Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-04-18
TEACHING THE YOUNG IDEA
The Value of the Horny Palm as
Compared with the Rubber
Hose as an Aid.

ale pump, 81 hear the bOord OF eddica-
shun teachers in the schools can lick
the bad boys wild "a rubber hose, but
| not wild a baseball batgN Did yet bear
anything av it?"
80 heerd O'Brien talkin' about it"
replied Nj. Rafferty,. "He said he had
no time to be huntin' around for rub
Der hose whin his boy needed a weltin',
He belted the lad wild a coal shovel or
a stove leg, or anything that came
handy. But it seems to me, Madden
that a rubber hose would be too soft
FOR the purpose"
well, that's the rayson they goin'
to use the rubber. Bekase it has a
| gentle, soothin' touch, an won't break
the skin"
ooh, | see" said Rafferty,. "They want
to make it soft and aisy for the boys,
do they? Why don't they use a rubber
cushion or a feather pillow? A boy
would reminder a batin' like that a long
time, Pm thinkin'."
well" protested Madden, you
wouldn't want TO be crool to your own
| lCSn anu DiOOu, NOulh yOO' L
Rafferty,, you haven't been payin' amy
attintion to the higher ed~dicashun."
you're right, Madden" said Rafferty,.
II have naythGr time nor inclination for
it. If what | see every day is amy ind1-
cashun of higher ~eddicashun among
| boys. l want hone of it. l believe It's
a strong, horny hand that is needed
| when a boy is insolent, and think that
| a barrel stave will lave a more lastin'
| IMPRESSION upon his mind, not to min
| ton the place where it strikes, than a
soft pillow or a fresh bologna sassige."
"Y' have q bitter sarcastic way wild
| you, Rafferty," said Madden, with con-
viction. Nov, I suppose you wouldn't
wait till your anger was gone before
| you'd lick your boy. That's what the
| higher eddicashun teaches"
I'D wait only till I laid my heavy
hand on him." said Rafferty,, "whin the
| g was on me hot. If | waited till
l was cold, I'd never lick him. There
a dale O. nonsense goin' round about
larrupin' childer the next day. "Twould
be a cold blooded scoundrel, Madden, that
| would do such a thing. never knew q
man in all me life that gave a boy a
| good welt or two and then stopped to
| say: I'm sorry to do this, me lad; it
| hurts me more nor it does you The
man hat would do that is a dirty sneak.
| A wake woman might do it, Madden, she
bein' soft hearted, but a strong man,
nivver. And the boy knows his father
is lynn whin he says it."
"D'ye think, Rafferty,, that the boys
are amy worse now than the boys used
tt be when we were wlittle?"
There's very little difference, in my
opinion. Boys are only little min. They
don't change much from year to year.
They are young and pesky and full O.
blood, and a little paddlin' does a heap
of good. The best way to paddle a boy
to my notion, is to take him over your
knee, put some rosin on the fiat of your
hand, and thin give it him. That will
take the consait out av him for awhile
and make him careful about sittin' on
a hard-bottomed chair"
what dye think about raysonin' wild
a boy, Rafferty,"
well, | believe in rayson," said Raj
ferty. Lick him first and rayson wild
him afterward. Rayson is a very mild
form of argymint, Madden. Wan boy
in a thousand understands what you
are drivin' at; the others can only I'M
.derstand what is driven into them with
a calloused hand and an arrum like a
mules hind leg"
"How about shaming him."
otis a very good idee in some cases.
said Rafferty,. ITO stand agin the wall
wild a clothespin on your nose and a
hundred boys and girls laughin' at you
has it's eddicashunal advantages. TITS
very likely to take the pride out of a
boy. They used to have a rule in the
school | went to agin chewin' gum dur
ing the day. The teacher would take
a dozen wads O. gum from the childer,
and the last wan had to stand in the cor
ner and chew the whole bunch and keep
time wild his jaws while he'd be chewin',
too. l remember that nearly had the
loctjaw when | had to do it,"
81 suppose that cured you of chewin'
gum"
cit did, partly, 1 chewed it just the
same, but | didn't wag my jaws when
the teacher was lookin'. But spakin'
O. lickin' a boy to make him behave
himself makes me think that you should
take a great dale O. care in the selection
Of the boy you are goin' to lick.
wouldn't pick out a lad over 18 that
weighed $50 pounds and could not do a BIZ
O. boxin', If l were you, Madden.
remember that the last time I licked my
oldest boy he gave me hip-lock, threw
me on my back and thin sat on me till
me passion was cooled off. Since thai
time l don't raise me hand to him
You see, he had reached the age whir
rayson took the place of force. Coco
night, Madden. Be good and you will bt
a curiosity"
The Decimal System.
In arithmetic everything goes by tens