Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1915 — Baby Shoppers Wander Far From Their Firesides [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Baby Shoppers Wander Far From Their Firesides

PHILADELPHIA. —After an all-day search for curtain poles, in which their wanderings led them hither and yon over West Philadelphia, two tired and hungry and discouraged four-year-olds were found, two miles away from

their homes, and, restored to their anxious parents. They had no curtain poles. Early in the morning the mother of John Young, Jr., four years old, of 3716 Baring street, told him to run out to a nearby upholstery shop to get some curtain poles. The junior Young went to the corner of Lancaster avenue and Thirty-eighth street, and proposed to his young friend, Thomas Griffin, also four years old, that they do the shopping together.

After a while they forgot the errand, and wandered off in search of new excitements. As the hours wore on, the parents of both children became frantic, and notified Special Policemen Roseboro and Farmer of the Sixteenth district, also Captain Cameron's office. The special policemen scoured West Philadelphia in two automobiles, but found.no trace of the four-year-old shoppers. Bravely encamped upon an old plank, hand clutched in chubby hand, two youngsters were sitting alone in a vacant lot at Forty-ninth street and Chester avenue just at sunset. Ten-year-old Thomas Dickson of Thirty-eighth street and Lancaster avenue, who thought he was doing some traveling himself, stood still in boyish amazement as he caught sight of the pair. He whistled through his teeth, and, frowning, descended upon them with reproving air. _ , After reading them a youthful riot act as to the sin of keeping ones mother waiting for curtain poles the whole day long, he notified Mrs. M. Dailey of Forty-ninth street and Chester avenue, a friend of the Young family, and she telephoned of the saffety of the four-year-olds.