The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19

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Then the principal put it straight
to the boys. He told them there was
a law against smoking and against the
conduct the. were showing and that
thereafter they could report their con-
duct to the police department.
That afternoon I called upon the
principal to see what could be done.
Then the boys whispered one to an
other, The police woman Is here.
They knew there would be no more
fooling: that patience had ceased to
be virtue with the teacher who had
been kind and patient with them. The
boys did not care for lecture from
the police judge or a fine, in police
court, SO it has not been necessary for
them to make a trip to the county
JAIL
Picked Up Stub.
The principal brought into the Of
flee two 12-year-old boys. They were
guilty of smoking The first ex-
planned himself Miss Corning, sure
1 have sworn off. You see it was this
way. / was out in front of picture
show. 1 saw two boys smoking. l
wondered how it tasted. SO 1 picked
up a stump of a cigarette, lit it and
commenced to smoke it. 1t tasted
awful bitter and burned my lips and
1 tell you. Miss Corning, that settled
me-
He was given a chance to keep his
promise. Next came a sickly and mis-
cradle looking boy He looked as
though he could not stand much dis
sipatiOn. He was told what would
happen to him, If he continued smOk-
ing. He said he would stop because
he did not want to go to the reform
school and that his father has told
him he would have to go there, if he
kept on smoking. He was given an
other chance and there have been no
further complaints about the boys
from the teachers.
Manly Young Man.
MET as was coming
from the Santa Fe depot at IL o'clock
at night. He was smoking a pipe. 1
asked him if he knew it is against the
law for boys to smoke. He said he
did.
"I am sorry, but 1 will have to ask
you to see the police judge about
this" told him. He was honest and
polite. He said he was II years old
and gave me his correct name. He
handed me his pipe and walked to the
police station with me. He said he
worked in the Santa Fee shops in the
paint department. The next after
noon he came in and paid his fine
of SO.
Little Rabbit Makes Trouble.
"a little rabbit made some trouble in
the 1900 block on Lane street. A little
boy brought a rabbit home which he
said a man had found and given to
him. Mrs., also living in the same
block had rabbits and she claimed that
believed the one found by the boy was
hers. 1 told her it would be much
better for her to say to Mrs. -,
mother CT the boy that she was miss
ing a rabbit and that she would like
to see whether the one found by the
boy was hers. The two women had
had some trouble about the children
before and she did not like to go to
her. But she went and the women dis
agreed over the identity of the rabbit.
1 called on the boy and both the
father and mother said the rabbit was
one which they had bought a short
time before for their little daughter S
birthday and that it did not belong
to the woman who claimed it and that
the rabbit found by the boy was a
full-grOwn one. Having never seen the
rabbits in their homes 1 could not
solve the mystery. I suggested to the
parents that it would be a nice thing
for the boy to find the owner of the
rabbit and return it; that it might
save the boy from the habit of keep
ing things that did not belong to him.
L ne ldOUll tTOuDlc Was UTOppSU.
With the Girls.
THE little - girl, thirteen years
old, at 10 o'clock at night was waiting
about the Gem picture show. She was
alone. 1 asked her what she was doing
at this time of the night. She said
she was just going to see the pictures.
l told her it was too late for her to
see the pictures as she could not get
home before IL o'clock. so 1 took her
To l.4
viously asked me to look after the girls
and to send them home, as they would
slip away when she was at work. The
mother is a widow and works in a
restaurant to support herself and two
young daughters.
Bcssfe's Trouble.
Bessie - was on her way to Wich-
ita- She got off at the Santa Fe depot
to make change of transfer for Wichita
she noticed her handbag containing her
ticket and two dollars, was gone. She
was brought to me about 1:30 O'Clock
in the morning. Her parents are dead
and she was alone. She said she would
willingly work in Topeka. I found heI
place to work with a family on Har-
rison street.
Nora tainted on Street.
Mora - was brought to me at II
O'Clock at night. She had taken sud
denly i'll and tainted on the streets
Officers did not know where she lived
and no one knew where she belonged
or who her friends or people might be
She was placed in the transient room
and given medical attention. 1 cared
for her two nights.
Then an ambulance was called tt
take her to Christ's hospital. I tolo
her the Jail was no place for her; tina
she should be in a hospital where sh,
would have the right care. She hat
been sick all day and Mrs. Thorpe ant
Mrs. Arthur had helped her what the,
could. She insisted she wanted to sta,
with me- She liked the Jail bette
than the hospital. saying she had beef
to Christ's hospital before for treat
ment and would not go back.
las she WAS SUFFERING, from, hvsteris