Life — May 28, 1914 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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“LIFE: Life’s Fresh Air Farm Fresh Air work began in 1887, when a few children were sent to the country. Since then our friends have helped us to make “ the country” a reality to a thousand or more little people each year, who recognize it at once when they hear it mentioned, as the place where there is plenty to eat, plenty of space and light and air, much fun, and no one going hungry—the very opposite, as a rule, of their normal existence, and about the third sta- tion this side of Paradise. To teach the children this is the true remedy for the terrible congestion of the great cities, which worries so many settlement workers and others who strive to better the conditions among the poor. Lire’s Farm at Whether you send fifty cents or fifty dollars, some chil- dren will have the moncy’s worth of vacation. Your vaca- tion may be a failure, but that youngster’s will not. Won't you give him a lift?) It may be hard times with you and a scarcity of many things, but there is no scarcity of chil- dren that need this sort of vacation and who would not get it otherwise. The season is just beginning. From about the twentieth of June until school cpens ix September, parties of two hundred or more go each fortnight. The more money you give the more children we send. Remittances made payable to Lirr’s Fresh Air Fund will be acknow!l- Branchville, in the hills of western Connecticut, which opened in 181, was given us by the late Edwin Gilbert to be used for Fresh Air Fund work. It is a beautiful coun- try place, about fourteen acres in extent. The big mansar d-roofed house, barns and other outbuildings have been remod- eled as dormito- . Ties, dining-rooms, ete, for our many guests. The brook affords constant amusement, while edged in Lire about three weeks later, and by letter direct at once if name and address be given. USTICE delayed is injustice. A just judge is a prompt judge. Thrice blest is he who has his quarrel decided promptly. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey When justice is smothered — by the ballground and orchard are well patronized every day. The work is entirely dependent on voluntary contribu- tions, and the high cost of living means a pretty serious problem. However, by careful management fast year, five dollars and eighty-six cents covered all expenses for cach child, including transportation and all extras. It is the very poor children that we take, from the city missions of New York and Brooklyn, from the great East Side gener- ally. No needy child is ever refused save for good cause, usually lack of room, though, of course, an exception has to be made in cases of contagious diseases, for the protection of the healthy children. We have never had a serious case of accident or illness at the Farm in all its history, al- though in the green-apple season a little pain-killer is sometimes in demand. Caretakers are always with the children, the court's de- AT LIFE’S FARM lay. Reapy ! Emergency Hint P ONS falling out of aeroplanes will find it quite useless to depend upon any of the ordinary safety devices,’ antidotes, block systems, fire extinguishers, life preservers or other similar contrivances, for though all of them are perfectly good in their proper time and place, they do not meet this particular emergency. The only thing to do when convinced you are falling is to make a thor- ough examination of the underlying landscape. For this purpose it is often well to have handy a geological chart, or relief map. When you have thoroughly familiarized yourself with the topography of the approaching land- scape, it is then perfectly simple, by two or three little bodily manaeuvres, to pick out a relatively soft spot. If you have acted wisely in the matter, there is nothing more to do but lic there and wait for help. comichooks.gom