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Show Already Kiddies Play Hookey to Go Swimming Listen and shiver Though th- spring sun has started life anew In trees and I plants and things. It has not yet atttlned sufficient caloric strength to counteract the icy chill of Weber We-ber river waters. Despite this fact, cases of truancy, tru-ancy, committed by youngstera who go to the Webor river and brave the high waters In the 'old I BWimmin' hole'" have been brought I to the attention of the Juvenile-court. Juvenile-court. According to information re-j re-j celved tills morning, there are a number of boys who have abandoned aban-doned lessons on wrm afternoons of the pout week, and have made their way to the Bamberger bridge I at Thirty-third street where, divested di-vested of all civilized garb, they defied the cold, muddy torrent that Is now flowing over th0 rlv.-r bed. The boys say that the water Is I "klnda cold, but not so bad If thftie a a fire built on the bank of tho stream, so's a fellow can get to it after ho swam across." |