The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-08
HAVING LOTS OF FUN.
Ninety-Six Happy Jersey City
Little Ones at Chapel Hill
Their Letters.

Euniee Home. Chapel Hill. New Jersey,
are enjoying themselves as only children
can.
Chapel Hill is on the coast about three
miles from the atlantic Highlands. The
''Eunice Home" one of the eleven honmes
used by the Tribune for Fresh Air"
children. is a large house with
dations for one hundren children. The
grounds about the house are large and
the children are allowed to do pretty
much as they please. The Jersey City
children seem to be perfectly happy and
several letters have been received by
mothers and friends describing thalr
enjoyment.
Others by their brevity and evident
lack of time for anything like letter
writing indicate the fun the writers are
having.
The following is the copy Of a letter
written by one of the boys to his mother
two days after his arrival at Chapel
Hill:
.EUNICE HOMIE, Chapel Hill, N, J.
my Dear Mother-I was SICK .yester-
day. but am better now: l ike IT very
much. We went down for a swim yes
terday. | like the home very mueh- l
hope you are all we'll. l sent lO.oU
kisses to you and 10000 to papa, n w.
UUU 10 I1pSG. ! dlu LkdSiuS SOO0 SfH'~
aWALiINGroN R."
A week later this same boy wrote
my dear tmother-I got your postal
card yesterday. l am having a very gcoq
time here. hope you are an we Nav
am getting along splendid. we pidy
lots OF anne
.WALLINGTON K.
write back"
A little less brief is a postal card writ
ten by one of the little girls to her
mother 1t is dated July 20, three days
after the children left Jersey City
..Dear Mammal arrived safely and
am we'll. I like the place very mucn;
How are you. all? I nope you are an
we'll ssws are going -blackberrytng this
morning 1t is very pleasant here; the
sun is shining brightly, and II IS nice
and cool. on FRIDAY. August
o am al Ennice Home, Chapel Hill.
With love to an.
1MARGIE B."
NO FUN, THEN HOMESlCK.
Two letters written by enc OF tne III.
tie girls give a comprehensive loea =,
the place and people. The hrst IS u@eeu
July %. 1t is as follows
OUNCE HOME; Chapel ,; 1 aih' safely.
rh pEar were four stages and they took
us ae right to the door. The people are
yery kind and we have very nice du oct
We go to bed ,a at ha We 80 almost every
daav taking a walk and we pick berries
and apples with Miss Amy ana VIM mss
Garry. | enjoy 1t very hi Get horaesick
T Tqn,t a are swings wi and sometimes the
ladies' play games with us. | learhr no%
We i've in a big house and it hasn't any
fence around. I am glad / came pc
cause / enjoy myself very much; mnefe e
Mr.. Rose. and Mr.. Everheart and the
Two men are very nice. And there is
another lady Miss Elizabeth ana she 10
very nice. Good bye. rr;a,d
LIZZIE K.
The second letter is dated Sunday,
August 4, and reads:-
.sDear Miss Give all went to Sunday
School and I like it very much, o4t toaay
the minister wasn't se here SO H sMr- re gapa the
Bible and there was a picture hahsinS
do and he spoke about the picture n
told US q story about the Ii Gn1lare Sends
his love to you and he said he has a
lovely time and is very happy: All the
girls that wanted to fove 60 p tiIne n bath-
ing, but / did not stay in long because
I was afraid of catching cold; we went
In Yesterday morn1ng ana the poyS WSHt
Yesterday afternoon.
DEAR ME, HOW TERRIBLEl :
think hin it IT, was + IT. iIgb n Z; or and 7, Miss Ii an ear ws
said she expects it to rain because 1t
was growing dark when we went to
sunday school and while we were in
SUNDAY school it began to rain and it was
laundering and lightning and we could
hardly walk it was so muddy and IN
front of the house was a great big pud-
puddles. We will start for home at 1880
O'clock and / think we will be home
between ten half past ten o'clock;
Mamma said it seemed funny without
MS home because we were never away
from home. I have a very nice time,
we play whooples and there are ten bean
bags and each one has a chance with
the ten bean bags, we nave to throw the
bean bags through a whoople and see
the bell we get 10 and if the girls go
through the whoople they get 5 because
some of the girls can't throw far. Good
bye. I will have to close my letter now
as it is growing dark and l have to go
to bed. / am very tired as l wrote
Mama's letter first.
From Your Loving Friend,
LIZZIE X"
s'Please excuse writing as 1 am in a
hurry to go to bed"
The children will arrive home tomorrow
morning and they will be brought to the
foot of Rector street by some of the
assistants at Eunice Home and will be
met there by Mrs. Collard and Miss
D,odfor1 ~