The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1921-07-19
HOMES WANTED FOR
FRESH AIR CHILDREN
Generous Bennington People Are Ask
ed to Help Entertain Children
From City.

An appeal has come to Bennington
to help in the work being done by the
New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
For IA years the Tribune has been
raising funds to provide vacations for
children from the tenement districts
OF New York, They have during
that time sent 3670Sl children to the
country at an expense OF s1,319.726.
Children from the tenement dis
tricts OF New York and Brooklyn are
given outings Of two weeks duration
in the country.
The ages of the children are from 5
to II years.
They are recommended to The Tri-
bune Fresh Air Fund by many health
department nurses, settlement work
ers. clergymen, missionaries. school
teachers. probation officers, visitors
for welfare organizations and others
who know the childen of the poor
by personal contact
The Fund pays the railroad fares.
The hosts are asked to give board
and care for two weeks. An escort is
provided for the trip to the place of
entertainment, as we'll as on the re-
turn of the children to New York.
Hosts are not asked to pay any emer'
gency expense although very often
they do pay such bills.
To secure admission TO a Fresh Air
party three re ! irements must be
guaranteed. First, manifest need;
second, cleanliness on the day the
child leaves for the country; third,
freedom. from communicable disease,
The day before a child leaves for
the country a thorough medical eX.
animation is given. If child passes
tAe examination il must also be
shown that the tenement house where
the child lives has been free from
communicable disease for two weeks
preceding. II there has been any
case of communicable disease within
that period the child is not allowed to
so with the party.
The Fund has no religious atfilia.
tons or preferenCI 1t aims to be
absolutely non.sectarian In its inten.
tions and in its active work. 1t cares
for children of every race and creed,
1t is the aim to send out l3,000
children during the preset season
About G.OO0 can be cared for in The
Funds 10 camps and farms in the
real country OF Now York. New Jer'
sey, Connecticut and Massachusetts
Homes in tho country must be open
ed for 1000 more or the goal win not
be reached.
To many a little prisoner of the
tencments whose only playground is
the street. visit to ths country has
been the first incentive to better
ways OF living
Those who are accustomed to broad
fields, wild flowers, feathered song
sters, the glorioue sunset and beauti
ful moonlight can hardly imagine tht
thoughts and feelings of the child who
sees them for the first time.
Unless one has had occasion t
observe personally the change
wrought In a child who spends tive
weeks in these new surroundings, The
transformation would seem almos
unbelievable. The results are marked
not only in added weight and physica
strength but In the changed express
ion on the face of the child to whom
the country has brought new vision
Any one in bennington who is will
ing to take one or more of these chill
dren for two weeks in August 1
asked to notify Mrs. Frank Il. Howe
Children are being sent into nearl,
every county in Vermont and Bennin
ton should have It's share in thi
splendid work.