Show I rt e N is a woman and andi J t i she 1 lives ives s ini in r i and do doesn doesn't S' S wear a uniform ly I 4 HE prettiest policeman In the tho world worM Is la lanot not Michael Mulcahy who stands at the I IL T crossing wigwagging with his hickory club to reckless chauffeurs and profane teamsters nor Officer Pete Dennis who dill h travels tra th thO river bate even bate even though Mar Mary did say that Mr r. r Dennis DInnIs was Wal wasas F as ns In his gilden and I s 's braided et as any In to the k The prettiest policeman In Chicago Is 15 a aHer policewoman Her name Is Elizabeth Grace Miss Grace Miss Elizabeth Grace Grace a. a tall taU slender graceful young oung woman who handcuffs her prisoners with a a. winning smile and takes them to headquarters on a n. street car Miss Grace Graco Is a probation officer of ot the Juvenile court and she sho Is the youngest woman ever sworn Into the service of oC Judge Macks Mack's chief of ot staff Henry W. W P Thurston Thuraton She Is 2 25 years ears old she Is pretty enough to pose for tor Sargent she Is vivacious y enough to be a d debutante she Is serious enough for the serious serious serious seri seri- ous r role le she plays on the tho municipal stage she Is modest mod- mod est eat enough to deny all nil this In the tho work worl Miss Grace Is la doing youth and beauty are arc no han handicap Tho delinquent boys In her charge obey her as they might a ruling queen Sho She seems to Inspire In fn them all that there is of oC good sho she kin kin- kindles 4 dies the spark of ot chivalry that every man has dormant dormant dor dor- mant In him somewhere and the tho lads paroled to her herb herby herby b by the court court stand ready to fight and die for Cor her C 1 r i Championed by Her Charges j It anybody says anything about Miss Grace said one of ot the burly lads of or the stockyards district f the tho other day hed he hed he'd better not come aro around nd here hero to sa say It for or hed he'd git all that was a comin to him 1 Miss 1189 Grace has been a probation for tor only rj six six months but I f In that short time she sho has made an enviable record fo for tor herself so enviable In fact tact that some Borne of ot the older probation officers who ho also are misses have ha put their heads together and are arc saying that she Is too young and too pretty prett to do the work they do In spite of ot these protests however Miss lIss Grace docs does the work and there Is not a probation officer In the tho Juvenile court who Is 15 better liked bythe bythe by bythe the boys and girls In her charge than this pretty young policewoman Nearly sixty boys have been paroled to Miss Iss Grace by bYI the court and she watches over them with the watchfulness of ot a mother The lads range In age from 7 to 17 and where mothers fail with them Grace Graco succeeds In the brief period o of her ber service as ah an an officer of or Judge Macks Mack's d court Miss 1 Grace has made a dozen ot the the worst vorst l lads lads' lads lads' Js' Js a ot of C tho the lt lair lair- With jJ I. dlo lo kY kytt respecters 7 this dozen she sho has succeeded so 0 well that whenever a n. lad ladIn In ln her district district- commits commit a a. a crime or violates n city ordinance Miss Gra Grace e la is tho the first person In tho the r district to know It l r Found the Work Difficult When then Miss Iss Grace first became a probation she found the work difficult It was entirely new to nor and she sho came into close contact with the side aide of or life lite she never before had seen Her life UCe had been full o of sunshine her homo home surroundings had been wholesome some her mother had Imbued her with high Ideals The life uro with which she came In touch when she sho took up the tho work of or a n. probation officer was full o of shadows and heartaches The atmosphere o of tho the homes home she went Into was unwholesome sho she met people people people peo peo- without Ideals The task of ot adjusting herself to the tho now environment was not easy It is a difficult task for tor women more moro experienced than Miss Grace i iThe The process oV of weaving a bond ot oi sympathy between yourself and some one entirely different from yourself your your- self self different different physically mentally and morally morally morally-is Is slow