Show Childish Pranks Bring Tragedy to Thousands of Homes I Thousands of L I n Annually Thousands of L I children are we killed or injured every year while playing Ignorance of dangerous things and places heedlessness and ness bring tragic consequences It seems unlikely that the time will ill willever willever ever come when little boys and girls have sense enough not to jump off barns bams or leap from one floating ice cake to an another or play in railroad yards or any of ot a hundred other perilous stunts n Here are a few of cases A year old boy in Long LongBeach LongBeach Beach Calif crawled into the tool compartment of an abandoned trail trail- er A companion with a grudge thought it would b bv a neat trick to slam the door The lock snapped and the boy remained inside the box for 36 30 hours before being rescued by a passerby Another boy who lived in Chicago was not so 80 fortunate He lie hid in the icebox while playing with his dog The little animal leaned against the thedoor thedoor door shutting it and clicking the latch The boy suffocated before his mother and sister returned William was trying to amuse himself himself him him- self on the back porch because he could not play In the yard He Ile tossed a rope over the clothesline Somehow he got tangled up A loop colled coiled about his neck When he tripped the loop tightened am and he was was' choked to death |