. St. Louis Argus: January 12, 1917 . When It Pays to Be Sick - -- L^I^JJP P. JACOBS Aiaiaal SsaassTj NsOaaal A Bode stood In a corner of tbe schoolball, crying bitterly when Miss Cham-berlain came to her and nskdd for thecause, of her tears. In broken tones,she said, Please, teacher, Mary cango on the roof mid I ima!.. Why cant ybu goT Because Im too well. The roof la u term UsM fa dealg-nate the open-air school. It Is only forsickly children, who are run down andlikely to get consumption. Mary hadbeen selected by the school doctor and. for .two weeks she was having the timeof her life, much
. St. Louis Argus: January 12, 1917 . When It Pays to Be Sick - -- L^I^JJP P. JACOBS Aiaiaal SsaassTj NsOaaal A Bode stood In a corner of tbe schoolball, crying bitterly when Miss Cham-berlain came to her and nskdd for thecause, of her tears. In broken tones,she said, Please, teacher, Mary cango on the roof mid I ima!.. Why cant ybu goT Because Im too well. The roof la u term UsM fa dealg-nate the open-air school. It Is only forsickly children, who are run down andlikely to get consumption. Mary hadbeen selected by the school doctor and. for .two weeks she was having the timeof her life, much to the envy of Bosle,ber older sister, and ber other play-mates. Already, the thin form wasbeginning to fill out, and the cheekswere beginning to get fatter,vapd a tinge of red could be traced here athere. Why, they give us a great big gof milk and lots of crackers Inmiddle of the morning and the midof the afternoon. said Mary, over tfamily supper table, after the Drat ist tin- optn-nlr school. BosleS tgrew bigger nud bigger and she beto wish that she were Bnt when cold weather cameItosle began to taunt her s:It, ssylng that she would freese sioutside while those who were wltl■rails would keep, nice and warm, ITcared little for these taunts, how«because her slttlng-out bag andvstone, with tbe sweater, hood nod Btens provided by the Antttubercnlosociety kept her good end athough the thermometer went and below, Mary sat and atu<and played out on the roof In all »of weather with • band of some twiother chil
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