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Show Accessory Before the Fact In Fighting . Tuberculosis jfl yHERE probably arc many way 3 1 to Sct ful1 enjoyment out of j..' - cxertme cold weather such as ! svcpt across the Continent the las', JfflP ; days of December and the first part oC .K ' January, but this story will deal with : W ': The best way, If left to the selection ' of the writer, to draw any great cn- i joyment out of the domain of Kin,? 'iJi '' cr0 s to rcniaIn indoors and dream : In front of an open fire. But another -; it to get in the wide outdoors with j -: the Old Man of the North; and that is ; the way chosen by the girls of chc i i Night and Day Camp, SL Louis. ' Each method has its devotees one Tgl;- -vrith Its horrible example of flabby BiH muscles, lack-luster eyes, slothful gPt movements ana ncKic appetite, and the other with its revitalized youtn, My-, t tense tendons, flashing glance, alert nsj&'l step and all-consuming appetite. Make 3gKj ! ; your choice; either is for you to tae ttftlg or to leave. One leads to the other yjffl " and the other may lead straight back mi: to the first. Who can tell? W. - The Night and Day Camp is, yet is ' not, a health resort. It is an acccs-i acccs-i ! sory before the fact, a preventorium. fjj! J It restores before actual dise?ac 5 J enters. -Sftf : it is ncitlier a hospital nor a oaiil-ifea oaiil-ifea l tarium. It is just what those back 01 it, the SL Louis Tuberculosis Society egl ' term it, preventorium. Can its object, be better described? ! In the wide sense that a hard dr'mk- I'S ' er cannot be said to have the "willifs" yjjfc i until such time as he begins seeing j(gj ' things that are not there, a well per-1 per-1 son is not diseased until the actual germs of disease have attacked tteoue and are making inroads on the engines of life, if 1 make myself clear. Viewed from that angle the Niglit and Day Camp Is a gathering place for persons who are perfectly well that is, they are not diseased, but they are quite ready for disease to enter ' The doors are open and resistance is at Its minimum. There the "patients," all girls more than 14 years old, c ' women, are given nature's aid past thy. (I danger threat of tuberculosis, jjft, Established Fire Tears. fife i ; The Night and Day Camp is a one-t one-t ' man philanthropy. Or is It a casa of fy a woman? Nobody who, knows will ;4 tell. All the public, or the favored ' W I ones who take advantage of its bcae- 7i Te I - 's- ave een Sucssm wrl is rc-j-'eS sponsible, ilnancialiy, for the won-Jer-; lul preventorium ever since, in the oJJ, ; summer 1912, it was announced that r such a camp would bo established. ; Tho person who saw the possibilities ' of such a camp donated $3000 for its rjt . 'establishment and 1000 for the equip- - ; I ment, agreeing that he In the neuter oafV ' scnse wou provide $1000 a year for -, ' its support so long as lie lived, in lu r : Ground for the camp, which Is He c; a 9500 South Broadway was broken ij. September, 1912 and the fiict seeit; "Pallent" was received March 10, 1D13. ' . Up to the present more than 330 gf:ls . ;y, ; and women have been admitted to the 3 i'ir ! camp and it has a proud record o-no o-no deaths. The camp is devoted to the rcj'j-'v rcj'j-'v ; Tenation of v.ornout and rundown gill.' and women, drawing its memocrs CZ from among the employed persona of the city. Girls who have pounded v ' I a typewriter until they scarce cau miss the "z" key when aiming at th-ep,U th-ep,U j p.. synjboi arc taken in hand, and P3; Tvhen they have completed a course at k ,'r ) the camp are In physical condition to beat a world record for speed and ac-ii ac-ii curacy. The camp idea was founded ir&-J'j on the exact knowledge that girls ano tenfri ; TTomen In the last stages of physical auflS; exhaustion are shining marks for ai-tack ai-tack of tuberculosis and allied raala-3P. raala-3P. , ; dies, and thus far the batting averag jid b! las been 100 per cent perfect 5a4! ; Waitresses who were as liable as a 4 6 i not to serve the. ooup down tue tfTiJi 1 customer's neck, on the outside, are jjai? in condition un belnt, graduated to th- & vorld of perfect health to stand the thil l strain of difficult duties in the best of por9 humor and in the most perfect tt". fceflj : They have not merely been saved frcn j3 & ' the threatened attack of disease, they jnwr have been made physically perfect b" QopM tbclr -hr months of outdoor life, jjjjliij; jfr, go food, ercise, re'ief from worries. tlA i Nestled under the protecting ai'Jis $d; 1 of massive oak trees, on -n site ovar-& ovar-& Wj looking the broad sweep of the MIssL- tbiJi slPPl River, the camp bungalow jre-qt. jre-qt. sents an alluring sight to the visitor (fj as he passes along the winding pain jiet frm the car line. The main ouil'Ung jcea.