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Show TEARS AEE SEED m POLICE COURT Today's police court was the scene of a tearful trial, in which women and children were the chief participants. Mrs. Pete Unander was the defendant and she was charged by her neighbor, Mrs. M. J Kell, "MUi having slapped her In the face yebterday. Mrs. Unander pleaded guilty to the charge and was subsequently discharged dis-charged without a fine, the judge delivering de-livering himself of a lengthy discourse relative to neighborhood quarrels and the disgrace and notoriety unwisely acquired by an appearance in police court. The testimony showed that one of the Unander children had called Mrs. Kelt's little girls bad names. Mrs. Kell took the matter up and called tho boy over to her fence to accuse him of the offense. Ho proceeded to call her a liar, whereupon she struck him in the face with a dish rag. Mrs. Unander, learning of the attack on her son, Immediately invited Mrs. Kell over to "have it out," and on the lalter's denjing that she had struck the boy, Mrs, Unander impulsively impul-sively struck her neighbor twice on tho side of the face with her open hand. One after another, half a dozen children arose in their places and tearfully admitted or denied the statements state-ments of their elders until all had been heard. The Judge then treated the entire assembly to a scorching discourse on misbehavior He said It was disgraceful for mothers to set such an example before their children chil-dren and be dragged into a police court to light out their petty quarrels, backed up by their Innocont children. "As long as a child Is a child," said the judge, "he is going to become involved in little play-quarrels, just as you all have In years gone by, and just as 1 did once myself It Is inevitable in-evitable with children and the most foolish thing on earth for a mother to do Is to take up one of theBe little scraps and interest herself In it. Don't try to chastise your neighbors' children. chil-dren. Look more closely after your own, and be certain that it is not they who are at fault Then If you know that the others are in the wrong, either talk it over calmly with their parents or keep them from playing together. But above all, don't slap one another's faces and then come here to a police court to wrangle. Bo patient with each other." |