The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1904-11-05
TO TRAIN CHILDREN
NEW THEORY PRopouNnr,
COLLEGE PROFESSOR
He Declares Hypnotic Pill Ana
Suggestion More Efectiv. ~
Corporal Punishment-M,.h
ers Opposed to Idsa.

Shall the birch, moral suasion
every other species OF old-fash,.-s.
punishment with which the father !.
mothers OF the present gener,,..
trained their children in the way 4
should go yield to the hypnotic ~
or shall the drug replace the per,s. !;
influence of mothers?
This is the problem which woms,
New York are battling with just M
particularly members of the New VI.
City Mothers club. Not that they \,
considering for q moment of adont,
such measures to reduce their yous,
sters to subsection. On the confirm.
they are combating the idea with evs,J
fiber of their being.
1t is DR.. John ID. Quachenbos M.
fessor emeritus of Columbia colle,.
who threw this brand into their mId,|
and reused their righteous ~indignato
In a paper on Moral Diseases \
Children read before q recent ~
gress OF mothers. the Sandy Hill speaE]
er propounded his new theory, whicJ
paralyzed the mothers. ?
After this" he said, "if your ID,
runs away from school and then An
ricates about it, give him a pill and Nil
him he mustn't do it any more
DR.. Quachenbos. when asked soma
thing about his theory which s%tirsl
up the women SO, said that in one n.
spect he had been misqucted. He M
he did not advocate the hypnotic bill
except when all other measures failed.
it then vas to be given only under M
direction of a responsible physician
But the autosuggestion as a means Il
correcting evil tendencies in childres
has effected a cure was not a theor,1
but an actually. And when sleep could
not be induced without drugs 1t WI
permissible to administer them,
"Opiates in the hands of irrespoasi.
BILE persons II bound to work harm
said he. But autosuggestion applied
by those who are imbued with the pvr,
est motives, and a sublime con6deuu
in themselves, a cure the most Il.
voting habits.
at has been done. | am doing Il
myself every day. treat alcoholism
the sarne way. have such a patienV
upstairs nova woman-being put Il
sleep. What ! did say in my paper t
the congress was that for ungovern
able children, with whom persuasive
measures and corporal punishmen
have failed, who are gracelassly wickev
or helplessly bad, autosuggestion va
the only cure"
Several instances were mentions
where bad boys were made good b
hypnotic suggestion. One was the cas-
of a nervous, sensitive boy who le
other boys lick him in school withou
hitting back. The hypnotic pill mad
him a good fighter.
Surprising" went on the speake
that one of your naughty children
sufficiently bad to call for interference
Let the mother find a favorable oppol
tunity when it is asleep for the nigh
remembering that there is no dife
ence as regards suggestibility betwee
natural sleep and the so-called hypnoti
trance; let her take her place by IL
bedside and begin in a firm, low vois
to repeat the desired suggestions.
"If you have a boy because OF who's
destructive impulse, fragrant disobsd
ence, and defiance Of authority life
not worth living. do not hesitate I
give the boy a hypnotic pill at BEL
time.
Sound sleep is necessary in order
educate by altosuggestion, If it cannt
be obtained naturally it must in a
artificial way. The subconscious se
must receive the new thought by SUI
gestion, so on awakening the effect vi
be In the nature OF a command whc
cannot be denied"