New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-25
Tribune Fund Continues
the City's Campaign
All Summer.
FAMILIES OF PLAGUE
VICTIMS GET OUTING
Mothers and Children TO camp
Near Hospital Where the
Fathers Are.
Better babies ~
Tribune Fresh Air Fund.

Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
That puts question and answer
problem and solution--in nutsheli.
This is "Baby Week" fer the city
It's babies three months" for the
Tribune Fund, but the slogan IS TN
same for each Better babies
At this season what will do more %
make babies better babies and mother
better mothers or brothers and sisters
letter brothers and sisters, for that
matter than fortnight OF sweet
fresh country air, OF country peace ahd
quiet?
This is the Tribune Funds contribu-
tiOn toward the Baby Week" cam
paign. a contribution which started be
fore the week began and which will
continue until the middle Of next Sep
tcmber II began. as a matter OF fact
thirty-eight years ago and has so fan
resulted in the bettermcnt OF nearly
100000 babies.
Families Going 90 0tisyille.
or course. these were not all infants
ir arms. Some we're; but most were
babies between FIVE and twelve years
There were among them, too, and there
will be again this year. many mothers
and many boys and girls up TO sixteen
years of age.
This afternoon there will be prac
teal demonstration OF the Tribune
Funds Wori.. II you want TO see 1t 60
over 20 the Erie Railroad station m
Jersey City. Along about l O'Clock
there will begin 70 assemble there 2
group Of tired-fsced women. Some will
have candidates for baby betterment
/ -, . boty
tagging at their skirts.
Who will they be? The wives snC
children of patients in the city's tuber
culOsis sanatorium at Otisville, y. I
They come from families where there
are plenty of drawbacks for the babies
and the children. In most cases tn,
homes have sheltered tubercular pa
tients. and the youngsters have beer
exposed TO infection. In cases where
the cause of infection has been re
moved the means OF support for thC
family has been taken at the same
time.
These mothers and their babies are
to be sent to Otsville for a two weeks
outing. They will not be kept at tn,
sanstorium, OF course. but will live il
tents near the village. By this ar
rangement they will not only get tn,
benefits Of the country. but will alst
have an opportunity 20 see OCCASIONAL,
/ The husbands and fathers from whoE
they have been separated.
Rest for Tired Mothers.
The fortnight of good food and fresl
air may be just what is necessary Il
build up the children and enable then
to overcome tendency toward the ter
rible white plague. IL will surely b.
period of rest and recuperation TO
the wives and mothers, on whom, il
many cases. the entire support Of tht
family has devolved.
another group Of candidates 70
baby betterment will pass through IN,
Erie station somewhat later in tn,
afternoon. when the kindergarten o
, Public School Il sets out on its jour
Icy for Happy Land. the Fresh Al
home at Tenahy, y. J. These young
sters arc to spend the last days of tn,
school year in a kindergarten ROOTED
over by leaves and blue SKY, where the,
can sec in his real glory the robin rcd
breast they love to sing about, an
from which they will not, at least 70
time. 90 home 10 the sombreness o
dingy, sunless tencments.
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