New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-17
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Real Beds, Milk, Oatmeal and Lots and Lots of Fun
Draw Appreciaiive Letters From City Tots
i'm Vacation Land

20 you outh to sec the beds we
sleep ini"
That isn't the first and almost the
only thing you'd put In the letter you
were writing 10 your best friend right
after arriving az your vacation place.
[ b. ~ But. then. you aren't a Fresh
Air" and sou don't have 20 sleep, when
I you are nj home. on a thin mattress
spread on the floor.
Neither do the Fresh Airs" do
you say
No. not an o. them, thank goodness
But few days ago D worker went INTO
q fourth floor back" tenement 20 col
lcct three girls whom she was to send
OF for a Tribune Fund vacation.
where are the kiddies?' she asked
the mother.
They're in here on the bed. I'm
keeping EN- clean" replied the mother.
opening the door Of an inner room
And there the worker saw them,
three little spiek-and-span girls seated
together on q mattress laid on the floor
IN the corner Of a gloomy room.
81 got them all cleaned up and ! das-
sent let them out for fear they'd get
dirty and you wouldn't let them 90"
the mother explained further as the
youngsters grasped their little bundles
Of clothes and came out at the nod OF
the worker.
Sleeping on Real Beds
The three are In the country now.
sleeping on real beds. but they had
nothing TO do with the letter from
which the quotation is taken. That
was written By Mothers Dear child
grace whose experience with beds. Il
might seem, was somewhat similar
Here's what she had 20 say:
Dear Mother; I am having nice
time o you outh 20 see tho beds we
sleep in from Mothers Dear child
grace
Grace is at the Funds South Shore
Holiday House 40 Amityville, l.. /. So
are Ruth and Betty. and II their ex-
pcrience with beds isn't bad they. at
least, feel that the bedrooms az home
might be better They, too. wrote home
20 mother about 10 an:
"Dew Parents: feel happy and so
does Betty. Il is wonderful out here.
We first went with the car and again
with the car and then with the train.
We also have gone on an automobile.
We eat milk, baked beans and also
have oat meal. / am very sorry you
are not out here, as you see We have
fresh air in the bedroom. The beach
Is toward the house. We 90 90 bed at
/ Z p. m. and get up a. $3.50 az morning.
Betty feels fine and so am !. We cat
everything they give US.
No more % write at present. en-
close my letter with best OF health
and Regards 20 all az home. Best
Z kisses xxxSx
Your two daughters,
ruth & BETTY"
Even Milly, who cries sometimes APP
I parently, is happy az South Shore Hol-
iday House. for Frances writes 20
mother:
Dear Mother: Il is very nice here
and ! am enjoying the beautiful fresh
air and ! love IL very much. M!lly is
not crying. Please right to mo soon.
Your loving FRANCES"
2,lOO Are Now Out
So run the reports from Fresh Air
Land. There are about 2,400 boys and
girls out In that glorious region as
about beds and fresh air In bedrooms
and a thousand other things. So far
not one Of them has made a complaint
/ that has come 20 the Funds ears.
Sometimes the benefit the children
get ard write about carries over 10
other people. A mother whose chill
I drcn are In Saratoga Springs wrote a
l letter 20 the worker who brought the
children TO the Fund last Friday, and
the worker passed IL along. IL ought
20 be passed on one step further 20
you:
This morning I received letter
/ from the lady where the children are,
and she says she is moro than happy
over them, as she has no children Of
/ her own, and she says that they just
crept into her heart and that they have
lovely place to play, so you see that
makes nc feel good also. / am thank
ful TO you for going through the trou-
| bic Of sending them away, especially
on these hot days"
Five folks made happy-three chill
dren, their mother and the host into
whose heart the children erept.
Only eighty-two youngsters 90 out
10 happiness to-day, but tomorrow
more than 500 hit the trail 70 the coun-
| try, the largest number for single
day so far this summer. There are
still bigger days than tomorrow in the
I T..