The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1889-10-26
ECCENTRIC DISCIPLINE.
How Boston Pater Familias Furnishes
His Naughty boy.

His Naughty Boy.
' am writing the scrappy sort of letter
which is particularly obnoxious 10 the soul
of the editor. and, therefore, take occasion
10 tuck in a story with moral which.
writes Arlo Bases in one Of his Boston let
tiers, was told the other day ii = discussion
on the training of children. A gentleman
who is regarded as somewhat eccentric by
the more conventional Of his acquaiutaLces,
and whose management OF his small son,
lad OF some seven years, Is especially amaz
ing to the gossips, returned home the other
evening to be met with the news that the
boy had cut hole in tho drawing room
sofa.
"Weii, my SON." the futacr said, after be
ing informed by the lad that he had done
the damage under the pressure of an ire
sistible desire, such as IS usually the plea
of children in similar circumstances. 81
am very sorry that you should spoil my
sofa. Ihcrc just paid SO to have it recov-
cred, and can not afford TO have that done
over again. The only thing can see is for
you to sit on that cut place when anybody
is here so as to cover it. | know you don't
like company very well, but 1 know your
mother would be ashamed to have callers
see that hole"
The small boy knew his father too well
TO protest, and indeed for tIia moment he
was probably only too happy to get Off SO
easily. When, however, he had been sum
moned TO sit on that cut two or three times
things wore a different aspect. He heard
the door bell ring with apprehension, and
when he was called for to run TO the draw
lng-room he burst into wailing and weep
ing so violent that his presence had to be
dispensed with.
Snow, my son. his father said to him.
II did not make any fuss when you cut my
new sofa covering, and can't allow you to
make fuss about bearing the cOnse-
quences Of what you did to please yourself"
The poor little wretch was reduced to
condition of despair pitiful to behold, when
his father said TO him:
snow, Willis, am going to make pr OPP
osition to you. You may do just as you
please about it, l promised you soldiers
uniform at Christmas; now, il you had
rather took that money and had the sofa
mended, would put enough in it to get the
thing done. But If do you will get no uni
form at Christmas"
The lad chose to have the sofa mended
and at Christmas he bore his disappoint-
ment like his fathers son. He did have, it
is only fair to his father TO add, good deal
in the way of alleviations of one sort and
another.
Mourning in Former Days.
Mourning was formerly far more rigor-
ously observed than in our time. ''Not only
did the widow wear mourning garments, but
she was also obliged to remain in q bed
draped with black, in chamber hung with
black, to receive her visitors. Mourning
was carried so far that Kings changed their
table +. service, using knives with
ebony instead of ivory handles"
A fifteenth-century writer says, in
an old volume entitled "Honneurs de
Ia Cour:" Il have heard it said that the
Queen Of France must remain an entire
year without leaving her chamber after the
death Of the King, her husband" In the
eighteenth century gray cloth obtained con
siderable acceptance as mark Of mourn