The farmer and mechanic., 1907-08-27
THIRD ANNUAL OUTING OF SUNSHINERs
By Col. Fred A. Olds.

I really wish to lead the simple ire
I The hospitality Of the people - uH-
/ bounded one little girl wrote a letter
1 I'm which she stated thai the Sunshin-
! crs had discovered Beaufort she
wrote well for everybody &ho goes
( there Is profoundly Impressed Win
( the charm of the town and the grace
and 0Id-tiIne courtesy " lt5 people,
/ place whore manners rank above mon
Z ~ and courtesy and kindness above
/ the ruder efforts Of the outer world
! Beaufort is Of the sea- salty; as
! much So as Nantucket. and the pano-
rama which il set before the eyes
j there embraces pretty neary every
thing you VIII find in the geography.
Thefe are islands cape, q strait,
/ lighthouse, an Inlet, a fort. life-sav-
I ing station wireless telegraph sta
/ ton, the great sandunes moved by the
1 wind. the sounds. rivers, etc, and
/ along the shores are 70 be seen scores
I of things very strange indeed 70 the
| Up-country eye.
| Thanks 70 the kindness Of our Beau
! fort friends. our boys We're qUartered
/ in the armory Of the naval reserves,
ana our girls were snugly packed in
I the Episcopal rectory both places be-
/ ing extremely convenient In every
/ way We had our own boats chart
/ cred for ten days. each flying the Sun
shine flag, and lying at our wharf
ready for use day or night. The first
1 thing to do on arrival was to make
! camp" and this we quickly did; the
next thing on the programme being
| the total destruction Of a very good
dinner furnished by Aunt Becky
Shaw. cur veteran caterer, who for
| three seasons has fed US SO well. Fish,
CLAIMS, eScalIops, turtle and all sorts Of
vegetables, with ordinary meats on
certain days We're our staples, and no
/ appetizer was ever needed for girls
/ ooh a
his wife, invariably licked the platter
clean. That sea air beats all the
! tOnics as an appetizer and we We're
never indoors except when asleep, and
then every window was opened broad
to eaten every breeze that blew. Splen-
did was the sunshine every day and
! every meal was eaten out of doors
under the great dropping elmS which
cast a shade at all hours and made
our dining room the stateliest in all
North Carolina. The first afternoon
was devoted TO q sail 10 the beach, and
there a number of the youngsters saw
the ocean for the first time Thirty
two Of them had been on last years
outing and in the evening these re-
heWed old acquaintanCeS, while the
new visitors formed them, at a chill
dren's rally at st. Paul's school. where
there were dancing, refreshments,
etc Day after day was we'll and hap
beautiful as dreams, in the splendid
moonlight, which kissed alike the
water and the land and made both
appear as if they had been touched
by the wand of some fairy. We went
to the lighthouse, to Harker's island,
the surf, to old and dismantled Fort
Macon, the life-saving station. the
banks, the Atlantic Hotel at Morehead
City, and sailed hiteher and yon. The
night trips to Morehead City We're
pictures in themselves, with the girls
in snowy white and the boys in white
and blue filling the boats~ and singing
as they went, every one as happy as
any mockfng-bird that ever sang its
very heart out on some swinging tip
top Of a tree
AT night as the writer, standing over
in the quarters, looked right and left
along the lines of snowy cots, and
prayed for his boys. to all of whom he
stood in the place of a parent. the
thought came many a time as to the
responsibility of men to boys and of
the boys to themselves. We are all
creatures of example. The boy of to-
day IS intensely nervous The ner-
VOus ferVer of American life has sim
Fly gone all through his system He
wants to be doing something all the
time; and. if there is nothing better
10 be done, he viii put in his time
smoking and drinking any sort of stuff
a drug store has to offer: so the right
thing to do is to have t youngSter on
the jump ali the time, and thus en-
gage his alention in the right sort Of
thing. The possibilities of these boys.
row great were they To be sure
somewhere in that line were bad boys:
more or less bad, that IS. There must
surely be the boy whose word is
Worthless; the cruel boy, the careless
and the selfish. How to work upon
tnIl1 1nyyo y
ness at the right time, by the proper
spoken word, by the example in ant
time, so as to make this STAY count ,er
something more than a mere outing
this was the problem of the times
lftse boys and girls must be looked
after all the While and the parental
care needed must be prompt lust and
pnrernitt1ng. 1t has come to be a saw
ing mere and at Beaufort that we have
sunshine luck for there has never
been an accident in which any one
was Injured The first afternoon q
lnat3t of one OF our boats fell at right
angles, and so instead of an accident
became an incident. In the surf 7
had always party of the best swim
merS among the town folk Precau-
Ilon never ended until the station at
Raleigh was reached This life in the
generous air tanned our boys and girls
and at the same time broadened them j
L.
and came back bronze and fine proud
of their Well-tanned arms and faces.
Nor did we forget Sunday and its
rlght observance. Directly after
hreakfast we formed in uniform for
parade to Sunday-schoOl and there in /
front of the Baptist church Mr.. Dow !
dy took an admirable photograph Of I
US All the Sunshiners were put in /
class and taught by the writer, who
afterwards addressed the entire
school special exercises in honor Of /
the Sunshiners marking the occasion. /
Then we march n to the Methodi;t /
church, where tH re was a special SER
mon and song service in compliment
to us.
1t may interest people in other parts
of the State to know that our railway /
fare was 50. the cost of our meals So
of our boats a little over 81 each the
remaining sum making up the $40
belng expended for various things, in !
Guiding the rent of cots etc
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