The New York herald., 1921-11-15
SEEING THE WORLD
ON ONE CENT EASY
Two Little Girls Found Trans
portation Scandalously High,
so They Didn't Pay.
LODGING NOT A PROBLEM
Lost Little Ones Picked Up
Asleep by Big Policeman and
Then All Was Well.

Natalka Nesta who is Az years old.
and her best friend, Mary DoneIa, who
is 6, live at 1874 Ridge street and al
though that is in the heart OF the lower
East Side and most persons find the
neighborhood sufficiently exciting Ma
talka and Mary have often conspired to
so out and see the world together as
soon as either of them came into the
possession Of one cent, the necessary cap
ital If one is to do much travelling.
As the fathers of both OF them have
been out of work for long time, It
wasn't SO easy to accumulate the cent,
but on Sunday afternoon when the chill
dren were walking home from the pa
rochial school Of the Church of Our
Lady of Sorrows Natalka Nesta told
her churll that she had it. She had
found the coin on the curb of the side
walk in East Houston street, and as it
was near no pushcart or stand where
the Yiddish papers are sold II surely be-
longcd to the finder. However, as both
little girls had been well reared in their
faith the question arose in their minds
as to whether they should not go to the
church and put the cent in the poor box
This was decided in the negative, as the
always with us, while only once in a
lifetime could one have the opportunity
of thoroughly exploring New York city.
SO after supper, while they were play
ing outside their tenement house, they
managed TO play farther and farther
away until they were quite out of call
from Ridge street and were, indeed, as
far south as Delancey street. A street
car came along and as it promised TO
take them quite way into the unknown
they boarded without looking at the sign
The conductor asked for the fare. Ma
talka Nesta produced her one cent piece
The conductor broke the stunning news
that a dime was required. He was about
to pull the cord and put them OFT when
something in the faces Of the children
caused him to ask them where they lived
!. They pointed eagerly in the direction
the car was moving and said, over
that way The conductor pretended to
scovl but let them stay on. Pretty soon
the car was crossing bridge over q
river about hundred miles wide, will,
millions OF lights on either shore re-
flected in the water. Then it came to
streets and houses again, and in a street
/ where there seemed to be plenty of chill
dren to play with. Natalka Nesta and
Mary Donela slipped quietly Off when
the conductor was looking the other way
! and the car went on without them. They
asked somebody where they were and
learned that il was Williamsburg. and
| of course, it was fine to know that thei,
exploration had been so successful thai
! they had passed clear through the great
! city OF New York and had come TO quite
another city.
The only trouble was that In q slior
time the children OF this new city dis
appeared and went to bed. This phe
nomenon. unknown to Ridge street, con
tinued until Natalka and Mary were thu
only minors left. There remained slol
windows to inspect but soon the light!
in these went out. and then the pilgrim!
from Manhattan felt lonely indeed.
At 1 o'clock yesterday morning plair
clothes policeman from the TIerber
street station found two little girls
asleep in the doorway OF bakery a
LEONARD and Devoe streets. Williams
burg. Brooklyn, with their arms
wrapped so tightly around each othe,
that they were lifeed into police cal
| Just as they were and carried off TO the
home Of the Cfildrens Society in Scher-
nerhorn street. They never woke UP te
| tell who they were until nearly noon
! They were fed and then they played ir
a truly wonderful nursery until theft
exceedingly puzzled Polish fathers came
| to take them home. The mature Mary
! Donela was able TO offer a fairly ade-
uuate narrative. but oil that Natalka
! Nesta could tell her mother when thai
rejoicing woman drew her close was
that she had been TO @ place where there
was a wooden horse and they gave her
a bowl Of soup.