Open air crusaders; a story of the Elizabeth McCormick open air school, together with a general account of open air school workin Chicago and a chapter on school ventilation . Q a J ><oiH oz <. 40 Wptn Atr OlruBaJjfra first floor and roof and elevator service was given freely to the useof the school children. The roof, illustrated on the following page, is completely inclosedby a high framework covered by wire netting. Against this nettingyoung evergreen trees replaced during the winter the vines whichcovered the meshes in the summer months. The trees not onlyserved the extremely prac
Open air crusaders; a story of the Elizabeth McCormick open air school, together with a general account of open air school workin Chicago and a chapter on school ventilation . Q a J ><oiH oz <. 40 Wptn Atr OlruBaJjfra first floor and roof and elevator service was given freely to the useof the school children. The roof, illustrated on the following page, is completely inclosedby a high framework covered by wire netting. Against this nettingyoung evergreen trees replaced during the winter the vines whichcovered the meshes in the summer months. The trees not onlyserved the extremely practical purpose of a good windbreak but lenta perpetual air of Christmas festivity to the place which was reflectedin the joyous faces and merry spirits of the children. When Christ-mas Day really came, the little trees were literally used for the pur-pose for which Nature had so evidently created them and stood aboutthe roof bedecked with the simple gifts which the children had madefor themselves and for the teacher and covered with the glitteringcrystals of the snow. Germany took her sick children to the pineforests to school; Boston put her little patients into classrooms onthe roof; it remaine
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