New-York tribune., 1907-08-31
WHAT OLDER GIRLS LIKE.
Fresh dir Benef fciary Recalls Sum-
mers Outing.

When the Ashokan reservoir IS completed tn.
formal announcement OF that fact will be OF special
interest 10 more than five hundred women IN this
city. Their interest will be sentimental rather than
utilitaran. for they will speak another after
this fashion:
'Doesa't it strange that where those nlt--
ions and billions OF gallons of water are to be, VS.
spent one OF the happiest fortnghts or our lives?
never be too grateful to the woman who sug-
gested to the Fresh Air Fund manager the setting
aside of Of the homes for the girls who were
too old TO go to the country on Fresh Art tickets
I was past twelve a year or two. and had given
up the thought OF ever going to the country again.
though I needed IT more even than did when L
younger. was q clerk in a store. where they
did not ask many questions about age. and was
completely down And you were not much
better of. either.
How do I know that suggested open
ing one of the homes for older girls? What man
would sver think Of such a thing? They are all
carried away with the prattle Of little people as
they love to call them but as for real need. be-
lieve the older people who go are those VINO
need IL most Some OF our girls who had Just told
how happy they were 10 be sixteen years old did
not feel so happy when thet learned that the tick
cts read under sixteen
DO you remember Miss Bates. the superintend-
ent and Miss Davis. the ratron. and Miss Poy-
nam and Miss Herriott and her sister. Grace and
Miss Ridke and Miss Carl and Miss Denver. and
Miss Rowan and Miss Holoohan, who took care OF
when were out walking and IN tns wafer.
and waited on US at the table. and slept usf
They were called the teachers. though think some
of them learned as much as they taught. often
think OF the Japanese cook and his assistant and
Of Mr. Burfo who went the village for Miss Bates
and opened boxes and a useful man He was
different from most OF the young men knew then
He was afraid OF girls think. for while he DID
anything we asked him 10 do. we might as well
have been trees far ever speaking TO Us OK
his accord
''I am told the old Kromm farm, where We lived
"A hundred OF US at a ttme-iS eight feet under
water The old house is gone. and the apple trees
The memory OF those trees does not bring much
pleasure for the pain-kier bottle memory IS mixed
with il. We could go in boats now, I suppose,
where we had our hay rides and picnics and walks
and talks together. / will never forget the SUM
rer of 1907 and our summer at 'Shokan--we called
,t 'Shokan but the new name looks more Ike what
YOU see in front OF tenement house Give ma tns
old name at least for a memory
Many a tale like that could be told truthruIy oy
the hundreds of girls twelve to sixteen years.
who owe their outing this summer at the hronlIn
farm, TO the suggestion of Miss Edith Kendall OF TIC
Friendly Aid House, who expressed the oeIief tAal
ons of the greatest Fresh Air needs IN the city was
a nlace where girls who had passed the tresn AIT
aga could 60 Between twelve and sixteen years
of age both girls and boys seemed to be forgotten
Nearly six hundred girls have cause TO bless l's
friend who made the suggestion. and the raiiroAa
usope who kindly printed on their tickets u'0e'
six,een. and the generous friends VINO nave al
rsadv given more than $4,000 10 carry neal1i- ~
veu as happiness to these six hundred pens
Aciarfss and to more than seventy-nvs nundre"
Others under twelve.