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In the summer it was fresh-air parties and doctors. I made the discovery one day in a tenement in talking to a little child of five, that she had never seen a green field or a tree. This led me to ask the missionaries assisting the church to make a search for a few weeks and collect as many such children as possible.
But what's the matter with a captive balloon, and letting fresh-air cranks sleep in a big basket bed say, at five hundred feet? Or a thousand a thousand would be better. The air's purer." "With a net below," says I, "in case they should turn over and fall out of bed! It's funny nobody ever thought of it before!" "Isn't it?" exclaimed Mrs. Dick. "And we've all sorts of ideas. Dick Mr.
Rockerbilt gives a tea for the benefit of the Fresh-Air Fund, and she always has a dozen of the children from town for a week beforehand so as to get them in shape for the function." "Get them in shape for the function, Bunny?" asked Henriette. "Yes; one of the features of the tea is the presence of the youngsters, and they have to be pretty well rehearsed before Mrs.
But the fresh-air world will ever want new forms. We shall not get them without faith enough to risk the old! The good will live, the bad will die; and tomorrow only can tell us which is which!
"They have been playing on the lawns since seven o'clock this morning, and I've lost quite two hours' sleep because of their chatter." "They are children from Mrs. Rockerbilt's Fresh-Air Society," I explained, for I, too, had been annoyed by the loud pranks of the youngsters and had made inquiries as to their identity. "Every summer, Digby, Mr. de Pelt's valet, tells me, Mrs.
There were all the charities, St. John's Guild, Fresh-Air Funds, hospitals, home for crippled children, and the personal charities of my wife amongst the poor could these be dropped? Again, no. Then I looked at home.
Back to nature, sans rats, sans rouge, sans stays, sans everything. I'll need to wear a tag with my name on it. Nobody will recognize me!" Mr. Pierce got up again at the head of the long kitchen table and said he merely meant rational living more air, more exercise, simpler food and better hours. It was being done now in a thousand fresh-air farms, and succeeding.
"We eat in here all the time and sleep in here in winter, because there ain't but one fire. That goes out early, which is why the water freezes. Jimmy has to bring it up from the yard in buckets, and as the nurse-lady who comes down here says we must have fresh air in the room, being 'tis all four of us sleep in it, I keep the window open at night. I don't take no stock in all this fresh-air talk.
Instead of complaining to myself that the sky had lowered until its opaque rotunda seemed to touch the tops of the higher buildings, I rejoiced as I went uptown and looked out the cab window at each open square, that the cold spring downpour had freshened all the vegetation and brightened these city fresh-air spaces as if by magic.
She was so glad that, as she walked away, scarcely heeding her steps or conscious of the chaffing, chattering crowd, all interest in her work and in that quarter of the city seemed dead. It is well that there is pleasure somewhere in the world. It is possible for those who have a fresh-air fund of their own to steam away in a yacht, out of the midsummer ennui and the weary gayety of the land.
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