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Show Che Jnter-Mountain Republican She is a woman and She lives in Chicago and doesn't Wear a uniform. HE prettiest not Michael ng braided as unifoirm airmy." The policeman in Mulcahy, who vagging with tuffeurs Jficer Pete r bate-even that Mr. purty in his gilden as any ijyer in prettiest policeman in Handcuffs ber prisoners with a winning smile and takes them to lockup on a street car. the world Is stands at the his hickory and profane Dennis, who though Mary Dinnis was bootens and the Risshun Chlieago is a policewoman Her name is Elizabeth Grace-Miss Elizabeth Grace-a tall slender, graceful, young woman who handcuffs her prisoners with a winning smile and takes them to headquarters on a street car. Miss Grace is a probation officer of the Juvenile court, and she Is the youngest woman ever sworn into the ervice of Judge Mack's chief of staff, Henry W Thurstor She is 25 years old; she is pretty nough to pose for Sargent; she is vivacious enough to be débutante; she is serious enough for the serious réle she plays on the municipal stage; she Is modest enough to deny all thi In the work Miss Grace is doing youth and beauly ure handicay The delinquent boys In her charge obey her s they might a ruling queen She seems to inspire In them all that there is of good; she kindles the spark of chivalry that every man has dormant in him somewhere, and the lads paroled to her by the court stand ready to fight and die for her x & Champtonea by Her Charges. "If anybody says anything about Miss Grace," said one of the burly lads of the stockyards district no the other d i l f ] better. om 1round here to Say it, for he'd git all that was a-comin' to him," Miss Grace has beer probation officer for only six months, but in that short tin he has made an enviable record for herself, so enviable in fact that ff ers, some of the older probation who also are misses, have put their heads together and are saying that she is too young and too pretty to do the work they do. In spite of these protests, however, Miss Grace does the work, and there is not a probation officer in the Juvenile court who is better liked by the boys and girls in her charge than this pretty young policewoman Nearly sixty boys have been paroled to Miss Grace by\the court, and she watches over them with the watchfulness of a mother. The lads range in age from 7 to 17, and where mothers i1ail with them Miss Grace succeeds. In the brief period of her service as an officer of Judge Mack's court Miss Grace has made a dozen of the worst lads in the-steckyardadistuict respecters of the law. With this dozen she has succeeded so well that whenever a lad in her district commits a crime or violates a city ordinance Miss Grace is the first person in the district to know it. s Work full of sunshine wholesome; ideals The she took up shadows homes ple her life the he "0, Difficalt. urrounding had been mother had imbued her with high with which she came in touch when work of probation officer was full of and she irtaches went without home rhe into Id atmosphers inwholesome,; is Ch task of of he the met adjusting peo- herself to the new environm wa not easy it 1 difficult task for women more experienced than Miss Grace. The process of weaving r bond oo. sympathy between vourself and some one entirely different from yourself-different physically, mentally ind morally-is slow The process t ally t g both you and the other person to a nmon level In ix months Miss Grace has woven a strong bond of sympatt between herself and all the lads within the limit of the territory assigned to her by the chile f probation office Instead of ymmon to uplift tact to meeting the people of level this young officer every her one with whom the other of the law she has in s a a Pessimist. to sunshine from fa her turns a woman When of the ill the woes darkness In the and hadow her Zz illlly ¢ eizes r r pessimism together huddled world young of e wreck the up picked has Grace Miss she rin i destr hom seen has she lives of dance i rom t girls young has dragged in halls taken the w pons of the and saloons beli mul o is boys ¥ yung from highwayman ootth 1 , to f lesire with saturated ome j om r h ie hero, novel dime »me steps of \ gs seen 8 } I mo profane and fathers dissolute ve girls little dying id rving children little Yet yn j ir deg 0 tory he obbed in her ears imism fy I a not is there on p her compo « to have ,00F yul no s i there believes Idiss Grace - is prin : ) W eine in it for goodness no room 4 ~ dormant the to arouse striven ha she ple r - i n has she whom with ont every ip children of the The district . er which : Gras Miss thelr mothers is from West Forty beat-exten control-her t, and trom Fifty-ninth stree to West place seventh *avenus to Ashland In this sult west avenue thousands Wentworth many are there district packing one of therm who do great is scarcely + There children, 3s by sight lac oa a not know M iss Grace fellers "8 routed Miss Grace, goes lay f "There boys t a group ot up rs as he Fif ty3, and ny ri n 1e oF Wentworth Sener what. got lady 5 . at the the "She's poulevard. saloon and fifthne street ' the from home come to Jimmy's father : s baby sister milk for Jimmy uy a a 7 fs od. j Be Faiter Fimmy's Made ne®tee 2 4 th' story t hear want so ye stance : mother, hermioaode iad Jimmy's ad "8 dry ing a house and tee gray Se lt little ok f i ray . * col git my ‘Sure, y suds‘ll ust allknow-but heree apron , ye m ng ?0 on a to-ve. - but I'l) tell yest vee rs, a me of t won't yé th' un , he's John, saloot rey ee yme | une my ed in school th' and drink and washin', at all money pe from ink t' ere £0 and r have ye Well, seat? ery it was »sto ed packin until night. th' children ‘he t the where into the saloon ly on it-the Lord heard about and looked and she come here to. ow knows Then he'd There he »" a 5°% © ¢ way- an saloonmm nous wa nothin' lett. b and sell papers out way - we it was t hat home Saturday 4 yeck I had laid by for this « this ay It was thi Os ak cint he airned & ank onup Saturday tve Sead and Miss Grace or where- h bh' situa shion over I ain't a-goin'," muttered a s and the boy. to Keep Promise. Yer-fou dre," Insisted Miss Grace, * Ta.ks con- level She Is Not but kindly. "You're going because you promised me you'd go," "T don't give a d-- what I promised you." Miss Grace took