| Show I c A i IANS IAN'S 1 OBSERVATIONS BT BY EDNA K WOOLEY J 0 THIS TIME THE GIRLS WERE i. i TO BLAME saw s something the other er day dar thaI that tha 1 I set me mo to thinking said uhl the cut clean-cut young oun man as he 1 st steered cred tho thu machine around awa away from troma a a. a It was nas something so different from anything like 11 the popular Idea Ide he explained II 1 noticed a COUPle of ot girls walking along tho the boulevard not nol far Car from here Suddenly one of or them st stopped ind picked up a a. bottle that somebody somebody some some- bod body had thrown on the grass gras alongside along along- side Fide the roa road The Thc girls handled t if t the bottle a a- a moment giggled Sled some som t V ten n one of or them threw It into the thc load oad oa 1 where it smashed right In the path of or the automobiles Th Then ll the thc they t l nt at down on the grass grat s and watched the machines tr try to slide around that r t- tl damaging lr a ing glass Most of ot the drivers saw aw it in time timo to to steer way away from it but bu t some tome wen went t sight over and there wa was wa more than one cut tire to pa pay for those thos x girls girls' d. d sun lun But pretty soon a couple of oC small bo boys s 's came around the bond The They were lads about tl c ago age of or my mv little fellow here not here not more than 8 S or 3 U ears cats old anyway The bo boys s 's saw the glass In the road J Immediately got ot all fuss fussed od up about It The They were as much conCerned concerned con con- as J If they thoy owned a machine pl C apiece pice ce an and knew the exact cost of a tire Ure Finally the little rascals up sticks nn and managed to shore the brol broken en glass out of the way a where It could do no harm Sow Now Ill I'll wa wager er went on the clean clean- ut young oung man slowing up UI to bump blimp ever Jover ver a a. speed discourager In the form lof lot a n. deep rut across the road rond that Anybody who saw t that ha t broken glass knowing the circumstances would have blamed beamed some 1 kids for tor throwing It there Th yd never r think of putting It on girls because beaus Its It's 8 Just nat ral somehow w. w to blame the bo boys pr everything We C e sort of ot think arc are above that sort of or thing But here was a case of ils old enough to know better potter deliberately d doing a ma- ma 3 J clous act while those little shavers J who wio arent aren't real really old enough to havon havo o In n n. sense of ot responsibility accord according In to our tour our notions undid the harmful work of or the girls Another thing he concluded If girls are arc caught doing anything wrong thc they arc aro pitied and treated gently while a aboy boy gets the limit I 1 think we ought to begin to look at some things s sql Differently |
