New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-07-11
OUTINGS DO CHILDREN GOOD.
TWO WEEKS IN THE COUNTRY UNDER
THE FRESH AIR FUND A BLESSING
PARTY GOES TO CORNING.

The weather is not so hot this week as 1t was
last week People are now talking about the
clouded sky and the occasional showers. Instead
of asking Us it hot enough for your or that
abomnabIe question, How would you like to be
the ice man." the chronic croakers saying
they meet their friends. We'll, we've got another
cloudy day" This cloudy weather is preferable to
the scorching, shrivelling heat of week ago. One
does not find the front page of the morning paper
half filled with list Of the hundreds who have
been Frustrated by the heat and the afternoon
papers do not contain first column stories OF the
progress of the thermometer and the knocking to
smithereens of all previous records since the
Weather Bureau established. That is some
thing be thankful for.
Hot weather is not the only reason for sending
children to the country in the summer time. ihere
are other reasons. Fresh air is one or them Fifty
weeks of life In p crowded three room fat in the
tenement district is good reason for spend
ING two weeks in the country. Two weeks of living
in the God made country with all OF its free life
Its trees, green grass. good nourishng 1000, fol-
lowing upon fifty weeks of man made brick walls
compressed merci!essly into the smallest space
possible is a reasonable reason for sending child
from the latter 10 the former. And the priceless
benefit to the chd's imagination is worth consd-
ering as a reason for sending the little one into
the world Of color for two weeks.
few nights ago man OF the sort who consid-
ers his duty to the world unperformed unless he
has passed judgment upon each happening coming
within his ken stood the Grand Central Station
watching a party of expectant children wearing
Tribune Fresh Air Fund buttons they gathered
to start for Central New-York
Don't you find such lot of children nuf-
sance?' he asked of the person in charge OF the
children The attendant could hardly believe his
ears. and turned to look at the man who could
speak thus of the work of getting party of poor
children off into the country for two weeks out
ing.
I'VE don't look at II in that light. OF course It's
hard work but it does the children lots of good"
The man was of the argumentative order.
"Oh yes, but / don't believe 1t does them much
good You just send them to the country, and then
snatch them back again. Two weeks aren't long
enough TO do them any good Now, If they could
only stay all summer why it might be worth while"
To be sure. every child would be the better for a
summer In the country but two weeks a great
deal better than no visit at all
1t evolved that the lived in the country
and knew nothing Of the conditions surrounding the
lives of the children in the city.
The other day WORKER IN the tenement districts
said II find that the children who go TO the coun-
try do not get sick easily as those who do not
Those who remain behind are the first to get SICK
as the year rolls around. In some cases the chill
dren gain so much benefit that they are not sick
throughout the entire year.
A party of children started last evening for the
long all night ride to Corning. " Y. The good
people there have invited forty Eight children to
entertain them are Mrs Orwell Crane. Mrs Fred
ick Pierce Mrs. Rood Mrs. Abel. Mrs. Harrison
Mrs. Charles Genung Mrs Wenderiich. Miss Hattie
Genung Mrs. Bedient Mrs Peters Mrs 4 Force
Mrs. p. Cole, Mrs. T. H Martin Mrs. Olden. tho
Rev n. E Fuller. Mrs. Van Dusen Mrs. Par
mester Mrs. Sly Mrs. Blair Mrs. Curry. Mrs c.
P. Bradley. Mrs Sarah Davis. Mrs B. Morse. Mrs
II. Lindsey. Mrs Andrew Weiss. Mrs. ". II. Buck
Mack. H. Howell. Mrs. Becker and Mrs Percy
Carr.