New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-09-06
WANTS TO ADOPT CHILD.
Woman appeals TO Fresh Dir Fund
More Money Needed.

From woman in Pittsfeld, Vt, the manager
Ct the Tribune Fresh Air Fund has received the
following letter;
see in the papers you have some little girls to
send out. Have you got any you want 10 give
s~ay? would like one II you can seRa ne ne, oas
can have for my very own will do for her as
well did for my own I want one that Is hFe
six years old
This woman had seen Fresh Air children. and was
Impressed by their good behavior and general
brightness II is not IN the province Of the Fresh
Air Fund TO place children permanently in homes,
and the request viii be sent OF the mis-
SONS where information Of parents who wish to
have their children adopted is kept on file Per
sons living near where the tenement house chill
dreu are entertained have their interest and sym
uathv aroused. They see that the children Of the
sluns are just children. The faults they may have
are those that have been ground into them by
bitter experience One OF the attendants IN ECntce
Home. Chapel HiIl y J, found IN one Of the
parties received there this three girls who
knew nothing Of kindness nor how 10 express aP-
probation for kindness.
These little girls the attendant wrote DIFF
fered disposition and training from any of the
others in the party and had 10 be dealt with in
2 different way. Il evident that their home
life was not overhappy. Their contact here with
other children and with teachers who were in
terested IN them made their two weeks in the
country the best weeks IN their whole lives. When
she came here one Of the girls did not know what
Thank you meant and she once asked why said
Il when she gave ne e bunch Of flowers. I
planned. That night il was delightful, after
tying q knot IN her shoestrinF 10 the black
eyes sparkle with understanding she said
Thank you II q similar way she learned other
Lessons o. politeness''
CD IN the Shepherd Knapp Home. Ltchaeld
Conn. a boy OF sixteen got n one of The parties
ty nisrepreseutng his age. He gave lot Of
trouble the train going TO the home, and start
&c right n upset things there. In the 5ormitory
he raised his voice the pitch used on the Bow
cry &c call e friend block away. The attendants
had been interested IN him his arrival His
every other word was an oath, and he felt ag
grieved when of the workers would not give
hin E cigarette When the attendant in charge
OF the 6o-1litory where the tough heard
the soaring voice he gathered the boy in and led
eil1 away to the Office.
Al OF the toughness oozed out OF the boy. He
sept bitterly and said that he would not again be
sisordeTly, that he cid not know any better. There
F4s brief heart-to-heart talk with him. and
sESt vas the end OF his roughness When re left
G the end OF the two weeks he went TO the at
ts1dant and said that he did not intend TO swear
staia and would not smoke again In parting. he
AID.
I didr't think people could be so kind 10 boys.
wish my father wes like you"
There have been hundreds Of boys and girls who
nave this season received impressions for good
that viii last lifetime The boy at the Shepherd
A1sfp nome tookeo What ne was when he ar
rived there, savage, slouchy, without self-control
sno 7esenting any other control When he left.
after only weeks OF Fresh Air home life he
WIS neat, alert, kindness shone from his eyes.
and he had gained large measure of self-con-
trol There several hundred children on the
last outing of the season. among whom there
many who viii take away with them health and
beginning of a life To pay all the remain
ing expenses OF the work contributions amounting
70 300 must stfl be received