The Washington herald., 1921-01-15
Morning,
Judge!
BY RUDOLPH PERKINS.
Spanked Boyt Pays SO.

Spanked BOyI Pays SO.
George Watkins is about 10 years
old, but very large for his age.
According to Carrie Prentuss.
George had a habit Of sticking out
his tongue at her and calling her
bad names.
Instead of going to the boys
mother, she undertook one day TO
chastise the boy on her own hook.
She gave him a good spanking, he
said, and then made him thank her
Tor it.
N warrant was gotten for Carrie
and she was charged with assault.
ecourt it was the same old story
that of folks who make the mis-
take of spanking other peoples chill
drFn instead of letting the proper
person do it.
Carries excuse was that George
was so big his parents were not
able to take him to the woodshed
and whale him.
- The court said that the boys size
had nothing to do with it. Carrie
was reminded that we have a Juve-
nile Court in this town for bad
boys whose parents are not able to
handle them. She was fined $40.
Payday Drama.
Fifteen minutes after Robert Nc
Guire turned his pay envelope over
to Estelle, his wife, he borrowed
all the money back again, she said.
He then gave her a check, she
said, and off. to market she trudged
with her basket for some grub.
The market man laughted out
loud at her when she handed him
the check for SIS. 1t was not even
signed and was so badly written it
could hardly be read.
A couple Of hours later, Estelle
said, she found Robert arguing
with another man in a near beer
saloon.
Like most men, Robert thought
he. was being spied upon and, ac-
coTding to Estelle, he promised to
send her somewhere a flying.
She sought protection from his
threats in court, but seemed to be
more worried about the pay en-
velope.
The court agreed to protect her
and compelled Robert to agree to
make good the money and then
paroled the erring husband on his
good behavior.
Gives COngressmen Thrill.
Harold Smoil is connected with
Boiling Field. He drives a motor
cycle with side-car attached.
The other day he was alleged to
have been doing thirty miles per
hour on the Capitol Plaza with the
sideCar in the air and certain mem
bers OF Congress looking on amazed
at the daredevil stunt.
Speed Cop Willard Vaughn an
peared on the scene with his motor
cycle and side-car and took in the
scenery-and Smoil.
The man explained that the Boil
ing Field motorcycles were a lot
OF junk and could not be depended
on to work properly, especially
where the brakes were concerned.
He tried to stop the motorcycle,
Smoil said, but could not and Just
kept going.
The court said he had no business
to take a defective machine from
the field, and that as a measure of
self-defense he ought to test the
brakes anyhow, even on a new ma
chine.
After all this talking was done
the court turned him over to the
field authorities.
Join the Y. NJ. C. A.. Archie!
Archie Brent needed a little ex-
ercise. He had been cooped up in
the house for two weeks waiting
for check from home, he said.
One morning he was feeling es-
pecially grouchy from indoor life.
jamie Miller, who roomed at the
same house, reminded him that
morning that he had promised to
take her for an auto ride. Archie
insisted that he was financially un-
able to do that.
jamie remarked that his credit
was good. This struck the man as
being just like a woman.
He hurled a vase from the mantel
at her and indicted a mean cut on
her cheek. She will carry the scar
for a long time.
Archie insisted that the vase
slipped from his hand and that
the woman ran into It.
That may have happened, but he
had no business, the court said, to
take up the vase in the first place.
He was fined $50 and told that IL
he did the same thing again he
would have a chance to get plenty
aS exercise at the workhouse