New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-31
RIPPING DINNERS
TICKLE CHILDREN
Kind Hudson Put Petit
coats to Severe Test.
Says Bessie.
FRESH AIRS YEARN
FOR BENEWAY HOME
Youngsters Placing Orders Now
for Return Visit to Lofty,
Airy Retreat.

Do you wear pctticoats?
II you 60, you ought to get the
point Of the following letter:
Dear Ladies'; You do not know
how happy you made me and my
little sister. We used to have so
much eats that our petticoats
would not stay shut Please will
you leave me come back next
summer? Teacher say eat so much
like YOU want. Thankes four good
time good ladie LET me come again
please. BESSIE D.
OF course you realize at once that
a Tribune Fresh Air' wrote the letter.
No one else would be quite so whole
hearted and frank in her declaration
Of what constituted the chief glory Of
her summer vacation.
And the place where Trey have the
petticoat splitting "eats" is Bcneway
Home. at Claverack, ~ Y. Just so
that YOU may be sure that the writer
Of the letter knew what she was writ
ing about. read this other epistle from
a sister Fresh Air:
Dear Fresh Air: am now going
10 thank you for all the pleasure
and good meals you have given
me al Beucway Home. also think
that YOU are very sensible for pick
ing out a teacher ike Mrs. Schork.
She could take care OF the children
lust like a mother takes care OF
her own. have no more to write,
bar hoping 10 meet you again,
From a little friend, ROSE NJ
Beneway Home is one Of the CO.
operative enterprises of the Tribune
Fresh Air Fund. Il is maintained in
connection with the churches Of Hud-
son and Claverack, \. Y, the church
people providing the home and the sup
niles l"eats") necessary to run It,,
while the Tribune Fund provides the
staff Of workers who care for the chill
dren and pays the railroad fares Of
the girls sent to the home.
The home accommodates twenty-five
girls al q time. and is now nlled with
The fourth party Of he season.
Beneway nestles in the shelter OF
an orchard. high up on he brow OF the
loftiest hill in its nelShborhood. 30
Great is the elevation that nothing
rises between IL and the Hudson 10
shut of the view of the Catskiils as
they poke their heads up into the
clouds on the far side of the river.
II is in a land OF never dying
brezes. too-so the children say.
where. on even the hottest days OF
summer, there is always drl1t OF
flower scented air that makes the place
a heaven TO the Iit-le people Of the
tenement.
some OF the girls in the present
partv at Beneway have been there IN
former wears. When IL was suggested
10 them earlier in the season that they
mi~ht 20 away TO another place at
once one of them asked: "Cn we 90 10
Beneway if we wait ?' They knew
nothing of the other place, but they
did know Bencway; so they waited IN
iii the end Of the summer for the
chance 20 60 back TO the Claverack
home.
Perhaps one Of them let out the
secret Of their preference when she
wrote home the other day. Said she,
There's nothing but parties and par
ties here. We have an awful good
time. We go on hay rides almost every
day. While ! am writing this ! am
eating a CRATE big, red apple Don't
you wish you was me-
Wouldn't you, kind reader, like 10
become d partner in AN enterprise for
making little tenement children as
happy as these seem TO have been at
Beneway? 1t Is not too late yet.
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