New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-25
CAREwoRN FACES MADE B=IGHT
TO the Bdftor OF The TrtGune.

To the EdftOr OF the TrtGuHe.
SIR: On Wednesday, August 8. ten boys and
three girls wearing the badge of THE RIBUNE Fresh
Ar Mission stepped from the train at Clinton,
bound for the hillside homes of Killingworth. On
the following day eight more girls, who were left
behind in New-York, arrived and were welcomed
These children wear on their old-young faces a look
of aging care. and many of them have endured un-
til, prematurely DID, they carry on their faces tho
stamp of anxiety, which is painfully out of place.
Their tale as a whole, seems to b. Of younger
children at home to be almost constantly cared for;
of Woodworking, self-denying parents whose small
incomes barely keep their families together in the
crowded tenement-houses they call home" Yet,
though poverty aud want and endless toll are their
lot the little ones snow from their habits that
full home training has not been neglected,
nor their minds and hearts left TO grow
weeds instead Of fruit. For example, when the hTst
night a good lady sent her little charges 70 bed-two
boys seven years Of age-ater they had crept into
the soft sheets she asked them if they had said
their prayers. One little fellow said: No,
forgot it, ~ Well, can't you say them now y The
little fellow raised himself, and kneellng ID the bed,
clasped his hands before him and SAID the little
prayer his mother had taught him. The other little
fellow said he didn't know any prayer Cndoubt-
edly he will ere he reaches his New-York home
again. All the children are delighted with hop
rer-toads" flowers "huckleberries" and rides, tor
the farmers nearly all have teams. One little girl.
nine years old has earned 60 cents picking whorte-
berries and thinks herself ricn.
| -Four of the little boys who were spending an
afternoon together were allowed by their kind most
to dig IN the sand in the road before
the house 10 their full satisfaction. He afterWart
! claimed that he believed they certainly did
belong to the Fresh Ar Mission" for in an
hour they had all tine fresh air there was IN that
region and the rest of us had to breathe sand and
QrItD But "b0yS will be boys no said, and then,
On the last Sunday OF their stay bgan to say some,
thing about parents being more indnlgent toward
the second generation and their twinlng their alice
tons more firmly about the old peoples hear> illn
even their own hildren had done Ween the word
was spread for their return journey each little ono
expressed the same desire TO remain longer one
little girl whose mamma entertained one of these
little girls told her You can go home and see
yOur pa pa and mamma and then come back again."
which idea seemed TO impress her favOrably.
The two weeks of their stay have stamped i'm
movement on nearly every face. y happy, less
careworn look has displaced the Old detected AR.
There certainly has been temporary beneht IN all
their lives, and II is to be hoped permanent bless
Ing may succeed. "
The families who entertained the children arc
Mrs q. L. Dudley. Mrs William Harris, Mrs Els
worth Hrll Miss Lizzie Hurd, Miss Ida b. kelsey
Mrs Henry Kelsey, j. II. Lane, Miss Mary Lane
Miss Belle Lane Hiss Estelle NettieIon, :. u hed-
field ". A. snow, ii. ii. Wright.
huiipgr0rtk, conn, Aug. Il.