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Show TWO BOYS LOST WHILE SKATING Mount Vernon, N. Y Dec. 20. Two boys, sons of Thomas Houlihan, a city official, wero drowned '.st night in an East Chester pond. Joseph, aged 12 years, lost bis llfo while trying to have his younger brother, John, aged 9, who broke through tho thin ice while skating. A passerby, who made a futile attempt at-tempt to save them, was rescued In an exhausted condition. oo A public hearing was recently heid in Boston by tho commission appointed appoint-ed to consider the wisdom of establishing estab-lishing a scale of minimum warn for womeu and m'neri in Massachusetts |