The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 19, 1906, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL. amping ing ba &nd wom ealy y are Drs mmediate 1l are and there are never any lleges or partialities. PUBLIC IS ABHORRED. Owing to the cheapness of aco t to t limi n vouac there under the col- It ed into ommo- of rendezvous cheerful ocol- lives practi- g twenty- er and sum- snow. In fact, lony are ac- r prescribers ure for onsumptior camp will e & subject of special study on the part of the Ameri Int ational gress .on Tuberculosis, which con- New York next November. matter how torrid the day or hew ctic the night there is one-spe- elel law or order which may onjy be ken on the penalty of death or nissal, and that order is that the atient must grapple fresh air to his r her lungs with hooks of steel, [ pting the phrase of the dramatist. obedience to this mandate the tents, ged In short avenues among the pines, are so conmstructed that es and ends of them are readily or lowered. Reared above pine- floorings, which insure dryne s0 far as the earth is concern these tents are all pitched in such way as to give the occupants every benefit of sun and breeze. Pitched upon a pine capped ridge or water- shed, from which the water Lows off immediately during and after a rain, Bo splinter of sunshine and no breath of breezes are squandered by mature at Camp Piney Woods. wo. mber * doctor, it will kill me to have night, with ‘the prob- before morning,” cqm agile patient, a woman, or d day last Janu The er registered zero, and the e radiating from the camp for s feather with snow. She had arrived during the afternoon, hav- X glven up by several leading ladelphia practitioners. Kill you, mad There is no such word: as kill here. Nature, given a free hand, seldom or never kills. It is we who kill ourselves. If it snows be- fore daybreak an orderly will lower side of your suug, airy quarters, meanwhile it had bettéer remain open.” And open it remaived that night, 2s it has remained open ever since. patient? She was received as an le at the camp. Five months later she had gradusted, so to say, to the class of arrested cases, and she is near the beckoning goal of recov- mp Piney Woods is divided, as in- dicated, into three regiments—cures, arrested cases and incurables. No one 1 Nealy and his staff is aware of the distinction with to the several score patients in then & consumptive, know- o be an asylum of forlorn prove downright rebellious. him in such instances, for, tary discipline is maintained, > one is absolutely compelled to sub- There is always the alternative of the ng camp. ago a bad case was 4 young woman of wealth r in her life had slept with dows opened when the temperature of doors was under seventy. She e the case already cited) strongly objected to sleeping in the op and declared her doctor at home had always warned her against catch- ing c ss So and 80,” replied the Sulll- van physiclan, “we have one set of rules here, and they are designed for every ome. BSeveral hundred, even persons have obeyed them suftering serious conse- If you insist upon special you may be accommoda: at home or eisewhers, but not here.” Miss So and So decided to return me the next morning, and she suc- ed a fortnight after reaching w York Had rhe remained in Sullivan Coun- 1 would not have found ull and rigorous as she imag- For even the prospect of death the knowledge that his or her case is registered as incurable do not damp the sunny normal spirits of the camp. Once or twice a week are given open goncerts, the musicians being im- téd from Liberty or some adjacent ty or community. As negro melo extremely popular among the ten folk, & quartet of dusky maidens and singers has for twe seasons been a fixture of the camp. Asked If his patients were inclined to favor somber music, General Nealy said “One might think some of them, whose chances of surviving are one in hundred, might show thelr depres- n in their cholice of alrs, but no se. fact, none of my people (the pa- are referred to by the command- as his people or friends) take es or their condition ove seriously. They prefer popular airs, almost as & unit, and display a uni- form optimism and philosophy which are marvellous under the circum. stances. Many of them are musicla themselves and in the paid musicians are qul: bl d will- ing to use their talents for the general entertainment. “One night last winter, as an in- stance, quite a blizzard broke over the camp, and the roads were almost im- passable. The professional entertain- ers falled to put in an appearance, and their places wer successfully taken by four of our friend Only a small percentage of consump- tives at Camp Piney Woods are bed- ridden, and most of them would never be catelogued as invalids if seen by & casual wayfarer. In fact, on informa- tion of those in charge, these victims of the greatest scourge -of civilization, which numbers 50,000 victims in the metropolis and upward of 600,000 in the Unitefl States, a tithe of our Amer- ican population dying annuaily of con- sumption, behave habitually as thoygh mothing were the matter with them. without ined. and Undaunted by the Nemesis which threatens {hem, many of the Piney yoods campers have found their affini- ties there. and In several Instances have married. Marriage, though, is tacitly forbidden unless the contract- ing parties are pronounced cured and sent rejoicing on their way back to the workaday world. How do they pass the days? When the reveille sounds through the pines each tenter arises, unless his or her condition be such as forbids exercise, and has a bath. The individual tents are equipped with bathing apparatus, both tub and shower, and are, all things considered, quite as habitable and comfortable as the average first- class hotel room in New York. Except Not such a vad bospital .