The Washington times., 1911-07-06
KIDD|ES AND TIRED
WOMEN DELIGHTED
IN OPEN AIR CAMP
'Seventy-seven Sleep in Tents
on First Night.
TIME TO BE MARKED
BY MANY PLEASURES
Eighty Others Will Join Present
Good Willers Next
Week.

Seventy and seven awoke this morn
ing. looked sleepily from theII queer
walled houses, as in a dreamland, and
then started into full consciousness
when they saw green trees waving in
a wholesome morning breeze, and the
grass fresh from the nights cooling
touch, and heard the birds high above
them, not in bare ruined choIrs," but
in leafy bowers.
The seventy and seven were the ten
mothers and the sixty-seven children
who at Camp Good VIII are looking
probably for the first time, at the
woods as they awake. 1t was their
first morning in the camp in Rock
Creek Park. They had been there since
early yesterday afternoon. They had
romped away the long afternoon and
eaten a hearty supper, and gone to bed
in their tents and slept in tbs refresh
ing air of the countryside.
Many Pleasures.
The round of pleasures at Camp
Good VIII Is constant To the guests
at the camp, 1t is a succession of de-
lights that does not cloy with repeu-
ton. They are to have two weeks at
the camp, but the two weeks must
compensate, in some cases, for whole
life time of close-streeted city existence.
Some of the children were in the camp
last year. but many Of them nave
never before been in the country.
The round of pleasures begins with
breakfast. After that the swimming
pools are visited. The boys took their
plunges first this morning, and then the
girls. They splashed and screamed,
and some of them even swan, but not
many were in that high degree OF am
phibiousness because twelve years is
the age limit for the children.
After the bathing, while the mothers
sat about the camp or walked slowly
around and breathed deep, and smiled,
the children played. There is base
ball ground for the boys and that takes
q great deal of time. There are swings,
and hammocks, and SAND plies TO play
in.
Round of Romping.
But It seemed they hardly had found
out what to do, before 1t was dinner
time-not luncheon, but plain, good, old
fashioned dinner. Hungry. hungry
hungry-they knew how good it was to
feel the sharply salt bite Of meat upon
the tongue!
And then off to play. Under the
trees, down tie slopes, hither and
thither and yon, those of the running |
age at Camp Good VIII hustle and
scurry like rabbits-until they eat again
at o'clock.
After supper there is a little more
play. A bell rings at 7:45, and all
gather and sing and recite poetry. 1t
is the '.good-night'' service, and 1t is
closed with the Lords Prayer.
Given Good Care
The camp has two horses and a team,
but the Good Willers can't often ride be-
cause the horses are generally hauling
something for the Good Willers to eat.
Last year q Boofer Lady used to bring
her tremendous automobile out and fill
It with Good Willers and ride them all
about. Maybe some Boofer Lady-there
are not many Boofer Ladies like that
will come out again.
Visitors come, too. are interested and
The camp give the Good Willers a
range of a circle with diameter OF
about a city block. To go out of the
charmed circle they must be accom-
panied by one of the keepers of the
camp. All the liberty possible is al
lowed them.
Medical attendance is at hand for the
Good Willers, but they havn't needed