Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1892-01-30
SUMMER WORK FoR CHILDREN.
Boston Women Are Interested i'm Pro
viding Fairgrounds for Them.

vidin. Fairgrounds for Them.
Some branches of the work of the
! Massachusetts Emergency and HygieG.
association appeal To public interest anc
attention at this tine with especial force
because preparations must now be mad,
| for carrying the work forward if it is u
go on. One of the most interesting OF
( these is the establishment of summer
Fairgrounds for poor children.
Last summer, by kind permission of
the Boston and Brookline school CON-
mittees, the association was allowed the
use for Fairgrounds Of sixteen school
yards, in addition to the uninclosed land
on Hildreth place. These playground
! were superintendent by women, many o,
whom spent hours every day in helping
the paid matrons- All the yards were
provided with sand and toys, but each
had by preference its special amusement,
one building sand forts, another n Baby
Ion of blocks which rose and fell daily.
! while flower beds made third delight
full; in others the Kitchen garden
games, telling stories, drawing pictures.
cutting paper toys, playing games, sing.
Ing or learning to knit passed the time
happily and usefully. The matrons had
such success in controlling and pleasing
their charges that the police wondered,
and many mothers thanked the kind
caretakers for their children's improved
behavior.
How are the children benefited by
these Fairgrounds? One matron en-
Enthusiastically declared that she could
give twenty good answers to this Ques-
ton. They are amused and instructed
all summer, are kept out of dark and
dirty tenement Eouses, often from brutal
parents. They are taught cleanliness,
obedience, and, even while at play, con
| sideration for others. Their forlorn
lives are frightened and sweetened by
contact with wise and loving GROVE
people.
The bathhouse at 81 Prince street,
another branch of the association work,
is well patronized, and it is hoped IT nSy
soon be selfsupporting. The prices for
baths are fifteen cents for men, ten for
women ard five for babies.
The Children's Home, at 80 Parmente,
street, which was opened Nov. 1. is an
outgrowth of the winter playroom of
1890. 1t is bright, sunny house, fur
nished plainly, but attractively. TX,
matron and her assistant live in the
house. The housekeeping is simple, IN
order that the mother as well as chill
dren may learn that a comfortable and
pleasant bone may be maintained with
small income. The children are well
coined from till 8 p. m. The little ones
are warmed, amused and made happy
from till 4. The older ones from 4 till
Q come fer advice, sympathy and in
struction. In the afternoons groups of
little boys and girls learn to mend and
sew on buttons, bringing their own cloth
ing to repair. Older girls learn to cook.
In the evenings there are talks, read
ings, singing, gymnastics and ''Sloyd."
The plan of the Stamp Savings society
has been introduced, hundred children
thus learning prudence and self denial
The work Of the house is 10 try by exam
pie TO teach these children how to i'm
prove their nome life, and by advice and
instruction to teach them to care for
themselves physically, as well as to give
them higher standard morany.-BoS
ton Globe.
An Oregon breathing Well
The well is one and a quarter miles
east of Stanwood. Oh the high land, rear
" $50 feet above sea level. Its owner,
U. ". Coltom. began digging it last June,
but abandoned it various times because
of gas or firedamp. He succeeded in
reaching an abundance OF good water at
a depth of ninety feet fIo;n the surface
last October, having passed through sue
cessive layers of clay, sand and some
kind of stratified rock. About eighty
feet below tie surface he found spsink
ling of anthracite coal and still fart2el
down large quantities Of loose speci
mems of volcanic stones of several kinds,
many of which have the appearance OF
having been melted and run together.
About the close Of October Lr. ColtOm
noticed that the well was blowing out a
kind of gas with considerable force, ana
at irregular periods of time, varying
from five days to sixteen hours duration.
1t would reverse the operations and be-
gin TO draw in the air with equal force,
the inhalations lasting about as long
Clne as the e1C1@aIiOUS. CuOrlty dIDSE
the gas disappeared, but the respiration
Of air continued with increasing force,
until at the present time it has sufficient
force to drive a large windmill. Not
long since MIR. Coltom went down into
the we'll and discovered that the air was
being drawn in and blown out at point
fifteen feet from the bottom of the well.
1t is supposed that there must be large
ca-ern at distance from the well, anC
the air Genes through a small passage
leading from the cavern to the well. No
cavern or passage has yet been found,
as the we'll is walled up, aud the air
comes through the rocks in the we'll
Chicsso's Delay Explained.
New Yorker-You western people axe
great fellows for talk. Where is that
air ship you were going TO run from
Chicago to New York in an hour?
Chicago Man-That air ship is all
right. But in order to make its first
journey thoroughly national we desire,
on arriving at New York, to plant the
American flag on top of the Grant monu-
ment. We're waiting for the monu-
ment.-New York Weekly.
Ohan has baen visited nv an extraor-