New-York tribune., 1886-08-01

and troubles of life and never take them up
again. But as she wandered on apacc, she
found that they had abandoned Themselves to
the mcrcies of a su eling if not altogether heart
less world, that terrible temptations pursued
Them and that she could deliver him from guilt
and shame only by Sudden flight from the green
wood tree to the noise, dirt and hot steaming
vopor of a great town. When she was once
there. how she ycarncd for the green hill,ides
and fine flesh air of the clean woods How
.be wcaricd of the wIetchedncSS of the town,
where poveltv appalled, her aS she begged her way
from door 10 door son If We live to reach
tho countrv once morc,' she thought; "if we
cct rid of these dreadful places, though 1t is
only to lie down and die, with what a grateful
heat shall thank God for so much mercy" "
The child-lile of the Ncw-YoIk tenement
districts iS the same realm OF misery and help
lcs>ness which the great master of modem fiction
exnlored in his w,idcIings in London. 1t cnay
hc that Little Noll, with her purity and grace
and her heroic wCmany little heart, cannot BE-
coniurcd by Imagination ont of the vast tlrong
cf tenement children who desert their Squalid
and comfortlcSS homes every year, at the bidding
Of fine patrons of the FrtSh-Alr Fund. Bat our
readers may be assured that many a child who has
f,lt bcmmrd in and cholcd. as she did, by the
homeless mi>cIy of town poverty has ltd down
for a clad fortnight in the green meadows the
.,urows and suitciing> which have been borne
in the noisy. dusty, Stcaming city. They cannot
douht that many a sick and weary child Is to-
day. Ike Little Nell, pnng for open fields, cool
woods and shaded pastures. The inclomcnt
heats of summer beat upon square mile after
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of the children for escape from windowlcs,
rooms and narrow entries and sulocatimg alleys
j.. heard bv the fiithlul friends OF the poor-thc
city missionaries and lay helpers of the bcnoyo-
lent Institutions. If We were in the country
now.r sav the children in Little Nclls own
words. we should find some good old tree,
stretching ont his green arms H. If ne loved IL.
and ncdding and u~tling Us if hc would have H.
fall asleep, thinking of him Will. ne wlchcd.
Please God we shall be there soon-to-monow
or next day at the fathc>t"
"To-mprrow or next day Z" We c9n assure
cur readers that the plrtuc j, not oycrdavn.
There ave now loo children who are waiting
from d.,y to day 10 receive their railroad tickets
for country homes. The farmers flmllic- have
done their pmt the homes have be,n opened
to thcm: but the Treasury i, empty and th.
c,ildIm a.c lcft behind in these terrible dog
days one party Of 800 the manager OF the
Frc.li-Air Fund hl~ agreed To send on Tuesday.
Twcntv-ouc pa.tic~ with 1000 child'cn. dcs-
! tined for Fair Haven. LIST poultn,y, Rutland,
Wa7cn. Charleston and HcioN~ Falls, VI
Dauicl4ouyillc and Putnam, Conn. Ncb-tcr
Mas; Wet Mmiin~bm2. Lowy.llc, Moiith,
Whitehall. Rom~,n, Sha-hln. TcondDog., Gen
eva. Gcno-,o. Cicero. y e'lc and Copenhagen,
y. y; and Ogoutl, Penn. have been blocked
because the treasury l. empty. With $4,000
added 10 tire receipts, over l,Goo chl!icn can
bc sent away this week VIII thr ciy of the
children hc hcud: "Il,A-c God wc shall be-
| there soon -