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2 ADVENTURE “ ... needs a friend” HE famous car- toons ‘‘When a Feller Needs a Friend” are fa- miliar to millions of newspaper readers. You will find this ‘“‘feller” wherever there are children of the poor cooped up in squalid quarters. The Fresh Ai- Funds organized the help that you can give. Poor youngsters—it will be the first time that many of them have seen a green fieldor brook orrealwoods. Fire escapes, burning hot side-walks, brick walls— these are the wretched substi- tutes for trees and flowers that they _ S&S LIQ > Z BS “GEE! "1 WISH TKNEW A = | and other kindly counts AGIN Tas YEAR"| OP HERE oo folk are doing a The gratitude of ; . © 1924, m. t. 4. co. - . splendid work in the boys and girls getting children out of the city and into the who are taken into private homes is pathetic. country. They need your help. It is usually their first glimpse of a real home. Find out what is being done in yourcommunity If you have children of your own think what to give these poor, pinched, nature-starved it would mean to see them droop- rs, children the happiest time of their lives. If a ing and withering in the stifling oY ‘ ‘ 3 / 4. Fresh Air Fund has been started give it your heat of dark airless rooms all , « ‘ heartiest support. But if nothing of thekindis Summer, playing tag with death . . under way won't you ask your favorite news’ in truck-jammed streets. x i e L. paper to help start a Fresh Air Campaign? I ¢ h SM They know all about the work that other big hildhood. e an my) aay a 7 Bs ry newspapers are doing. Don’t wait. There is f : the f ae - — ape arn 7 ae not a precious minute to lose—the Summer will Al = ‘hel “ fw —— the (att J % oa 7a inh slip away s0 fast. was ye pore ge I al city, send some needy children ¢ Jet If you live in the country will you share your to the country. If you arein ; feces? shy b c : 113 9A home with some poor child this Summer—even the country, take them away | eae _ ; . . SS a i ee for two weeks? Your own newspaper un- from thecity. Itisa splendid © forgo, “ A arn by ‘ “s a doubtedly knows of boys and girls who need just thing to do. OIG Wet gee Pe ent iB eel nse iS A: One great metropolitan newspaper claims that it record was kept of a certann roup of these chil- ee a can send a child to the country for two weeks for dren and it was found that the pee gain in et pore aye only $7. The same newspaper figures that last weight at the end of a two weeks’ stay in the ee oad year it anve the children 0° 3 ts ate more than 500 _ country was nearly five pounds for each child. i ae | Ha, | fresh air vacations —two weeks cach; 6,000 were NO.social service is more important than this of | +," io a building healthy boys and girls. A vacation in ‘ae We a4 placed in the camps maintained by this newspaper ihe richt envi ; wn é jy arg at and 8,000 were sent to private homes. But there chocan in ch life of a child> SS SSS mn Hie were 35,000 applications for these 14,000 places 8 ne OF a Snes Sram! nr 3 —less than half were taken care of. This is the time of the year when every boy and | 7, ae ra he fone girl “needs a friend”. How many youngs:ers will Pins He nee Li) ne The boys and girls were g‘ven a critical physical you make happy? oe ~ fa oe neh ee od examination before they were sent off. Careful HALEY FISKE, President. |: pee re]} Meats ge ae an = Published by ~ re see : <n Ter erste a, -* one) ‘ METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY ~NEW YORK Biggest in the World, More Assets, More Policyholders, More Insurance in force, More new Insurance each year Kindly mention Adventure in writing to advertisers or visiting your dealer. COMIGDIOOKSEEO