=~ < < T IR AT YA £ oy Y, i (i This meal over, the campers have the day to do with as they will, with- in certain prescribed limits. For ex- ample, every patient is under careful and constant observation and is per- mitted to exercise just so much as his or her conditon may warrant and no more. “May I go for a walk this morning?" ‘“May I do a round on the links?” “You promised me a game of croquet today, doctor.” “Oh, my! Have I got to spend an- other day sun bathing?" Children, rather an grown men and women, might b ‘ueh queries, yet t ony of last hope. ected to voice J are extracts ., rom the dafly catechism in this col- ' s Yilifary Quberculosis Jamy, | £ in special instances and by order of the physiclan, hot water is tabooed in the camp. s nt is re- ceived he or she pi the first night with bodies packed snugly in ice. This is done, explained General Nealy, to contract the chest and tl by create in the lungs as much of & vacuum as. pos: D e the chills P! contact of the most patients ice, p soundly and arise the next moraing al t fam- ished. Then begins & regimen of food and drink which, for many months, is confined to milk and eggs, with a very few minor variations, equently a patient will drink & quart of milk and consume half a dozén semi-raw eggs for breakfast. + SOME INTERESTING EXAMPLES OF ENGL At a fashionable hotel. In the Palm Room—after lunch. “You were off your feed today, Kits. You should try to peck a bit." “T've got indy in my insy.” “Wretched bore for you. Try the nI-w man—he's wonderful for indiges tion.” “Well, I will. What's his name?" “l1 forget It—-8ir ng - body, of Harley streat.” “What's the number?”" “Can’t remember, either, k it up in the directory. Say, there's Lady Lou over there.” “Don’t cotton to her much, d'you?’ “No, she's a bit too utter—even for ot , “Men admire her, of course. thinks her quite di 1 must say her frillies are awfully smart.” “By the way, I've got some of the most cunning new nightles you ever saw. Come back with me and look ‘em over,” “Real sorry, but I just can't. Gein' to mote down to the Scarcely-Shuffies for Bridge.' - “Get & good rubber there?” “Rippin’—except when the old man plays. Vera chassees him as a rule, but the other day she had to have him in to make up a table. Of course, I cut Toby During and immediately after break. fast an attendant or phi an vis each patient and determines his or her programme for the day. One may be ordered to remaln in bed and read— just two hours, no longer. Such an order means that a patient {s not im- proving or s not strong enough to move about. Another camper may be permitted a morning on the links, and such fortunates are always followed with envious glances. Still another Bets an hour on the crequet ground, and .perhaps a young man and mald, who have been making eyes & fort- night, will be allowed to finish a copy of “Lucille” or some current romance which they began reading aloud to one another a few days previously. him—~like my rank luck. He went & weak club when I held hundred aces! BIt rough, wasn't {¢?" “Should think {t just was! I've bin awful unlucky at bri ately—drop- ped fitty pound yesterday. Lam nearly cleaned out.” Don't talk of oof—I'm dead broke, too—hope to pull some back today. Ta, ta. See you at my hop on Thursday.” "Rather. I'm saving up my new Paquin for it.” — On top of a London omnibus. Driver tall nb."te sional—it don't down,’ “Never does—does it? All the sime, T'd sooner 'ave m;ob than yours. Theére won't be a 'orse on the streets in a couple of years. Them motters ‘ave come to stye—you mark my mol T i 80"—(con! tuousiy). “Ray-thur, lel'smb"t r learn to drive one, old cock.” “Not 'arf! Wye, I values my ‘ealth toe much! It knocks a man to pleces a-drivin’ of them bloomin' steam-ket- It is an ideal wooing gound, as thei are no rivalries and few interruptio other than death offers. So pass the days. That the Piney Woodsmen are cheer- ful philosophers is lllustrated by the following conversation which was over- heard recently: '} sat in & me of poker the other afternoon,” volunteered one patient to his next tent nelghbor, “and ‘called’ & man out of pure charity. He seemed disappointed at the early ‘call’ re- marking, sourly, that he -had a high temperature. “I sald, ‘Perhaps you have; but what have you got In your hand? " “‘Just what I sald’ he replied, ‘a ties—there ain't none of ’em as can stand it. I know sev'ral young chaps as is shuvvers, and they tells me as it's somethin’ crool on the nerves, though they get & pretty fairish middlin’ screw. I've drove ‘orses for close on twenty year, now, and they're good eriough for me. ‘Ere (leaning over, and addressing chauffeur of Vanguard that is panting alongside), ow's that ‘ere 'sylum with sentry h'sttached wot they're a-bulldin' for you chaps a-get- tin ont" T opens, and Vangusrd bounds i with a and smell. “Hullo, old reund? "Pmuu‘a falr, three." had & “Goed for you. %"m you play- T b member old Si- 1‘”’.