New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-08-01
Sci LING BREAD BY WEIGHT RESULTS At kROM FARM
Oniy "Undernourished Children
Sent to This Home.
ALL But ONE GAIN WEIGHT
At the End of Their Stay They
60 Home Strengthened IN
Body and Mind.

90 Home Strengthened ii
Body and Mind.
Would YOU Ike 10 have a Doctors degree .
conferred unou Jou? Then just take q trip .
up 10 ShuAan, =. Y, and seek out The kronl
Farm The only requirements are that you /
be d male citizen and wear store clothes ?
Nobody clad in roustabouts gets higher
degree than farmer. 4 title Of respect. /
by the way. which is reIigiouslv prefXed 10 .
the names OF all recognized as natives OF
the region
The degree will not he bestowed, mind
you, by a grave and learned university
faculty You will not be asked TO kneel
down while you are sEiitten across the
shoulder blades with the trusty Danaseene
blade Of your forefathers. before you are
told TO Arise. Sir Knight
AS YOU ascend the drive that leads TO
Kron House some one of z hundred lads
and lasses playing in the shade Of the trees
viii shout, Hello, Doctor! or maybe Just
Hello. Doc and after that it goes. IN
ike more learned conclaves the !>rom
Farm settlement doesn't wait for the
dean or the president to pronounce the
title The frs, fellow who sees YOU does ii,
and. presto. you are it, as the Germans
say,
You see. GIronl Farm is the Tribune Fresh
! Air Home fer undernoUrshed children. The
/ superin ten5ent William NJ. Dunn, is a med
. zeal student at Johns Hopkins and his male
assistants do not object to being called
doctor if one insists. Hence the emil
/ dren. il they don't know what you are
assign YOU to the doctors just as they
would put you among the 'teacheTs al any
/ other Fresh Air home.
It isn't a bad place to go for a degree. or
for almost anything else, either. this rolling
farm in the gateway 10 the Catskiils'' a.
tbA region is called. Around it. or every
side rise those time-rounded knobs that
print their bold outlines CT the clear even
ing sIzy." the fairy mountains whose
magical hues and shapes" change With
every hour Of the Ions summer DAY. Ana
down between the ranks OF opposing pVaAs
winds in ana out the silver thread OF E-so-
pue Creek right al the doors OF old I>rorn
House
For TWO seasons now this Fresh AIT
farm. which formerly received the same
class Of children as other Tribune homes.
has been set aside as a place where special
provision * made for children who come
from families some OF whose members nave
tuberculosis.
Children Are Free from Disease.
Only children who ara themselves re-
from the disease. however, can ne recelFSu
II the farm. Each one before being sent
must pass a special examination fAaue -
IT,r 7 Ogden Woodruff, Of New York. They
iare however, what are termed by phyai-
clans. under nourtshed children" children
whose phvzicll condition would render them
easv victims if once the plague to Wh'cN
they are daily exposed Should gain FOOT
hold on their ueagre bodies.
Immediately upon tileir arrival each ctll4d
is weighed and subjected to test to asceF-
tain the quality of its red blood. Most OF
them rroya 10 3e under normal weight ana
or impoverished blood. In view OF thee
facts the nc nd food At the nome are
regulated So as, il possible, 70 increase ule
weight Of the children and TO enrich theh
blood. thus terrifying them against the a.
tacks of disease.
tn this end care is taken that they shall
at no time overeXert themselves ana tS1
tain periods or absolute rest during each
da, are prescribed. The food provided is
selected with an eve always to its superior
r,,tritfyr qualities Every child IS required
t,e1ali,- # * unnecessary 10 enforce i
a. = rfauirefnent-to drink at least two
ef..ssa,s of milk at each meal, and also
moderate quantity at stated Intervals ne
tween meals 'Fhe III Tx used is; moreover
required 10 he Of d very high standard ~
fesh making materials
The children are kept at Shokan for near
~ tyyI,. the customary Fresh Air vacation
OF two weeks When they go home the re
suits of the life are evident IN almost Al
Instances In .lle case Of the first parry
entertained this season, the girls gained m
..-srapa of four and one-quarter pounds
each tic bovE, because OF iheir greater a.
riy+ three era one-quarler ONLY one
IN .-yiE
gain in weight their blood gained in essen
lt,aI qualities from 10 10 i per cent
i INST how the young people themselves
e-ts,. into the spirit of the Shollau Home
-tbs following note copied from postal
card written by one of the present guests,
will show
Dear Gra.e--I received your letter
am slad 80 here YOU are we'll l am having
= good time weight 73 los when ! go nome
am going 70 weight 80 lbs I'll be Dig
thar, 7 drink at least 3 glasses OF milk 4
meal I eat plats OF oatmeal for hreci-
fast al 3 o'clock milk and crackers tnurSG2s
morning the mts were coVeTd ed Win ci'uI7
my blood was tested it is 49, Doctor said
must he 90ea well hope you WIZ wire
again. ''H'-'
II must not ne supposed, however lh-'-
the children have impressed upon Them the
idea thai they are invalids, or that Their
,-n,tna. shirts are dampened with the inthr-
nation that they live in the presence OF
constant menace. They are bIdden 70 eat
drink and he rr,erry.'' and are helped in al
possible ways to do these things
Fishing with Bent Pr
The other day when Tribune reporter
visited the fary1 he found the hundred
Youngsters divided into parties OF twenty
eve and just starting out Ter a morning
yaIk Following them a little later, he
found one party Of girls seated or carpet
% pine needles in q thick grove OF pines
at the rivers edge listening with rapt at
,ention 10 the reading Of Alice in Won
derland. feeling doubtless amid their new
surroundings a certain kinship With Alice.
a iittls further down the course OF the
stream were twenty-five other girls hsh-
ing with the pfoverbial bent pin Meme or
them geemEd to be aware that one o. those
lttl. wrieglefs such a. are found in shall
lows al a streams edge would ma II diff