The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30
A PUBLIC SPANKING.
THE UNRuLY YOUNGSTER GOT ONLY
WHAT ii= DESERVED.

Why the Passengers In the Car
Didn't See. ns They Expected They
Would, IA Second Act In the Inter.
eating Little Drnmn.
In one of the upper corners Of the
down town Ninth street car the lively
little 4year-old boy was giving his
weary looking mother about all she
could attend to. First lie would want
to stand on the seat and hammer Oh
the window until it seemed as if the
glass would just have to smash.
Then lie would stand OH his mothers
lap with his muddy little shoes and
twist her veil up into knots and push
her nose the wrong way and make u
fork Of his fore and middle fingers and
5ab them into her eyes and pull down
her back hair and tug Mt her collar and
loosen her breastpin and pull down
her lower lip to make 1t SNAP" and
ynnk at her ears and divert himself In
other little comfortable ways Of the
sort
Then he would demand to be set
down on the floor, in the aisle, where
he would pound with all his might on
his mothers knees and sing ut the top
Of his lungs until she would stop hln
with warning, "Sh-sh, Williew
Whcrcupon he would seize his moth
er's umbrella and attempt to open it
In her face and bawl Justify when she
attempted to take it away from him
When she endcavorcd to effect cessa-
tion Of his bawlng, he would kick her
OH the sllins.
The other passengers glared at the
angel Child and secretly hankcred to
own him for about 40 seconds in order
to put him next" to few little things
which he seemed not to understand.
The pale, toll man, however, who was
sitting right alongside the angel child's
seat, seemed to be paying no atten-
tion whatever to the young ones ma
ncious pranks. He looked straight
ahead Of him out Of the window, nor
did all Of the wrigglings or noise Of the
yOunEster cause him to remove his
gaze from point straight ahead. 1t
might have been thought to look Mt
him that he was suffering from a stiff
neck and that 1t was therefore impos-
sible for him to turn his head either
one way or the other.
The angel 4-year-old continued to ell
| JOY himself as the car reached the
down town section. He began to make
comments upon the personal appear
ance Of entering passengers, loudly
calling attention to the "big nose" of
this one, to the "big mouth" Of that
one and the funny lookin face" Of the
other one. His mother said "Sh-sh.
q great many times. but the kid nD-
parently didn't hear her or didn't want
to hear her. The passengers went right
on longing to have the celestial infant
IN woodshed FOR varying periods Of
time but the pale, tall man right along
| side the young one kept right on look
ing straight ahead
The personal characteristics Of the
passengers palled upon the youngster
after time, and he looked around for
other ways of amusing himself. Final
~ he climbed up on the seat again,
and slyly reaching around back of the
| pale, tau mans head he clutched one
end Of the latter's mustache and gave
1t good, hard tug.
| The pale, tall man didn't even vince.
He didn't remove his gaze from the
point directly ahead Of him, but he
carefully and deliberately gathered the
young one iE his arms, placed the
{! young one a.ross his knee, and, still
| looking out of the window and appar-
emily totally uninterested in what he
| was doing, lie let the young one have
a round dozen on the spot where they
would do the most good with m
n Of
ed the young one to howl like fun.
That's just what the kid needed in
his business" thought NIL of the other
| passengers, "and I'd like to have been
| the ono to hand him what was coming
to him. But, cracky, won't his mother
more than lay that fellow out, thought
| They looked at the mother, waiting
| for the explosion. However, she seem
| ed to take 1t all as a matter of course
She didn't utter a word Of objection.
When the pale, tall man was through
spanking the young one and had de-
posted him In his mothers mp, the
other passengers couldn't understand
why she didn't open up on the spnnker
| and tell him many things after the
fashion Of mothers in such cases made
and provided. The kid was bowling.
| "Yon got just what you deserved
| from papa" was the way the mother
comfortc,l the yelling one, and then, ut
| /. street. the pale, tall man signnled
the conductor and. stepping off, assist
ed his wife and recalcitrant son and
heir to alight. while the other passen-
gers looked sheepishly ut each other
after the manner Of folks who feel that
! somehow or another they haven't got
their moneys sworsh.-Washington Star.
The Needle Cure.
Sir James Grant, IN English physi-
| elm, attributes some forms Of muscu-