The Arizona sentinel., 1885-08-22
1 THEORY OK SPANKING.
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By Biil Nye.
 An Eastern exchange, edited by Ar old maid, says:
 "Never whipchildren just before they retire to rest. Let the fathers caress. the mothers kiss be the last link be- tween the days pain or pleasure and the nights sleep. Send the children to bed happy. If there is sorrow, punishmen or disgrace, let them meet 1t in the day. iime, and have hours of play and though, jn which to recover happiness Let the Nerry feet, the busy brain, rest in bed Lal'py
 mats all right, of course, to some ex. tent. We used to talk that way before Me were a parent. We knew a goota deal more about children anyhow befor, we had to grapple with them than we do now. We used to be 8 greater stick Ter for moral suasion and love and par ental gush than we are ".
 Our theory now in relation to children is changed from what 1t was formerly. We n.l1ntain now, after several years study of the primary biped, that there l. a style of child that cannot go tc hleep at night unless spanked.
 We have in our mind little child Of the masculine style of architecture, who VIII lie and sob, and kick the clothes of. ald be mean and restless for two hour If you forget about him, but if you go d turn down the coverlid and fan his l,erson with an oyershoe 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, and he can't help 1t. He Is tied to hir spank just as you, gentle reader, are tied to your maturer habits.
 Strange freaks do often grow into confirmed habits that are almost impos. sible to shake of. Children are often the victims of strange and unnatural GUS toms like other people.
 This child, for instance, did not al first apparently care whether he had hi- spanking at 8 D. m. or earlier, but Later he WAS so regular in hIs demand for COT. poral punishment that you could Sc, your watch by him. He was also so at tached to certain style of Arctic over. shoe that you couldn't accomplish any. thing by padding him with any other style of chAstisement. Love is 8 gooC: thing, and we often wish that moro O, II had been lavished on us during oui pst life, but after all there are childrel Nho do not yearn for affection half a much as they do for armed aggression. Or curse your conscience smites 70, at intervals when you go past the ittl, bed nfter the conflict is over and pesc. aud eluinbeY are the vietors. Somethin. may come up in your throat when vol, see the little rebel lying with his feet or the pillow and his head down st tn foot of his cot, and little tear on hi. flashes. You feel, perhaps, as thougi 1t looked like taking an undue advsn.- age for POO pound man to catch 6. year-eld boy when he is uuprepared an, paddle him with an overshoe, and ye, sometimes it has to be done.
 We know that 1n our OWE case cor. .r,r.l punishment wss resOrted to while .,' the other boys in the family escaped B, tiI moral suasion. The result is just lAnat might have been expected. We sre Lhe ouiy one of all that promising oolection of boys whose promissory nptes have gained worldwide ciroula. llou tc-1ay. While the other boys wert c:.ntesited to plod along and run up little betty accounts at the store, we struck cut boldly toward fame and insolvency,
 You can encourage a child with { press board sometimes and thus givs hiIa sn impetus which will aid him al through his life.