New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-17
AWAIT A FAIRY PRINCE
Should One Arrive Fresh Air Re-
treat Would Be Complete.
KROM FARM HAS 105 GUESTS
Home for Children Threatened
with tuberculosis Must,
However, Soon Pass.

Do YOU envy the prince in the fairy tale
who found the beautiful princess just An
ishinr her hundred years nap in the en-
chanted forest and kissed her till she awak-
ened? There is no need TO. Any day
during the summer you can go the prince
a hundred better
Take a shady road that leads from Sho-
kan. y Y. toward the west and follow u
for a delightful mile and a half as II
winds along beside the silver waters OF
Fsopus Creek Then at a place where the
creek veers in a gentle curve to the south
ward turn TO your right. and you VIII see
gate which always Glands Hospitality
open.
S-s-s-shl Remember now that you are IN
search Of hundred sleeping beauties ana
that. as is known the world over sleeping
beauties are apt TO he most irasciole II
aroused by any other method than the one
invented By the prince ages ago
One Hundred Sleeping Lasses.
Just over the knoll and around that
clurnp Of shrubbery and-there! behold ].
fvescore and five pretty lasses Of every
type from red hair and freckles TO oiach
hair and gypsy tan. stretched out on the
green turf in the shade Of grove OF low
cring oaks and ems Take your cnoice
and follow the princes example II you
wish.
oh" she will say as she pops up
"Ohr" will chorus the hundred and four
others as they pop up, disturbed by the
noise
who's that?" will be the first blunt
question when their eyes light on YOU ana
don't be surprised II a hundred and nve
fingers all point directly at you as II is
asked.
/ II won't do for you. however. TO say
/ that you're a prince come TO marry the
most charming of them, because III the
/ first place. YOU are not a prince, and' III
the second place. they are not grown UP
/ sleeping beauties-only Fresh Air tots from
New York taking their afternoon slesta IN
what a railroad advertisement describes as
a paradise for children
This is. in fact Krom Farm, the Tribune
Fresh Air home in the Catskills, where the
cid adage An ounce of prevention 10 worth
a mound of cure is being put into pracuce'
The wisdom of taking preventive measures
against tuberculosis has been for seVcral
years very generally recognized. More re-
Gently the idea Of establishing so-ca4ieo
.'preventoriums' for persons VINO sho"
tendency toward that disease has taken
firm hold and such institutions nave
snrune I'D in different sections Of the couh-
try. A.
The manager OF the Tribune Fresh All
Fund. Dr. John Bancroft Devins' ga" 'ht
wisdom Of this plan three years ago anu
set aside Krom Farm which up to tha'
time had received the same class OF GILL
dren as the other Tribune homes as
preventorium for children who were no'
vet infected with tuberculosis. but VINO
came from tuberculous families or WHOSE
bodies seemed greatly undernourisned' ana
therefore peculiarly liable to the raVdses %
the disease. Since that time the home mas
been maintained for this purpose
CAPTAIN John Smiths rule. He who does
NOT work likewise shall not eat. IS re-
vised az Krom Farm 70 read, Eat Io'
and sleep as much as you can. for there
isn't sny work 70 be done" The children
who are sent there are under norma
weight and poor in blood. Every enort IL
therefore made TO put flesh on their frames
and increase the richness Of their blood.
To this end a special regimen Is adopted
the Youngsters are kept as quiet as POSI-
bic. BY this IL must not be understood
that thew are not permitted TO enjoy them
selves. Far from that but strenuous
games. long walks and all things that II
anv way smack Of overexertion are lor'
hidden.
In addition each child is expected &c
stretch out for an hour after his noonuaS
meal and. II possible. sleep; or. II sleep II
tn,nosstble. at least to rest. And altnougr
,or a dav or two many do not sleep very
much the rest hour soon becomes a habit
and YOU might think you had stumbled
upon the descendants OF the seven sleeper'
Z, YOU walked unawares into the grove tha'
surrounds Krom House.
The food provided at the home naturally
is selected for IT'S flesh and blood making
qualities solely The creamiest milk oo-
ta!nable and the freshest Of eggs are the
chief articles Of diet. with, Of course. plenty
Of other things 10 give the necessary
variety In the morning, and again In the
afternoon between the regular meals. milf
is served 10 the young guests. each Of
whom consumes in the course OF the DAY
close 10 TWO quarts.
The children who are sent to Krom Farm
are most OF them selected from the oper
air classes " the New York public schools
or are picked out by nurses in the hospitals
NJ the CITY who know the families and
home surroundings. ~I In many cases the
rarents OF those selected by the nurses are
being treated in the public hospitals OF
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