New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-24
OUTING or KTNDERGARTEN TOTS.
HOW LITTLE ELEANOR PoTTERs So WAS PUP
TO GOOD USE.


TO A GOOD USE
| Miss Eleanor Potter lives in sixth-ave. near 81
Johns Place Miss Eleanor is Miss only in cour.
tesy for in point OF fact she is yet only child.
Circumstances have made her own life easy and
beautiful. but she has a bounding sympathy for
| little children who cannot wear good clothes nor
go on pleasure trips. Although she Is small and
young she has entered with a zest into the good
works done by the ladies OF the Sixth Avenue
Baptist Church.
Unaided and unadvised by older or wiser heads.
Eleanor got up little fair at her own home that
she might make some money 70 give 10 the poor
The sum realized not great ore. but per-
hsps no 50 ever gave will give greater
amount OF pleasure Just exactly in a place where
it was much needed and fully appreciated.
On the corner OF Fourth-ave and Butler-st there
Is a little kindergarten school, called the Lincoln
kindergarten. which is under the patronage OF the
ladies OF this same Sixth Avenue Baptist Church.
The school Is for the small children OF the poor
who live in that neigh borhood. Miss Louise Hurst.
who is the teacher OF the Lincoln kindergarten.
felt sad to think that the school should be closed
in the summer she felt that the little ones need
ed amusing instruction then fully much in
the winter. Their own homes small and
so squalid, and relief from those homes they had
only In the street. Miss Hurst said that she was
going out of the city in July and that IL any
arrangement could be made she would spend her
time for the benefit OF her little pupils.
Friends OF the school made this possible and It
was about this time that Miss Eleanor Potter came
with her mite her little 81 that her fair had yield
ed. The ladies OF the kindergarten decided 10 use
the money in giving the tots a sight OF the sea-
and they took thirty-hve Of them the Fifth-avs
trolley cars down TO Coney Island.
As they all about ready 10 start, one OF the
ladies' noticed Katie who stood with her nine
months-old baby sister in her arm, wistfully
watching her more fortunate companions. Are
you not going with US e. hateI said the teacher
the baby alone
Then take the baby along"
And 50 it was arranged Katie, who was eleven
the ocean. got herself and her baby ready and OF
she went with the others Downing their best
time with these children. When they and their
chaperons were ready they presented striking
but sad contrast After pleasant ride Coney
charges down on the beach The baby, in all the
glory Of her pink dress and her none too clean
white cap. with her little nose sunburned $50 much
had Katie raced around the streets with her when
the mother was out at work. TO almost an exact
match with her dress was just as happy any Of
the rest of them In fact seemed TO think the OUT
ss tOT Children hr To & @ s2 shoe.
and stockings and go in wading Through fear OF
OF her shoes and stockings ard go in with the
kindergarten children Poor Katie ever faithful to
her face which the notice Of ons Of Hs
facial expression especially OF guclsss childhood
before the art OF assembling Is too we'll learned
What the trouble? Twas but an instant.
You would like to go In wadng. would you not
Katie
on so much. but must mind the baby"
The baby was sprawling over the beach. crams
ming sand into its mouth just as II sand and not
the nursing bottle the normal healthy food OF
Fourth-ave. baby. SO Mrs. W. thought there
limited chance OF the baby swallowing .
bowlder or being swallowed by whale. and con.
sequenty offered TO become responsible for kate'e
charge. The child did not need second invitation.
on went her we-worn shoes and ragged stock:
ings. and in she went in a jiffy. There she waaed
thought IL was time for the children to come ous
and eat their luncheon. -, - 49, 49,.
The little had rolled their skirts up AZ oest
they could. but when they came 10 shore ~ Wa
found that most OF them were wet through anu
they had 10 be set In rows In the sun on Inc tano
until their clothes got dry. They had about as
much fun spreading them out and Crying them az
they had In getting them wet. They had oeeh tolu
70 nut their stockings In their shoes. and each
cbud to Mace It's own pair where IL would know
where 10 hnd them In spite OF all these precau-
tions the little shoes and stockings got sadly
mixed one child found hip garter and calf
garter but could find two OF either kind and
some were without any.
They ate the luncheon, but they found IL rather
dry swallowing their sandwiches without any
water. Alackaday. there Is no water on Coney
Island that is free 10 children except the salt
waves. III they wanted water. they would have to
buy II. AZ II was question OF buy, the ladies'
decided that they would give the children lemon.
ade On account OF the numbers. they we're able
to contract cheaper. They found a vender Of lem.