Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-07-18

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Only two lost weight during the
first two weeks. Marie Correa and
Mary Rea were the unlucky ones.
They were sick because they ate too
much good food" said Rath.
The large, screened dining room
overlooking the sea is the most popu'
lar place; for there is music, dancing
and games, but most of all the eats
and no one is late for dinner
2 Butter and milk are on ice every
day; vegetables and. meats come fresh
from town and fruit is plentiful. The
daily menu shows beef stew and pot
roast. salmon, minced meats, steaks
and hamburger, round steaks and lomi
lomi, carrots, potatoes, pei, leek,
sweet tomatoes, cabbage, beets, onions
and beans, and such delicacies as Jelly
and rice, prunes and pineapples, pud.
ding, papaia, water melons and ba-
nanas and tea and milk. ~.~
ME never want to 60. back home,
kankau too good here, said d camp
er to one of the Rath children who
are also spending their vacation In
the country with Mr.. and Mrs. Rath.
Peter Treskin, Happy Peter" he
was called, Objected to leaving the
camp at the two weeks end. Neither
did the camp like to lose Peter, for
he was always full of ;pep," even
though the sun had bored through
his freckies But back home Peter
/ had to 60 to make room for the 9TH
ers. They are all ike Peter, they do
not want to go back to the city.
Mrs. Rath is camp matron and a
popular one, too. chiefly from the
good akaukau." Rath is general sup
erintendent and chief steward, He
does all the buying which must ne.
cessariIy be close as funds for the
fresh air camp are limited There is
also cook and a camp tender.
In round numbers the expense Of
the camp, caring for approximately
$50 people in 10 weeks, is $4,000 a
year. The initial expense of clear
ing the land and building was about
$4,000. The five-acre plot is large
enough for a hundred people, but the
annual budget is not There Is no
trouble finding nnfortunates In town
for the two weeks treat, but there
IS, considerable difficulty discovering
enough money to build the additional
structures and buy the food.
1t is not the chief purpose, how.
ever, of this short resume to solicit
funds Whether the individual sub
eribes or not, the fresh air camp
continues The $4,000 endowment to
Palama Settlement made this week
by B. F. Dillingham;, stfes the fresh
air camp firm foundation of $4,000.
But every cent received from private
and Individual sources increases the
camps scope proportionately and a
small donation Of So or $40 means
one more town-sick woman or child
can go to the country.
. Follow the kids through their two
weeks at the camp; see them eat their
I'll; watch them at their teeter-totters
and swings; or piaying on the beach
with storesnew toys, also furnished
by the Settlement, and see them look
back regretfuliy at the camp and the
happy days spent there as they scram.
bic aboard the train and hike back
home. Then possibly one will think
as Rath does when he says:
There is really little bit of heav.
en- for those women and children, and
il 1t does nothing else, it lifts them
up bodily from the cramped life they
have always seen and gives them such
complete change for two weeks
that they take a new hold on liv.
ing -
The success of the camp could we'll
be told in the one simple expression
of Russian woman who was anxious
to go back with her children to the
toiling spouse, who met his family at
the Honolulu depot with happy smile
and a new light in his eyes. She
said to Rath when, he asked her if
she wanted to so back: 1900.
Il like to go see my man for little
while. Bympy come back" IS.
Yes. "bynnby come back" that is
what they all think and even if those
mothers and kids cannot spend all
g1,ra Rxes. fsranulated RyeII0s, KYes