Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-14
CHILDREN CROW ROSY
IN 0PEN-A|R SCHOOL!
Appropriation Needed to Provid
Permanently for "Roof Gar
den" Glasses.
COLLECT PENNIES TOMORROW
Each Pupil in the City Asked tt
Bring Cent in Observance oil
Open-Air Day-Church and Patri
otto Societies Help.

! Tomorrow Is Open-Air School Day
In richmond there are f,ve open-air
I, schools for delicate children tho rrs,l
OF which was started only two years.
ago. visit to any ono OF them would
convince tho visitor that no single for.
! ward step taken In the rapidly grow.
Ing city means moro right now &c
! Richmond than the establishment OF
I these departments.
! Pale-faccd. tired little boys and girl,
too weary to rem ember their les.
sons. are gaining pound after pound
adding roses TO their cheeks. arg alert
and Interested in all their classes and
some 40 per cent are we'll enough ,o|
/ go into their regular classes Thi.
means they must go back into tho in
door classes to make room for tn.
! long lists OF half-sick Riddles who ara
waiting tho chance to SEQ life through
other than pnle-gray spectacles
! EACH CHILD ASKED
TO BRING CENT
| opcn-Alr School Day means that
every child that comes to school to-
/ morrow Is asked to bring a penny to
add TO the fund. Every citizen OF
/ Richmond who realizes the Importance
! OF continuing the good work Is afforded
an opportunity to give--little or much,
as the cause appeals to him or he is
able. The children in the open-air
classes are preparing to give entertain
ments to help swell the fund. for they
| we'll know what the fresh air. the
good, rich milk and the soup ana
cereals-when they can AFFORD them
has meant TO them.
| A committee OF the Public Education
Association has undertaken to supply
| the food for the open-air classes, pro
| vided the School Board makes provision
for the material equipment The Idea
grew out OF the work OF the school
\ visitors who I'm heI N
Into the health question generally.
a petition was sent TO the School
i Board asking that the experiment be
! made. and the first school was estab-
lished on the roof OF tho Madison
! school This was In February. 1912.
This school has twenty pupils. the
! Bellevue School has twenty, the Spring
! field School has two classes OF twenty
each. with two teachers, and the Baker
School, colored has one OF the best
open-air departments In the city.
COMMITTEE READY TO
RECEIVE CONTRIBUTIONS
Mrs Melville c. Branch. OF $50 West
! F.ankiin Street. and Mrs. Thomas Nc
Adams. OF 1928 Hanover Avenue are
| active members OF the committee that
! has undertaken the feeding OF the chill
| dren. and they ready to receive
| contributions either by check or By
| cash.
| The cost OF providing the milk and
| eggs alone amounts to from 81, 500 To
: sl.100 a year This has been supplied
by the committee. The soup and
! cereals and crackers has been supplied
by tho children. who are requested
TO bring ID cents week for that pur-
pose. when possible In the Bellevue
School the Mothers Club has greatly
helped with the work. financially and
| otherwise.
TO raise the necessary funds the com
/ organizations to assist Sometimes
/ church undertakes to raise given
| amount: at another time some chapter
OF the Kings Daughters makes II an
! object, but the committee has no regu-
lar source of income for feeding the
children.
SCHOOL BOARD SUPPLIES
OUTER GARMENTS
The school board supplies outer gar.
ments, blankets. hoods and all that Is
necessary TO make the child comfor-
table. Every afternoon just after the
second meal of the day the cots are set
up in the sunshine and there for an
hour the children slumber contentedly
and waken refreshed and ready to do
two hours work I'm one.
the chtldren's temperatures arc
taken twice n day by the teacher, and
they are under the supervision Of the
school nurse all the time. They have
their own basins. towels and tooth
brushes, which they put to practtcal
use.
In the school budget which will be
acted upon by the City Council there IL
one item. $4,000. for open air schools.
and friends of the schools and parents
amount will be appropriated 30 that tho
hand to mouth method for their up
Keep may be replaced by a regular
revenue for that purpose.