New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-08-25
HAPPY APPLE CORPS
WIN AT ST. HELENS
Fresh Air Children Make
Merry Amid Joys OF
Country Life.
FRUIT THAT TEMPTED
GIVEN AS REWARD
AppetiteS Prove That Little
Ones Gain Health from
Fields and Sunshine.


w. 10 thcy call 10 ST. Helen
R,ca1.o re in such heavenly r.ace
DO, or, o. u place where saint
vouII choose 20 live y one may be
icr, young eeulaiucr OF whom the
question was asked the other day
And II IT isn't quite heaven. al Least
20 looked yesterday like that next door
place. tho Garden OF Eden. by icas9n
az ,n, apple. Those that tc.pted
Eve weren't bigger rcddcr or juic.er.
There was whole bg basket OF
.hcn. end there was need, for there
were Ifty Fresh Air Adams and fifty
Fresh All Ewes, with one hundred
TrcsF AIR sppetitcs 20 be satisfied al
81. IIclens.
Bu, E. seems ;hcy have learned wis
DOR since she day o. old. They
vci-ut going Zoo Doc cast out @. inc
Garden o. Eden. or -. Helen. "E .cu-
c,tf .oJ prefer iu.. for 81. apple
apiece. 1.cy said among trcr,elro
"L,f's wait .iiI after dinner ard see
vha, happens TO those apples. j. VIII
ac time enough then 10 ;akc a chance
on getting chuckcd out II we don't got
our share
So they marched IN 90 dinner and
bowed their heads r"verently and sang:
God is great and God is good.
And W thank Him for this food.
Hr His hand must an Boo feu.
Give us. LORD. our daily bread.
l. seemed almost as II there was a
fifth line to the grace" for there was
no break between the last word and the
"Clinketty- clink-clink" Of spoons on
plates. But that was no sign Of irrev-
erence. merely a tribute 10 the appe-
lite stirring qualities of the Berkshire
Hills brand Of fresh air they breathe at
ST. Helen's
For a little while even the apples
were forgotten in the more substantial
delights of baked beans. but il was only
for a little while just long enough, in
fact. for one 20 get all the baked beans
necessary to supply the body's needs
until supper time. Then there was d
lull and the air was charged with eH-
pectancy.
well. boys. what do you want now ~
asked the man who evidently had
charge Of dispensing Eden's delights as
soon as everybody was through. And
well like the shouts that might
be expected if Mstty struck out Baker
ia the worlds series with the bases full
came the reply:
apples
Then they all tumbled out-of-doors
and no; they didn't all scramble for
the basket Of apples-dropped into
line and marched single file down the
hill behind the house to where mar
row footbridge spans the brook .ha-
flows through the precincts Of 81.
Helen's. There mighty man kept the
bridge and beside him the basket OF
apples, redder and bigger and jucier
than ever.
Unlike Horatius. however. this keep
er of the bridge didn't fling all who
approached back. but let them pass one
by one, delving the while into his
ba sket 70 the tune Of: "A big one for
big girl, a little one for a little boy,
juicy one for q fat boy, red one for
thin boy etc. until every one Of
the hundred had walked the plank and
sat munching on the opposite bank.
Then when the cores began TO shower
fast into the waters OF the brook. eyes
began to wander across the bridge TO
the basket to see If there were any left
20 dare the perils of the bridge for again.
Il wasn't possible 10 tell from where
the eyes looked forth, but soon the
mighty man picked up the basket and
started over the bridge with it. and in
moment the boy who sat highest IN
the bank shouted:
"Now half full vet"
In less time than 1t takes 10 tell il
everybody was in line and approaching
the bridge again. and in another very
short time everybody was on the other
bank contentedly munching once more.
st. Helen's of course. you know
that its a home for Tribune Fresh Air
children at Interlaken. Mass. II has
been there for more than twenty years
now. and through all those two decades
its hospitality has been the gift Of
John r. Parsons. Yesterday. as il hap
pens. IL was Mrs Parsons who sent the
basket of apples which created such "A
stir Not that apples are scarce At s..
Helen's, but that boys and girls lust
love" apples, particularly ripes rcd.
Juicy big ones.
So, you see. they ate the apples and
didn't get "chucked OUT Of Eden or
81. Helen's. If you prefer that name.
They're there yet, the fourth hundred
Of this season. And one hundred more
are still 20 try the joys of the place be-
fore the summer ends.