Life — August 17, 1893 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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102 OUR FRESH Previously acknowledged $3,456.68 Through Larchmont Cir- culating Library For Winiired’s sake... C,H. Murray Gladys and Willie Lang: Through Librar: don Proceeds of a Cake and U.S.A Candy Sale, supple- Daniel S. Wilson. mented by the individ- A. E.. 1 efforts of the follow- ALW.C ing boys and girls: S: Amateur Theatricals,Bell- f Bowers, Kate W. port, LT. iraw, Amelie B. NOH. C., Boston Willard, Ethel P. Bart- lett, Alfred ergu- yL. Ferguson, Harry B. Willard and M. Me- Graw. Leonard" P AIR: FUND. Arthur Jones... Some little folics of Gale: land, Cal... ‘ Seabright, N. J Harrisburg Baith Eldredge Cash, Boston,. Delegates of the sath an- nual convention of the Kinsinett, Beta Theta Pi, held at Cape Breton, Mass... a Wooglin, N.Y : Cash, ‘New Bedford, K.D.H From Lindley. Proceeds of an Ice Cream party given by the chil- dren of the Sunday School of the Church of the Holy Communion, Norw. Mrs. Walter Learned’s Sunday School class, composed of the follow- ing members: Frank Ferry, David Clark, Entertainmeat given by Harry Smith, Oliver the children of Maple- Fengar, Oilo Fen wood Cottage, Maple: Malcolm Scott and Nor- wood, Ne fi Friday man Belcher... Evening, Augie fhe E. J., Baltimore, Md Dorothy Tf... The savings of two iittie children, Edith and Harold Lowney. Sophie A." "Lawrence, rortiand. Ore Harry Hall, New Orleans, ith Sargent Box 3474, New York. Four Friend: D.O. 25.00 $00 $3 950.96 E publish the following article from the Evening News of Danbury, Connecticut, trusting it may interest: some of Lire’s readers. “LIFE'S BRANCHVILLE HOME. THE PLACE WHERE FRESH AIR CHIL- DREN HAVE FUN AND GROW FAT. Lire's home at Branchville is a most pleasant place. A quiet work is being carried on there this summer, the same as last, some two hundred or more fresh air children being en- tertained every two weeks, A complete description of the home has already been given in The News, but since then not a few changes have been made, and all for the better. H. A, Parsons, who managed the home last season, is there again this summer. He takes great interest in the fresh air work, and has been engaged in it for a number of years. He is a most pleasant gen- tleman to meet and the children all like him. Mr. Parsons says that he has received several packages of shoes, books, etc., from Danbury parties, but just who sent them he is unable to find out, as no name accompanied the package. Of course they were very thankfully received, as contributions of this naturealways are, especially picture-books and papers, as on rainy days, when the children are obliged to remain inside, their chief entertainment consists of look- ing over the books and papers. Besides Mr. Parsons, there are eight care-takers and eight servants, Last year 1,200 children were cared for at the home during the season, which is from the last week of June to the second week of September. WHAT IS LEFT OF THY FAMILY. A QUESTION OF SOME IMPORTANCE. Henry (heartsore); SAM, COULD A FELLOW MARRY AN’ WITH STRICK ECONOMY LIVE ON FOUR CENTS A WEEK POCKET MONEY? Each one of these children enjoyed a two weeks vacation at the home, and then going back to the city, a new party would take their place. ‘The children get a more elaborate bill of fare this year than ever before. There are certain days when they have chicken, and, besides the different kinds of meat, they get quite a variety of sweets, such as honey, apple butter, prunes, rice pudding filled with raisins, and many other delicacies. ‘They have bathing suits this year, and there are certain hours each day for the boys and girls to bathe separately, if they care to go into the water. On Saturday each child has a bath with soap. There aretwo hundred children from Brooklyn at the home this week, and they are having a “rip-roaring” good time. Among the party are two little girls who sing in a cute manner, and a boy who places his fingersin his mouth and gives a complete imitation of a bugle call. There is a great deal of other talent, perhaps equally as amusing, and about every day there is a sort of circus carried on in the barn, that has many features connected with it of a most entertaining character. Altogether, the home isone of the pleasantest, healthiest and most comfortable places of its kind, and the good work that is being carried on there is worthy of praise. SOME UNREPENTANT EXILES. R. HENRY JAM seems as lost as ever, or even more so, to any shameful sense of his position as an American who will not live at home, It has not been an- nounced that he even intends to come out to the Fair. Not only he continues to abide in London, diversifying his sojourn with such occasional continental jaunts as suit his liver and his convenience, but he brazenly vaunts in “ Picture and Text” (Harper's) the case and’ advantages of an expatriated res dence as exemplified in the cases of Mr. Abbey, Mr. Frank Millet, Mr. Boughton, Mr. Reinhart and Mr. John H. Sargent. Mr. Abbey was born in Philadelphia and brought out in New comicbooks.com