| Show dounn one night last week two or three youths from the medium school trades grades got themselves into a predicament di dt which appears to be of the third or fourth class the consolidated wagon co place was entered through a back window anil and appropriated and various things culled over they had made a atre there and seemed to have taken their time next they played hob with a dandy new stock of fresh candles candies at ches chea tor ter phillips confectionery storo store where evidently the fine window display had proved to bo be too much for their boyish sweet tooth the scads of tobacco they took must have offered lucrative promise boys boyn ot of that hat oge age who can contrive a haul of that nature and then offer their loot for sale the very next day are going some as it Is ia said they were selling at great bargains the things they had possessed themselves of when they were suspected it la fi lamentable that the greater percentage of common crime in the larger cities la is said to be traced to boys and young men from small towns who got get started wrong and have not the courage to face rebuke for their first offense skulk away awat from home unable to make uny any sort of a living they cant face a big world and make good then drift to really bad and from bad to worse landing in the clutches of the law I 1 without funds or friends to find that their goose Is cooked it compulsory extra study of music art and above all compulsory recreation were made a part of the enforced curriculum the so called surplus energy of very veri young people would he be turned into us useful clean channels to start with a positive husky up to date dancing master who would conduct classes tor for children of all agos ages who should train also in polite manners dignified quiet behavior mutual respect neat ness etc the result could only be astounding and for good some good society of women to have just one day in each month to appear after the dancing revenue and nil up every blessed kid with lee ice cream cake and candy that childish overwhelming appetite tor for sweets would soon be satisfied and I 1 the one embarrassing feature wiped out of a gluttonous grabbing by great hand fulls any and everything called candy 0 or made with sugar the growing bodies would soon be reconstructed the minds purified and their souls saved it Is not fair to blame children entirely when they make bad mistakes tor for there are several most inviolate stops between the pink infant stage and the adolescent period which can assuredly bo be corrected and disaster averted it the proper persons persona are on the job iob |
