New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26
Kindergarners Off for
Ten Days in Cool
Groves of Country.
TRIBUNE FRESH AIR
FUND WAVES WAND
Only Boys Are Grumpy When
Sisters Disappear-But Their
Good Times Coming.

Now you see them and now you
dont
At O'Clock they were stringing
beads and cutting wabbly circles out
Of rainbow-hued papers at their kim
dergarten in Oliver ST. Then at ten
minutes after they weren't. They had
vanished, leaving no trace behind
them--unless you could count as such
the grumpy looks on the faces of the
boys who hadn't been allowed to disap-
pear.
Truth to tell, the beads weren't get
ting strung very rapidly, and the cir
eles were wabblier than usual just pre-
eeding the disappearance, cause every
body's eyes were on the door-even
those Of the boys.
And well everybody might have.
There was evidently need Of quick
work, as time was 10 show.
Just at 2;09 open came the door and
in flashed a teacher. Clap, clap, went
her hands. Hats, bags!' she said.
Then there was commotion.
Chatter! bang! dropped the scissors.
Scatter. scatter, went the beads.
Fulfil went the papers in the
Rind
But nobody seemed TO mind. In fact,
every girl was grabbing a hat from the
chair behind her and a bag from along
side it and scooting for the door as
hard as she could go. No wonder there
wasn't a trace of them left at 2;10.
Only Boys Are Left.
II yea had gone into the kindergar-
ten Of 2. S. ia at exactly that time,
looking for Cinderella or Polly Film
ders or some other small East Slider of
less classic pretensions, you would
have found nothing bat twenty-five
gloomy faced boys, any one of whom
would have told you that she had "gone
on the car to the country, and / don't
see why boys can't go, too"
Then, if you'd rushed into the street,
you would have seen her hat sticking
out of the window of a rapidly disap-
pesring Chambers st. car. And if you'd
rushed down to the ferry, you might
have got there just in time to catch a
glimpse Of her hanging over the rail of
the Goshen, bound for Jersey City.
And If, still persisting, you'd taken the
next boat over, you would probably
20 see her waving good-by from the
car window as the Englewood express
pulled out of the yards.
And if-but, no, the trains don't run
frequently enough for that. Still, you
might imagine you did take the next
train and arrived in Tenahy Just in
time to see her. beaming with smiles,
as she rode away from the station in
q big stage with Happy Land in great
letters on it's sides. At Happy Land,
too, you might have come up with her
at last, for she went no further. Why
should she?
Happy Land" Girls Haven.
Of course, the particular she YOU
we're interested in might have slipped
away from you again for a while, for at
Happy Land there are woods in which
one may lose ones self and bushes be-
hind which one may hide. Still, she
would have to come to light before
long.
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund it was
which waved the fairy wand that
brought about the disappearance and
led you-at least in imagination-the
long chase to "the country" The same
wand will, however, keep the fitting
kindergartners stationary at Tenafy
for the next ten days in case YOU
should want 20 find one of them again.
And wasn't 1t worth the chase to know
that these youngsters escaped the heat
Of yesterday and slept last night where
, breezes were fresh and stars were
bright?
Perhaps you were like the boys who
were left behind and wonder why they
could not have been sent, too. Well,
Happy Land is a haven for girls excm-
slvely; but watch for news of another
disappearance in the near future.