New-York tribune., 1909-07-03
FUND NEEDS MONEY
Contributions VII Enable Many
Children to Get Fresh dir.

Lack OF money is a continually present difficulty
with which the Tribune Fresh Air Fund is forced
TO contend in its endeavors TO send city children
into the country. Many cases are discovered in
which few more dollars would enable a hard
working, deserving boy 20 spend a vacation away
from the city, but the fund often finds itself un-
able to do anything. Yesterday particularly
pressing case was presented. Thomas, thirteen
year-Old Office boy, is unable to go away because
his employers decline to pay him his salary of 81 so
a week during his absence He and his widowed
mother the sole breadwinners for a family OF
five Thomas has declined an invitation to go into
the country, feeling, he does, a responsibility
to the rest of the family. His mother is hard
working woman. rising at o'clock in the morning
to clean offices until 9. washing all day and clean
ing offices again from until o'clock in the even
ing.
Early yesterday morning l54 happy boys gathered
at the Lexington avenue station to board trains
for the country Fifty went to Interlaken Mass,
and the remainder TO the Shepherd Knapp home
in Litchheld. Conn The boys arrived long before
the scheduled time. dressed in the best clothes
that their limited resources commanded and carry
ing nondescript array Of bundles and bags con-
taining their vacation outfits. Some had been
carefully saving their pennies for weeks to buy a
couple Of boxes of crackers, which they purchased
for the trip, and had them carefully slowed away
under their When the manager arrived they
were lined up, impatiently waiting his word.
IAN ready, boys he said, and in mad rush
they romped away down the platform and on TO the
train.
Three hundred and ffty-nine children were sent
away yesterday. Besides the two parties already
noted, there OF eighty-seven which went
TO Delhi. y. Y. Sixty-nine will spend the two
weeks near Utica. Twenty-six went to the Ash
ford Hill Home at Ardsley. n. Y, and twenty
three to Schenectady
Pertinent is the notice which recently appeared
in the weekly calendar of the First Presbyterian
Church of Albion. n. Y: 1t reads follows;
In the crowded tenement districts of New York
City. where poverty is the rule and indulgence IA
milar little children are waiting for the call to
eoZae to Albion or vicinity for two weeks stay
little ones?
The indigence ani poverty which would be
leved by a few dollars contributed by every Chris
tian Endeavor society Sunday school in the state
hardly be realized. Children now swarming
the hot pavements OF the city streets could
then frolic in the cool grass OF the meadows They
who sit the hot cuI bstones waiting for the
iceman 20 pay a brief visit that they may paddle
in the water which drips into the street from the
melting ice could wade in the brooks on some up
state farm.
The work Of the Fresh Air Fund Is limited only
by the voluntary contributions which sent in
and the invitations extended 10 the city children
by country families. Additions are badly needed
TO the number OF those who regularly take chill
dren each summer There at present two little
negro boys waiting FOR an invitation The FUND
has no place TO send them at present.
Commissioner Darlington OF the Department or
Health is cooperating with the Fund In putting
the children into physical condition for the trips
In a recent conference with the manager and his
assistants he emphasized the point OF personal
cleanliness IN the children and he has issued In
structons 10 parents on the care OF chdren's hair
and scalp:
Children affected with vernin OF the hea& are
excluded from school The following directions
will cure the condition. MIX onc-half pint OF sweet
oil and one-half pint ot kerosene OIL. Shake the
mixture well and saturat' the hair with the max =
ture- Then wrap the head IN 4arge pain low to"Si /
or rubber cap that the head - entirely coNereti
the head must remain covered from six TO eight
hours Ttncture Of lSrkspur may be used instead
OF the OH mixture The directions FOR use are ths
same After removing the towel the head should
be shampooed follows:
To two quarts OF warm water add one teaspoon
ful OF sodium carbonate. Wet the hair with TINS
solution and then apply CASTLE soap and rub the
head thoroughly ABOUT ten minutes wash the
soau out nf tho hair with repeated washings OF
clear warm water Dry the hair thoroughly. II
the head is shRmpooed regularly each week as
above Described.