The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1892-08-03
Away to the Green Fields.
How Many Will You Send FOr?-What tn
Country Week" Charity Does.

"COuntry- w eek" Charity Does.
Chicago Daily News.
The DAILY Meas Fresh Air Fund takes
poor children and working girls to the
country for two weeks vacation, and
wants help in effecting its aim. 1t wants
money and it wants invitations from the
public. The children furnish themselves.
City people have great share in fur
nishing funds, but the charity is abso-
lutely dependent on the people in coun-
try towns and on the farms within a
radias of $50 miles of Chicago for enter
tainment of the little guests.
Last year, on account of the Country
Week department of the Fund, total
of 81, $40 20 was expended in sending to
the country 1859 children, mothers and
sewing girls for stay of two weeks.
The County Weekers" travelled an ag
gregate of 1903, 546 miles-a round trip
of a trifle more than III miles for each
person. The average cost was 50 cents
per guest. The number of country-week
guests was nearly double that of 1890,
and the average cost was reduced near
ly one half. AS in former years, the eX-
penses of the executive management of
the fund, together with the cost of sta
tionary, printing, postage and sundries
amounting to 81, 1877 34-were defray-
ed by the Chicago Daily Nea0s, thus
leaving the public contribution to be
wholly expended for the direct benefit
of those for whom it was intended.
The Daity NeOS wants to interest out
of-town people, particularly in the
"Country-Week" branch of the Fresh
Air Fund work. You who have COM
Portable homes, either in the country
itself or in any of our small towns or
villages within $50 miles of Chicago,
may interest yourselves in this line of
work. What the management wants is
an invitation from you for mother and
child or couple of children, for fort
nights visit in the country.
Can you realize that right here in
Chicago are hundreds of boys and girls
who have never seen the blue sky eX-
cept above the smoke begrimed walls of
tenement houses; who have never play
ed in the shadows of the woods; whose
bare feet, used to the cobble-stones of
the city pavements, would fairly tingle
with delight at feeling the long, cool
eraser tangle about them? Won't you
make barns, haystacks, sheep, cows,
and birds realities to youngsters who
have only heard of such things?
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you, land ten or a hundred such chill
dren right at your doorstep, and this at
no cost at all to you.
The methods of the Country-Week
are as simple as its purposes ere far
reaching. They consist of minimum
organization and machinery and a max
imum of workers and results.
Anyone having home in the country
may become Country-We worker
by observing the following suggestions:
FirSt.-Make personal canvass
among your neighbors on farms or in
village homes-that are just as good as
farms for the purpose-and persuade as
many as you can to invite
Two little children; or
A mother and infant; or
A couple of working girls to each
home for two weeks visit.
nd.-Send to the Chicago Daily
NeUs the names and post-office address
es of those who invite these Country
Weekers specify particularly what
class and number of guests are to go to
each home. State, also, the date when
the guests are to be sent and to what
railroad station.