The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-08-24
LEAVE TODAY FOR
NEW YORK HOMES
First Group of Fresh Air
Children to Arrive
Came Early
REGRET REPLACES
HOMESICKNESS
One Little Girl Wrote Mother She Was
Dying. but Telegram Soon Established
the Reason Children Laden with
MANY Gifts

The first contingent of fresh air chill
dren to arrive at the station today spre-
paratory to the return of Brattleboro's 8
quota of Sc to their homes in New York
city comprised seven children out of IA
who have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Fish of Halifax. Two auto trips
were necessary to bring the children to
the station, the first group arriving at
7.50. All the children in the group re-
gretted that the time had come when they
must return, and when awakened early
this morning one little girl began sobbing
and said she wanted to stay several days
longer
Mrs. Fish, who accompanied the first
group, said she had been up all night,
pressing and ironing the children's clothes
and getting things ready for the return
trip, and this morning the children all
looked spic and span dressed in their
freshly laundered clothes. and their faces
beamed with delight over the wonderful
two weeks which they spent in the Yer
mont hills,
One little girl, Carmela Baione, was
asked if she had good things TO eat DUR
IHS neT stay on IHp IaFH1 anu SHe
answered. Oatmeal. Oh, boy, it was so
good y She said that in New York she
had coffee and cakes for breakfast and
never had any oatmeal. This little girl
was one of the most lonesome during the
first two days at the Fish farm, and she
missed her mother to such an extent that
without the knowledge of Mrs Fish she
wrote home saying she was dying. tele-
gram was received by her benefactor a
day or two later, inquiring if the child
was really i'll, and Mrs. Fish lost no time
in informing the home in New York that
1t was simply case of pure lonesome
ness.
Mrs. Fish said that the IA children on
her farm got along splendidly during
their vacation. Due to the fresh yege-
tables and all-round good eats which the
children had, they gained from three to
eight pounds each. At first they were
afraid 10 go TO sleep at night, the rustling
of the leaves on the trees causing them
to believe that ghosts and hobgoblins were
peeking in at them through the windows.
so most of them slept three in bed. the
one in the middle feeling the most secure
from the terrors of the spectral atmos-
phere.
Before leaving Halifax this morning,
each of the II children was presented
a gift of a pin or a handkerchief by Mrs.
lima Learned, a next-door neighbor, and
yesterday afternoon she gave each child
a bag of apples to be Nken home to New
York. Mrs. Fish said the children pre-
sented an exceedingly humorous spec
| tacle as they came trudging down the
road from the Learned farm, carrying
huge -four bags filled with apples, some
of the bags being larger than the chill
| dren who We're conveying them. each
| child hanging on To a bag for dear life
| lest the apples be lost
Before dei~lrting on the train each
! child was given a generous box of lunch
containing many choice fidbits of the
| farm, which will remind them for the
| last time of the wonderful vacation which
| they spent in Vermont.
| Mrs. Fish said this morning that. il
opportunity affords she hopes to enter
tain as many children next year, and il
| possible she wants to be the benefactoi
for these same children next time