The Arizona sentinel., 1884-10-11
i THEORY ON SPANKING.
By Hill Nye.

nAtk NyGs
 An Eastern exchange, edited by a1 old maid, says:
 "Never whip children just before they retire to resi- Let the fathers caress, the mothers kiss be the last link be- tween the days rain or pleasure and the nights sleep. Send the children to bed happy. If there is sorrow, punishment or disgrace, let them meet 1t in the day time, and have hours of play and thougci in which to recover happiness. Let the weary feet, the busy brain, rest in bed happy"
 Inat's all right, of course, to some ex. tent We used to talk that way before we were 8 parent. We knew 8 good deal more about children anyhow before we had to grapple with them than we do now. We used to be greater stick. Ter for moral suasion and love and par entsl gnAh than we are n W.
 Our theory now in relation to children is changed from what 1t was formerly We maintain now, after several years study of the primary biped, that ther.' iS style of child that cannot go t., aleep at night unless spanked.
 We have in our mind little child O the masculine style of architecture, wh, will lie and sob, and kick the clothes O.! and be mean and restless for two hour f you forget about him, but if you aud turn down the coverlid and fan hI person. with an overshoe he will quie down and be asleep in five minutes.
 He is not to blame for being the vic tim to this habit, but he is that way ;tnd he can't help it. He is tied to hi spank just as you, gentle reader, are ti,' Go your maturer habits.
 Strange freaks do often grow int confirmed habits that are almost impo~ sible to shake of. Children are ofte" she victims of strange and unnaturalcu toms like other people.
 This child, for instance, did not first apparently care whether he had hi spanking at s p. m. or earlier, but lat, ne was so regular in his demand for co poral punishment that you could $. your watch by him. He was also so a; tached to 8 certain style of Arctic ovc, shoe that you couldn't accomplish any. hing by padding him with any oth style of chastisement. Love is 0 ga thing, and we often wish that moro ir had been lavished on us during Q past life, but after all there are child gho do not yearn for affection half much as they do for armed aggressio Of course your conscience smites Y t intervals when you go past the lit Ied after the conflict is over and pea .nd slumber are the victors. Somethn. nay come up in your throat wien Y zee the little rebel lying with his feet he pillow and his head down at uot of his cot, and little tear on ,ye-lashes. You feel, perhaps, as thou t looked like taking an undus a,lvai: -.ge for POO pound man 10 catch @ear-oli boy when he Is unprepared a ,addle him with an overshoe, and ometimes it has to be done.
 We know that in our own case co :loral punishment wss resorted to win a.i the other boys in the family escA. sith moral suasion. The result is jn what might have been expected. i'' ;ra the only one of all that promisi election of boys whose promls- lctes have gained worldwide ciicu :on today. While the other boys we. ntented to plod along and run up lii p.tty accounts at the store, we s'ru. ,ut boldly toward fame and insolven2
 Ton can encourage child witL ,ress board sometimes and thus yi7 An, an impetus which will aid hlm |; rough his life.