CHAPTER XVII 



NEW INSTITUTIONS 



its other glories Woodbine had added also this 

 distinction: It had become a very fine health re- 

 sort. A young woman, ill from overwork as a teacher 

 in one of the New York schools, visited Woodbine, 

 where she had friends, to recuperate. She returned 

 to the city in splendid health, and in her exuberant 

 gratitude, thus wrote of the place: 



"I shall always remember Woodbine with a feeling 

 of pride for our Jewish brothers who seek to eke out 

 a living by earnest and honest labor on the farm and 

 in the several factories. There is so much that is 

 praiseworthy in Woodbine its plodding and enthusi- 

 astic inhabitants, combined with its healthful, life- 

 giving surroundings, that the three weeks of my stay 

 there can never be effaced from my memory, and as 

 to its effects upon my physical condition, I hope they 

 will be permanent." 



This letter and those of many others who happened 

 to spend their vacations in Woodbine brought to my 

 husband the idea of turning one of the farms into a 

 sanatorium, to give city-dwellers suffering from incip- 

 ient tuberculosis a chance to find new health. A farm- 



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