New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-10
THE FRESH-.AIR CHILDREN IN THE COUN.
TRY.
Helen Watterson in Harper's Bazaar.


The freshair children the country with their
own eyes, not with yours or mine They steadily
persons by becoming morbdly lost in marvel or rapt
in poetic fancy. occasionally one finds child whose
ton 81 the beauty Of living close 10 the heart OF
things but usually these charity children enjoy what
g preac Wholesome way that we find most gratifying
and heahiul in our own children ,s 70 ther
be but in land where everything is strange
aG snd ds of baorm once swept OYER
farm where dozen children we're stayng Inc Ghll
dren of the household were terrified, but the httle
II thought maybe it always rlined sharp glass In
the country said one little girl when they asked
Here are few incidents and anecdotes set down as
they TO from troop Of little ones who came
back "a few days ago from fortnight at Glens Falls.
are bcv sad are III gaed lot Of
these children about me, and asked them what they
seen cow shrills one little girl instantly
Cows has horns and lets down MILK ana hooks ""
"Pooh! /" says the handsome Italian boy back OF
her, who had come as II listener" pooh they don't
The girl turns look of calm scorn upon him.
seen the cows, and you didn't she responds ana
the boy feels the force OF the argument from expert
They talk brcathessly and with eager enthusiasm
riences fresh upon them, but those who have to 60
back year or two for what they tell; IL Is VOL
dcrfnl how sharply and clearly the details are pre-
Not de country Is like is dis" says small, red
h odF 81 t onS Who hoy r TO 1--we an acurSe
impression into his sun-burned fresed az, iace
houses an you kin hear mile Wen you hoer, cause
it, 50 still Az Gor all G de sseS on IS de- eS ee e 'o
A pastoral surely that you ana lnight wish I 10
have written IN 50 few words ana WY" 80 "t Bcrba
Bertha is a blue-eyed little German girl from Gotham
Court who has never seen the gra an t sn, Sturdy
t GSGS FOOD o Woman Of the farm where the child had
nd
Vas it very strange in the c9untry1' asked her
al aonld hear the clock tick all the time" answered
' Go down TO Gotham Court, and you will understand
that All day there is the long rumble Of the cIW
streets Sometimes the sound Is loud ana sII ani
sharply en- the nerves: sometimes it Is heavy ana Gun
or nerced through with the cries of men and OF lttle
children. Can you think what IL wonlu DC 10 4 th
Nnnnd ~ yonr meplece aud e. come TO hold as the
strancest OF surprises when Won cOud near t'c oiooN
Most children like the and trees but this child
loved them with an eager quverng dengnI tnaV ,h1
nothetc Bertha seldom Joined the children III tileil
ppIav Int as soon as her meals and her sieepingme
We're ever out to throw herself at fu eng,n IN Tue
r 10 gather il all TO her bosom And as she lay there
She would talk to each separate grass oSe' ana d
the faces Of the leaves upon the bushes as she
NV Nv ono morning she came stealing down Win the
1rst pink sirpaEs In the east. A., Inca
"Why don't YOU sleep, Ber'ha?' ASKED the HouSe-
mother as the child came down the stairs ors,orcd
The leaves talked and couldn't she answered.
1a14ST nd vet Bertha viii probably know that her
brother poet, sidney lanier, wrote years ago.
= In my sleep was fam of their fellowship,
Tain If the live,Oak the marsh, and the main;
The little green leaves would not let me alone III
Al secn Gi.p said one boy larger than the Others.
stepping forward "dere WIZ rock by de road d.
hard rock an in it day wa little noe VIA VIA t TIL, et
l + nte de II no i wat you think come out Water
,a nr water so cold 1t most teeth an it
e scp on acomin' out an de mex day, wen come
down IL wnz a-runnn' yet
do%1 Did II ut in rock like the sodawater git; IN
fouut'u .IOSc y asked boy OF tinS jhoucII
Moses mt the young smlter could tell no more about
the mitten rock rns' o e tn% t a ' Their
scanty observation OF natural things shows 80 PuIIS
they have seem For instance. by this last enid te
"atnrai phenomenon OF the rocky spring was best
nyplaned in It's analogy TO those strange p1utnS ceno
,aI,hs that are be IN the shops. 80 II was
hb another little fellow who gravely told me that
graz made noises that sounded like banoes. 1t
.he same bov who described the trees poles with
dnii .ftreets7 And little girl said They gets water
in the out Of little sh S Pa In r nal YIN
ijltie porch IN front Of the shaty when YOU turn
steM Mother sad commentary on tine need of these chill
drcn for Just the education that comes to them IN
hi; simple Wholesome me is %, IN t ms"i Si'es the
Ecore them, and ask fo their customary fare of bread
and tea They do not take kindly TO MILK or II they
do drink If. tey are often seen carefully taking the
cream of the top, 20 As TO get something aS like as
rusiomed The lalson detre Of eggs also unknown
to many Of them and salads they utterly refuse The
Sleeping arrangements, where each child usuny has
small bed to himself Ill them with terror, either Of the
dark or of sleeping cold: 49,, $500, 49,.
imp Oyement that comes from wholesome country life.
they need the physical education that will put them
into better Of eating and drinking and help build
up soldier and saner bodes for more generations than
Won we're away - asked
How de Bullfrog fetched dc eel shouted one boy,
boy an we called I'm Bullfrpg' cause he ookt ,us'
Ike 'em. An dere wu q wen wid wall around IT