New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1922-07-24

" runway sun is ADVISING lts
readers to take the children TO the 400"
these daylight saving days to see the
animals---the lions, tigers, elephants,
fiamingoes and cockatoos.
Good advice, too.
But seen from one point Of view it
suggests the thing that gave rise TO
the "See America First campaign.
Thousands of people 20 abroad to see
the beauties of the Alps who have
never seen the glories of the Rockies.
Thousands more leave to sail up the
Nile who have never looked upon the
beauties of the Hudson.
thousands of boys and girls in New
York City, within nickel's ride of the
lions and tigers Of the jungle, the
camels of the desert, the brilliant birds
of Brazil or the South Sea islands. but
separated by the whole width of pow
erty from sight of cows in the native
pastures, chickens in the barnyard or
robins in the apple trees.
These are the Tribune Fresh Air
Funds children, the little lads and
lassies born within tenement wallis
brought up in tenement streets, long
way from all the sights and sounds of
nature. In their streets even the loWly
earthworm finds no place to bore This
hole. story about that:
"Woims" Create Excitement
One of this summers FREQUENT show.
ers came on just after a crowd of bows
arrived at one Of the Funds camps,
After 1T had passed the lads rushed
out to explore. Soon a group of half
dozen six-year- olds was seen tn hs
wildly excited-just that-over some
thing on the ground. The cause Of the
excitement proved to be one of those
lowly earthworms.
What is it, mstcr?" one of them
eagerly inquired.
before"
Then another chuckled, "oi, locke
i'm wiggle."
And after he had watched aim
wiggle' for a moment he turned un a a
puzzled face TO inquire, Mister, is
woims got feet?"
Figs is pigs, but did you ever hear
tell of a "hog-pig"? A little ladv
Fresh Air" wrote home to her moth or
about some in this fashion: "O-oh
mother, we got hog-pgs here. We got
four, only we ate one, so now there's
| only three left"
Not vastly important in themselves
are they, these "woims" and disappear.
ing hog pigs" though growing kids
ought to know about them. But take
them as indications of the poverty OF
life-not financial poverty this time
amid which these Fresh Air lads and
lassles grow up and they are signj6.
cant.
The country and all its parts are a
marvel to the youngsters.
81 help to feed the chickens and
milk the cows" Is the exultant crv that
comes home each summer from thou
sand lads who get Tribune Fund vaca.
lions on farms. 1--WE got forty chickens
and dog and ten ducks and two
horses," or something like that, is the
paean OF the country as sung by the
girls hundreds learn for the first time
when they get to the country that milk
isn't made in factory. That sounds
like an exaggeration, but it ia the
truth.
1904 Riddles Now in Country
But there were 3.5o4 boys and girls
IN the country yesterday as the Trib
une Funds guests seeing the domestic
menagerie, listening to the hens cackle
OF success, the cows low of content.
ment, the robins song Of delight. They
nave seen the wonders of the home
! land and now are ready for the sub
| way ride "The Sun" advises.
Some Of the 1904 have completed
this part of their education and are due
to return to their city homes to-day
While they are coming back, however
$50 will be leaving to take their places
Two hundred and twenty-four more
will follow tomorrow.
Of to-day's number $50 will be col
ored boys from Harlem, the West Six
ties and Brooklyn, who are being sent
t. the Shepherd Knapp Farm at Itch
field, Conn. Another $50 60 to Ash
ford Hill, at Ardsley, N. Y, the camp