New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 19, 1922, Page 9

HERE’S A STORY THAT SHOULD MAKE - COMPLAINING BOYS FEEL SATISFIED B Year Old New York Boy, Put Out by Step-Mother, Lives Alone With Dog on Roofs of Tenement Houges for Three wseks. Néw York, Dec. 19.~All this senti- mertal vagabond stuff about slecping under the atarry sky with heaven's 2unopy for a quilt fails to thrill John- ay Miller, He tried it for thres win- iry weeks on East 8ide roofa and all it got him was swollen feet, 80 now te can only walk on his knees. Johnny, 8 yeara old, Polish born, fond of dogs, 18 the hero of a melo- 4yama which might suit Jackie Coo- gun. As Johnny's story goes, when ice ¢rashing down a chute, killed his ather, and his stepmother, crying “To the hell with you! I'm geing back ;0 Europe!” drove him from her door he found 4 home fn &n otherwise mpty water tank on the roof of a ‘enement house. A fox terrier kept watch over him; the ravens who fed him were boye| from the street, sneaking an dcca- iional frankfurter. But the cold rain invaded even the watér tank and drove Johnny out, eaving Nim as a bedroom only bare s00fs or the top steps ol tenements, andér the roof scuttie. Likes New Children’s Hone There a nfagnificent lady who hds whole flat of two rooms found him, 1nd yesterday he was taken to the fine 1ew home of the Soclety for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children. He »ad always loathéd the the. “Gerry ~Soclety,” ed {t. ,.e’I!}?Zydp‘ut him in a room where Mother Goose rhymes are done in tile \nd mosgic on the wall, where every- ‘hing is"tlean and warm; they gave aitn actual food and they bathed Anls iching feet so e(flglently that the swel- an to go down. mfa?:‘!nn thé‘nflernoon Johnny was 10 comfortable that he was in danger sf forgetting both of his well nursged umbijtions. One of these is to go to work and earn so much rioney that ne can take ship to Poland and, as he says “make her gorry” by finding his stépmother and telling her what it theans;to & hoy to be driven into the street, The other s an ;mbfllon to be owpuncher in the west. I’?Io:zny says hé visited the wegt once with his fathér. on their way from Brookiyn to Branx park; and the Wife suited him first rate, He wid specially, pleased with the way the punchers twirl their guns. ! How He Became An Orphan. ohnny's tale of how the cryel step- m:thllr b put = him out into ¥re cold. may have heen dreamed out af the movies, but it's his story and not disproved. His father, he sald, used to dig potatoes in Poland, byt came to America and went into the \ce businéss when the son and heir was 2 or 8 yéars 8ld. Here the moth- ¥, Verontcafdied. -The-father mar- ritd ‘apother woman not nearly as good 16oking and her name was Mary. Thrée months ago & chunk of ice sliding into a Brooklyn cellar ended the father's life. He left his family one week's pay—3$26. “And then,” says Johfiny, ‘‘my step- mother told me, ‘Hére is five dollars; that is your share ahd you go away t of here. I am going back to Po; Jand and’ don’t. want to mind you. Then she'sold thé furniture and went away. We ljved by Little Hungary in Houston street. Thé lady on the first floor took the five dollars to spénd for me. Shé got a shirt, a stockings and a helt and told me, “Hete i§s your five dollars’ worth.’ I got the shirt on gow.” ; ‘Corroborating so much of Johnny's narfative, dwellers in Essex ahd De- lancy stréets say that about - three weeks ago they began to see a hoy of the same .description hanging in the evaning by street fires, whero. the WASH KINEYS F THEY HURT Take Salts to Flush Kidneys if Back Pains You or Bladder Bothers. Flush your kidneys with salts occa- sionally, says a noted authority, who but suddenly tells us that teo much moat and yieh| food may form yric acid, which al- most paralyzes the kidneys in their efforts to- éxpel ‘it from the blood. They become sluggish and weaken; then you suffer with a dull misery in the kidney region, sharp pains in the back or sick headache, dizainess, your stomach soygs, tongue is coated, and when the weather {s bad yeu have rheumatic twinges.. The urine gets cloudy, full of sed often get sore an¥ {rritited, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. To help neutralize these {irritating acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush off the body's urinous waste, get four ounces of Jad Salts from iny phar- macy here; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before break(ast for a few days, and your kidn€ys may then act fine. from the acid of grapes and.lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations te fiush and stimulate sluggish Kkidneys; also to néutralize the acids in urine #o it no longef irritates, thus often ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in- Jure and makeés a delightful efférves- cent lithia water drink. : G CHRISTMAS GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR HER FOR HIM FOR THE KIDDIES ~ On Today's Want Ad P: Classifications 65 A-B-C-. very name of | ent,jthe channels This famous salts s made | pusheart men burn scraps of wood and paper to keep themselves warm. Johnny says he kept right on going to school-—grade 3A In Publie scheol 18, Avenue A, between Houston and Kssex streets, Slept In His Books The first nights of his exlle he spent in hallways, pillowed on his schoel. books, Then he wandered into Riv. Ington sireet and got acquainted with several true bids pals ineluding Natty and Fishy—mostty Jewish hoys, though he, Johnny; was baptized & Christlan, They found for him the empty wat- er tank on the raoof. He {sn't sure which roof it was, hut thinks it wag 141 Fasex strest. Natty supplied a ladaer for getting Into the tank, Fishy a dirty mattross fram a cellar, John- ny himeelf dug up a tin cup for hall- ing out the tank if the rain came in, The miraculous Natty also provided o wobbly fox terrier whose assignment was to bite any marauder who ven- tured into the tank. The fox terrier, though very old, was as Puppy, and his standing 1n soclety was attested by n collar with a license number, “How did you