CHILDREN'S CORNER.

Evening Star, Issue 15342, 17 November 1913, Page 6

CHILDREN'S CORNER.

A BRAVE LAD. In recognition of bis bravery in saving three people from drowning. "Trooper G. P. Boswell. of tho Imperial Cadet Yeomanry (City of London), was. at London Guildhall, presented hv Alderman Sir Charles Wakefield (lion, colonel of the regiment) with a gold watch In making the presentation Sir Charles Wakefield said Trooper Boswell's act wa.s one of conspicuous bravery. On 'September 1, while in camp at Hcasham, Norfolk, he saw two men in difficulties in the sea, and the wife of one of them who went to the rescue also began to sink. Boswell dived into the sea. and succeeded in bringing a \\ tj lm} to safety. When congratulated at the time upon his courage. Boswell, who is only 17. replied: "Anyone in our regiment would have done the same it he had the chance " Boswell was also presented with a sum of money in recognition of his bravorv, but be. rendered his deed the more meritorious Dj handing the mouev over to an orphan age-

ANOTHER CROP OF "HOWLERS." _ Sir John Struthers, secretary to the Scottish.. Education Department, in his annual report, quotes the following schoolboy howlers : A worshipper of Mammon means a bigamist. ~ '-The Israelites were fed bv mammon in trie wilderness. Muses were often seen at funerals in the olden days. A Job's comforter is a thing to give the baby the patience of Job. Franchise i.s a kind of cotton imported in bales. • T ! 1 u ?° U ,' ; -° ot " C ' omm<l »* """as founded o.v the Parliament Act, The Black Prince was Snrajah Dowlah. «-i 41 . .. '' n ? lish P ;, P'-'' one candidate said that "to have to say something" was a phrase that "expressed the predicament of some ot our Poet Laureates/' Another comparing Macbeth and Milton's Satan' said tnat they resembled one another' because both were misled bv their wives.

VAN BOYS ON STRTKI-

AMUSING prCKKTINO SCTXKS l\ LONDON. "* ' ' Humorous incidents occurred iu connection with a short-lived strike of van bovs at Messrs Carter Patcrson's, Goswell road London, big carrying depot. .About 200 hoys came out on strike, and ther took the matter very serious!v. Hoaduurrter< were ostablishd at street corners under the direction of the "organiser." a youth of 16 named "I atty'' Harding. A number ' ~ • ]:l< f /"gaged in "peaceful picketing . >n Old .street. The first victim was > the strikers, bundling to his somewhat insecure perch on a gmgor beer case, to ttie great admiration of city business men on the ommouws and tran'icars. He was eventually saved through another's misloi,imo. A railway van hovo in si>hf and on it, reposing on a. sack, was a'fa't boy who slept. r, u ,te, oblivious of the din around h.m. The. strikers at once turned hc,r a tent.on to him with a. whoopand J« awoke with a start to find hands sowing jus Jogs and a number of his "fellowhoT^ rS TI tl7ing , t0 Climb °" lo th " tailhoaul Iho watehing crowd shrieked with laughter as the fat, boy kicked out in desperation Things , ookod omi n «« intimidated boy's bed was pulled from bolted. Out of a s ,d e turn ng strode a solitary po iceman, who took in thosiL a Trot a '&' ,Ci ? d r^ d his " a tiot. the strikers lied, and at a safe distance tried to recover their d.giii?-' 57s % J i b " TS t m - T < [nm a" average ot 7s a, week has now been raised to a sum varying between 8s and 14s j„ , c cordance with the age of tho bovs'and the type of duty. Harding, tho leader of to strikers, managed his "men" verv adroit and showed courage, they eay.'fcv hS tho lust or come out *„• „ como back,' J„ tll6 intcrvaJs - or genoralsh.p against youthful blacklegs ad the organisaUon ot pickets he affiliated the boys to the Dockers' Union aimiatod

MISCELLANEOUS.

A very necessary Act for the protection of children has come into force in Eng-land-the Children (Employment Abroad) Act. Lip till now, remarks the ' Gentlewoman, thougn considerable attention has been directed to the way in which child actors arc treated at homo, there were no restrictions -upon the employment of children abroad up to a certain age. This Act makes it incumbent upon the Magistrate, before granting a license for any child to go abroad to perform or lie exhibited for profit, to be satisfied that it is going with the consent of a responsible parent or guardian, that a particular engagement is to be fulfilled, and that proper .arrangements have been inadc,