New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-07
GIRL MOTHER TO THREE
ENJOYS FIRST OUTING
Didn't Think Sandy Hook Was
Much of a "HoOk," but
Chapel Hill PIeaSeS.
FRESH AIR FUND GUEST
More than 500 Little Mothers,
It Is Expected, Will Be Enter
tanned This Season at Trib-
une's Summer Home.


III amt much of a hook" That's what
Lizzie saws. and she must know, for she
has been there. But before YOU join with
her In coudemnng the hook. you must
know that she SAYS now, after several
DAVIS visit to it. This Is some place
And the some" in Lizzie's commentator
is spoken I'm small capitals.
T. was Sandy Hook Miss Lizzie had ref
,-ence 10. And after one has heard about
"a sandy hook al, the years Of ones scog
rauny. and has squeezed ones curiosity
I'm 10 what might be called The hooking
niece. DURING an hours sail down the
bav. one Is not TO be criticised If one 90.
presses disappointment. even keen disap-
nolntment. at being asked to set foot ~
an entirely uuhOOkish looking piece. Of
shore. with houses firmly based on fo'l.-
datious instead OF dangling jauntily from
hooks. o, the like.
Hooks? Clothes hooks iron hooks
steel hooks and other kinds al wa GO
their business. But Sandy Hook, as
hook for Lizzie was a delusiou-almost
as bad ms q caut-hooll that can hook.
Lizzie is nearly fourteen ard hadn't
laen out OF the city for so much as day
since she was four years Old until a wees
ago Friday Then she went down to
Chapel Hill. just outside Of Atlantic High
lands where the Tribune Fresh Ain Fund
has a summer home for little mothers.
L.izzie's mother fell sick when Lizzie
was four years old. and when she was
eight years old left her TO be mother TO
three Younger brothers. Since that time
Lizzie has been so busy with her house
keeping and family cares that she has not
been able 70 take advantage even OF
Tribune Fresh Air outing.
- couldn't leave EN-" said she. speak
Ing Of her family. And I couldn't a-left
'cm now only I Eot my youngest brother
(thc two elder now work. trained SOS he
can DO q few things. and concluded she
maybe ! won't have some (again the
small caps) scrubbin up to do when git
back after him keepin' the house for two
weeks"
There are 10l other girls az Eunice
Home. as the Chapel Hill place IS known,
besides Lizzie. all Of them between twelve
and sixteen years old For most Of them
a recital of conditions i'm their homes
would not differ i'm it's essential points
from hers. Not all OF them. however,
have been tied TO their tasks without
respite for six years. for many Of them
as a matter of fact, have been sent away
for several years past by the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund, either to >Eunice Home
or one of the eleven other vacation places.
Vacation starts for the Eunice Home
girls as soon as the trip from the city
begins. for they travel 10 the home by
the Sandy Hook route boats OF the Cen
trail Railroad of New jersey. How they
enjoy the sail. with it's refreshing salt
SEA breezes and its new sights! From the
moment the boat draws away from the
pier they hang over the rail, to marvel
al the ever-shfting waters Of the Bay,
the boats-everything, from a lOngshore-
mans dingy TO the Imperator is a
''boat"-the lighthouses. the forts. the
Islands and a thousand and one other
things. long since grown tame and mat
ter-of course to the children Of the rich.
The life at the home is a never-ending
source Of enjoyment to the luckless, toll
hardened girls Every day there is
bathing party, a straw ride. picnic,
berry-picking expedition or some other
form Of health giving out-of-doors enter
tainment to take their minds from the
sordidness of their tenement lives.
The home Itself is set high up on the
hills that rise from the shores Of the
Bay From grove Of fine oaks II looks
out TO an unobstructed view UP the har-
Dor 20 the city and across to where the
lights Of Coney Island build a fairy city
BY night. It would be difficult to estimate
the effect upon the lives Of the girls of
this view alone as a change from their
daily outlook upon clotheslines. upon rows
Of dirty houses and dismal chimney pots
The party Of girls now at the home VIII
be replaced on Friday by another. Othr
parties will follow every fortnight during
the summer. until five hundred in all have
been entertained
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