The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-22
GiUes Rustic
Joys to Babes
of Tenements
Miss Annie Strathcru liza,
Practical Charity All Of
Her Own.

the unexpected So. ..s'.,r. Do.
a subway guard T.. '.o u..
pie boarding the EXPIRES .r .
Fourteenth street In lieu u. ~.
customed watch your step tho OH,
day az an uncommon group nf ten
ment house babies were busted or
Each was In charge of an oder h.v u,
girl Juggling a folding gocart, Will,
the whole party was Chaprrorcd fy
a slender little woman of mo,her,y
mien.
1t was Miss Annie S,rathcrn. iong
known to subway guards as ,sA
mother Of the VII, was
| m~arshalling her brood up tu Van
Cortlandt for their daily outing. For
the past thirty years this has been
going on, for Miss Strathcrn has do
voted her life to mothering tcnemen,
| children and helping young girls 10
become good housewives and mothers.
In conjunction with her own mearrs
quarters on the East Side she con-
ducts a tiny mode. Hat 10 teach glrls
home making in winter. while iu sum
mer she gives tired, sick babies out.
ings and a breath of COuntrv air.
1T seems better TO get the children
out somewhere every day, Mss
Strathern told a sympathetic passcn.
ger who curiously inquired as 70 me
personnel of the little group.
And I select the subway went on
the little woman. "for the reason that
the subway guards are SO much kinder
than the conductors on the surface
cars and because Van Cortland Vas
more freedom than any other city
park. ! take one set on Monday ard
Thursday and another on Tuesday and
Friday, though the very delicate chill.
dren go every day. on "Wednesday I
take the older children for an outing
without the little ones, for think
they deserve Il.
I'VE visi, a different park zach
week. Last time it vas Grant Tomb
and Riverside Park, and This week
Morn,nrsidc Park after a visit 60 ~.
! lumhia University. We took % Uoep
into 81. Johns Cathedral ani s.
Lukc's Ho>pta. and walked through
Cathedral Parkway On rou'". N'y'
time il Is the Aquarium. hen ne
Bronx 200 and so on.
But Van Curtiandt 5 ror'n0. '''
favorite spot for an the children mi
the fact that George Washington nc
spent several days ~ tho ma r' H..-
imprcsscs the children grct'.N ev.'
though they lose the s"uso of 'h' TIN.
that has elapsed. for they fully 'N0'-'
10 see that venerable gent man ape
pear in the flesh in a.. tho cory Of HI
Continental attire.
"'Wili George Washington sleep u
that he'd tonight WI Dee wr'. n
his desk to-day where is GeorG"
Washington now? ! want O." 500 Ism
/ are a few Of the queries put 60 mo. ar.
recently when the boys caught ssh' a.
a big fat cat snugly c~nSconr'1 in a
porch chair they simultaneously OK
claimed. 'Oh. there is George Wash
ington's Cat''
Not far from rho manor hops" g he
bronze statue OF Con. Porter. %clfr'e.
by four cannon. ard as You may mas
inc. Il takes young America aHol'
inv 10 get astridc the guns ,nIr der
and 20 through the mim.,ry - Ar &c
on the enemy one sma.. boy. af''
gravely viewing the statue for a .o,-
time, turned to me and sad. W.
did that mar do that they TURNED a.m
into iron and set him up there can't
he ever come down.
AS is the case with most CN'dr"n
police officers hold "A great ra-. ns'o N
one day a mounted officer halted a. a
little distance from our group as We
were sitting on the grass. a-t sa7
Now. children. sit perfectly ~'. !