The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-09-17
lost BOY
HAS ORGY
OF READING
Roams the Seven Seas Tin
Books) as Frantic Mother
and Police Search
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4 remember the black wharves
and the slips.
And the sea tides tossing free:
And the Spanish sailors with
bearded lips
And the beauty and mystery
OF the shipS
And the magic Of the sea
And the voice Of that maynard
song
II singing and saying still:
A hoy.s win is the winds win
And the thots Of youth are long
long houshts'
ArR Gray cnmc to N Thursday.
Help me find my boy she said.
Kenneth Gray. IL left home at
vsSo "Wednesday afternoon. The next
morning Mrs Gray reported the dis
alvearance to the police Then she
canNc to us.
Il do not believe tho police win
ma Kenneth she said. Il arm
AFRAID Ne Is. not In Portland. He Is
IN smbNficus romantic boy. He
raves by the hour over books Of
ernvsl and adventure. Indeed. he
49, too much. He has been talk.
ine about California and he may
have gune south. arm frantic with
worry"
20 the News ct It's machinery In
moeicn 10 find him
We had . message 30 Kenneth
Gray from his mother. asking him
% come home. and this message.
1hru associated newspapers, would
- read by lo.ooo.oo readers
nut NO BOY
CAN YOOl. HIS MOTHER!
The wheels Of our machinery for
= nationwide search were beginning
- turn. when late Thursday. the
Snlsphone bell tinkicd In the Gray
1oms. Mrs. Gray answered An un-
natural falsetto voice inquired for
Gray Grey. But no boy can fool hts
6ncther.
Kenneth Gray. you come right
straight home, Where are you
1ow?"
-At the public library. said Ken.
seth Gray. In natural II peni,cnt
Genes. and hung UP.
Ma Gray beat the police 10 The
Ubnry.
The attendants In the ehfldren's
IpDm sny Kenneth was there from
Ap'ciock until closing time He came
agNin the firss thing In tho morning
and stayed AL day.
HAS READING ORGY.
CNAsOlESTED
He read hooks on woodworking
md bound volumes Of the ST. AHsrh-
o1as magazine. He had the tina Of
s11s life. because no one interrupted
31fm BY saying Kenneth. you must
not read 20 much. It's bad for your
eyes
Kenneth slept IN the plaza blocks
Wednesday night During the even
ting he had company-3ove-lorn cou-
pies who strolicd Among tho trees
and ancicnts who gossipcd on the
bsnchesL
BY and By the blocks smptied and
Kenneth was alone II was cold and
q began to rain Kenneth sought
refuge IN the bandstand.
NO BREAKFAST. HE
WETURNS TO LIBRARY
He had no breakfast. Il stuck n
cut" be said
Then he returned 10 The library
and read and read and read to his
hearts content, while the police, be
1ng orthodox. searched those places
where bad runaway boys arc sup
posed 70 congregafe.
The thots Of youth are long. hong
0ots." And no grownup can hope
% read them. Why endure the hard
ohips Of travel when. with St Mich.
olas. you can skip from Johannes
burg to Shanghai and from Bombay
20 Nome In the twinkling Of an eye?
LOST HIMSELF; SPIRIT
BOAMS SEVEN YEARS
In the steam heated comfort Of the
reading room he lost himself and
his spirit roamed the seven seas.
firing Of wandering. IL returned and
tried its hand at woodworking.
But even his interest In wood.
working tagged when hunger clam
cred Besides he Is a perfectly nor.
anal boy and he was getting home.
aick for his mother.
But now he has been scolded and
petted and forgiven by a mother who
loves him but doesn't understand
him In the least. Mothers never do