The Thc process usually brings both you and theother theother the tho other pers person n to a common level In six months Miss Grace has woven a strong bond of ot sympathy between herself henel and all the lads within the tho limits of the territory territory ter ter- assigned to h her r by the chief probation officer Instead of or meeting the people of ot the other world on ona f a a. common level this young officer of ot the tho law has tried to to uplift e cr every one with whom she aho has como come In Sn co contact contact con con- con con- 1 tact to her level a 4 it She Is Not Is-Not Not Nol a Pessimist woman turns her face faco ace from sunshine to When hen a n shadow and In tho the darkness sees all the woes of oC the world huddled together pessimism usually seizes her has picked up the wreckage of or young MJ Miss s Grace homes destroyed by drink she has seen lives ll she girls from the sU stilling air of ot dance danco has dragged young she sho has taken the weapons of or the tho and saloons halls haUs boys whose souls Ii h. h- h become become become be be- from Crom young highwayman with a a. desire to follow Collow In the tho footsteps foot foot- saturated come dime novel hero hero she has reasoned wan of oC some steps fathers and nd profane mothers she has seen dissolute Starving starving and dying 1101 little girls havo children little ii of their degradation Yet bcd in in her hor tars oars the tiie s story y Ion there is riot not a strain ot of pessimism In h her hr to have there Is no soul sou so poor as a. lies Iss G Grace Orace believes bellev S this In It It Working on no no room for or goodness goodness' 0 goodness striven to arouse oro the thc dormant has ha pIe she e pe she has come In contact with whom in itt ever every one Is best told toW by the stories si she sho h has succeeded How liew well the children ot of the stockyards district andors and of somo some of ot over which MM Miss Grace district their moth mothers ors ors- The Tho extends beat o from West Forty Forty- control her control her haa street and from J- J Fifty to West Pest cs seventh place w west vest at to Ashland Ashlan d avenue In Jn this Wentworth a avenue venue many thousands or of district 1 there are arc great packing scarcely one of or them who does docs Is children There by si sight B bt- bt Grace not know Miss shouted a lad ot or tellers fellers Miss Grac 4 There goes SOC'S o of boys a fw rew days daysi 10 years yours as LS he ran up Wentworth to o a group J Jago avenue and Fifty Fifty- i ago at the corner corns r of or She's the lady Indy wh what gotA got gol fifth s street boulevard home from r om the saloon saloon and A JImmys JImmy's father to came baby sister buy milk for tor Jimmys Jimmy's lot iS 0 I- I IMade FaC er Be Good Goo Made dim m y s 's about mo me an f story No- No An An so want t bear benr mother melber thO th standing In the lb said old Jimmy her hands handson I MIss hiss Grace Groce and drying r c of ot a little gray srn house no II ce cold Id If lf I 1 talk 01 k an doorway ll a oil all suds u Sure ra m mY but yc Ye aint oink on en onan b her er n burin apron must bul to yo ye but Ill I'll toll lOU ye If It ye Jc e oT It U wa was this way- way one of ot there then ri air ye seat It u was ln this way wayn a ai any on have hae a a B 5 aimed at 01 wont won't ye come some 1 In n ivory IverY h ho be a John drunk up y an on hed he'd John hes he's my man Saturday night i th Ib saloon Ho Hed He'd d be paid on n b to th saloon There Theres ere ra kit in h house r u be h hod s pack th thO Then lelL eft L i goth go o straight t from bod l lc until ho a oln o n ns drink dj up and give tr hod he d drink rink children to 0 want th Ib Ii I took come came beme m e and and gum um K and sell pope papers to 10 live and ond 0 out was wo obI able t t school go waY wo we 0 that tel luk the IhO thet he was wa and ond it II i In was hin and ond come coms home bOm s wk he bs that Ibal cac at 01 t oiL all Saturday n buY food lood and ond money bod laid by for lor to 10 bOd gone Miss lIs' lIs Grace Groce 4 Inlo where knows hOW or where where- onlY and anda w- w x heard about It tiro Lord o tb over looked and 5 here I a 1 1 ic l 4 JI r. r I. r t r 1 r if i t-r- t F a r i v I II 5 5 5 4 I I i. i pr I 1 R t i I 1 R r 1 r T. 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