New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-08-07
ALL LOVE CHAPEL HILL
little Mothers" Of Fresh Air
Fund Sing Its Praises.
REST FOR THE TIRED ONES
Three Hundred Children Taken
This Summer to Jersey
Resort by the Sea.
I sing a legend Of the sea.
So hard-a-port upon your lee
A ship on stsrboard tack


No White Mountains or Adirondacks. no
far inland Lake Placid or Delaware water
Gap for them. No, sir! They VIII take 'he
seacoast. II you please. Something on the
Jersey coast? Yes. that viii do nicely
No. indeed. not Asbury Park nor Long
Branch-they're a little too fashionabie-too
ultra.
Some place that isn't too dressyY Wen,
there's-just the place, OF course-Shapei
Hill, down on Sandy Hook And IN al
Chapel Hill-rwhich isn't such vast extent
OF territory. by the way-there's just one
place, and that is Eunice Cottage.
II YOU want to spend an ideal summer
vacation, plan one that really begins the
minute you leave the hot city and continues
until the minute you set foot within IT'S
sweltering precincts again. Don't pick out
a place that involves from eight to twelve
hours of smoky, sooty railroad travel
worse by far than the downtown pavementS
on a record breaking July day
That's the way the little mothers ana
housewives" feel about II. They have only
AZ best two weeks away from the cares OK
home and baby" and minutes are pre-
cious 20 them. so. they say, we II
start our vacation with an ocean voyage
and a hay ride and well finish it up with
a hayride ard ar ocean voyage,
For little mothers" moreover. there Is
no expense connected with two weeks
stay at Eunice Cottage-not even for the
ocean voyage and the hay ride going down
nor the hay ride and ocean voyage coming
back. The reason is Eunice Cottage is
Tribune Fresh AIR home.
Who are the little mothers and house
wives?
One little mother is an Italian girl OF
thirteen years who had received place IN
a Chapel Hi party not long ago. Two or
three days before the date set for the be-
ginning of her vacation she approached her
teacher at the Charlton street mission with
the request, "C'n I take my baby with
me?''
The teacher knew what she meant, Tor
sometimes a child under the Fresh Air age
limit is allowed 10 go to one OF the homes
II an older brother or sister is going along
10 help care for IT. In this case, however
the girl who made the request looked SO
worn and tired out that the teacher re-
fused the permission. thinking to gain for
her a period Of absolute rest from her un-
natural cares.
Then 7 can't 20 either" sobbed the girl
Mother Finally Yields.
The teacher said nothing further at the
time. but resolved 10 try the power OF per
suasion upon the parents OF the child Mex
day. therefore she called at the home aho
found the little mother" caring for no'
one but three small brothers. all undei
five years. Meanwhile the mother gossipeo
on the doorstep. She finally consented &c
let the daughter go without her charge.
Another little mother is Lillian, whon
Miss Ida A. Cornwell, superintendent Oh
Eunice Cottage describes as "a sweet utti'
girl" She spent a happy two weeks O.
Chapel Hill last season, but was not suont
enough to go about much with the othei
girls. When Miss Cornwell called at he'
home. a few weeks ago, preparatory t'
having her sent TO the home again this
summer, she found her little protesee In th'
MIDST OF ''scrubbing up a brood OF nve
Younger brothers and sisters, who were II
all stages Of dress and undress
A little housewife" came TO notice early
IN the summer child OF four years had
been permitted TO go with party on the
supposition that a sister OF fourteen, VINO
was also included in the party would KEEP
an eye on him. But apparently 1t never
entered the girls head TO give him even the
slightest attention. She seemed, notwith-
standing, a kindly, afrectionate youngster
AT last the attendant under whose super
vision both had been placed, finding tha'
h. fnr ha cnact1l
tention he needed without negecting the
remainder Of her company. reprimandeo
the sister and told her that unless she
could look after her small brother little
he would have 10 be sent home. Then FOR
the first time the girl seemed 20 realize the
situation.
Sure. I'll watch him." she said. seeming
quite taken by surprise Il didn't think
about him because when we're home me
mother minds him and do the work and
git the meals
The Tribune fund sends 10 Eunice Home
girls Of the little mother" class almost
entirely. Rest" is the motto which is
written large across the whole scheme OF
the home The age limit here is different
from that at other homes. all the guests
being between twelve and sixteen years oio.
For girls OF this age, just budding into
womanhood. II is believed that a good deal
of time should be spent in quiet. restful
occupations.
The guests at the home are allowed TO
play. take walks. go bathing and do the
other things that go TO make up pleas
ant vacation, but the day is so planned
that most OF these things come in the
morning. The afternoon is thus left free
for such quieter pastimes as reading,
story telling. "jacks'-very popular Just at
present-and bean bag"