keep warm?" the in- terviewer asked at this point, To Movies to Keep Warm “I had on my jacket and my pants and shoes gnd stockings; my shirt 8o, sald Johnny Miller. “I didn't take anything off. I found a gray cap on a fence. Fishy and Natty and the other boys sold frankfurters on IFifth avenue and mede $4. They hought a sweater for me out of that. They said t cost $1.50. Three times they took e to the movies to get warm, I saw a movie cailed “I Am The Law,” where they all walk around with big overcoaty, A guy knows that they're golng to hang him up, so he takes poison and dies. I didn't want to see the same movie three times, but it was warm In there.” In order to go to school; sald John- ny, he knew he had to look clean. Ire managed this with the help of the Jjhnitor's faucet in 4 tenement hallway. He found that when the gnow sifted Into his tank he couldn't sleep very well and even before the rain came his feet were swelling, One night he dreamed he was drowning and wak- ing up found more water than he could bail with the tin cup. “It's _funny,” he said, rubbing his feet fn the room'af the Children's so- clety “when I was on the roof they hurt because (hey felt cold, now they hurt heeause they feel warm.” On Sunday night at 10 o’clock, Mrs. {Helen *I.elirman, top floor back, 120 Delancey street, went to the roof to take in the wash and came on a boy sitting there in the dark. “What s this?"” she said. value, for every purpose and sogiates and customers and NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1922 SULPHUR IS BEST TO GLEAR UP UGLY, BROKEN OUT SKIN Any breaking out or skin irritation on face, neck or body s overcome quickest by applying /Menthe-Bulphur, says a noted skin speclalist, Because of its germ destroying properties, nothing has ever been found to take the place of this sulphur preparation that instantly brings ease from the itehing, burning and irritation, Mentho-Sulphur hea!s eczema right up, leaving the skin clear and smooth. {1t seldom, falls to relleye the torment or disfigurement, A lttle jar of Rowles' Mentho-Sulphur may be oh- talned at any drug store. It s used i like cold cream, ey — Unable to Stand “I sleep on the reofs,’ sald the boy. He told her about the father and step- mother. Mrs. Lehrman fed him, a neighbor on the floor helow provided 4 bed, Yesterday marning the boy, gettng out of bed, trled to-stand, but sank to his knees. He crawled on hands and knees up to Mrs. Léhp. man's flat for breakfast, 8he has four children. She told the police ana they told the Society for. Prevention of Cruelty to Children, In the children's court Justice Ed- ward I, Boyle ordered an investiga- tlon and told Johnny Miller that until December 27 at least—over Christmas -—the soclety would take care of him. Johnny handed 92 cents to the ma- tron in the society building. “I earned this carrying things for a lady on Saturday,” he gaid. *3 Wwouldn't spend it. .1 didn't even tell Natty and Fishy I got it. I'm saving it. I'm not geing back to school. I'm going te work and when I get enough money I'm going to find my stepmoth- er and tell her how I tried to get out of bed and stand and couldn't. Even if ghe laughs I'm going to tell her.” EDUCATION BY RADIO. Government to Send Out Educational Addresses Fach Thursday and Monday Washington, Dec. 19.—John T, Ti- gert, commissioner of education, an- nounces that beginning Thursday his bureau would start a regular schedule jof education messages by radio.’ The messages will be broadcasted Mondays and Thursdayd between 6:45 and 7 p. m. ecastern standard time on a wave length of 430 metres through Special Committee Seeks $15,000 for Playground At & meetipg of a special commit. teé of the common councll to investi- gate the need of a new playground in the oastern segtion. of the city last night, It was veoted to recommend to the common counell that the board of park commissioners be authorized to include In its budget for next year an item of $15,000 to mgke such a play- ground possible, Alderman J. G. Johnson presided at the meeting, Damon Quitting Yards, Soon to Be Factory Site W. L. Damon, for over 60 years in the lumber business in this city, will vacate the yards which he recently s0ld to the Stanley Works this week. Por the present the premises, which adjoin the Ktanley Rulé & Level plant, recently merged with the Stanley Works, will be used for storage pur- poses, Iivéntually it is planned te bulld' a modern factory bullding. S IN WARSAW Many Are Being Held As Suspects In Assassination Plot Warsaw, Ijec. 19. (By Assoclated Press)—The ! government in its ef- torts to determine whether a plot existed for the murdeér of President Narutowlez is centinuing searches and arrests among the nationalists, and many high efficers and officials have been arrested or dismissed. Iixtra- ordinary precautions against possible disorders are being taken. The country generally is in mourn- ing and the governmeént has ordered all officers to wear crepe armlets for six weeks. All big public entertain- ments have been suspended for the rest of the season. APPEAL BY CHURCHES, Ask That Dec. 24 Be Sct Aside For Plea To End All Wars Washington; Dee. 19.—The federal council of churches of Christ in Am- erica today issued a request to 100,- 000 congregations ih the United States to observe Decémber 24 as “‘world peace Sunday” to demand that the governments of the world find ways to settle their disputes other than by war, The message also asked that the churches act in concert throughout the year toward attainment of a war- less world through international co- operation, BISHOP QUAYLE BETTER. Baldwin City, Kas.,, Dec. 19.—The Rev. Willilam Quayle, bishop of the Methodist Episcopal church was im- proved today after two attacks of {N. O. F. the Anacostia naval station. paralysis Sunday. Doctors are 1in constant attendance. ; Headquarters For Useful and Practicai Xmas Gifts GIFTS which represent the very essence of ugefulness and in their lifetime of service will always bring thankful thoughts of you—the one who gave them. 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