The Juvenile Court Record

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Page 14 - Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through. What makes the light in them sparkle and spin? Some of the starry spikes left in. Where did you get that little tear? I found it waiting when I got here.
Page 17 - Where did you get that little tear? I found it waiting when I got here. What makes your forehead so smooth and high? A soft hand stroked it as I went by.
Page 18 - I passed by, and from under the flapping brim of his hat he cast a quick glance out of dark, half-bashful eyes, and modestly returned my salute. When his back was turned I took off my hat and sent a God-bless-you down the furrow after him. Who knows ? — I may yet go to that boy to borrow money, or to hear him preach, or to beg him to defend me in a law-suit ; or he may stand with pulse...
Page 15 - A band of boys from three to six or seven in number will go from tenement to tenement on Saturday evenings, taking orders from the housewives for fruits, vegetables, groceries, light hardware and clothing, just as though they were delivery clerks. When they think they have a sufficient number of orders they go out on the street and by a series of organized raids secure the goods which the housewives have ordered. These goods are sold on a regularly established scale of prices, which in most parts...
Page 15 - This is a regularly organized form of amusement, which has existed to the writer's personal knowledge for a decade or more on the middle west side. As far as the boys themselves are concerned, it is a game and nothing more. The crimes .committed are incidental to the game. The elements the boys are striving for are the dramatic adventure in obtaining stolen goods, the excitement of gambling, which to them is no crime, and the physical joys of the soda water, cigarettes, motion picture shows, etc.,...
Page 11 - Well, so he did," persisted Johnny.' " He had his arm " " John ! " screamed his mother frantically. " Why," whined the boy," I was " " John," said his father sternly, " leave the room !" And Johnny left, crying as he went: " I was only going to say that he had his army clothes on.
Page 4 - ... contemporary ancestors" in the mountainous backyards of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Carolinas These fragments and relics of bygone times have been left untouched by the progress of civilization above and about them. They represent to this day mediaeval and even primitive life conditions and instincts. The great modern improvement in the means of travel and the new migration of peoples have begun to mix these various layers of human material together to some extent, and to distribute...
Page 16 - The result is a fundamental schism between the child com11 munity and the adult community. The child community is a nuisance. The adult community is a tyrant. Neither is to blame. Our laws, our court procedure and our probation system, imperfect though they be, are not to blame. The blame rests with the city which has not provided play space and which does not intelligently use even the little play space that is provided.

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