‘!‘)‘" ,.:‘ flv‘—fl.-ltln’lo.tlnll Man?" r—aw{ul swot—always sport- ing his oak.” 2 “That's him. Well, Jimmy's his brother, and not a bit of a smug like Simon, but a good all-round man. He was muffing his approaches today, or high temperature—a royal flush.’'” Located on the outskirts of Liberty, the Piney Woods campers are occa- sionally permitted to visit acquain- tances and friends in town and to make brief shopping excursions, but trips to town are exceptional rather than frequent. Why? One rarely returns to camp without heing vaguely depressed. Liberty is a city of silence—a si hat pervades the burial of the d and hovers omi- nously over th nitarlums and board- ing houses. If one passes away in the daytime the is no hurrying of hearses to the house of sorrow. The 1] es a sanitarium, a hotel or ely or naver does ased spoken of by i» only one under- taker in the community, and his shop reveals nothing of its depressing char- acter to the uninitiated. It is to all outward view a furniture store. Cas- kets for the dead are never exhibited publicly. In the rear of the establish- ment are kept such grewsome re- minders. Most of the undertakl: done under cover of night, 3 the oblong boxes conveyed to the railway station and entrained for ship- travels 8 in other small com- munities, and a death does not need to be exploited in the public prints. And alas! the dead are many. This i& not the fault of Liberty nor of its able physicians. It is dus to the sad fact that a great majority of tuber- cular persons arriving there do not come until too late. They ave, in the main, past hope when they arrive at all. Of those who cdme in time the cure living. The! I shoudd have been downed. Hole hi everal times, and then threw it away. How did your match go?” “Oh, we were playing & foursome— the pro. and I gave two scratch men s.4 0 “Who won?" “We were all square on the match, and one up on the bye. Ought to have won in a canter, only I was slicing all over t b I'm stale—been playin’ such a lot; think I'll take & week off.” “Well, I was putting vilely; the greens are a ly slow, and I was trying that new American ball. Have you seen it?" “No; is it any good?" “Not much; very heavy off the wood. Look here; mt’l:‘:“ take? I've got @ forty-dollar thi on. —_— In an A. B. C. shop. “You do look washed out, and no l‘!flr.}.kl. Ethel. What have you bin up 0 “Nothing eéxtraordinary. I laid In bed an extra wx-hnu; this morning, too. It's the weather, I think.” “It's just crool, isn't it. Never know wot to put on. Me and Ted got wet through goin’ to the Fortnightly Con- cert larst night. By the way, who d’you think I fell up against there?” Dercentage in Liberty, as at Camy Piney Woods, is very large—quits as high as recorded of any other cem- sumptive resort in the ecountry, ssd there is the added considerstion that death from tuberculos there is far less painful than in lowar altitudes. Nearly every one in the commuynity has or has had con: many are cures. TEe of Camp Piney Weeds on a stretcher, fully exe pecting to succumd within & year. Wis was supposed to be an to the great comflict with consumpties. Many cures, as they are known, de- part for their homes as soon as possi~ ble, but many others take up perms. nent residences in the locality. While the cure is simplicity itself, it Involves no small hardship at first to spend the entire winter out of doors when sers er is the rule rather than the exception. Eveéry patient at Camp Piney Waods must have several layers of clothing, a big fur coat or robe, high or the.snow Is many feet deep for weeks on end. and after onme ia in such fashion it is only ry to sit out of doors just as long as possible breathing the pure, fey air. Some of the campers remain eut thus from ten to fifteen hour dsy. summer or winter. Others continually, sleeping in blizsard swept tents and inhaling nothing but erisp air, fresh from the fir forests. All of which is designed to reduce one te g state of famine. But est all yoy ean, as often as you can, and breathe fregh air all the time—fresh air, f air, fresh air is the hobby and the cure. —— ISH AS SHE IS SPOKE “Haven't a notion.” rs. Jordan.” “No! You don't say so.” “Fact. 1 knew her direckly I set eyes on her, for all she looks ten year older. She carries her a, E it shocking.” i “Small wonder, paw woma: them children taggin' sbout. -'r:;h .hl: Wwith such & good-for-nothing of a huge band. l’dllv.l!m'lltmlllwu Where did you knock against her, did you say? “At one of them Guild Concerts is held In the Parish Room ot l'nl:: Michael's ev'ry fortnight. I make a point of golng wen I cam—a bit of music livens ome up. Well, and ou should T set Jordant down mext to but Mrs. “The world's & small place wen all's sald and don “The very remark she Ppassed to me. You'll ‘take anethéer au_;'?' p n eup, won't you, ot for me, thank you™ “Oh, you must, to ki comp'ny.” "‘.h"‘" me p'Ry. “No, reely, “Then I shan't, neither” “Oh, well, if you put it like that™ “That's right. Two teas, please, and you might bLring a plat sl - plate of faney