Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-30
HEALTH FARM TO
RIVAL MULDOON'S
JEFFRlES WILL TRAIN AT NEW
RESORT
Replica of Famous Gymnasium Where
Roosevelt Went to Regain Strength
VIII Be Opened In La
Canada

Champion Jim Jeffries will train at
home, whether he fights Johnson here
or not, and along with the statement
is made the first announcement of the
opening of a duplicate of the famous
Muldoon health farm in Southern Cali
fornia. The new place is the Strong
Health Farm at La Canada, formerly
the noted Durham ranch, garden spot
and show place of the valley. There
the proprietor and manager, Jean
Strong, who will also act personally as
instructor of his farm patients, has a
large force of workmen busy remodel
ing the big ranch house building a
large gymnasium, with handball court
and shower baths-the gym to connect
with a swimming pool-building stables
and garage, and beautifying the
grounds and the long palm drive lead
ing to the center of the farm from the
county roadway.
The health farm is to be opened Sep
tember 5, and on Sunday, the day prior,
a number of leading physicians who
have volunteered hearty support of the
institution will visit the farm and be
given an informal reception. The farm,
they expect. will solve big question
for them-the question of what to do
with patients who don't get well be-
cause they won't obey orders.
There are patients that drive doc
physicians. "They are the fellows who
are nervous, run down. off their feed,
on the verge of collapse and unfit, to
carry on their business, and yet can't
be made to follow instructions for their
welfare. They insist on taking medi-
cine when all they need Is exercise ana
pure air, food, and certain hours of
rest and sound sleep. I don't know as
thew are to be blamed, since the tempt
alton is so great in a city to get into
the old rut of overeating, overdrinking
and oVerworking. But what the doc
tors have longed for is the chance to
send them to some place like Muldoon's S
health farm, as Roosevelt sent knoX
and Root and others of his cabinet
after he himself had tried 1t and report
ed that it made him feel bully The
patient has got to obey there, and he
will have to obey here or leave the
farm. It makes we'll man of him and
keeps a friend for us where otherwise
we would be bound eventually to lose
him."
The system to be followed at the
Strong Health Farm provides for the
following daily program:
Arise. 6 o'clock; $50 to 8, horseback
riding; 8 o'clock, shower baths; 8:15,
breakfast: to $50, rest; to 1880, noun
tain climbing or pedestrian exercises;
11:30. shower baths. massage, plunge;
noon, luncheon; 1:30 to p. m, hand
ball playing, boxing and other gym
nasium exercise; 8 to 6, rest and games;
6, dinner; to 9. reading, letter writing
and games; 9, to bed; $3.50, lights out
AS a sample of the system and its
enforcement the Muldoon necessary
''incidental' of seeing that lights really
are out at $50 will be obserVed-that
is. patients will get only two-inch
bit OF lighted candle when they start
to bed, and the novels they read atter
that time will have to be OF the two
inch variety. At the altitude OF the
health farm, however, no yearning to
break this rule is likely, as the air at
100 feet alone induces sound sleep.
The Strong Health Farm Is twelve
miles from Los Angeles and six miles
from Pasadena and Glendale. Phones
have been installed for the preliminary
applicants: Home, Glendale, 4S3, ana
Sunset, Pasadena, Main 1858. Down
town business offices are to be estao-
lished; also agency in the east.
While Jeffries not only is interested
in the idea of a health farm and the
assurance has been given that he Will
make this one of his training quarters,
and although Jeffries himself took
Papke to the Strong institute to be
"fxed up" for the fight with Ketchel
the farm will cater more especially 10
business and professional men. IL IS
already being sought by men of this
kind who want to get away from NOISE
and worry and cares and yet be near
enough to the city to take care OF
emergencies. The farm of the Muldoon
type for them has, physicians say, been
the one thing lacking in the best place
on earth for it, and that explains the
motto of the new place: "All that Null
doom offers--and Southern California :