New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-08-16
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Fred Stone Entertains ssFresh Airs''
at Bethany Home

TRUTH" '' '" Z" 'ne
Good times? What makes sum-
mertime paradise for children? Could
things? "a s"s0e
A bathing beach!
That's all right to begin with. but
what good is bathing beach without
a bathing suit? Well, there's a suit
Tor every one of the $50 at Bethany
And what good is a sandy beach
without a pail and shovel? Bethany
home has pals and shovels aplentv.
some one-too modest to let his name
De known-motored down to the home
one day., saw the sand, saw the chill
dren, and-presto! Next day two ca SEES
OF pals and shovels arrived from a
city department store.
Many Godmothers Appear
Even in summertime paradise
sometimes it's too hot in the sun and
sometimes it rains. For shade and
shelter. what about great cool porch
hundred and fifty or so feet long
and fifteen feet wide, looking out over
the Great South Bay four or Ave rods
away?
But even great porch might grow
dreary if there was nothing to do
but look at the water and chew ones
finger nails. Thered have to be toys.
Don't worry. Paradise, of course, is
full of godm and godfathers
Two or three of them visit Bethany
Home every day and they always leave
something behind.
godmoth by the name Of Mrs.
Fred Stone left whole case Of toys
behind her. on one of her visits. Others
have done the same. So, for rainy
days, there's ring toss, lotto, bean
triangles, Cinderella, spelling boards,
kiddie kars, drums, rolling ducks,
steeplechase, tennis balls, indoor balls,
basket balls, dolls, etc, etc, ad almost
infinitum.
1t wouldn't be paradise either if one
had to sit on the beach all day, watch
ing the motorboats and the sailboats
go gliding by and never q one stopping
to give a teller" a ride. But they
don't all glide by. Some stop to load
up with Bethanyites and carry them
beach One of the many fairy god
mothers who lives in Amityville and
helps to make paradise pleasanter-one
of these many has established q sched-
ule of motorboat rides for Bethanyites
for every day this week.
And one BIG day this week. too, the
fairy godmothers are planning to sail
the whole 100 girls across the bay
for picnic near the life-saving sta
ton.
Should one expect ice cream in para
disc in summer? One gets it anyway.
The godfathers see to that. Yesterday
Fred Stone was ice cream godfather
to the whole $50; week ago E. NJ.
"a 80, L.
over the role. Nor is there ever a
permission to play the part.
Paradise Has Features"
The fact is there are more sorts of
godmothers and godfathers soiourn-
ing permanently or temporarily in
Amityville than one could shake a
stick aft that were the proper way
to treat such personages. There are
those that send lollipops by boxes
full, those that send oranges by the
crate, those that send vegetables by
the bushel basket and those that send
practically everything that makes
paradise paradise.
The fairy godmothers, led by Mrs.
R. G. Mcmahon and Mrs. Daniel
Whittlesey, have organized a motor
u hiSPoII corps 10 carry tHe llCLle
cripples and the other guests of
ton on their arrival and Departure
Nowadays even paradise has to have
its features" and Saturday was feat
ure" day at Bethany sure enough. If
you'd been there and seen the program
for the show which was in progress
you might have thought for a minute
that you'd scared by accident to that
really, truly hereafter paradise which
every one hopes to get to some time,
for you'd have seen the two magic
names of Montgomery and Stone linked
together once more.
Although it wasn't lovable old Dave
who was performing. it was Fred Stone
in the tiesh--cowboy suit, lariat and
Dorothy, Carol and Paula, and Vir-
partner, he had come from his summer
home just across the river to make the
kiddies happier for an afternoon.
Did they like his songs and jokes and
dances, his lariat tricks and all? Did
they love the songs and dances Of his
little daughters and Little Virginia :?
Did they? Have you ever been at q
matinee and seen house full OF
youngsters laugh and shout at his low
able fun making! -.
Then you know how the "Fresh Airs"
took to him.
But he wasn't Erred" Stone to them:
No, sir; they spoke Of him IN hushed
voices as Mr.. Stone. And when the
program was over one of the young
sters asked her teacher" In awestruck
tones, "Are them real people,
When you know that "Mr' Stone
Cancelled a rehearsal of his new show
to be there and that he's planning to
Be there again, you'll say They're
real people, we'll enough"
Do YOU believe Bethany Home is
paradise to the Fresh Airs" who
spend fortnights there? Could such
place be anything else to little. folks
who'ye never seen the country before
when al the neighbors spare them
selves no effort to make 1t that!
Contributions to The Tribune Fresh
Air Fund:
Previously acknowledged ......$S1'oSs' 81 .
P I. Disbursements A4'oO
William Willcocks .....''''' 1'Oo
May H. Lewis. 1oo
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Julia H. Scofeld f.oo
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