Show 11 I Helps for Mothers j jy I Ies es n y EMILIE hOFFMAN Cop right Copyright 1923 New Yo York k Evening World Pi Press ess ress Publishing CoIn Co In Iii an uptown street a janitor was having an altercation with a dozen doz n kiddies the other day daj- da the cause of which was very apparent The steps an and the front wall of ot the he house were covered with chalk marks marks' S The rat irate Janitor remonstrated with one of or the mothers mother's who happened hap to come out of ot the house As she walked away she remarked to her companion Oh that hat janitor is ISI a perfect crank He wont won't let lt the children have any fun This Is the attitude of ot many mothers i On one block up In t tie te e Bronx populated bj by families it is a common sight to see the entire 9 pavement throughout the street covered with drawings and writing in crayon It is 11 a busy thoroughfare swarming with youthful youth youth- ful rul artists and decorators energeticallY energetically cally plying their a art t until the street Is thoroughly th besmirched Steps and front doors are Included in hese these ornamentations wherever this can surreptitiously be Mothers look on and smile I It is these children who when grown up carve Initials on park I II tr trees es and In public places who deface deface de de- de- de I I face fences sera scrawl WI on walls and andin andin in different wa ways s 's mutilate other I peoples people's pro property I To regard the property of or others should be Impressed Upon children I while very young joung Teach them that it is up to the tile public to protect I public property and that they are par par of ot thia this public I therefore th the preservation of or the playgrounds land and nd the school buildings buildings build build- I I ings with their equipments equipments' is de decidedly decidedly de- de I de Cl up to them I Do not f permit oer then them to deface terace i public walks nor strew papers Inthe In Inthe II the he parks Carelessness in this re reI respect respect re- re I should not go to I |