The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-06-19

too long. and an automobile caught
him in his spring. There was not time
for tears, and he hour was too auspi-
cious for sorrow.
After the turn at Mr.. REGISTERS
farm. the crowded automobiles soon
passed again within the city limits.
ending UP al Lakewood. Mr.. Andrew
Pizzini had the gates wide open for
them. and every child was given a
ticket for every amusement In the
grounds Flying swings, slloot-the-
chute, merry go-round the railroad.
gallcries--cveryth thing was Immediately
tfronged with delighted youngsters.
| The donkeys were pressed into ser
| vice. and they were ridden. sometimes
with three or four on the back of one,
| as they had never been ridden before.
Everybody lent n helping hand Moth
crs formed the reception comJnittee.
and they had prepared such n pile Of
cake and such quantity of lemonade
that one wondered where it all would
so. Doubt was not long left In mind.
for the orphan boys and girls swept 1t
away. until there was left not even
one basket of crumbs. Then they
| started in to enjoy themselves for one
blissful hour. They owned the place
for that hour, and they took complete
possession. Everything was running
including Mrs, Gil. She had her arms
full in double sense. Children
swarned everywhere. But. there was
no accident for the lakewood people
put themselves to extra precautions to
see that no injury was done.
There were nearly $50 of the parent :
| less little ones. and in the lot were
! but two who needed the help Of Others;
to take them about One was a Grip
/ pie. the other hunchback Their
pallid faces lit up with joy that
| had never Illuminated them before.
perhaps, We're AT once pleasurable and
! pathetic. mother who has two
strong children of her own lifted the
little hunchback into the merrygo
j round, and cried as she placed him on
Il hobbshorse. He was unmindful of
her tears. for it was a moment when
! heaven had come down TO bless him.
1, The little cripple hobblcd about on
his crutches, and though one leg was
1 far too short for the other, and his
hack was almost too weak to support
It's burden. he laughed with the others
and limped round behind them.
4 Raced on Donkcys
1t was a sight that will never be
A forgotten by those who witnessed the
scene. The little children seemed tc
. have reached the sum total of happi-
4 ness. Earth had become a paradise
and they were cherubs without wings
Only the donkeys Jared badly. Thei,
burden was almost more than they
could bear.
"Ciddup.' cried a two-Sear-od, ant
the donkey stretched his best feet
foremost. The boy hung on for deal
life. He thought he was on a racer
. and that ho was a Jockey 1t was {
hairs breadth between him and th'
, toy behind at the finish.
II There We're lots of other children
, present, but they all had fnothers an'
, fathers. They watched the orphan
, with undisguised interest. There wa
/, a distinction between the two sets o
; children, but no difference rs to thei
happiness, except in degree. Hayin;
known but few of the pleasures o
1 childhood in the way of outings an
unconfined liberty, the orphans mad
!, the most of their too short hour O.
+ the stroke of they were called to
Y gether again, and the automobiles. af
y ter taking a farewell spin round tn
t lake. started back to the City Hal
$ There they had to be counted.
4 step out" said the largest urch1
Il of one collection. There ought to b
e nineteen, but can count onl
d '.eighteen.' He found the nineteent