| Show childish pranks bring tragedy to thousands of homes annually thousands of children are killed or injured every year while playing ignorance ot of dangerous things and places heedlessness beed and foolhardiness bring tragic consequences it teems seems unlikely that the time will ever come when little boys and girls be have e sense enough not to jump off barns or leap irom from one floating ice cake to another or play in railroad yards or any ot of a hundred other per mom stunts here are a tew few ot of cases A nine year old boy in long beach calif crawled into the tool too compartment of an abandoned trailer A companion with a grudge thought it would be a neat trick to slam the door the lock snapped and the boy remained remal ned inside the box for or 36 hours before being rescued by a passerby pais another boy who lived in chicago was not so fortunate tortu he hid in the icebox while playing with his dog the little animal leaned against the door shutting it and clicking the latch the boy suffocated before his bis mother and sister returned william was trying to amuse himself on the back porch because he could not play in the yard he tossed a rope over the clothesline nl somehow he got tangled up A loop coiled about his neck when lie he tripped the loop tightened and he be was choked to death |