-j. 8 01 two stories, with flanking wius j tls j : ' one-story screened porches ou ttt' ; i eithcr sl(- The front of the buntja-y buntja-y djT : lw also is a screened porch, and ad'H r.t&P ' a touch of the summer resort to the flt 0 general view. tbfl: I'lghting at the Source, it The main building contains, in addi- y tloQ to the wings for the sleepers, a SJ cmblned dining room and living room A If . on the first floor and the library, ba'li SO 'I and superintendent's quarters on the & j second floor. Here Mrs. A. P. Andcr- ;( n, who Is in charge, presides. And to preside over thirty gjrls who, many of them, for the first time in their lives, probably, are feeling the generous gener-ous uplift of perfect well-being, is some job. The hospital ward? It is everywhere yet nowhere. A search of the entire premises fails to disclose anything that looks like a hospital ward. Ask";, about the apparent oversight, A. W. Jones, Jr., secretary of the SU Louis Tuberculosis Society, under whose direction the camp is operated, laugn-ed laugn-ed and pointed over a snow-covert lawn, eyed the bare limbs of a distant oak, shrugged a shoulder toward the sleeping porches, took in the entire surroundings with a comprehensive sweep of a gloved hand. "There's the hospital ward," he said "It is the broad outdoors. It is in the living rpom, in the library, in the cottages, cot-tages, in the bath. The lawn, trees, garden, chicken yard, form our hospital hos-pital ward, winter and summer. All of outdoors and in the bungalow and cottages, constitute our hospital equipment" Mr. Jones has many responsibilities THE GOOD OLD SUMMERTIME other than the fostering care of the affairs of the Night and Day Camp In the active fight against the ravages of tuberculosis in St. Louis, but there are few of his activities in which he takes greater or more 'justified "pride' then " in the Night and Day Camp. There is a long sermon in his short sentence explanatory of the purposes of the camp: "Fighting at the source!" Although Mr. Jones by no means made the statement, interpreting between be-tween the sentences of his enthusiasm one may well understand him likening the prevention of tuberculosis to ti'O swatting of flics. A swatted fly, early in the season, certainly prevents the coming of thousands of its progeuy. Prevention of a case of tuberculosis just as certainly will sidetrack dozens and maybe hundreds of cases which may have been caused by a now carrier. car-rier. So that is the real purpose of '.lie Night and Day Camp. The man or woman with the vision of a healthier city builded well. He conceived a way of improving the health without the attending discomforts with which tne American people have come to regard such matters. Here in the Night and Day Camp are found health-giving comforts and pleasures. Here acquiring physical well-being is a pastime and not a task. Here the girls and the woi'iiu being made girls again dance, and sing and play their way to physiclal perfection. They arrive "jumpy," rundown, run-down, nervious. They depart capable of jumping a 5-foot fence if necessary and ready to tell the whole tribe oi tubercles to go to. They drag themselves them-selves to the camp, and almost arc capable of dragging a part of th camp away with them "when they depart. de-part. Within an average of two mon'iis and fourteen days they have experienced ex-perienced the extremes of health, ill and good. Stow do they do it? By doing largiy as they please. By having lifted front their shoulders any worries of responsibility. respon-sibility. By having a motherly superintendent super-intendent tuck them in their little white beds on 1 cold winter night. By right and regular living. By just enough activity in doing the HtMc tasks required around the place to build up and not tear down. By playing play-ing a whole lot. And then there is the diet. No nam--by-pamby diet to put the appetite In revolt, but an honest-to-goodness diet of wholesome food and plenty of it, with the sauce of exercise so oftou over or underdone in the office or factory where most of the girls coino from. The rules arc few and casliy stretched to fit conditions. They a.-c the rules of reason and arc drawn CXTVYUT - , purely with one object in view that of accomplishing the purpose of '.he camp. One of tho rules, however, is rathar rigid. It is the injunction against sickness. "Thou shnlt not bo sick here," might well be emblazoned cu the Avail above the piano, as it's against the rules. If a person iSdli.' Is sick there are other places for her. "And where does the doctor live?" you might ask. "In one of those UitSo cottages?" "The doctor! "Why, the doctor lica downtown. We sec him only onco i-i two weeks, when he comes down morc to weigh the girls than for any other purpose. Of course, while he is life he looks to see how well Mother Nature is caring for her wards," uu.'ht be a well-balanced answer, with an added "Of course, once in a while tho doctor is called down here between times, as it is pretty hard to keep t'iO girls from breaking, a leg or something some-thing like that now and then." Selection of Patients. A doctor once told the writer Urn-, his was a profession that very easily could be placed on the shelf if the people would just pay a little morn attention to medical advice before medical treatment became necessary And that is the entire scheme of the Night and Day Camp wrapped in a nutshell. Prevention. Many persons have heard favorab.y of the Night and Day Camp and havo induced friends or relatives with tuberculosis to apply for admission. The applicants wero received kindly, but were sent to other places, wit-the wit-the Information that of all forms of illness which serves as a bar to admission admis-sion to the delightful place beyond River des Peres