Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-04 | Page 6 | Home is Found for Seven Year Old Boy

HOME IS FOUND TOO SEVEN-YEAR-OLD 80Y A home has finally been found for the seven-year-old boy who recently asked the Juvenile court to send him j to the Industrial school so ho could get something to eat. At supper this evenlnc the youngster I will eat a hearty meal at tho home of Mrs. Charlotte A. Mills of West Weber, to whose care and custody ho has been committed by order of the court. Tho story of the little boy who lived In a home so cheerless because of poverty pov-erty nnd hunger that he wanted to be (separated from his pan nts was print -en In tho Standard a few days ago. It I was then told how the youngster had been under the care of the Juvenile ' court for more than a year; that he I had been apprehended a number of times for breaking Into stores and i stallng things to eat. and that each investigation of his apparent shortcoming short-coming proved that hunger alone prompted the act Hut the Juvenile court decided that jthe Industrial school was no place for 'such a bright boy. Instead of sending him to that Institution he was temporarily tem-porarily placed In the care of the Mar tha society and sent to the Day Nurs-; Nurs-; ery pending effort to find I home lor hltn. The boy was too old for the children chil-dren of the homo, however, and he 'soon fell that he was out of his proper j element. He hesitated to complain to I the Juvenile court again. lthough I Well treated and hl hunger appeased, the child seemed to sense that he was not understood by the other children. For a day or two ho chafed under the bonds or his pledged word and constituted con-stituted authority. Then, when he eould stand toing fo sehool with children chil-dren of his own age but who were years behind him In worldly know ledge, no longer, ho left the institution institu-tion ami began to wander the streets. He was soon picked up and taken back. And this morning he wan clad-jdenod clad-jdenod when told that a real home with a very kind lady in the country haj been found for him.