The evening world., 1889-07-22
Charitable Little Folks Raise $S46 for
the Babies Fund.
The Free Doctors Visits Bring
Hopo to Despairing Hearts.
Clothing Distributed Among Hundreds
OF HALF Clad Babies.

A pretty little resort by the sea is Arvcrne.
II is about two miles this side of Far Rock
away. 1t has dfty or sixty cool and cosy cot.
taCes and a large and handsome hotel where
transient boarders may enjoy the douhle de-
light of touching elbows with the ocean and
Of having an exquisite sense of envy OF those
who dwell IN the trim cottages and exploit
tho ocean breezes the Summer round
The beach 10 said TO be the finest ON the South
shore. The sand is quito us white as the t"n-
mel suits. the sunshine almost as brilliant as
tho - blazers" Aud the sunsets! They are
often so fine that there is more than q sus-
picion that they have been contrived by the
managers of tho hotel.
On mellow moonlight nights, the children
say. tho nermaids OF Arverne hold mp their
glasses to the moonbenms. But, fine az all
things arc at Arvernc, with IL, unmistakable
trees, its real grass. ITS delightful breeze. Its
superior ocean and its moonlight mermaids-
finest of all that is there arc the children.
Their eyes fash like the break .ng waves
III, ir laughter IL like the ripple of the surf on
the shore. The gray old ocean adopts them,
and all are children Of Neptune. Some day
a miracle will happen on Manhattan Island,
and you VIII see III new York the sign;
"Flals to lot children rom Arverne
wanted !" That will truly be won, lerful.
we'll, these charmin. little children who
live by and in inc sea AMI who have been
adopted by Nertune; often think OF the
man who was twelve miles from IL lemon.
They think of tue less fortunate children
who sweiter and die in tho tall tenomenC-
houses.
thought they would do something for he
little children who cuuldh go TO the sea
that Summer and all Nhose yachting aud
daliiauoe with the waves was confined to
Or am on the roofs OF tho teuementS.
So Ihe four little maids of Arverue got up q
little air. They made everything for IL with
their own hands, and they held the little fair
II n lite shed. Four or five fami.ies that
had pitched their tents on the beach for the
Summer pRtronized the little far. They
came 10 the iaIr NJ If they would say. Were
really surprised TO SEQ you. What q chance
fYr n b ,rGain! We will take this" And no
he little girls made $13 for the Other little
children who couldn't come to see the ocean,
though I Is FREQ to look at.
These little philanthropis's were irving
their wings. Tins Summer the same four
little girls, Miss Kitty Camp ell, Miss Sue
1 D~ericksOn, Miss Louise Campbell and Miss
Nav Derickson Planned auo her iair. They
wrote charming LATHE children's letters to a
Grtnt many very dignihed and austere people,
and thus they ct gifts from Tliany u 20.
Howard d Co., DAVIS Collamoro " Co..
Havilnnd u Co, Harper 4 Bros, The
century, COMPANY lSadoro Strauss,
Pni.lard d Co, The Whiting Paper
Company. George Massey, Ladd h
Coffin. AngIim, .Mazetti, M~cNauGhton and
Mrs. Harriet Hubbard Aver. Ridley. Brum-
NELL. Huyler aud Maillard joined in u dcs.
erGto competition 10 srnd them the very
sweetest o,ralnols they could contrlve.
In fact, al! tue firms in town were deter
mined that they shouldn't be out Of this fine
lair. Dir. Van Valzan gave the little girls
the temporary ownership of his handsome
co, tage at Alvornc. which is not quito lin.
ished. MIR. sam Dorickson. Mr.. Eugene
, ampbcll and Ms. Edward Bonner. wife of
one oi the young editors Of the LED rr, as
3 stod in decorating the cottage with flags and
dTapery and s cencry.
Last Thursday was u great day Mt Arverne.
Tho fair wss open, IT cNciicmenI cou d dis.
turb the quiet OF IL summer resort. Ar,erno
would have been agitated from the centre all
ronnd to tue SEQ.
And IT was agitated-ah. wildly ogitated.
The little girls sent n quiet, haslIful INVITA-
ton TO the big Arverne Ho;el. for all the
guests there 10 come to the fair, and they lu-
cideuta.ly RddGd-waSn't 1t extremely odd
that the visitors should bring their pocket.
books vi h them: As If any one needed II
Iocktt' ook NJ u fair.
How gay the fair was, Tho rooms were
dscorntsd with flags and Greenery aud the
sm lcS of the children. All Arverno left of
rs daily toit vi bathing in the surf, dancing
tho German and hong picturesque 10 20 to
tho fair. 1t WAS Indeed a holiday.
The tar itrelt was SO bewilucrinE that no
ono could denrrttc II. II was something IL
sre. There were seven tables with seven
firms Of htt!e inerchRn 4.
II YOU giHSped nj your pOckethook MS the
sinking swimmer does N a straw aud looked
Uro,ud ECU would soc a maze OF I Glos. VITA
rNe,y hing from hion&es aud books to
carancls.
rucro were two ia cy.work tables, the
Fl 1t managed by Miss Sue DerIcksun aud
sis, Moilc Hayes, the secoud hv Mis-
Eleanor Morgan and Miss K'ltir CAMP, ell,
"SwcetH uu,u the sweet, 81, the caramel table
w,s conducted by Miss Edith P!ummor aud
Miss Nay Dorickeon, ha table sayrec
3 cake Was presided over by Mis-
li"l"n srvd"r. Rae roses %hloomed on thu
Miss Louise Campbell manage - table fol
Recamlcr rrtp.iaHols. Miss Isabel GurueI
l he'd ia her h4nd> tbc fortuues cf the grab
, bag. Alan Turner. CurJtou Nj. Amermai
anU Harry A. IHuCShc X. three lit lie boys
Kept n table tor the sale Of such nGrlcul'ura
l nm llrnrgts MS are III use ~ the seaside
| namely, shovel, TN pulls. dc.
l JEc Fair opened ut 2 u'cu OK IN Nu after
noon, and ~ that hlur tho children cane
/ 20 Nctb OK IN hand. ard IA" little hoy
spent their uIuncv with tho freedom an,
: reCEleSsnoSS OF fashionable young men al
( the turf, and he lIlile Glrls ordered carRme!
+ quite aS generously rs whom they get IN, II
experience they may Holuo any order comets
Bnt t WINS III tlc evening that TIE big hotr
became d%osolGte. and no one was a. hom0 u
the Cottages, tecause every baby had gone Il
the lair.
p, Then, md cd, the fair was crowded will
! people, and all the nt lie merchants were 81
busy that they hardly had time to smile
revolutions, eclipse aud tue greatest event
cnd some tine. aud 30 the big IA T Itsel
I cndvd at 10 O'Clock in the cyeninc. A tina
hour ar. Campbell was appointed auctionee
~ tue 1T = people, aul ia M ~eloquenc
rarely e1uallod no sod ,he goods that re
INA ned.
= The toys which were not sold were give
10 til" children OF the Seaside home, who a
this very momont are reyeilinG IN tin horse
5 and the most comical jumping Jacks.
The great iair held by the little seasid
children at Aryerne gave, a profit Of s34o.So