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Show I Out of Town. , A crippled child was taken out of the slums in Philadelphia one summer to a farm house among the hills, where she remained for a fortnight. It was her first visit to the country. The next summer sum-mer tho farmer's wif o went to the city to find the child, and to bring her home with her. But want and fold air had conquered. Sho was dying. ; , "1 wish I could go," she said, with eager eyes. '-Are the fields green tins year? And are the trees growing the same way still?" ; . A poor shopgirl, with some of her companions, was taken by a good woman to the seashore for the first time. ' Her friend, seeing her standing alone on the beach, went up to her and found her weeping. '. ,' - "Excuse me, ma'am," 6he said,, "but I'm not used to' these swell things.". Do we realize that there are in this free, bountiful country people so' poof that the eea and fields and all good things seem to belong only to the "swell" rich? , J Children's relief and fresh air funds are doing much in oar cities to give to the overworked poor in their garrets and alleys a glimpse of the country during the summer, but there are still countless count-less thousands who are left behind. Youth's Companion, . |