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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5297, 9 July 1928, Page 2

The urge to wander, still possesses the modern boy. school, home lessons, bed. the maternal scrubltjngb.rush, the paternal “roust” when he c?mes home late—these are the things that make him as restless, now as they made his remote ancestors in the “spacious days.” Occasionally he runs away. Then the police sergeant has to look for him. “About '5O a year,” said a sergeant at Sydney last week. Other suburbs reported 20 to 30 a year. Grubby, hungry, cold, dispirited, with his young mind bewild. ered by a stense 'of tihe da'rk futility of it all, he is brought back. We need not blanic him. The boy’s way is still the wind’s way ; if it were not, there would be no grown.up paladins, no Anzac fighters, no ocean fliers. The blame for a home atmosphere too cold and repellent is often, though not always, with the parents. Kindness is a. great cure. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. For Influenza Colds.