New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-24
New Style of Outings Wins
Approval of the
Children.
$50 TASTE JOYS
OF THE SEASIDE
Ice Cream and Bathing
Suits Supplied for
Entire Party.

Those inveterate vacationers, john
ME and Susie Fresh Air, bobbed up IN
a new place yesterday and the day be-
fore. Being residents Of New York and
used to sea air, they usually pick out
inland vacation places. Just now, how
ever, the country will have none Of
them; so, day before yesterday. they
turned UP at Rockaway Beach.
Unused though they were to sum-
mering on the coast, they didn't need
to have the advantages of beaches ex-
planned to them. Susie hadn't more
than seen the crest of the first breaker
when she piped up:
"O-o-o-h, teacher, en- we go in swim
ming?'
Bathing Suits Provided.
But, even though Johnnie rushed to
support her in the request instantly,
her face fell as soon as she had made
it. Johnnie, we amt got any bathin'
SUITS" she walled.
But Susie's maid, or somebody, had
builded better than the disappointed
young lady knew, for teacher" assured
her that bathing suits had been pro-
vided for her and Johnnie. Before
Susie got hers on, however, she had
one more qualm. Teacher" had Just
unpackcd a bundle and tossed a suit
to Johnnie. This the lad Immediately
held up in front of him in order to
Judge of its fit. Susie took look at
the garment thus displayed and then
sided over and whispered in teach
er's" ear:
"Oh, teacher, amt mine got any
skoits?"
Teacher" was not sure, and Susie
had to wait in great trepidation until
the suit had been dug out Of the bum
die. Then her bushes died away as
she chirped, ooh, yes, it's got EN-;
nice ones"
Children Go Swimming"
Neither the boy nor the girl needed
much more than the bathing suit and
the ocean to make the vacation a per-
feet one. They dug holes in the sand
and buried one another, looked for
shells, ran races on the beach and did
other things by turns, but most Of the
time they were padding in the edge
of the surf, splashing one another, or
rushing up the beach with screams OF
delight as a bigger wave than usual
threatened TO overtake and engult
them.
Asked how she enjoyed the Swim
ming" Susie rolled her eyes heaven
ward and put her whole soul into the
one word "Gra-a-and!"
Both Johnnie and Susie had a thrill
on their first trip down to the beach
on Tuesday when they found that the
railroad tracks over which they were
travelling ran right out over the
ocean" TO get to the beach. Johnnie
had another, and possibly a greater
one. yesterday when he discovered
that there was ice cream "again!" for
lunch.
Experiment Success.
And little Mary Fresh Air, who was
there, too, said, naively, as she licked
her spoon after the second days ice
cream, "Im goner come tomorrow,
tool"
This is how Johnnie. Susie and Mary
and 147 of their brothers, sisters and
more distant relations put the seal Of
their approval on the Tribune Fresh
Air Funds experiment in day outings
given in series. Apparently the chill
dren liked their first day at the beach,
and also their second, and last night,
as they travelled homeward, not one
could be found in the party who was
not already counting on to-day's out
ing.
II the weather permits, the same
children will be sent to Rockaway to-
day and tomorrow. On Monday new
groups of boys and girls will be sent
out.
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