New-York tribune., 1907-06-23
4 GIT EDGED INVESTMENT.

Out in the fields the grass is getting long
There are millions OF flowers peeping up all
through it. too-more flowers than the Wisest
bOtanist that ever crushed a leaf between his
glass slides could name or count Here ana
there wide trees cast great circles or shade over
these posies. and down beyond the fences rip
pIing brooks sing softly and breathe their cool
breath at the daisies crOwding their banks. Then
there are hlltops from which a hundred wales
may be seen blue and hazy under the summer
silv. And there are winds that stir together
the perfumes of all the flowers and grasses that
the wsest botanist has catalogued, making OF
them mixed drinks for thirsty lungs air po-
tions that are the despair Of cologne manufact-
urers and the white aproned soda fountain
men. And there are so many other things good
TO eyes, nose, mouth and ears that we should
use up half the dictionary telling about them
all.
Now. what are all these good things meant
fo"! What, if not to be seen, snuffed at, tasted,
played with, rolled in and generally transformed
into shouts of laughter and big appetites by
most mysterious process which neither the bot
ansts nor any 0logist can chart but which
everybody except few old gumps knows is the
best process ever invented by man, satyr or
wood nymph? Every cluster of flowers, every
patch Of moss every pond, every rambling rail
fence, every berry bush is just much raw ma
terial waiting for somebody to work it up into
a huge piece of human satisfaction. This being
the case. we believe there is no better business
in the world than that of manufacturing fun
out of these things. For in the fun market tho
demand always exceeds the supply. and, what
is more important, supplying people with this
particular kind of fun makes them all healthy,
and sometimes wealthy, and a little bit wise.
Then. too. the profits in fun manufacture are
enormous for the manufacturer gets quite as
much fun out Of his products as do those for
whom they are intended, and so the fun manu-
facturer has beaten to q standstill all the men
who run ordinary mills and factories.
We are going to run a fun factory again this
summer, rs we have been doing for thirty
years. And we hereby offer shares IN the con-
Germ to all our readers. who will receive with
every subscription a guarantee of enormous
dividends, to be paid in the form of warm glows
of satisfaction. We propose to transform the
waiting fields and all their gorles into juvenile
JOY by sending into the country thousands of
poor New York children The running expenses
OF our fun factory small because we make
the children Go all the transforming We thus
get the advantage OF unsklled child labor and
somehow or other we are never prosecuted for
violating the labor laws. We make the children
work overtime, perhaps long as fifteen hours
a day without extra pay At this rate we figure
that each little laborer will work up at least an
acre Of dandellons daisies, long grass and deep
shade into tan. sleep, grns and red blood
If You will send in 81 TO the Tribune Fresh
Air Fund You will receive as dividend all the
satisfaction one urchin can work out of large
farm IN two weeks of hard labor or course
while we are glad to receive larger subscriptions
to Fun Factory stock, we advise good natured
persons not to take too much, for their money
might earn them so much pleasure that they
would drop dead OF sheer joy.