The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-06-16
TO Shank. Or Net to Spank.

TO Spank, Or Net to Spank.
An Eastern exchange, edited by an
old maid, says:
Never whip children just before
hey retire to rest Let the fathers
,aress. the mothers kiss be the last
ink between the days pain or pleasure
and the nights sleep. Send the child
ZEN to bed happy. If there is sorrow.
punishment or disgrace. let them meet
It in the daytime, and have hours Of
play and thought in which to recover
happiness, which is childhood's right.
Let the weary feet. the busy brain rest
in bed happy"
That's all right. of course, to some
extent. We used to talk that way be-
fore we were parent We knew q
good deal more about children anyhow
before we had to grapple with them
than we do now. We used to be q great
or stickler for moral suasiOn and love
and parental gush than we are now.
Our theory now in relation to children
Is changed from what it was formerly.
We maintain now, after several years
study of the primary biped, that there
is style of child that cannot go to sleep
at night unless spanked.
We have in our mind little child of
the masculine style of architecture. who
will lie and sob and kick the clothes off
and be mean and restless for two
hours if you forget about him, but if you
90 and turn down the coverlid and fan
his person with an overshoe he will
quiet down and be asleep in five min
1tes.
He is not to blame for being the VIC
i'm to this habit, but he is that way, and
he can't help it. He is tied to his spank,
just as you, gentle reader, are tied to
your maturer habits.
Strange freaks do often grow into con-
6rmed habits that it is almost impossi-
BILE to shake of. Children are often the
victims of strange and unnatural GUS
toms, like older people.
This child, for instance, did not at
6rst apparently care whether he had his
spanking at eight p. m. or earlier. but
later he was so regular in his demand
Tor corporal punishment that you could
set your watch by him. He was, also,
20 attached to certain style of arctic
overshoe that you couldn't accomplish
anything by padding him with any
other style of chastisement. Love is
good thing. and we often wish that
more of it had been lavished on us dur
ing our past life, but after all, there are
children who do not yearn for affection
half as much as they do for armed az
erosion. OF course your conscience
smites you at intervals when you 90
past the little bed after the conflict is
over aud peace and slumber are the VIC
tors. Something may come up in your
throat when you see the little rebel ~
ing with his feet on the pillow and his
head down at the foot of the cot, and a
little tear on his eyelashes. You feel,
perhaps, as though it looked like taking
an undue advantage for q 2OO-pound
man to catch a three-year-old boy when
he is unprepared and paddle him with
IN overshoe, and yet sometimes it has
to be done.
We know that in our own case cor
poral punishment was resorted to while
all the other boys in the family escaped
with moral suasiOn. The result is just
what might have been expected. We
are the only one of all that promising
collection of boys whose promissory
notes have gained worldwide circu-
lation to-day. While the other boys
we're contented to plod along and run
up little petty accounts at the store. we
struck out boldly toward fame and in
solvency.
You can encourage q child with
press-board sometimes, and thus give
him an impetus which will aid him all
through his ife.-Nye's Boomerang.