Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-24
DAY CAMP IS AN
EDEN FOR LITTLE
PHTH|s|S VICTIMS
Games, Joy, Laughter in SunIit
Grove of Trees in New
ark School.

Ask any little street shaver, worldly
ball, what he would think Of a school
held in a summer pavilion, with long
hours of recess in a sun-lit grove of
trees, just made for laughter and
games n fun. all interspersed with
delicious lunches at regular hours.
Gee. OATS a pipe dream!' would be
his scornful answer.
But it is, in fact. "a reality here in
Newark. On the extensive grounds
back of the former asylum for the in
sane, in South Orange avenue, just
such a school is being run under the
name of the Newark tuberculosis Day
Camp for Children.
we have twenty-seven on the roll
just now said Mrs. Eleanor Aschen-
bach Fornachon, supervising nurse and
matron, to a STAR reporter today.
They all come from the public or
parochial schools.
Troop In at s In Morning.
They come here from their homes in
different parts of the city at 8 O'Clock
in the morning. The first thing their
temperature and pulse are read. After
that they have breakfast in our dining
tent. 1t consists of either bread and
butter and raw eggs, or cereal-cream
of wheat, farina or oatmeal.
Before breakfast they all have to
wash and one of our regulations is that
they each take a bath every day at
home.
''Ar . o'clock or a little after they
go 10 the school-a summer pavilion.
There Mrs. Hoover, who was sem here
by the Board of Education, teaches
them until 1920.
For half an hour they have a recess
and they play about the grounds. After
an hour more of school, comes dinner.
We give them one or two vegetables,
meat, dessert, bread and butter and milk.
Coffee and tea, pastries and the like are,
of course, barred entirely. Today, for
instance, We'll have boiled ham and
mashed potatoes, bread pudding, milk
and bread n butter. Sunday we had
roast lamb, mashed potatoes, peas and
ice cream.
Turn In TO Snooze Awhile.
AFTER their lunch they then have
what we call "a quiet hour in which
they are supposed to sleep if possible.
Absolute quietude is enforced. Those
who do go off to sleep are not dis
turbed, but the others go back to school
and study until s o'clock.
After that they come back here and
play until half-past. They are real
children, too" she added, laughing,
when it comes TO playing games and
romping around in the sunlight.
Another luncheon of milk and eggs.
bread and butter is given at $3.50. About
half-past 1 we start in to read tenn
perature and pulses again, before they
go home at 5.
Those, of course, whose temperature
IS too high, do not go to school. but
stay in our reclining chairs-steamer
ehairs-on the grounds.
AT home they are supposed, in adj
teadition to bathing every day, to take
no tea or coffee, 10 sleep alone with
the windows open and go to bed
early. No moving picture shows,
either, not because of the pictures, but
because most Of them are indoors.
Are Gaining Remarkably.
The doctors are to give all the chill
dren both the hemoglobin and skin test
for tuberculosis. Although the chill
dren have been here only since June 5
they have gained remarkably. Here
are the gains in weight of some Of
them:
Girls, from Il .unds 20 7615, from