The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-28
GOOD WILL FARM LOOKS
GOOD TO FOUR TRUANTS

Mrs. Walker the genial ana
) motherly superintendent of Good win
Farm, was in Houghton Saturday in
the interests OF the Easter dinner and
other matters at the farm home and
s incidentally told some OF the things
that are happening both al the home
! and throughout the upper peninsula, as
having direct influence upon the
+, homes success. AS the best paEt Of a
good dinner comes near the finish
. thereof. so will the choice part of this
/. story be told last.
Mrs. Walker told of the receipt by
the association of $3.50 for the ad-
yancement of the farms work from the
school childI of Hancock and she
spoke of hel ratitude and that of
: those who are associated with her for
4 this sum and all such sums coming
, from the little children who are more
fortunate than those who find their
way into the home at the farm. She
also told of the plan that will be fol-
lowed at Calumet by the school chill
dren OF that place for the raising OF
money for the institution.
April 23 will be "old rubbers day"
in the town at the northern end Of the
county and on this day all the school
children will gather together all the
old rubbers they can find and bring
them to central location. These will
be turned over to the farm and sold by
them to the junk dealer and the sum
raised. which viii be announced later,
will be credited as the gift of the Calu-
met children TO the work of finding
homes for little unfortunates.
Now for the story of the Three
, Bears-no no-the Four Little Tru-
ants. II seems that one of the rules Of
the institution is that when any in
mate transgresses any other rule that,
by this rule, he is deprived of the next
meal. For some infraction of the reg
ulation three little lads were given this
form OF punishment last Thursday
!. morning. being among those absent at
= the noon meal. With another lad whom
they had taken into consultation on
the weighty subject, they decided that
the only thing left for them to do in
order to maintain their boyish dignity
q and their right to life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness" as the latter APP
peared to them. was 10 strike for lib
erty then and there
II being agreeable to all, including
O., the fourth boy who had just partaken
of a good meal, they decided to run
away that very afternoon. They turn
ed their faces toward the south on
leaving the farm and the middle of the
afternoon found them at Chassell, five
miles away. Here they fell, temporar-
lily. into the hands OF a good woman
who gave each OF them a doughnut
the only food three of them had had
since their breakfast on the farm.
They trudged on i'm the same direction
an hour or so more and then, appar-
emily stopped for a council of war.
The decision of this council was that
they had made a bad tactical error and
they decided TO execute a retreat in all
possible haste. as the sun was creep
ing rapidly toward the hills at the
south and there were comfortable beds
at Good Will Farm.
The attendants at the farm went to
bed late that night. after searching
everywhere for the four missing young
sters. Mrs. Walker by the use of a lit
tie psychology, determined that the lads
would discover their error and return
- 10 the farm as soon as they could.
Early the following morning there was
a noise I'm the basement and Mrs.
Walker went TO investigate. She found
the four little truants, now very much
covered with the humiliation of defeat
and the stains of their recent travels.
They were not further punished but
were cared for tendery, the same ten
der care and affection being as Goals
OF fire on the four little heads, were
given big bowls of bread and milk and
, tucked away in their little beds. The
spirit of rebellion and anarchy is thor
oughly exterminated from their little
breasts and they are now very glad TO
abide by the rules OF the institution
which shelters hem and gives them
such good bread and milk and warm
beds.