the lad by the arm, and he broke away and ran. One of the boys in the crowd ran after him. "Here he is," he said, bringing Jack back. Then turning to Jack he went on: "You keep your promise to her or I'll make you." Jack went to court. These are only a few of the many stories told about Miss Grace in the big district in which she 1s a good angel. She blushingly denies the truth of all the stories the boys tell of her adventures, and treats her experiences as nothing. When asked last week to relate some of her experiences she steadfastly refused, and the stories printed here were gathered in the district Every haunt of boys and girls in the long, wide district {s known to Miss Grace, and time and again, on her way home e has stopped long enough to take a boy home from his " club." When Miss Grace took up the work as probation officer in the district of the great stockyards she determined to secure the friendship and confidence of tho boys under her supervision She wanted to get in touch with them and let them feel that she was interested, first of all, in their well being Consequently she arranged for a meeting with all the boys paroled to her once a week This meeting is held every Saturday morning in one of the small parks of the district. world on has tried com a] Forces Boy When M ce first became a probation omecur found t work difficult It was entirely new to and ® came into close contact with the side of sh never before had en Her life had been he ier life & Gang Loses a Member. "I suppose I'll have to take you home, then?" said Miss Grace, severely. The boy scanned the pretty policeman from head to foot, laughed scornfully, and then went home. All the way home the probation officer talked to the lad and before the humble little house was reached a truce had been declared The conditions of the truce were simple. The boy was to stay away from the barn and break away from the gang Miss Grace was to get him a "good job." The lad kept his word, and so did Miss Grace. c "He's a different boy altogether," said his mother yesterday, smiling contentedly. ‘Miss Grace got him to see that he was doing wrong. She told him that as his father was dead he should try to take his place, that he should be a man and take care of his mother. He came home to me and said: ‘Mother, I'm going to be a man; Miss Grace says I'm old enough to take care of you, and that you're too old to have to wash for a livin'. She's goin' to get me a job, and I'm goin' to look out for you'" A few days ago Miss Grace was walking along Halsted street looking for a boy who was wanted In the Juvenile court. Finally she saw him sitting on an ash barrel in*"the center of a group half way down a narrow alley. "Jack," she began, stepping up to the boy, " didn't you know you were to go to court with me this afternoon?" "Yep; & Found the then wint straight to th' saloon and got my man She made ‘im come back to me and give me ‘is money She told him she'd send him to th' bridewell if he didn't. God bless her." Another woman {tp the yards district had walked the streets for three nights in a fruitless effort to learn whete her boy of 15 was in the habit of mecting the neighborhood gang and spending the night. In despair she appealed to Miss Grace. The young and pretty policeman made a few inquiries of her juvenile friends and soon learned that George Brady had fallen in with a crowd of boys several years his senior, who met aightly in an old barn. At the hour the boys were in the habit of assembling Miss Grace went to the barn, and, singling out Brady, held a long conference with him. The lad sullenly refused to go home os to Them Like a Sister. Miss Grace presides at the meeting and talks to the boys as might an older sister She never says, "you must do this" or "you mustn't do that." She talks about the work of boys, their prospects of success in a great ity; she encourages them; she shows them what right living means; she atirs up ambition The talks are given In a friendly spirit, and the boys enter Into the conferences with the same feeling Every lad tells Miss Grace how he {is getting along In school and at home, and Miss Grace compares his report with the reports she already has secured from pa Gr thin his mother and his teacher Usually they comn every detail, for if there is one thing Miss instill In her boys more than any other one it is respect for the truth None of the fifty-five boy paroled to Miss Grace by the Juvenile court has jolated his parole, and, without exception, every one of them gives promise of becoming a respected, law abiding citizen Miss Grace is devoted to her work She believes she | doing more good as a probation officer than she could do in any other line of work It was this feeling that inspired her to abandon a life of comparative ease for the hard, disagreeable work of mending broken hearts and souls % & Personality Is Attractive. Personally Miss Grace is strong character, ceptionally superabundance enough magnetism of will to a young woman and is equipped power draw people She to is of exwith a endowed her To with describ the prettiest policeman in \the world would be to describe + young woman with bronze hair, touched with gold; light brown eyes that sparkle when they look at you; eye that can laugh and be serious at the same tims Her complexion ts elear and brilliant- the color of her cheeks bespeaks good health. She js above medium height, and remarkably graceful in fact, she and her two sisters often are referred to as the Three Graces Contact with the world usually rubs the finer edges from a woman's nature When women put their a living in competito the task of earning shoulders tion with men they usually, almost invarlably lose the best part of their womanliness The masculine a for them, is too strong usually influence and, If they : do not t a ssum in' ‘me mans apparel to a degree, they assume his ways and manners They become masculinized Miss Gra has retained her femininity In spite of her close contact with the rougher element of soclety She has lost none of her womanliness She is playing 4 man's part clo 1 in the dress and the manners of 1 refined young woman Mi Gr not only Is the prettiest policeman in the world but she is probably on of the most con sclentious policemen in the world She has never slept on her beat, she never has grafted she never touches @ drop. |
