Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-03-01

mistress, but privately in her own room.
| know several of my friends who have
been at other schools, and have ALWAYS
heard that punishment was inflicted for
some o~tfenses. l remember ii ease of a
girl over sixteen who refused to submit
until her parent mother was written to;
but the end of it was that she received
twelve most severe strokes. No one can
conceive the s~trictness of a large boarding
school and the tyranny of the governness.
FLORENCE B.
From the Queen, Jan. q.
y. Y. SENDS Us an account showing how
young ladies who are guilty of grave of
lenses are punished in a certain school,
name 10 US unknown. When an offense
Of sufficient magnitude takes place, the
culprit enters it in the book herself, and
carries the report to the lady S]uperintend-
ent, who writes under it the amount of
punishment. For the first offense the de-
linquent is prepared for punishment, but
generally pardoned for the second, she is
whipped privately for all subsequent de-
~linquencieS the punishment takes place in
the schOOl-roem, on the horse and in ad-
dition to the pain it inficts it costs in
money about Is in fees. This IS the system:
First, she proceeds to the ~hOusekeePer to
procure the rod; she pays ID for its use.
Secondly, she has to be partly undressed by
the maid, and this costs I'd. Thirdly, she
mas then to walk borefooted to another part
Of the house, to be robed for punishment
II peculiar dressing used to add to the
disgrace. 1t is Il long linen blouse, short
cotton socks and slippers. The young
lady thus dressed now proceeds to the
drawing room to be exhibited to the lady
superintendent. Having been approved,
she is then conducted to the school room,
when she has to pay cd to the governess
who intlicts the punishment. n wooden
horse, covered with soft leather, is the
medium of castigation. The delinquent
then thanks the g~oserness, kisses the rod
and retires to her own room, to appear 10
more until the next morning
In the same journal, under the same
date, Il gentleman who states that he was
educated at Elton says he sees no objection
to the tiogging of boys .as practiced in
that bestof schools. 1t takes
place in a room called the library. but
where books are absent. The boy, held
down by two c~ollegers, exposes only about
SIX inches of his person below the waist
band, and gets his switching in about
two minutes. \ majority of Etonians
would certainly vote for its retention, fit
were put to the suffrage of the school
But even this liberal minded gentleman
who is so willing to have boys logged in
this indecent manner, is shocked at the
Jogging Of girls in similar fashion. He
says:
Think the public exposure und pun
ishment Of q Is past the age Of puberty
should be legally prohibited. A whip
! ping TO a child Of seven or eight Is one
thing such castigatioHs, as your CORES
pondent describes, Is quite another. y
few months ago I should have read their
letters with incredulity, out my own ex-
p~erience furnishes confirmation.
I am Il bachelor. Many years ago my
only sister died, leaving her daughter to
my care. My niece is now eighteen, and
is rs modest and well conducted u young
lady as I know anywhere. Up TO last
eptember she attended a London ladies
college Of the first rank, and gave extreme
satisfaction, and was at the head Of her
classes. IL that month I took a residence
at 4 pleasant town on the Thames. My |
niece, VINO IS fond Of study, wished to at
tend certain classes at q large school in
the neigh6Orhood, and the arrangement
was made by me with the lady principal.
One Saturday afternoon, in the COM
mencement of December, ! returned from
London lust before dinner, and was met
with a very distressed face by my old
housekeeper. Her young mistress had
come home from the school in a half dis
tracted state, and locked herself in her
room. The old servant had, however,
obtained admittance. and ascer.ained what
was the matter.
There was a class for English compost
ton at the school that morning, the teach
er being a visitor tutor. Lecturing rather
glibly on English poetry, this person at
tributed the line
I'VE mortal millions live alone.
to Mr.. Tennyson. As I am occupied in
literary pursuits, my niece has read more
than many girls Of her age; she at once
corrected him, saying that the line was
Mr.. Matthew Arnolds. A governess,
who sat in the class room, sharply told her
not to contradict, or not to interrupt, and
when the lecture concluded, a bad mark
entered against her in the register.
It is the custom Of the school mistress to
corporal punishment for all bad
marks of a certain magnitude, and my
niece had seen one or tWo OF me younger
children whipped Dut her ~attGhd4nGe be-
ing only on GerlalH uays, sne ana NOT
ina tAe ui5c!pllhe WIS anything but
lalanliIe
10 her SURPRISE "heh ABOUT 10 Iea'e al
hef lesson; Sng vas oIueFed 10 me
5chool room 10 her aIlazeheht ana IN
iIsnstion she was told mat she was TO be
1Lrched for ImPudeEce to a teacher.
She protested and lmPlored' but IN VAIN
Her resistance was useless against force
'he was heid across u desk the ciothIng :
was completely nov from the lower 7
part OF her person ana the laay princlpal ]
rave her twelve shaTp us WIN a Oifch. '
EtonIan was ever so lhaecehtIy and q