New-York tribune., 1922-09-06
The Tribune Fresh Air Fund
everybody Who Sees the Vacation Riddles Wants to
10 something for Them; Then Things Hap.
pen to Make the Youngsters Happy

Everybody we'll, almost everybody
who sees Fresh Airs in action wants
to do something for them.
Poor little dears!'' say the ladies.
and in the next breath. rOh, I'd like
to DO something for them!" And they
do something.
Poor kids say the men to them
selves, and then aloud, "Here. take
this and buy something for 'emn
A few days ago seventy-five Fresh
Alrs' were travelling home from yaca-
tons IN Putnam, Conn. Through some
slip their special car was not on the
train at Putnam and the children had
70 crowd in with the regular passen
gers. FRIENDSHIPS between the "regu-
lars" and the Fresh Airs" were in the
making at once. Then the conductor
passed the word that the special car
would be attached to the train at Will
limantic.
ice Cream on Hot Day
Al the next stop after this announce
ment one of the friendly regulars
dropped Off the train and ran for the
telegraph office, just managing to get
ABOARD again as the train pulled out.
Result-when the special car was an
tered at Willimantic it was found to
be already occupied. Nestlin.. cozily
IN one corner of it stood fire.: zer full
OF pflcks or ice cream. 1t was one of
those hottest days, too.
Inc lady who sent the; telegram put
the keystone in the arches of seventy
five friendships that day.
But not all the something's done
are so meltingly ephemeral as the
freezer of ice cream. Look below in
the list of contributions received yes
terdaay and you'll find one that spells
comfort for Fresh Airs" for years to
come. There's no need to tell you how
pad the mosquitoes have been this
Give Mosquito Screens
They were just as bad at South
Shore Holiday House, out at Amity-
vile, L.. l., as they were where YOU
fought them. And Holiday House has
since June 80 last. Long before the
first 200 arrived sonle of the ladies
OF Amityville said to the Fund:
You'll need to have screens for
that building" And then, in the next
breath, Maybe we could collect money
enough among the Amityville friends
of Fresh Airs to pay for them for
you--if you'd like to have u.s."
The Fund replied that it would
and they did.
But that's not all they did for the
girls Of Holiday House, Every time
200 girls arrived at the Amityville
station on their way to their, vaca-
tions, there were Amityville's finest
motors waiting to speed them down to
the tip of Viewpoint, where stands the
Funds finest vacation home. And
every time 200 girls had their bags
packed for the homcward trip, there
were those same motors ready to
whisk them away to the station.
Gave Things All the Time.
For Sunday dinner there was always
ice cream for dessert, from the same
kindly source. For between times de-
lectation, too, there was every once
in a while lollipops for ali hands
round and other things of that sort.
And for any time and all the time
the same folks gave for the children
a playground slide and fine lawn
swing.
Something of the same sort hap
pened again-it happens almost every
year--this year at Eunice Home, down
near Atlantic Highlands. Nearly two
weeks ago the Fund decided that it
had not enough money to send another
hundred little mothers" there for va
cations. a group of ladies who sum-