New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-23
50 SMILE; 50 WEEP
Little Girls Who Go to Happy
Land Are Joyous.
MONEY IS GIVING OUT
Fresh Air Home May Be Closed
Unless Contributions for
the Work Increase.

| Fifty girls went 10 Happyland yesterday
( and fifty other girls stayed home That is
the story Of joy and sadness in a nutshell.
For the benefit OF some IT may be neces-
sary to add that Happyland IS a Fresh
Air home in Tenany y. j.. at which In
the course Of summer three hundred
| Tribune Fresh Airs are entertained.
! The fifty who went smiled; the fifty who
didn't wept. The latter were not an i'm
aginary fifty, but a real flesh and blood
| Gt might be nearer the truth to say skin
and bones crowd And they wept BIT
terly-wept as only disappointed, heart
/ broken little children can.
! All summer long these girls had been
| looking forward to the day when 1t
should be their turn to pick up their
! bundles and, all agog with excitement
and anticipation. set out for the country,
instead Of standing sorrowfully by and
watching others go. Every day since the
close of the public schools some Of them
( have climbed the steps OF the Brooklyn
Chidrens Aid Society, at No. y Scher-
merhorn street. Brooklyn, to ask If they
could Ego 'yet"-no need to add whittier.
Every day the teacher" had said BE
patient. soon there will be a chance. y
Every day until yesterday. that is. when
the "C'n we go yet?' was met by the
answer: mo more girls can be sent to
the country this year" Then blue eyes
and brown eyes and black eyes filed with
tears and voices that tried TO query
"Why?" choked with sobs and words
could not find their way out.
The why" is a simple one. The poor
children whose cases come under the no.
tce Of the Brooklyn Chidren's AID So
clety receive country outings from the
Tribune Fresh Air Fund. II had been
planned 20 send the fifty who were dis
appointed Yesterday to one OF The Trib-
une's summer homes, out a falling off in
the contributions toward the support Of
The Tribune's Fresh Air work is making
il apparent that the work must be cur
tailed or stopped for the season In very
short time. unless funds are contributed
by the friends OF the children for its con-
tnuance.
The fifty who went TO Happyland yes
terday spent the time after their arrival
picking flowers. rolling down grassy hills
romping over green fields. When the day
was done they Struggled down in snowy
beds in airy dormitories. and went TO
sleep luled by the song OF crickets and
the whistle OF frogs
The fifty who like the second little pig
In the Jingle. stayed home" spent the
day sitting around on doorsteps and curbs
or padding i'm mud puddles In the cutters.
And when close and humid night had
settled down on the streets and they could
fight Oft the attacks Of the sandman no
longer. thcy cropt BEAUTIFULLY into bed in
the sitting rooms of their tenement
homes-if they did not sleep curled up ON
the floor in corner.
For the song Of tho cricket they had the
rumble Of tho elevated trains. and for the
whistle of the frog the clang of the troll
ley bell
The nftv uttlc Brooklynitos are not the
only ones who are being denied their long
hoped-for country outings. Their case Is
typical Of that Of thousands scattered in
all parts OF New York. 1t is not yet too
late for the friends of the children TO
come to their rescue and send them to
one Of The Tribunes happylands.