New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-18
GALA DAY FOR ALL.
TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LITTI. e
MOTHERS AID ASSOCIATION Ar
HOLIDAY
HOLIDAY HOUSE.

It was working Gay for the Little Mothers of the
cooking classes at Holiday House. Pelham Bay
Park, Saturday. They picked daisies huled ber-
RES. made sandwiches and waited upon the
luncheon guests who had come 10 celebrate the
tenth anniversary Of the Little Mothers AID Asso-
citation. Three larger girls who were also pressed
into service, belonged to the TX L. NJ" Club the
members Of which have outgrown their little
motherhood and earning their living in work
shops and stores This club, declared Mrs Ella
Connell Smith, president OF the club is the living
exponent OF what the association has done for
children.
Mrs. Smith was one of the party which was de-
layed on Saturday by the accident on the suburban
branch Of the New-Haven and Hartford Railroad
at Wiis-ave. station, and ali OF the party except
her escaped with q severe shaking UP but her
head was thrown so violently against the back of
the seat that it received a, sharp blow, and she
tainted party Of college girls their way to
golf ground in Westchester rendered their assist
ance, and she recovered, although a good sized
lump left a trophy Of the disaster
The long wagon which carries forty little girls
on excursion days to and from Holiday House to
the station met the guests at Barlow. Holiday
House, with its broad hail and lofty rooms was In
gala dress Daisies and Bleck-eyed Susans were
everywhere, banks Of peonies decorated the nantes
and branches and boughs filed the corners.
EARNED THEIR PRETTY CLOTHES.
The Little Mothers wore pretty cotton dresses
white aprons and caps. and bore their responsible
ties with becoming grace. The pretty garments
were al earned by the little girls through helping
IN the work Of the Happy Day House, at No. SO4
East Twenty-first-st,, and by promptness and tid-
After the guests had rested on the broad, slightly
EeFanoa ana strolled about the shady lawns chill
The Idle Players Club from Brooklyn gave two
9arces that threw the little mothers entirely off
the realities Of life
The ballroom was opened for dancing In the even
IIg, 4no muse vas provided by the Columbia Uni
Holiday House opened for its first guests this
season on Nay 10 with a day excursion of forty
house twice every Week until the Close Of the sea-
son Chlldren who be spared from home Will
came from wretched home in one Of the most
wn9t real home life might wrote TO her
TWO sfae ~slle on one Of these visits: We have
IN i ~ %seFe We eat. and flowers in the middle
JOY IN THE FIELDS
Swings and hammocks. tennis and croquet are
PROVIDED 1or the little guests under the shade Of
the stately forest trees; daisies and clover grow
Knee oeep IN the meadows around and bathing in
the Sound. that sparkles and CLEANS below the
mouse ADDS the last drop their trimming cup Of
happiness"
MY lady let me OF to-day" demureIy replied a
lite, palefaced woman of eleven. when asked how
enc G0.9 eaye her tnTee children for whom she is
The cooking class until, because of her superior
her But her employers husband surprised his
S5. - y9 Iat4As one day not long ago: Il
child why Dent you 60 around to the house and
added 10 the class.
4 number Of useful household articles all Of
which had been made by the children were dis
played for sale. 49,
About fifteen hundred children are enrolled in
the various classes of Happy Iay FIonse and IF
the South Ferry branch, At No. % West-st and
five hundred more share IN the different holiday
celebrations
Inc work, which has assumed such large proper
tons, grew out Of the tender thought of Mrs ] IA
Johnston president Of the association for the over
ouFqened little girls whom she used 10 seefrom her
WINDOWS IN StuyVesant Square. or while she was
giving airings in the Park 10 her own little boy
nd rlTgf n
from ner window 10 little girls who were vainly
trying 10 quiet crying children And toward her
WINDOW many a beseeching glance was cast by the
PeFple1ed Little Mothers. Finally, ten years ago.
MIS- Johnston took the first party comprising nine
ee ute klirls 70 Pelham Bay Park for outing
since that time j IA happy days have been cele-
brated by as many Little Mothers
Sewing and cooking classes viii continue at each