Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 35 | Frat Boys Play Dad to Seattle Boy 5 Yeras Old

WS Pt v SEATTLE TO TO BOY 5 ARS OLD I By 53 Sp I ial l t otI Sica SEATTLE Wash Washy Oct 7 Playing Playing daddy to homeless waifs is the ne newest e t stunt of University University of of Washington fraternities It started with Clare Clarence ce Eckberg B 5 15 adopted by br the Sigma Nu Thi u frat in a- a burst of big brotherly sentiment The They found Clarence in childrens children's children's childrens home took him to the Sigma Sigm Nu Nn chapter chapter chapter chap chap- ter house washed him fitted him up with new clothes gave him the squarest meal on record and made him about the happiest kid alive At dusk the sleepy contented youngster youngster young young- ster smiled at It his twenty-five twenty fathers and brothers in one and informed them that he was used to going to tobed bed at 8 About fourteen helped him into his hla nightie and tucked him Into his o obed own bed in a corner of ot the large air room As the lights were turned out a plaintive boyish treble began to lo recite Now I lay me down to sleep And big SI Noble four years a football roughneck and noisiest In hi Inthe hithe inthe the frat looked thoughtful for the first time in his life Ure Pledges were made that Son would be given a proper bringing up And the spirit of ot these pledges carried out rigidly and tenderly has wrought a revolution in fraternity chapter house life lite Prof Proto Edward M. M Washington's Washing Washing- tons ton's venerable historian and a member of ot Sigma Nu said of the adoption It Itis Itis ItrIs is rIs one of ot the finest things I ever heard of I believe this act really means a abig abig abig big step toward new and vital service e ein in the lives of collegians When Son sings Bow Bo Down to Washington the U. U of W. W campus song the smoke of their pipes is very apt to get in the eyes or of his twenty- twenty five daddies