars Q you a cent. All you need to do is Jul e the cooking"
 e But don't know how to cook sa t Elizabeth.
 g T will teach you said the doctor e wife, affably.
 u As there didn't seem to be any d F mand for agriculturists in Manhatta '0 just then, Elizabeth decided to clos II with the offer She cooked all Wint o without pay and she never received s lesson in the course of training Su( IS as she could pick up by herself she w' s welcome to, but as she was pret pl busy cooking she did not acquire al ss startling amount of scientific know ol edge. She afterward found she cou y have got the full course anywhere 'e the city for twenty dollars It As spring came on Elizabeth dec1d z she must earn some money. She we io to the doctor and asked for help al y advice in finding a place where s
 could earn wages. The doctor, who h' r. been very kind and polite all wint' tn suddenly changed. He was hu h. shocked and grieved at Elizabeths r, gratitude in wishing to leave them, 1e ter they had given her board, lodgi' ct and scientific training all winter 1 or nothing. As Elizabeth mildly persist " that it was necessary for her to ca In some money, the doctor said abrupt 10 Very well, if you are going, go