Connecticut western news., 1910-01-27

D beautiful that one wonders how any
 no could waste timo studying when he
 ad chance to sit in the open and con-
 emplate such scene. But study tho loys and girls do. and to good effect. There are nine grades repres ented among she thirty pupils and their ages range rom to l6 years. Two hours in the morning and two in the afternoon are given to their lessons, aud they do not waste their time. The same order and discipline is maintained as in any regular school room, and it is expected that all of the children will keep up with the work of the classes which they left when they came to the open.air school, and will be able to pass the examinations of their former classes in the spring.
 The schoolroom, with its two canvas walls aud it's open panorama of natural scenery in place of the other two, is an attractive place. The woodwork of the tent is stained green, and on tho tent walls are hung maps and other material used in the school work. Black boards take up one end, and the teachers desk, covered with books, adds to the scholas- tic flavor. The large platform at the front, partly covered by the tents storm roof, which extends halfway over it, af. f)rds place for gynnastic exercises for the pupils.
 But if study and playing and sleeping make up a considerable part of the daily school life of these thirty children, there is another activity that is far from being neglected. When that is considered one ceases to wonder that one little boy weighed nearly eight pounds more at the end of one week $ stay than he did when he came. Three times day they eat at the school, and no one has ever yet been known to fall down on meal,
 The school bell does not ring until S.A6 o'clock in the morning, but o'clock usually finds a large rercentage of the children playing in the schoolgrounds. When the bell rings the girls first form in line and march down into the base nent, where a large and we'll lighted cloalSroom has just been completed Hero each girl takes off the hat and coat she has worn to school and washes her hands. Then comes the first meal in tho dining room upstairs. The boys remove their home garments few minutes later and also wash and likewise take their places at the tables, where hot chocolate, oatmeal and bread and butter, as much as they want to eat. are served them. Then they go downstairs and take their "sitting-up bags" in which are their school clothes, toque. reef CT, mittens, a sweater and blanket. The bags are all numbered and so is everything in them, so that each child is always sure of his or her own garments.
 After the devotional exercises, a hymn, psalm and the Lords Prayer, studying begins and lasts until II 80 o'clock, when there is quarter of an hour for playing, and then more washing of the hands and dinner. This days menu was boiled ham, potatoes, bread and butter, ehoco- late, milk and water. When they have all had enough they march to the third floor for their hour of repose, after which comes more studying for two hours, and then some more washing, light luncheon of something like milk and gingerbread and then home.
 The children come from practically all tho schools in the city and arc either in. fected with tuberculosis or have symp. toms that make it seem probable that they arc iii danger of contracting it, They look so cheerful that one finds it hard to believe that some of them arc already in the grip of the great white plague. A few of them have tuberculo. sis in the hip and their drunken limbs show the terrible results. One hobbies about on crutches, but he asks for no sympathy. Besides the thirty who arc now at the school there is a waiting list, and as soon as q pupil is thought to be sufficiently benefited to return to his or her regular school, tho change is made and one of the waiting ones comes in to take the vacant place.