HARD ON OW THE SOY BOY BOYAN SOYA AN A N EASTERN NEWSPAPER the thet thet t other day contained a fuji fuH page story about the youngest member of the Lambs club New York City The Iamb as most moat people w te is a club that la ii composed exclusively of actors and those connected With the j i I theatrical profession The youngest j i member of the dub club la Is a boy actor His Hisa a e w Is twelve years only hat bat If the j story referred to Is correct be he to Is rapidly becoming to all the vices the older members can teach him himA himA A series of pictures shows how th the boy Is learning For instance in oae ess view the lad stands at the dub club bar drinking with Richard Mansfield Pretty smooth cocktail the barkeep here bert makes eh Mansfield he is 1 quoted as so saying Then he asks William Gillette if a gentleman Is supposed to smoke all the tho time thee Gillette replies that no gentle gentleman gentleman man smokes white he be sleeps or eats With those exceptions the true bun gentle gentie gentleman man should never be without a cigar a cigarette or a pipe between his Ups lips Every privilege that any member of the dub club may enjoy the story relates may he be enjoyed by this old boy Be He may and he does sit ait up until the early hours of the morning drinking and smoking mucking and playing cards and ad in all of these en enjoyments enJoyments he to is aided and abetted by bythe the adult members No mention is made of the lads eata and from that fact we are constrained to believe that he has neither parents nor isis rela tives nor guardian Surety Surely no sane anne anneman man or woman entrusted with the moral and physical welfare of a boy hoy would permit him him to to In such practices It to I hard ta p believe that any ani part of the story to is true Many ay members of the Lambs Iambs club have children kUdren of their own Any one of them would rather see his hey boy dead than starting on such sucha a fife as this boris leading The log logi logical cat cal outcome for him will be degrada degradation ties tion and death There is no earthly way for him to avoid ruin unless a same me friend up to stand between him slId and the Inevitable end tod of the path he heto heis to is treadIng And be he seem to tobare have bare gB h a friend in the Lambs dub club New NewYork York City