New-York tribune., 1910-06-20
FRESH AIR ACTIVITIES
Five Thousand ChiIdren's Names
Added to the "Worthy" List.
CONvALESCENT HOME OPENS
Farmers Awaiting Their Guests,
and Missionaries Are Busy
in the Citv.

to the list Of those who are worthy 10 be-
come oenehcfaries OF the Tribune Fresh Air
Fund this summer and 5000 added TO the
Z und, which is to carry them to the coun-
try. These were two features or the Fresh
Air activities in the week Just closed
third was the opening Of the Convalescent
Home at Mechanicstown, N Y, where the
children are the guests of the churches Of
Mjddletown and Goshen.
The Tribune Fund pays the expenses Of
the matron and her assistant and the car
fare of the children going and returning
This week Happyland, in Tenafy. N J.,
will be opened. and fifty tenement girls will
fill the house with laughter. their little
bodies with the best OF food and their
young lives with strength and vigor. There
are many places in the country where hap
piness is possible. but there is one place
which is pre-eminentIy Happyland. and
John S. Lyle who erected the home and
maintains it finds both Scripture and
poetry true. Blessed as are the children
who receive his good things he himself
IS thrice blessed, for is he not cne Of the
Fresh All. people OF whom it is said:
Who gives himself with his aims feeds three
Himself. his hungertng neishbor and Me-
Invitations Received.
Several invitations from the country for
parties of children in July were received
last week. and the workers among the chill
dren are planning for the happy day that
shall take the little people TO old and new
friends in the country. Last season, through
the generosity of warm-hearted friends,
9229 children reaped the irameasurable joys
and benefits Of never to be forgotten
holiday in the country. OF this number, six
hundred cared for in homes for GONZALES
cent children included those recently dis
charged from hospitals, and under-nour-
ished children in delicate health In the
other Fresh Air home 1850 were entertained
900 girls too old to be sent out as Fresh AIT
children being the guests Of one), and the
remaining 4.57a girls and boys were sent 10
private families The railroads extend spe-
cfal rates as heretofore. and the expenses
OF administration will be met this year. as
in years past, by private subscription, so
that every dollar raised for the fund VIII
be used solely. for the children
Among the contributions received on Sat
urday was one for Ten dollars untainted.
from, a friend of DR. Devins and the Little
Ones living at Heart, Left Rib County,
Commonwealth Of Man" The manager
would greatly enjoy spending a haf-holl-
day WIN tnlS ITlSuC Ol ttt0 -1-tSiC --0-'
but the telegraph companies cannot prom
ise to deliver message accepting the IN
vitatfon. A better town and county and
state TO hail from It would be difficult to
name or more effectual method OF con-
cealing ones identity
Some Unusual Problems
One Of the Fresh Air workers wishes to
find a place in the country where four chill
dren. girl nearly seven and three boys,
four nine and eleven, respectively, may be
boarded a part or all of the summer The
mother has been taken to a sanatorlCm
and the father Is willing to pay reason
able board for the care and keep OF the
children. The worker writes to the man
ager OF the Fresh Air Fund concerning the
children: They are Catholics, and, or
course. would not be willing to go TO
family of other faith, and I know this IS
rot YOUR problem; but because OF your wide
interest in children and their welfare you
NAV be able TO advise me regarding these
NOR Youngsters for whom 1 feel respon-
sibIe''
Another worker wishes to send a woman
to n home or farm near New Haven for a
month or longer free or at moderate ex-
pense. While the mother is weary from
overwork. she has two children who might
be sent as guests or as boarders Tor srnaLl
nav. if that were necessary. Additional N
formation concerning these applicants VIII
be given to interested persons