New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-08-09
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Growing Christmas Trees, the S'Ba-a-a'' of Little
Lambie', and Swimming Ducklings Thrill Chill
dren From New York's Tenement Houses

we have been playing ball to-day in
Greenfield, Mass.
We saw little blue Christmas
tree.
I'VE saw big Christmas trees and
apple trees.
We made picture book.
=, we saw dog named Roxy. If you
throw stick he will bring it back.
We saw little lambie. If you go
by him he says 'ba-a-a.'
And we saw two piggy-wees.
And some chickens and duckling
that swims all around"
These are the wonders of Fresh Air
land as described by Albert and John
in letter to their mother. Maybe you
never realized that there Is thrill in
seeing Christmas tree growing, in
the "ba-a-a" of "lambie," in glimpse
OF two ""piggy-wees," in the discovery
that a duckling can swim. If so, it's
because you were not born and brought
up in tenement street where such
sights and sounds do not flourish.
John and Albert were. This is their
first trip out of the city, away from
East Twenty-ninth Street.
Boys Work to Help Others
And you ought to know who turned
the key of the door to the country for
these boys and how they did it. r.
was two other boys, who are summer
ing up at Northeast Harbor, Me. >The.r
mother tells about it:
Enclosed is a check for S14, the
money raised by my two boys. William
Strange and Bruton Strange, who are
fishing and selling all they can catch
to raise what they can to send as
many little children away from the hot
city to enjoy what means so much to
them--the Country. They will keep on
fishing until they return to school"
May the fish bite we'll in Northeast
Harbor for the rest of the summer!
Four girls plus three girls equals
happy days. That's an equation
It's proved this way:
eve are club of four little coun-
try girls and are much interested in
your sending children to the country,
so we are inclosng check for $40,
the proceeds of a sale of ice cream,
cake, candy and fancy articles which
we made.
Next year we hope to send more,
for this is our first attempt. Yours
truly, "THE DINGLE CLUB,
May, Margaret, Jane and Ruth
O'Connor."
These are the -four; here are the
"plus three:
Are Sorry to Go Home
Dear Hortie: We are having love-
ly time here in the country. We go
wading in the morning and swimming
in the afternoon. We have good eats
and everything. And a sliding pond
and seesaws to play on. We are sorry
that in six more days we are going
home, because we have very good
time when we stay here. We just play
all day. And we have beds all to our
selves, and we have a towel each.
When we got off the train we had a
swell automobile ride. We go picking
flowers and blackberries. The teachers
are very kind to us. We have to hurry
now; it is time to go bathing.
"ANNIE, JOSIE and GRACE"
The four earned the money; their
three sisters got the happy days
three times fourteen of them.
Are you a grown-up? Are these lit
tie children, fishing and selling the
products of their hands, doing more
for the children of New York's terrible
tenements than you have done yet
You know, you must know, more of
the misery that life may hold than
these little givers to the Fund. You
ought to do more than they, not less.
Doesn't this idea of making poor chill
dren happy appeal to you? Of course
it does. Haven't you few spare dol
lars? Then send them on to The Trib~
une Fund so that it can keep on send
ing out hundreds of boys and girls