Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1882-08-24
A Theory on Spanking.
By Bill Nye.

JOy Dill wye
An eastern exchange, edited by an
cid maid, says:
"Never whip children just before they
retire to rest. Let the fathers caress,
the mothers kiss, be the last link be-
tween days pain or pleasure, and the
nights sleep. Send the children to bed
happy. Ifthere is sorrow, punishment,
disgrace, let them meet it in the day.
time, and have hours of play and thought
in which to recoverhappiness Let the
weary feet, the busy brain, rest in bed
happy" 4 I'D II - &@J
''That's all right, of course, to some
extent. We used to talk that way before
we were a parent. We knew a good
deal more about children anyhow before
We had to- grapplewith them than we do
now. eve used to abea a. greater stick
Ter 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 vears'
study of the primary sbiped, that there is
style of child that cannot go to sleep at
night unless spanked.
We have in our mind a child ofmascu-
line style of architecture, who will lie
and sob, kick the clothes ofand be mean
and restless for two hours if you forget
about him, but if you 60 and turn down
the cOverlid and fan his person with an
overshoe he will quiet down and be
asleep in five minutes. yss7ssfs,,s.7
He is not to blame for being the victim
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. u
Strange freaks do often grow into con-
firned habits that are almost impossible
to shake off Children are often the
victims of strange and unnatural customs
like older people.
This child, for instance, did not at
first apparently care whether he had his
spanking at p. M or earlier, but later
he was so regular in his demand for cor
poreal punishment that you could set
your watch by him. He was also at
tached to certain style of arctic oyer
shoe that you couldn't accomplish anv-
thing by padding him with any other
style OF chastisement. Love is good
thing, and we often wish that more of II
had been lavished on us during our past
life, but after all there are no children
who do not yearn for affection half as
much as they do for armed aggression.
Of course your conscience smites you at
intervals when you go past the little bed
after the conflict is over and peace and
slumber are the victors Something
may come up in your throat when YOU
see.the little aebelI Lying with his feet on
the pillow and his head down at the foot
of the cot, and little tear on, his eve
lashes. You feel, perhapss as though H
looked like taxing an undue advantage
for 200-pound man to catch a six-year-
old boy, when he is sunprepared land
paddle him with an,iovef-shoe, and yet
sometimes it has to be done.
We know that in our own case corpo-
real punishment was resorted to while
all the other members Of the family es-
capped with moral suasion. The re-
suit is. just what, might have ,beenaex-
pected We are the only zone Of all the
promising collection Of BOYS whose
promissory notes have gained a world
wide circulatiou to- day While the 9TH.
er boys were content to piod along and
run up little petty accounts at the stores
we struck out bold -stewards~ flame and.
insolvency.
You can encourage a child with q
oress-board some times and thus give
linn an impetus that, will aid him ali
through his life.YOlt UTR 4 no