Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-06-28
"AidIng Him Through Life."

'.Never whip children just before they
retire to rest. Let the fathers caress, the
mothers kiss be the last link between the
DAVIS pain or pleasure and the nights
sleep. Send the children to bed happy.
Ii there is sorrow, punishment or disgrace,
let them meet it in the daytime, and have
hours of play and thought In which to re-
cover happiness. Let The weary feet the
busy brain, rest in bed happy.
That's all right, of course. to some ex-
tent. We used 10 talk that way before we
were a parent. We knew a good deal
more about children anyhow before we
had to grapple with them than We do now.
We used to be a greater 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
a style of child that cannot 90 to steep at
night unless spanked.
We have IN our mind little child OF
the masculine style of architecture, who
will lie and sob. AMI kick the clothes eff
and be mean and restless for two hours
if you forget about him, but If you go
and turn down the coveriid, and fan hisa
person with an oyershoe he Will quiet
down and be asleep in five minutes.
He is not TO blame for being the VIC
tina to this habit, but he is that way. and
he can't help 1t. lie is tied to his spank
lust as You, gentle reader, are tied 10
your maturer habits.
Strange freaks do often grow into
confirmed habits that are almost impossi-
bic to shake off. Children are often the
victims of strs nge and unnatural customs
like older people.
This child, for instance did not at first
apparently care whether he had his spank
ing at s z. NJ. or earlier, but later he
was SO regular IN his demand for corporal
punishment that you could set your watch
by him. He was also so attached tn a
certain style of arctic overshoe that you
couldn't accomplish anything by padding
him with any other style of chastissment.
Lcve Is a good thing, and We often wish
that more of it had been lavished upon
us during our past life, but after all
there are children who do not yearn for
cS 40 NO IN
armed aggression. OF course your con-
science smites you at intervals when you
go past the little bed after the conflict is
over aad peace and siumber are the vic
tors. Something may come up IN your
throat when you see the little rebel lying
with his feet on the pillow and his head
down at the foot of the cot, and little
tear on his eye lashes. You feel, per-
haps, as though it looked like taking an
Undue advantage for two hundred
pound man to catch six-year-old boy
when he is unprepared and paddle him
with an overshoe. and yet sometimes II
has to be done.
| We know that IN our own case corporal
punishment was Iesorted to while all the
other boys in the family escaped with
moral suasion. The result is just wha
might have been expected. We are The
only one of all that promising collectlcn @
boys whose prom ssory notes have gaineC
q world wide circulation to-day. While
/ the other boys were contented to poo
along and run up little petty accounts a
the stores, we struck out boldly TOWARD
| fame and insolvency.
You can encourage a child with
press board sometimes and thus give hin
an impetus which will AID him al
through his life.