The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-19
Eva Corning, PolicewOman, Has
Varied Experiences in Month.
Helps School Principal-Makes
Boys Treat Mother Better.
EIGHT YEAR-OlD DON JUAN
YOungster COnfides He Captf-
Yates Girls by sJust Looking"
Family Rows, Dance Halls,
Runaway Girls and Boys.

The report of Miss Eva Corning, po-
ncewoman, covering her work for the
month of November, is mucn longer
than most of her reports have been,
but it is also much more interesting.
Such captions as with The Boys,
with The Girls" boy Buns His
Way" "A Little Rabbit Makes Trou-
ble," Fathers Want Their Daughter
Found" "At the Dance Halls "Trou-
BILE over a Ring, Trouble in Boarding
House. are paragraph heads. Because
in many instances the publishing OF
names might be harmful. the report re-
quests that names be withheld from the
public.
About the Boys.
A part of the report reads: Mr.. =
asked me to talk with his boys, II
and IA years old, about staying out late
at nights The father is carpenter
and at present is working in Atchison.
The mother takes in work to help main
tain the family. The boys would not
obey their mother or show her proper
regard. told the boys that when they
grew to be men they would be ashamed
of the way they had treated their
mother. 1 also told them about the
curfew law and also that if they con-
tinued in the way they were going they
would land out in the reform school.
1 said, Boys l could report you TO
the Juvenile court and you would De
taken under control, but do not want
to have to do this. I have come to
help you, and if you can do right, we
will keep this affair between ourselves
and your mother"
The mother was present. l told them
that if there were any more complaints
of their wrong-doing l would have TO
report them to the court. There was
good in the boys and they had pride.
They were very grateful that l hao
come to them instead of giving them to
the court They were glad I had come
to their home and not to the school.
They did not want the children TO
know the trouble they had been giving
their parents. They promised TO
straighten up. A month has passed and
there has been no further complaint
about the boys.
Boy .sBums" His Way.
was brought to the police
station by Officer Garrett. The boy
was IA years old, he said, though he
did not appear more than twelve. He
ran away from his parents in Kansas
City, so the officer brought him to
me to care for until word could be re-
ceived from his parents.
Il made him comfortable bed where
he could rest until morning. Then he
sat in the office until arrangements
could be made for him to be sent
home He told me he was going to
Los Angeles California, where he had
a brother II years old. He did not have
any money and was going to bum
his way The bum" lasted only as far
as Topeka, when the officer took him.
1t was o'clock in the morning when
he was brought to me. He was without
a coat and was shivering with the cold.
nff too md
he was soon warm. His face and hands
We're not overly clean. He evidently
left home in a hurry. He said his
parents had moved to some other house
and he could not find them. He did
not have much of story framed up.
He was stubborn and would talk very
little. He was returned to his parents
in Kansas City.
A Youthful Don Juan.
Little Eight years. old, was
brought to me one morning about 3
O'Clock. The little boy was with his
father when his father and some other
man got into a fight in which some
blood was spilled. So when his father
was brought to the station the boy was
brought with him. He was unusually
bright and interesting little fellow. He
seemed little embarrassed that his
father had been fighting and tried to
excuse him by saying. oh. it was not
big "raSSel."
The little boys mother is dead and
he lives with his father a few miles
beyond North Topeka. l asked him
If he remembered his mother
Il should think do he said.
mamma was burned in an explosion
and ran to call papa.
Boy-like, he could sleep better if he
could tell some of his wonderful ex-
ploits ard of his natural attractions
for the young ladies'"
He said. Me and Jimmie (Jimmie
is years ODD went into Mr. BIS barn
and got his horse and buggy
''Then he laughed at the clever
trick, and l asked what they wanted
of the horse and buggy.
on. me and Jimmie was going to
see our girls Yes, sir. got two girls
and could have a Dozen
How do you get many girls p
I asked him.
just Looked at Girls.
''Oh. l just look at them
Il asked him what was done to him
for taking the horse and buggy.
oh. / got what Paddy gave the
drum
HE considered himself lucky be-
cause he knew a nice big policeman
who gave him oranges and candy
Chester was acquainted now and
was not afraid to go to bed. l made
him a bed on a sofa in the office and
covered him up and said, Now you
will kiss me goodnight. He smiled
and his eyes were bright
Perhaps he was thinking of his
mother. for when asked if he had a
good mother, replied, There never
was a better mother in the world
In the morning the boy Joined his
father and went to his grandmother
two hundred miles west. and will live
with her and two of his little sisters
Boys at Lincoln School.
Mr.. MaGaw, principal of the Lin
coin school, asked me to help hin
out with some of the boys The,
had given the teachers much fxo,,-