The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1901-02-21
A PUBLIC SPANKING.
fHE uNRULY YoUNGsTER GOT ONLY
WHAT HE DESERVED.

Why the Passengers In the Car
Didnt See, ns They Expected They
Would. a Second Act In the Inter-
esting Little Drama.
In one Of the upper corners of the
down town Ninth street car the lively
little 4-year-od boy was giving his
weary looking mother about all she
could attend TO. First he would want
to stand on the seat and hammer on
the window until 1t seemed as II the
glass would just have to smash.
Then he would stand on his mothers
lap with his muddy little shoes and
twist her veil up into knots and push
her nose the wrong way and make
fork of his fore and middle fingers and
jab them into her eyes and pull down
her back hair and tug at her collar and
loosen her breastpin and pull down
her lower lip to make II snap" and
yank 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 at the top
of his lungs until she would stop him
with warning, "Sh-sh, Williew
Whereupon he would seize his moth
er's umbrella and attempt to open 1t
L., I, o., o,,I I, ot,
attempted to take it away from him.
When she endeavored to effect cessa-
ton of his bawllng he would kick her
on the shins.
The other passengers glared at the
angel child and secretly hankered to
own him for about AZ seconds In order
| to put him next" to a 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
| liclous pranks. He looked straight
ahead of him out of the window. nor
| did all of the wrigglings or noise of the
youngster cause him to remove his
gaze from point straight ahead. 1t
might have been thought to look at
him that he was suffering from 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 en-
| 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!'
a great many times, hut the kid ap-
| parently didn't hear her or didn't want
to hear her. The passengers went right
on longing to have the celestial infant
In a woodshed for varying periods OF
tinre. 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
ly he climbed up on the seat again,
and slyly reaching around back of the
pale, tall mans head lie clutched one
end of the lalirr's mustache and gave
it 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 in his arms, placed the
young one across his knee, and, still
looking out Of the window and appar.
emily totally uninterested in what he
was doing. he let the young one have
a round dozen on the spot where they
would do the most good with ar
amount of resounding force that caus
ed the young one to howl like fun.
"rhat's just what the kid needed In
his business thought all Of the othel
passengers. land I'd like to have beer
the one to hand him what was coming
more than lay that fellow out, thought!
They looked at the mother. waiting
for the explosion. However, she seem
ed to take II all as a matter of course
She didn't utter word of objection
When the pale. tall man was through
spanking the young one and had de
posted him In his mothers lap. tn,
other passengers couldn't understand
why she didn't open up on the spankel
and tell him many things after th'
fashion of mothers In such cases mad,
and provided. The kid was bowling.
"You got lust what you deserved
from papa" was the way the mothe
comforted the yelling one. and then, a
L street. the pale. tall man signalet
the conductor and. stepping of. assist
ed his wife and recalcitrant son ant
heir to alght. while the other passen
,, gers looked sheeplshly at each othe
after the manner Of folks who feel tina
somehow or another they haven't go
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