Show Judge of nile nils flour mak s a THE B SOY Oy i Strong Plea PI i a and tens Cells of a aBoy RUin Ruined d U L Boy Tailed ailee d BY ALEXANDER ALEXA ER HE boy THE What feelings of love hope and tear fear ear this word awakens In the hearts of fathers and mothers the world over Love from the moment he en enters enters enters this vale of tears until the grim crim reaper gathers one or tho the other to him himself himself himself self and ends the relation of parent and child at least until the meeting In a better world hope as he gradually develops den from childhood to youth then to manhood hope that our boy will become a good man honest pure and loyal to all nIl that goes gocs to make malte a good hope that when lifes sands re r nearly spent that his strong arms will be a support and protection that when the shadows begin to fall about their heads his bright face faco will be a ay aay oy ay y and comfort fear ear that In leaving the tho home of his youth to begin In earn earnest earnest earnest est the battle of life that he may be lured by the song of the siren or that Le lIe may ma be enmeshed In some of ot the thenny ther r snares with which lifes way Is la strewn the Ilse boy Tho The Idol of the home the pride pr de of the city the hope of ot the na iia tf n What hat wonderful t 1 are within his reach What depths he Is la destined to sound what heights to scale With proper home environment he te right kind of nurture and admonition admonition tion from parent friend and teacher 11 things may be his The Successful Boy Tt is always pleasant to speak and andt I tink t of the successful boy to look on ont t tte e sunny side of the boy question and to learn If it perchance he ever started I 01 T n the wrong road that through the efforts of his friends he was turned again to the royal way But In spite of this there are shadows as well as ass asa s a which occasionally cross the th nth ith of the worker for the boy and a lI it Jay not be unprofitable to say a few v words relative to a seeming failure in Jr ur Juvenile court work With all aU that v an In be done tIone for some boys by loving and doting brothers and sis by bv teachers and friends there are ares s some falling into the terrible maelstrom f sin Fin and destruction leaving behind kited hopes and antI broken hearts I some one boys bo s are ruined in the home being fondled and ard petted until they ire irel tha other members of the tho house o od d are fit only to wait walt upon and obey fir whims They eventually become by their theil disrespectful treat t it tt t of parents and elderly people gen gent genny t My ny They have hae become narrow and andr rift r h and autI the first time an attempt attempts s made to exercise the parental con M 01 the spoiled boy runs away from one ne nc and the parents say How flow Ho could o treat us so after we have been so Kind lund to him They think they were land hind but the reverse is true Other 1 to 10 o s are aie ruined by the opposite treat nt it That is they are beaten cuffed nd ni knocked about till home with all alls s occupants and environments be otnes hateful to them At the first opportunity these boys forsake home and If It they da dO dd not commit some overt art before they go the parents pa may deem dp m themselves very lucky A 1 case Illustrative of the first con cond d daton t ii may be interesting A Ruined Boy I bout boat three months ago a refined Ii t king elderly lady with evidences of oft t cp nr c p distress on her careworn face facet c t a aired ue ed and with tearful eyes besought 3 s to aid her in finding her ber boy He Hes s a 1 good goad g Jd hey boy 00 she said but I think e Las as had a little too much of his own v el X I am a widow and have let him c cJ aD o pretty much as he pleased but as asi i c i is totting stetting a big boy now I thought best to try and make him do right nd k Ki ep good hours for he has been n o jf a bite Ite 1 tte at night and once or m 0 twice has fir sr fi ej away from home all night with oat k me know where he was wasn nl ni n vi when hen I scolded him for it the other u y lie he flew Into a passion abused me med mel d 1 l d appeared da That Tha was a week ago agor r 1 I have not seen him since I have haven v f n i told that he is staying at some somer r o fling house in the city but I have 1 teen en triable to orate locate him Wont ont you II J I C SP se help me find him before he does ing ng g wrong V 1 t Description tl of the boy bo was given t probation officers and In a few I hours they located the boy In a rooming room rooming rooming ing house with an unsavory reputation He was accompanied by a n man and aid in inthe inthe the tho room where whore they were found were stored large quantities of cigars cig cigarettes cigarettes and tobacco evidently stolen Tire The man was placed In the county Jail and the boy bo brought Into the Juvenile court He was a tall well built fine fina looking young fellow of 16 years but looking much older After Atter being plied with questions q for some sam e time he broke roke b down and made a complete confession I of his many crimes He admitted the goods found In hi his room had been stolen that the man he was with had recently been released from the state prison that together they had commit committed ted several burglaries the last being that of ot a store in the eastern part of the city They entered the premises armed arm ell with the understanding that if they were intercepted they would use their revolvers with intent to kill He also confessed to many acts of gross Immorality In fact he ha talked in a boastful manner of what he had done We sent for the mother and when the truth was disclosed to her she broke into such a fit of weeping and gave way wa to such despair as is seldom wit witnessed witnessed witnessed even in a Juvenile court When she could speak she agreed with us that the boy should be bo sent sem to the Indus Industrial Industrial industrial trial school This was done but be before before before fore he left for Ogden he said he would return when we desired and testify against the scoundrel who had been chiefly Instrumental In his downfall In time the case of the convict conflict came cameon on for hearing The boy was brought down to testify In the matter but to the tho disappointment of the officers he positively refused to say a word against the man and his being the only evi evidence evidence evidence dence the fellow was turned loose The boy had not been In the indus industrial Industrial industrial trial school long when he secured a re revolver revolver revolver volver and attempted to kill hill one of the guards he has broken out of the school once and made several other attempts tempts a to do so Besides this his general con conduct conduct conduct duct has been so bad that the author authorities ties fles of the Institution finally returned him to tho the authorities of Salt Lake Lale county with the object in n view of hav having havIng in ing him sent to the state prison which will probably be done The mother a splendid woman con connected connected connected with a good family with a breaking heart told us of the hopes she had entertained for the boy of ot how she had watched and prayed that he might become a good goad man Poor mother I We Ve did not tell her ller that her hervery hervery hervery very devotion what she had miscalled lovo love and kindness had In all proba probability probability hastened the the die downfall of ot her boy Out of ot the hundreds of ot cases handled han handled handled by the Juvenile court and the in industrial industrial industrial school during the year this is the only one In which they have failed to make a good impression the only one which seems to have been a failure Let us hope that he lie will yet be touched through patience and kind kindness kindness kindness ness and turn to the better way wa Of tho the two evils of overindulgence and cruelty on the part of ot parents it itis Itis itis is hard to say which is the tho more mere harm harmful harmful harmful ful to the boy |