"Frances Sumner": A Woman in the Police Department!

She is a housewife who cooks, sews, and washes; and in the police department she works to help homeless childhood and women gone astray.

She is skilled in marksmanship, and believes in positive, guiding education.

Here is yet another field that woman is entering.

She has managed to carry her steps into the police department... devoting her life to helping homeless childhood...

and lost humanity.

At home, Mrs. Frances Sumner lives an ordinary, quiet life... She is a housewife of the first order: she cooks and sews... and washes...

And then she holds a post in the police department in Los Angeles. She is, besides, skilled in marksmanship, and trains girls in that art; she also gives practical lessons in trick jumping — meaning the leaps that police officers need in critical situations.

This lady says that here woman works more than in any other field...

She wipes the tear from a homeless child's eye, guides one who has gone astray, and gathers up a drunken woman flung down in the middle of the street... the more so as she is deputed by the police department to look after children and women... As a woman, she can help here: she places the little ones in shelters, and leads the women to special homes, where she accustoms them to work at sewing, weaving, and other kinds of handwork...

She holds that man is made to walk the road of what is right, and that if he swerves from that road, he needs someone who understands him, to lift him back to where he was.

In her line, as in all others, understanding avails more than harshness and abuse. And a woman can go to the roots of the problem and try to pull them up, accustoming the one who has strayed to another life, upright and natural...