The Arizona sentinel., 1885-02-28
A THEORY ON SPANKING.
By BIll Nye.

BY htn Nycs
 An Eastern exchange, edited by an old maid, says:
 "Never whip children just before they retire to rest. Let the fathers cOress. 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, punishment or disgrace, let them meet it in the day. time, and have hours of play and thought in which to recover happiness. Let the weary feet, the busy brain, rest ln bed happy"
 1nat's all right, of course. to some ex- tent. We used to tslk that way before we were @ 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 ental gush than we are now.
 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 there l. style of child that cannot go to sleep at night unless spanked.
 We have in our mind little child 0! the masculine style of architecture, who will lie and sob, and kick the clothes Of and be mean and restless for two hours if you forget about him, but if you gc aud turn down the coverld and fan bis person with an overshoe he will quiet down and be asleep in five minutes,
 He is not to blame for being the vic A1 hoI l,rE 1o io fl, ak vroxy and he can't help it. He is tied to hif spank just as you, gentle render, are tieo to your maturer habits.
 Strange freaks do often grow into confirmed habits that are almost impcs- sible to shake of. Children arc ofteu the victims of strange and unnatural GUS toms like other people.
 This child, for instance, did not at first apparently care whether he had his spanking at 8 p. ID. or earlier, but later be was so regular in his demand for cor poral punishment that you could sci your watch by him. He was also so at ta' he'd 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 q gooc thing, and we often wish that more O.. 1t had been lavished on us during our past life, but after all there are children who do not yesrn for affection half 6 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 yon s< the little rebel lying with his feet on the pillow and his head down at the foot of his cot, and little tear oR his eye-laShes. You feel, perhaps, as thouga it looked like taking an undue adyant- age for 200-pound man to catch G. year-old boy when he is unprepsred and paddle him with an overshoe, and yet sometimes it has to be done
 We know that in our own case cor pnrsl 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 ar, the only one of all that promising collection of boys whose promissory notes have gained @ world wide circula- ton to-day. While the other boys were contented to plod along and run up little petty accounts at the store, we struck cut boldly toward fame and insolvency.
 You can encourage 8 child with 8 press board sometimes and thus give him an impetus which will aid him at. through his life.