The Washington times., 1911-07-08
GOODY!! CRY TOTS
WHO ARE TO SEE
ANIMALS At zoo
twenty-five Good Willers
Will Be Given Special
Trip Today.

"Oh, goody" cried twenty-five young.
sters out at Camp Good Will this morn,
| ing when they were told at breakfast
that they were the children who would
make the first Zoo trip today.
Now, the Zoo Park. with its cages OF
chattering monkeys to make the chill
dren laugh, and its pens of big black,
brown, and white bears, and its heavy
cages wherein dwell the most ferocious
looking lions and tigers, which give the
children the most delightfully."- fearful
thrills, is a favorite place of recreation
for the little waits who are given an
outing by the Board of Charities
So the children look forward to such
trips with great glee. But only twenty
lucky twenty-five today certainly are
the happiest in happy camp.
Means Good Time.
Going TO the Zoo means a lot Of things
besides seeing monkeys and lions and
tigers, too-it means that the children
are treated to candies-tust a little
candy though in hot wea ther, but candy
just the same-and cakes. Then they
can play around ir the big park, too.
So Camp Good Will is a-bustle this
morning.
There is c.ne little fellow in the camp
VINO was CHOSEN to go on the Zoo trip
inns Hl~Cnlng because he Is generous
hllhse,lf. He is a cripple. Little crippled
ppogrs are usually petted and become sell
nm. Not so with Benny. Benny has
brothers and sisters, and in the winter
he has to hobble around and sell News
papers, even If his back does hurt.
But, although pennies are mighty hard
for Benny 10 earn, he will spend mis-
a Ill 11Ff a.. cd
ters cry for something the pennies can
get them. When Mrs. Bushee, who has
charge of part Of the children, learned
of this, she declared that Benny should
be one Of this party to go on the first
trip to the Zoo.
The storm which swept over Washing
ton yesterday did not touch Camp Good
Will The tents this morning are in
perfect condition, and the children and
their mothers are being benentei by the
cool weather.
Sewing Bee Held.
Yesterday afternoon a sewing bee was
held at the camp. The children were
sent out for romp, in charge Of Wal
ter Ufford, while the mothers seweI
ticks for new mattresses for the camp
cots. The ticks will be filled with
straw, and everybody knows that when
folks are living out in the open, as
they are at the camp, a s.-aw-tilled
tick is just about as comfortable as a
fine hair mattress.
So while one of the older girls read
to the women. and passed pictures
OF last years camp and the camp of
the year before, among them the
mothers stitched away
But 1t was very warm yesterday
afternoon, and go the folks out at the
camp planned to treat the mothers
to lemonade before the kiddies came
back.
Riddles Unselfsh.
But the lemonade was not mixed in
time. and just as it was being passed
among the women, in came the chill
dren.
Now the howl will go up from the
youngsters" Mrs. Bushee thought.
But nothing of the sort happened. In
some ways, the children out at Camp
Good Will are the most remarkable
the Board of Charities people have
seen in some time. and one of the
most remarkable things they have
ever done, says Mrs. Bushee was the
way in which they looked on while
thirsty mothers drank lemonade and
never whlmpered.
Everybody was in a hurry to get
to bed last night. The children are
usually in their tents by O'Clock.
But the GOODNESS which followed the
storm made the tents inviting at 1880
last night. and the mothers were not
long IN following their kiddies to bed