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Show Childish Pranks Bring Tragedy to Thousands of Homes Annnallv Thousands of children are killed or injured every year while playing. Ignorance of dangerous things and places, heedlessness and foolhardi-ness foolhardi-ness bring tragic consequences. It seems unlikely that the time will ; ever come when little boys and girls i have sense enough not to jump off barns, or leap from one floating ice cake to another, or play in railroad j yards, or any of a hundred other perilous per-ilous stunts. I Here are a few of 1944's cases: A nine-year-old boy in Long Beach, Calif., crawled into the tool compartment of an abandoned trailer. 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 icebox while playing with his dog. The little animal leaned against the door, shutting it and clicking the latch. The boy suffocated before his mother and sister returned. William was trying to amuse himself him-self on the back porch, because he could not play in the yard. He tossed a rope over the clothesline. Somehow, he got tangled up. A loop coiled about his neck. When he tripped, the loop tightened, and he was choked to death. |
