Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-08-09
ONE GLORIOUS TIME
FOR OLD And YOUNG
Parents, Children, Sunday School
Teachers, All Join in Fonte-
nellie Park Picnic.
ABSOLUTE JOY UNcoNF1NED


When you combine parents day
at an Omaha playground and two
full-fledged Sunday school pienics
you have a really big show.
That's what was done yesterday
at Fontenelle park. Parents day
was to have been last Wednesday,
but e. w. Sinnett, superintendent of
the Hirst Memorial Methodist Sun
day school, got busy" and pointed
out to Supervisor OF Fairgrounds
English that 1t would be a good idea
to have both "shows" together and
that he would secure an added at
traction" which would be the Sun
day school picnic of the Fairfax
Kenwood Presbyterian church.
Mr.. English saw that II was a good
idea And It was so ordered.
Beautiful Fontenelle park rang with
the shouts of players from morning until
the well-known shades of evening had
fallen
Slides FILLED All Day.
Little bodies ran hither and thither; up
the stairs Of the slippery slide" they
went by scores and shot down the slides
The swings were endlessly busy. There
was a long waiting list at the May pole
much of the time and as soon as one Of
the ropes was relinduished 1t was grasped
by another kiddie anxious to gyrate with
swinging legs and wrigsling body.
over in the sand pile the hitler ones
had a quieter good time, bettsr suited to
their years.
There was Juvenile contest in play
ground ball with a resulting score OF
something like "a to 81, or something like
that. An adding machine would have
been needed TO keep track OF the runs.
Endlessly and tirelessly the youngsters
played and shouted, ran and romped.
swung and slid.
Mother and Father, Also.
And the parents were there. Yes, in
deed. For 1t was parents day" Mother
came out early, you know, with George
and John and Susie and Nata and little
Julia. And father came out and Joined
them as soon as he could get away from
downtown.
And then Susie led the way with father
and mother in her trail and brought them
to the play supervisors and introduced
them with happy grin And then mother
told the supervisor how Susie and Nata
and even little Julia love to come 10 the
Fairgrounds and that she really thinks
it is a good thing. One feels they are
safe and out OF mischief, you know, when
they are at the Fairgrounds. especially
with supervisors to look after them. And
so on.
They got well acquainted and It was
grand day altogether.
Mrs. Hazel King. Miss Alice Mcmahon
and Mrs. Louis Moore were the SUPER
visors and they had their hands fun, for
there were at least 400 children on the
grounds. and every single one of them
was just running over with activity.
Races for Real Prizes.
Yes. certainly, there were races. The
Sunday schools and the playground folks
had made up a purse and bought a. lot of
prizes-tennis racquets, croquet set
base ball and glove, mouth organ and a
"hikabike," If you know what that IA
CWhen you're riding it you don't quite
know whether you are hiking or riding n
bike. hence the name.)
When the kids lined up for the various
events they looked like a regiment Of IN.
lantry Cdon't miss the joke there on ''in-
iantry. Get It? Infants, you know
infantry see? An old joke, but still we'll
preserved) And SO many were tbare A.,
some events that some would 90 snrs nj
,ns on the course. accompanied by the
happy shouts of laughter OF the on
Who Won and What.
Du1 iinaily everybody had run ana S,,-
perintendent E w. slnnett or ,he M,
memorial Sunday school, who bad -.
sisted the supervisors in pulling ~, a.,
events distributed the prizes. The res,,I,s
Were as follows: oSNi'S
~ Yard Dash-Boys a IN o $780,.
So Yard B YSn q Tracy ssiiander;.
tennis racket, won BY Ienorsy eSa l; prize.
c,.o yard pash-Boys. o to Do ye sitn;
SotYsri pas Non By Oscar wittlakep. = 60
tennis racket, won bv Nfilds.syHe years aI: prize.
S-Yard Dash-Glris " to IS yes Sone nil,
'155 onYs 70 racket won by Alma RichanIs
priTe ball. bat and glove won by Ge sas;
rl SsS-Ysrd Desh-elrs Is to IS v..r..
1o-o - At,~nSt' won by Ruth AIporp
, nV- ara Dafh-Boys' free-for-aII. MIL
io % pail psIi won By Pete Adams. '''s''
,, ~, 4 ara pash-Boys. to years; nriza
NOUN 10y organ, won by Jack Pollard nc
~ ara Dssh-AC5iris, 4 TO years: nriz.
peads won by Alma Sahan. Pi'~e'
90 ard Dash-Girts under 4 vasr..
IiT n5e;. coiored ball. won by Harriet Wet
r5 Pan TEhrr.ow-Prize. fancy plate, won by
BY Mrs. Plckens. f''0'' "Oh
Church Team wins.
red hot base ball game was eoin0
on at the same time on the fine diamond
OF the park. II was between the Hirst
Memorial team and an aggregation called
the sun Dodgers. The final score was
to In favor of the church men.
A number Of the quieter little Rir,s
toun1 great delight and edification IN a
classic Of childhood and masterpiece AZ
redundancy Sometimes there were thirty
smiling sisters in the circle, joyously
chanting
Here We go round the mulberry bush.
ne mulberry bush
The mulberry bush
here We go round the mulberry bush.
50 early In the morning
And so on through the whole fourteen
absorbing verses. two for each day of
the week