tuberculosis is tho most formidable. The camp is the only one in the United States for the reception of adults, and one of the few in th-world. th-world. The inmates are entertained free of cost In enses whero they are not financially able to bear a part of the expense, but in other cases i!e "patients" arc allowed to help out to tho extent their means allow. The camp capacity is about thirty 'persons at a time, or about 1500 a year, and usually there is a waiting list, although tho full capacity of the can;i) has not been cared for at all times. It is estimated that three monti's arc required to give the Inmates a proper fooling in perfect health, although al-though in some cases four months arc required wilh a rule limit of six months. Many girls aifd women a.c sent happily back to tholr work in t'.'j city after two months at the camp, so tho average time of the patients at the preventorium has been something some-thing like two months and fourteen days. AVhile there is no objection to tho view or the surroundings in win'';r seasons especially when some of tlie girls arc out for an early morning battle with snowballs, the true beauty of the camp reservation is impressed on the visitor in the summer. Something is going on from the tin.o of arising at G:15 to tho time of lights out. The girls aro in bed by 9 o'clock in ample time to he lulled to restful sleep by tho clear notes of taps from the big government post at Jefferson Barracks further down the Mississippi River. Little Urown .Tug. Strange as it may se'm. and contrary con-trary to all of the advice of men of medicine in these latter days, the "littlo brown jug" has Its definite place in the affairs of this health-giving health-giving camp. But don't be alarme.l. Tho jugs arc used only during the 'cold weather, and thew contain nothing noth-ing to alarm the officers of a country given to guard the environs of a military mili-tary post against the invasion of the material that has contributed to mu, widespread notoriety of the lilt e brown jug. Take any bittorly cold night as t-d'x example and follow the little brown jug in its errend of mercy. Comes bedtime, and thirty fairy-like figures exude from the living quarters of the camp and scatter to tho various sleeping porches partitioned off to contain two beds each. Each of the pyjamaed, bulhrobed, behooded a.od bedsocked figures carries, a lit'le LOTS OF OUTDOOR LIVING 1 1 brown jug, the contents of which, consists con-sists of nothing more harmful than hot water. Starting at the pillow, tlio jugs aro placed under the uncouut-d warm blankets and moment by moment mo-ment rolled to the foot of the bed, whero they are allowed to repoi Thus tho beds arc warmed, and soou the occupants crawl in, amid many shrieks of delight and-wild chntt':;-ings chntt':;-ings of final confidences that will use keep till morning. Nino hours and forty-five minutes it sleeps. Sloe-eyed, but hungry, it awakens, and there Is a wild scramble for bath and dressing rooms, and breakfast is served forty-five minutes later. And such a breakfast! Stewed fruit, corn meal muffins, real butter, eggs, milk, coffee. Real eats, and moro if you want it. The day Is fairly started. Then comes the duties of tho-camp, tho light work that is doing its bit for rejuvenation of jaded nerves airJ taxed physical capacity. It is jur-t 1 like play to the girls and women. The duties are portioned out in rotation that the performers may not tl-3 through monotony. Chores arc over by 10:30 o'clock and then the girls begin thinking about dinner at noon. From noon to 3 o'clock come rest and napping period and supper is served at 5:30. Usually during cold wcath?r tho evenings are passed inside tho inviting in-viting living room, where piano or "niusio box" arc set going, and games played. Often the big dining room table is rolled aside, rugs turned back and an Adamless dance indulged in. Oh, there's plenty to make the days short, and tho warning "9 o'clock" often catches many of the girls de-'ri in somo thrilling book or half-way through a letter to "tho folks." But 9 o'clock is 9 o'clock, and to bed they must go, because there'll be another day along directly and proper rest is half of the cure In contemplation. Someone is always thinking up something new for the entertainment of the girls. Now it is a masquerade H and next a little play. Comes visitins , H days to break posslblo monotony. Tho ) H receiving hours are from 3 to 5 1 H o'clock .Wednesdays, Saturdays and H Sundays. And glory of glories ona J H day in two weeks is allowed the girls j H to visit the city. However, much tn7 H love the quiet and rest of the camp. ' j H the girls arc glad to get back to clang- H ing hells, thrilling whistles and, rum- bling drays twice a month. H Since the United Stales 1ms been a" jj war the girls pass much of their timo 1 H knitting for soldiers, all of them be- j H longing to the Night and Day Camtr Unit Red Cross. You know, just over tho crest of the hill is the car lino that is carrying thousands of young H men to the biggest recruiting post in j the country, Jefferson Barracks. A a H view over the low fence soon convinc- jj H es the newcomer nt the enmp that something serious Is going ou and what littlo sho can do for the Sammies j will not be out of place. jj I .wV 1? |