Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-09-18 | Page 7 | Stopped the Child's Cries

w I STOPPED THE CHILD'S CRIES ' Sudden Philanthropy of Newoboy Put ' an End to Wails of the Youngster. Nobody seemed to know what ho was crying about, but It raust have been something, for the youngster was running the entire gnmut of Infantile shrieks. He was a tow-headed, lace- collared IitUe chap of lour or Ave, ! down town on a shopping tour with hiB1! mother, n large, fashionably at-tlrod at-tlrod woman of tho uocloty type. People along the street turned and i looked at the waiting youngster, but It wasn't up to them to say anything and they jnot let him cry. The mother tried to hush him, but to no avail. Whatever it was that he was so Jach-ryinoua Jach-ryinoua and worked up ovor had him right. Then strolled up a little newsboy news-boy a lad probably nine or ten years of age, but not much largor than the five-year-old. Tho newsboy wbb Just Etartlng to eat a banana when ho heard the shrill shrieks of the smaller ' kid. Whether aa a Joke or in a spirit ' of magnanimity he rushed up alongside along-side of tho astonlahed mother, placed the banana in her son's hand and aayo: "Here, b, oat that an' stop your renin'." And the unexpectodneB of the gift did actually stop the noleo nnd tears In about two seconds and a half.