The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-04-19
BOYS STUDY
COOK BOOK
Take Potatoes From the Cellar
to a Cave.
THEIR FATHERS OBJECT
And Ask the Police to Hunt
the Retreat.
HEIR FATHERS OBJECT

The police have been asked to stop a
few boys living in the vicinity of Third
street and Waco avenue from having a
little fun The boys. according to the
story presented to the police, have found
| acave some place in the woods near the
Little river and number of them have
been making it their Fairgrounds dur
ing the evenings and have been play
ing and having good time.
The complaint was made by Mr.. Sulli-
van, who lives just north of Third street
He told the police that his 14-year-old boy
had been going off with some of the
neighbor lads in the evening and going to
this cave and having feast from food Of
their own cooking. The boys would take
little flour, some potatoes, meat or
most any edible from their homes and
going to their rendezvous would cook it
after their own fashion and according to
their own cook book. They have been at
this game all winter. so they must GER
tainly like the dishes put before them or
they would not hold out as long as they
did.
The lads will not tell where their cave
IS located and all the efforts of the par
ents have failed to reveal what they do
or where they go. Some of the boys par
ents have followed them for considerable
smart for their elders, for they have so
far succeeded in covering their tracks
effectively. The boys have never taken
any great amount of stuff from their
homes but only enough to furnish them a
meal or two. Boys are always hungry
and it seems that these fellows instead of
asking their mothers for piece" so get
some of the raw material and cook it
themselves.
Those bOx-S Jilra oil
is something facinating in a cave or old
tumbledown house, where they can hide a
few cooking utensils that were thrown
away years ago, by their mothers and
use them according to their own ideas.
a boy can hardly say that he has been
through all the trials and experiences
usual to a boys life, unless he has had a
few months experience in a cave. where
he could hide and cook things to his own
own notion. There are very few boys in
this city who have not had this expert
ence. They will pick up some old stove
that has outlived its usefulness and by
some hard tinkering make il do for their
work They viii try to make everything
they are accustomed to eating at home,
but a few trials of pushing down bread as
hard as a rock and potatoes only half
cooked, and the meat either half raw or
burned to a crisp, and eggs that burn
their fingers. son satisfies them. It is
a jolly life for few weeks, but they soon
come to the conclusion that they cannot
cook as mother does and give it up. turn
ing their paraphenalia over to another
set of lads who want to do the same
thing and viii not profit by the expert
ence Of others. Boys VIII eat almost any
thing il they can do the cooking them
selves, and many things they dish up
would make them sick for three days
if their own mother had even thought
Of offering them.
Now the fathers of the boys want the
police to find the cave on Waco and I'LL
it up. They have grown old and have
probably forgotten their own tricks when
they Were Of their sons age. But boys
have to have something to do during the
hours they are not in school and there
are not many others ways in which they
could have as good a time as living in
a cave for about two weeks. But their
fathers cannot see where the fun comes
in. They buy some flour for the home
and the boy takes a pan and goes hal
vers' with him. Papa gets some potatoes
and the boy gets his share at the table
and also swipes a few for his own and
his comrades use. Some day the father
brings home dozen fresh eggs and the
son manages to get about half of them
before his mother knows they are in the
house. The boys do not mean TO be bad,
they only want to have a little fun, and
now the fathers ask the police to hunt
out the redeZvous and fill 1t in with dirt
So the bows cannot use If