Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-09-10
The Once Over
THE vAcATIoNIsTs' RELIEF FUND
BY ~. 4 PHIILIp8

IhE VACAIlUNlSI6 RELIEF FUND
With summer on its last lap. this department L
pleased 10 announce that the Fund for the relief n
Summer vacationists Is continuing 10 do splendid
work, which wiz 60 on until well into September.
More summer vacations were rescued last week ind
returned TO their own homes than during any other
week in the funds history. They we're all suffering
badly from a corn-on-the-cob diet. You know how il is
Ut summer hotels he last two weeks In August
corn-on-the-cob for breakfast. lunch and dinner.
And pretty terrible corn, tool
One Of the summer vacations saved .ast week was
. Miss K. whose case was typical Ofthousands.
She picked a summer hotel through one Of those
circulars. It looked like a smart. up 20 date hotel
in the picture, but when she got there she found It o
merger Of IN abandoned homestead, a quick lunch
con and a storage warehouse, combining the worst
features Of each. Miss x had q bathroom In
which the water-pressure was 20 inadequate that Il
took her sj hours to fill the tub. she had 10 Let
Up In the middle Of the night in order to get water
enough to take q morning bath The following Efter-
noon, and the worry and strain just about killed her.
A Vacationists' Relief Fund scout found her n the
aick Of time and today. back in her own apartment
with modern plumbing. she Is a new woman
$50
Then there is the case of Mrs. B, q mother
who went to the shore with her three little children
and was run down and trampled on by athletic
young men tossing the medicine-ball. She was
rushed to the first aid tent whehe the crowd In It's
stampede to see what was going on. pushed over the
tent and trampled her again. When she was rescued
a second time the life-guards assembled FOR their
first aid work, but promptly lost interest in her when
they saw that she was over Is years Of age and not
very pretty. A Vacationists' Relief Fund agent ies-
cued this mother, but the three children as yet TO
be located. Remember that $50 will find these three
Riddles, or their equivalent.
The following is a letter from a thankful vacation
st, which will chow what the fund means to suffers
&C vacation resorts:
Dear tir:
I happened to pick one Of those mountain resorts
where there is nothing TO do but
l. Play lawn rroQuet.
2. Be a fourth at bridge.
3. Go fishing.
I don't like bridge and never went In much Tor
croquet. l had to 60 fishing. You know what those
lakes near summer resorts are: leaky boats, bum oars
and a four-inch perch every whitsunday.
Just as I was about to end it all, one Of your relief
agents saved me. Il. T. r.
Have YOU helped YETI Remember that S. will be suf-
ficient to save one adult or two children. During the
remainder Of the season. in fact. six adults can be
saved for SIS. Do your bit today.
s
THE FUND STANDING
CThe management regrets to announce that the fig
ures just blew away. They will be announced. II found.
in an early ssue)
BACK HOMES
Vacations DER and ! am back
Amid the towns congestion
With color. freckles. grand new girl
And chronic indigestion.
I've stood the summer hotel food,
Survived the owners shakedovn;
I'm full OF vigor. full Of vim
And ready for a breakdown
The ocean air has done me good.
From August to September;
And I'll plunge into work again
But not before December.