Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-12-31
WHITE PLAGUE SHOW.
tuberculosis Exhibition an OBJ
ieCt Lesson In Cleanliness.
NOTABLE FOREIGN EXHIBITS.

tanning rickety wooden bed with
heavy, musty coverlets; smoky oil
lamp In bracket upon the stained
walls; ragged, grimy carpet tackled
TO the floor; an old trunk and broken
chair, with threadbare garments hang
Ing over 1t; n dingy table, with stale
bread and sour milk In unclean dishes;
single window, with black cloth
shutting out the sunshine and an at
mosphere that is heavy and danger
Gus; another room of the same size
wherein all is sweetness and light,
neat iron bed and clean sheets, incan-
descent lamp and snow white walls,
rug on the floor, furniture that is san
ltary and good and air that is health
full and pure.
This is the sermon without words.
prepared In a manner worthy of a
master of stagecraft, that will be
preached until Jan. IL at the inter
national tuberculosis exhibition, which
was recently opened in the American
Museum of Natural History at New
York.
The main theme of the fighters of
the great white plague" who have
raised aloft their standard of the
double red cross" in New York Is to
put to rout the old fashioned venders
of potions and instead let care and
sanitation stamp out this "preventa-
bic" disease, which claims more vic
Tins annually than typhoid fever, scar
let fever and diphtheria combined.
The two rooms that typify the old and
the new methods of caring for pa
tients Is in the Rhode Island exhibit
IN the third floor, says the New York
American. The same idea is used also
in the displays from several other
states and foreign countries.
The exhibit that will first attract the
attention of the thousands who are ex-
pected to visit the exhibition is the
model COW barn that has been built
outside the Seventy street en-
trance. Here two fat, we'll fed cows,
mute sentinels Of the plague fighters,
stand peacefully In their stanchions
eating the best hay the market affords,
chewing their cuds, waiting for the
the dealers and consumers of New
York how tuberculosis can be prevent
ed by proper handling of the milk in
the barns.
Both OF these animals are carefully
groomed before milking, their tails are
partially shaved and the remainder
done up In the semblance OF mar
celle wave-all this to prevent germs
from entering the pals, which, by the
way, are not the large, old fashioned
variety, but small topped affairs that
no dirt can enter. The floor of the
barn is cement, with proper drains,
while the place is ventilated with cold
afr drafts that would do credit to a
well regulated fiat.
Another exhibit that will prove of in
terest to the out OF town visitors is the
arrangement OF the country farmhouse
shown by a model of the New York
state department of medicine. The
first floor Of this building illustrates
the manner in which the parlor. with
its black haircloth furniture and pic
lures OF the family ancestors on the
walls, which should be made the CON-
Portable living room, is used only when
visitors come, while the rest Of the
time the family crowds itself into the
kitchen. Upstairs the spare room" is
shown, and also the small space used
by the family FOR sleeping quarters.
The hired help are placed in an III
lighted attic above which is the legend.
This Is Why Help IS SO Scarce"
The Nathan Straus pasteurizing ex-
hibit is one OF the attractions on the
main floor. Here is gathered all the
machinery used in the prevention of
tuberculosis by the proper care of milk.
The exhibit will be in charge of Mrs
Straus
In the bureau of animal industry Is
another striking feature. Arrange
ments have been made to have meat
actually condemned at slaughter houses
In New York city taken each morning
to the exhibit, where purchasers will /
be shown how to guard against the /
purchase of the infected article.
Throughout the entire three floors of .
the building given over to the exhibit
ton Is remarkable collection of ar
ticles used in the prevention and cure
Of the disease. There are hospital
tents and the most approved beds,
portion of which can be placed outside
The house window; also complete mod
els of great tuberculosis camps through
out the country. In the New York
state exhibit is Il most Interesting col
ection of statistics showing the spread
II the disease and its cost to the state
IF S63,000,000 annually.
One of the attractive features is a
model of the children's school farm
which is to be inaugurated In De Witt
Clinton park, New York. The model,
covering an oblong table, shows
yard, barns and a field
With tiny models of children at work.
Another exhibit which will attract
much attention is the sleeping en-
'elope or blanket for out of door use.
This envelope covers the sleeper from
lead to feet. Even the head is cov-
red, leaving only the face exposed.
Every civiliza tion under the sun and
learly every state In the Union has
is separate contribution of models
nd statistics. Notable among the for
ign exhibits are those of Germany.
France, Russia. and Sweden.
lust inside the Seventy-ninth street
entrance Is the German exhibit. WITH
DR.. Hamel OF the Berlin board OF
anlf In,