Show I Childish Pranks Bring Tragedy to Thousands of Homes Annually Thousands of children are killed or injured every year while playing Ignorance of dangerous things and places heedlessness and foolhardiness ness bring tragic consequences It seems unlikely that the time will willever willever ever come when little boys and girls have sense enough not to jump off barns or leap from one floating ice cake to another or play in railroad yards or any of a hundred other perilous stunts Here are a few of cases A year old boy in Long LongBeach LongBeach LongBeach Beach Calif crawled into the tool compartment of an abandoned trail trail- er A companion with a grudge thought it would be a neat trick to slam the door The lock snapped and the boy remained inside the box for 36 hours before being rescued by a passerby Another boy who lived in Chicago was not so fortunate He hid in the or icebox while playing with his dog The little animal leaned against the door shutting it and clicking th the I latch The boy suffocated b before fore his mother and sister returned William was trying to amuse himself himself him him- self sell on the back porch because h he could not play in the yard He tossed a rope over the clothesline Somehow he got tangled up A loop coiled toile d about his neck When he tripped the loop tightened an and he was choked to death |