Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — Kansas Has Champion Fresh Air City [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Kansas Has Champion Fresh Air City

WINFIELD, Kan. —This town, which has been known for years as the Athens of southern Kansas, because of its colleges, is now adding a health laurel to Its crown. Winfield claims the distinction of haring more bath tubs and more sleeping porches than any other town in Kansas. In addition to its sleeping porches, 'Winfield has living tents. Those who cannot afford either sleep with their windows up. Winfield, which is credited with haring one of the best. If not the best, municipal waterworks systems in Kansas, officially encourages cleanliness by furnishing water for a sixroom bouse, including bath and sewer

connections and for less than a dollar a month. Sleeping porches in Winfield are now' the rule rather than the exception. When a new house 1b erected a sleeping porch is provided for as a matter of course. M. W. Friedenburg, president of the state board of pharmacy, is preparing to outdo all the others in sleeping porches. He will construct a big sleeping porch extending around three sides of hiß residence. The porch will have have guest rooms, divided by screens. Several citizens last summer started a new departure in outdoor living. A small house, half canvas and half screening, wlthgpanvas roof and floor, is erected on the lawn and the members of the family spend much of their time there. Instead of in the house. Winfield is becoming known as a fresh-air town as well as a center of learning, and isn't certain of which it is proudest.