New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1917-08-04
| EQUAL SWIMMAGE !
At CHILDREN'S HON
Boys Go to Pond and You1
Ladies in the Tubs

In hot weather boys can go
swimming as much as they like, b.
girls have to stay home and paddle
the bathtub", explained one little u
at the Children's Home. disdainfu
citing one more limitation imposed
the weaker sex. The girls toss the
heads and say they don't care. but
boys know better!- Morning and
ternoon during the hot days OF Il
week, every boy has made bee III
for the pond. New Britain may be
dry town so far as swimming faci
ties go, but trust the boys to ind
swimming hole omeWhere!
Most of the lads OF the Home h4l
learned to swim like ducks, and
older boys are training the young
ones in all sorts of fancy stunts
swimming and diving. With the me-
curry lowering around the hundrS
mark garden work in the hot sun "
out of the question. and the one i'd |
in every boys head was to make (
the water. and submerge like su
marine as long as possible. Nothi4
but meal-time affected this schedul.
the matrons found that unerring y
stinct brought every last boy I'M
sight when the dinner bell rang.
At the Babies House on Arch stre
the little tots have been giving a ne
limitation of a flock of cunning KEY
pies of late. Luckily there are wiz
verandas on this house so that II
babies could play happily out Of ram
Of the sun. During the hot stu4
nights when it was hard for the CHI |
dren to sleep indoors in their lit4
olihc fho1- - clann Z
springbeds vigorously arranged
the back verandas.
A fine raspberry patch at Rackli4
Heights is yielding quantities of blacI
red and white berries at preseI|
There are enough so that all II
houses can be supplied and still hal
enough left over to make raspbcrI
jam. The little ones are all vel
proud to do their Bit this year
lending a hand in the canning proceA
though jam making has always hi
strong attractions for them anywa|
Next year there may be strawber1
i jam too for a friend of the home WI
lives in Meriden has. offered the Dol
five hundred strawberry plants to q
out soon, and they have fine sp|
| picked out for the bed.
A new little black calf has arrivt
at the Heights. and has been proper
christened Nellie so that her nan
can be painstakingly printed on
card and tackled over her stall pref
soon. Nellie is a prime favorite Wi
! the children, who go out and sit vi
der the tree with her so that she w
not get lonesome. The Childreu
Home cows are sleek and we'll carr
for by the older boys. Perhaps 1t
having so much milk to drink TIL
makes the children's faces SO Smoo,
and plump.
A miniature Plattsburgh trainir
camp is perched on the very SUNNI
| of Rackliffe Heights. 1t consists OF 81
! tents carefully constructed out of ol
quilts, burlap and what not. A bree1
is warranted to sweep across the cam
when 1t can not be found anywhel
else. The fellow with the biggei
tent is always general. It is a gran
place to fly kites too; according to th
boys.
If the embryo soldiers have an ey
for beauty they can take an al
around view from their camp as sight
ly as Walnut Hill Park affords, Brists
Pennington, Hartford capitol, the riy
er valley down as far as Cromwell
Berlin church spire, Meriden peak an
the Southington hills form the outs
boundaries, and a, fine outlook Of til
city itself lies nearer. AT night til
city lights show up most companion
ably. and the boys feel sorry for PEG
pie that cannot take in q view Xix
that by moonlight.