Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-07
VIEW THE EXHIBITS
High School Students Visit
the New National Museum.
BENEFITS OF FRESH AIR
Models of Fairgrounds and Open
Schools Attractive.
MRS. RAFrER EXPLAINS IDEAS
E. G. Routzahn Lectures on the
Causes Of Tuberculosis-New
York's Methods Described
by DR.. Pease.
MRS. RAFTER EXPLAINS IDEAS
INSPECTION THURSDAY.
$50. Armstrong Manual Training.
II am, NJ Street Colored High.
1 pm, Mckinley Manual Training.

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| $50, Armstrong Manual Training.
| | II am, NJ Street Colored High.
| pm, Mckinley Manual Training.
Pupils of the High School thronged the
New National Museum building today.
and the exhibits of the international con-
gress on tuberculosis were explained to
nearly 1000 students. The main groups
came from the Business Western and
Eastern High Schools.
The pupils were shown through the cor
ridors containing the exhibits by a COM
mittee of demonstrators. and a lecture on
the causes of tuberculosis was afterward
delivered to them by E. G. Routzahn.
| One of the exhibits Of great interest to
the students is the playground model in
charge of Mrs. Elizabeth Rafter of this
| city. She has represented the Playground
| Association of America at several ma
! tional conventions. including the national
| conference on charities at Richmond and
the general federation of women's clubs
at Boston. She will attend the conference
of Maine womens clubs later in the
month.
| Mrs. Rafter's idea of a playground is
! summed up in her exhibit at the museum
| building.
Mrs. Rafter Explains Her Views.
! The director or teacher of a play
ground" Mrs. Rafter said recently
SHOULD be trained social worker, one
who understands the value of fresh air
and has a fair knowledge of games and
different varieties of industrial work: but
above all should be chosen for fitness for
such a responsible position. After visit
ing many Fairgrounds l am convinced
that not enough stress is laid upon the
great importance of the director. The
director makes the playground.
| What to do with ,the big boy is a Sc
rious problem everywhere. Buffalo has
good scheme. the best 1 have seen as
to results. The grounds are turned over
to the big boys and girls at O'Clock
| every evening. 1t is a splendid sight to
see games of tennis, basket ball and other
sports going at full sswing among these
young people who were shut up in
| factory or a shop all day
Mrs. Rafter has plans showing the diff
| ferent styles of Fairgrounds, the munich
pal ground, the public school ground and
the private yard. The equipped municipal
| ground requires a lot four hundred by
three hundred and fifty feet. The field
house, located centrally. has entrances on
| each side and Is approached by walks
| bordered with trees and hedges. marking
| the divisions between the boys and girls
Fairgrounds The house has swimming
pool.
The boys side of the playground has
| a running track. a place for indoor base
bali and basket ball. tennis courts. etc.
There are vaulting horses. parallel bars.
ladders, see-saws and other gymnastic
equipment. The girls yard has in the
field space an indoor base ball court at
one end and a basket ball court at the
other. spaces for ring games. croquet.
etc, and in the center there Is wading
pool. A sheltered space for sand tables.
benches. baby hammocks. blocks and toys
| is also provided.
| Another exhibit of great interest to the
children is that of the International Chill
drens School Farm League. which is in
charge of Mrs. Henry Parsons. founder
and director of the first children's school
| farm in New York city. Mrs. Parsons is
| a daughter of John Griscom, at one time
commissioner of health for New York
| city. who instituted the issuance Of death
| certificates in that city and was greatly
| interested in the reform of tenement
house conditions.
Exhibit Of School Farm League.
| Mrs Parsons holds number of other
Offices. including the presidency of the
International Children's School Farm
League. an organization formed to
| further the children's garden movement;
is president of Long Acre League. an Or
ganization composed of people interested
| in the betterment of conditions on the
middle West Side of New York, city; di-
rector of the Girls Branch School Ath-
letic League in New York. and is inter-
ested in the New York State Grange and
| other organizations.
Arrangements have been made to have
the United States Engineers Band play
| in the New National Museum every night
| this week The concert feature is under
| charge of a committee of the exhibitors.
who are cooperating with the local en-
| ", &c onv, too
includes DIR. Crispell of New York. DR..
| Manning Mrs Rafter and Miss Latti-
more. The bapd will give a series of at
| tractive numbers in the assembly nall
itors to the exhibition. During the even
| ing a special stereopticon demonstration
| alternated with the concert numbers by
the band the two senses are attrac-
| lively provided for through the evening
| program.
Fighting Tuberculosis in New York.
The Homeopathic Medical Society meet
| ing at the Shoreham last night listened to
| a special illustrated discussion of tuber-
culosis, DR.. H. G. Pease of New York
state health department and director of
the New York exhibit at the tuberculosis
| congress outlined the methods pursued
by the Empire state in conducting the
most comprehensive and aggressively
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has yet been undertaken in any state in
| the Union. DR.. Pease used as the basis of
his discussion a well worked out dia-
gram outlining on large scale the inter-
woven relationships both in the preven-
| ton and the control Of tuberculosis. BY
means of this diagram 1t was possible
to bring graphically before the audience
a showing of,the way in which the state
| and voluntary associations and institu-
lions must cooperate and actually do get
together in order to line up all of the
| forces which seek to oppose the dread
destroyer
Dr. c. W. Crispell contributed a state
| ment of the results already achieved as
| the outcome of the campaign so far as it
has been developed. The indications are
| such as to warrant the enthusiasm of the
| speakers and to convince their hearers of
the direct effectiveness of the propag anda
| methods, as we'll as the plans inaugu-
rated for the state control Of the dis
| ease.
Open-Air School in Providence.
Rhode Island is making a play for out
door treatment of tuberculosis and has
installed an open-air winter school for
tuberculous children in Providence. This
school Is tho first Of its kind in America,