Child as Lost Property

Horowhenua Chronicle, 1 May 1931, Page 8

Child as Lost Property

MOTHER’S STRANGE OVERSIGHT PARIS, March 7. The fundamental economic strain in the Frenchwoman does not prevent her from occasional forgetfulness regarding her property. Most of the articles left in railway carriages, trams and buses belong to the fair sex. It is a remarkable fact, moreover, that, apart from the usual and understandable collection of feminine umbrellas, a great many newly-purchased boots and shoes find their way to the lost property office of Paris. An unusual case, however, is that of a woman who stepped out of a. bus on one of the Grands Boulevards, oblivifor a time at any rate, that she had brought her child with her The boy, aged six years, maintained so philosophic a calm on the sudden disappearance of his mother that it was some considerable time before he was officially recognised as lost property.