Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-08

| If residents of Washington did not envy
| the tuberculosis patients who were COM
| PEELED to live out in unheated tents all
last winter they must now acknowledge
| that the shoe is on the other foot For to
| spend the hot summer nights In the fresh.
| cool open air Is the desire of all who are
housed up in the city. Such is now the
! life which the patients of the Starmount
| Sanatorium at Washington Grove, Md. are
leading. They are spending their entire
time. both sleeping and awake. in the
open air. 500 feet above sea level.
On the top OF one of the high hills near
| Washington Grove. to be seen from the
| Baltimore and Ohio railroad trains about
half a mile south of the Washington
| Grove station, Is colony of tents; and
that is the hospital where Washington
! tuberculosis sufferers are being treated
and cured. In the twenty tents which
| surround the house on the knoll of the
! hill are ten patients at the present time
| The number has been greater than TINS
| most of the time, but as many are able
! to stay out of doors at home and can SUB
| NIT to the diet treatment there also the
| colony has shrunk for the present. There
| are accommodations for about twenty-six
| patients: and 1t is expected that all the
| berths will be occupied later in the sea-
! son.
| Despite the fact that the white plague
| has taken hold on every one except the
| servants to be found around the colony,
the persons there are happy and hopeful
| to a surprising degree. Such improve
| ment has been noted in those there and
| so many cures have been effected In
| short time that every member of the col
| ony talks of the time when he or she will
| be well and able to return to his or her
| home and to work This spirit of hope
fulness is so apparent and really so con-
| .tagious that one forgets that 1t Ia not
| simply a colony of campers.
On the very knoll of the hill is located
the large. rambling wooden house In
this there are dining room for the pa
TENTS q sitting room used in very inclem
ent weather, and quarters for the serv-
ants who prepare the meals and wait on
the patients In other ways. No patients
are allowed to sleep in this building. 1t
has q wide rambling Veranda on two
sides; and on that the patients sit during
the day. when they are reading, playing
games or conversing with each other.
Around this building are grouped the
tents which are the living and sleeping
rooms of all the patients. They are ar
ranged in streets. wooden sidewalks lead
ing from the house to the entrance of
each. On the south side of the house are
the women's tents; and on the other side
are found the tents for the men. Looking
out from the door of each of the tents
one sees a broad eXpanse of agricultural
and Powered fields, hears the chirps and
songs of many birds and sees the squir-
rels and similar companions scamper
around from one limb to another of the
many trees. Located high above the sur
rounding country. the occupants of these
tents get purest ozone in unlimited guam
titles. Here surely the visitor eXclaims,
cures of diseased bodies must be effected.
Diet is the only regular thing out at
Starmount Sanatorium. Any Washington
boarding house keeper would be driven
out of business were she to feed the pa
tents of the colony. for their appetites
are only measured. 1t seems by the size
of the plates on the dinner table. Three
meals a day are eaten regularly. and be-
sides that the patients supplied be-
tween meals with milk and eggs. In the
open air the patients develop such an APP
petite that they take about three quarts
of milk and fully a dozen raw eggs every
day. besides the three meals Some pa
tents with good digestions. 1t Is stated,