New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-05

FLOGGING DOES NOT INCULCATE VIRTUES
In telling the story Of that last cruel whipping he,
received at the hands Of his father the night he
ran away from home. David Harum says. The
atmosphere Of OUT home wasn't such as was cal
culated to make heroesr' We are inclined 70 be-
Heve this atmosphere was not unusual a genera
ton or two ago, when corporal punishment was the
rule Let US not be too hard our fOrbears; they
took life seriously. everything was a discipline and
the prophet who had dared 70 say Life is a pleas
lre JOY is duty" would have been considered a
neTstlc or lunatic: IL was not the world beaut-
ful.' but the world austere Large families we're
the rule in those days. and. perhaps Ike the old
children because they didn't know what TO dor.
Certainly no father or mother would put tempta-
ton IN the way Of youth, but that Is what
Ioreiathers did when they resorted to hogging, for
what enid would not defend itself by a lie? IL
tbo1h fh tb1 S o{ df5eRi Jh0ss days PaTens
chiIdren-what they wished to foE into +fsn tbs,-
eould-what they wished 70 take out OF them could
a child. no fosging could ever overcome a BAD
temper, Those two faults lying and temper were
the results of corporal punishment
one woman whom know. who a child IN
the COS had Countless memories Ike the following:
", ElZa l Maitland Jameson. did you eat the
enGggh 70 frighten any child
t nand into the pocket of her frock and deposited
..Eliza6eth. did you see the plum
Are you, telling story2''
81 And yet Ellzabeth a child who would rather
her confidence TO her mother. but thar the con-
time This little girl lying awake at night 16oGght
mother ali the tr7lthi. FI+ vrbr ~ - S9 IN, my
chhd her mother died. and her greatest grief was
she had told And by this bitter experience she
was cured forever OF telling an untruth.
people h d,, no tack as David Harum would :
was often Introduced her parents friends a.:
This is the third daughter-Elzabeth has the
Jameson temper IL was really fastened upon her
by reputation and suggestion but not an the Who-
pings In the world could have broken her OF it-it
renamed IOr another experience E,liZqhafn
St Years Old the summer the family spent in
there was boy about twelve years old whose name
Of him except to say with a snake ~ ne $3.50
That boy Will come TO some terrible end with that
bov RE was sentenced 70 I,-is H1,Sd q LIIls
tventv-0ne ana me S,Irsv, f6II,y5i ~ ne Mas
his mother was buried in the village churchyard
Elzabeth was taken 70 the funeral: but in after
years she could remember nothing Of the service
tiptoe She looked into the coffin ana saw dsaf f3
the first time. and the thought flashed upOn her
She lay awake that night haunted by that face and
I LOT Gays she could NOT play but wanted TO stay
How she lopged 20 tell her. but she never dared
beth. for the Jameson temper was laid forever
In course OF time little Miss Jameson grew up. :
first babies came. she said: NY children may De
Frafd =" teiI me tr1fbr rtsrs ~, Sl-.i E9I PC
temper has skipped this generation. while the Conf-,s
fuI thing To see In a way they have been tauEhf 10
discipline themselves manage their own pocket
money. take OF their BELONGINGS -
have pride I'm keeping the peace Of the home and
the school To return the old DAYS our fo~ahaa-s
deserved little credit for their numerous progeuv-
many a who disIiSed children was the faths---
of large famy-certainly not very noble type OF
fatherhOOdI
The one thing which has raised the standard of-
society during the last fifty years is ssvoIuutarV
motherhood" but when not only the mother bur
the father realizes the right Of the child 10 be weI
born there will be greater hopes OF the race And
Heaven speed The blessed day when the "atu1Os-
pierre Of every home shall tend to the making OF
heroes. O. T. II. .u
Elnira. y Y. ~