A LIST OF DON’TS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 68, 13 November 1912, Page 7

A LIST OF DON’TS.

lii New York, where life goes at top speed, it has been found necessary to form classes for instructing ch:ldren in safe . methods of travelling through the streets, and in taking precautions generally, against accident. A “Little Citizens’ League for Safety” has been formed amongst the children of the elementary schools. They are taken in batches to a special exhibition, which has .been arranged for their benefit, and which includes examples of the different dangers common to the different professions, as well as the everyday dangers. The movement is under, the approval of the Board of Education, and already 700,000 children have been enrolled. On joining each child is presented with two badges—one blue, denoting caution, the other white, for safety—and a paper containing the following lists of “don’ts” :

Don’t hang on behind the car. Don’t stand on the car steps. Don’t touch a wire; it may be a live one.

Don’t put your head or arms out of the car window. Don’t run across the street in front of an approaching car,, automobile, or waggon. ■-■it: ; •

Don’t cross immediately behind a passing car; there may; he another car or vehicle on the other side of it coming in the opposite direction. Don’t jump on or off a moving car. Don’t get off facing the rear of the car. ,

Don’t fnil on leaving, the car to loot: both ways. ' '• Don’t'croSs the street 1 Without looking both" ways. " " Don’tjplayhu the streets where there are car--tracks.

Don’t cross the street except at a cross-walk. u

T)'on I 't Take* any ' chances.-' I .'"■ J