Capitolo 71
it constitutes a declaration these "children of the night" that they will be
protected by law by those temptations that they is too much young people and also
not trained to withstand. New York and Wisconsin are the only states that
you/he/she has raised the legal age of boys of messenger assumed at night late to
ventun years. Under the limit of inadequate sixteen-year that
it regulates evening job for children in Illinois, boys come to continually
the pain through their familiarity with the social bad. One of these, a
delicate boy of seventeen, had been put in the service of messenger from
his/her parents when their doctor of family had recommended job of out-of-door.
Because he was well-mannered and beautiful, he especially became popular
with the prisoners of disreputable houses. They gave him for Them points of a dollar
and more when he returned from the errands for which he had performed
them, as buying candy, cocaine or morphine. He was inevitably
adulated by their attentions and pleased with his own popularity.
Even if his/her mother knew that his/her duties as a boy of messenger every now and then
brings him/it to disreputable houses, she fervently hoped for his/her first training
it would hold him/it right, but in the end rashness included of
submitting an immature youth to these temptations. The errand of vice
relationship gives the various examples particularized of the similar experiences on the
part of other young fellow, one of theirs that is a boy of tall-school that was only
additional money that it earns as a boy of messenger during the rush of Christmas
week.
The regulations to Boston, New York, Cincinnati, Milwaukee and San Luigi
for the protection of these children you/he/she can be but a forecast of the care
what the city will finally learn to conceive for youth under special
temptations. Because the various efforts did in Chicago to get
suitable legislation for the protection to road-negotiate children has
not succeeded, they are happened once not only accidents as the following,
but continually it is repeated: an enough small girl, the only child of a