The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1905-10-12
H,s Lesson.

His Lesson.
recent article In one OF the magazines
about children Of the stage, illustrated with
lot Of pictures Of the forward and un-
manncrly little tads, recalls to my MUD an
Incident In which one Of them hgnred In
Atlantic City during the early parts OF the
season, said Washington physician VINO
nut In HE vacation At the jersey resort.
.Durlne the bathing hour one morning q
lot az ladies, most Of them mothers OF
children, were seated on boardwalk paw
uion watching the bAthers, when fresh
youngster Of eight or ten, exaggerstedly
but richly logged out, appeared ana start
| cd In to have fun with them.
uThe ladies we're all sitting facing tho
sea, ard It struck the freah KID that u
would be mighty diverting thing for him
| TO sneak up behind their chairs ana tug ~
their loose wisps Of back hair.
| "The unmannerly kid probably didnt
know that women are mighty sensitive
shout their back hair, and that those iittle
w,sps are called 'scoldng locks
| aHe started In to have whole slathers OF
lark. with the married women, anyway,
sneaking up behind them, one after one,
yanking their heads back BY grabbing hoid
of their back hair and pulling II, and then
dartine away In his merry little giggling
way,
"Tbe annoyed women glared at the I'M
nudent cub, but their glares had no effect
nnon him, he would merely wait Till they
had ou,eted down and forgotten about him.
and then he would sneak up and take grab
At some other woman's back hair.
uBut be finally picked loser, as every
body does who sticks to one game too long
uHe made a grab at the back hair OF
square jawed woman with steel-rimmea
spectscles, who had large grown family
Of her own in bathing out In the ses In
front Of her, and the square-jawtd woman
was iast waiting for him,
He didn't get within foot OF catonine
hold OF her hair before she had twiAted
about in her seat and had him 10 grip II
which she'd had plenty Of practice wneh
she was raising young boys herself years
before.
uNow, the square-jawed woman remark
ed to the sQuirming kid as he struggled 70
break loose from her powerful grasp, 'what
kind OF fool monkey are you. anyhow
that you can't behave instead OF making
such miserable little nuisance OF your
self.
The spoiled theatrical kid tried - best
he could-for the tight grasp upon nim was
never relaxed--a silly thestrIcal attitude
and then he gasped, in manner which DC
obviously thought was enormously Nigh
falutin and effective:
"You let 20 o me. You don't know VINO
I am, am ----- --, mentioning the nAnc
of a well-known kid actor whose portrait
appesrs In the magazine article about stage
children that I've mentioned, and ! play
leads with Frohman.'
"The spectacled woman with the square
law looked at the foolish whclp sternly for
moment.
"Ob, you do, do your she remarked
uThen she deliberately placed HIM over
her knee.
,,If that's the case, she went on, then
vou need 10 be taught, for abou' f'o nn,p-
utes. that all OF th. world i nfS f1s' !
| in spite Of what Mister sha.spaare bad 70
ssv about IT, 1 don't play leads fpr Froh'
man or nybody else, my fresh little fricpd'
but | imagine haven't forgot how TO play
the kind OF tattoo that you need more than
any boy ever met up with.
uAnd, despite his frantic struggles ana
wsilp, she proceeded, with her business
like and expert right hand working Ike
fail. to teach that too-prtvious youngster
of the stage more about the need for GOOD
manners than he'll ever know till ne ha'
grown up-for It's about 100 to ! that ned
never felt the heft Of punitive hand pe
/ fore 10 ali OF his mollycoddled and spo'ieo
vounp life. Tue other women looked OF
! iovously, and the men who had watchec
The performance from tho beginning clap
! ped their hands approvingly.
"Tbe kid slouched of. blubbering anf
kuuckling his eyes, and all Of the freshness
/ for the time warmed out Of him when TN
sensible woman with the square jaw turn
, ed him loose and set him on his feet with
I iolt that must have started some Of hi
milk teeth.
,l aTeu minutes later the youngsters Wild
eyed and utterly unreasonable mother cam
I daring and frothlng down to the pavilion
!. but The square-jsw'd woman had gon
/ down to the beach 10 join her family, and
/, OF course, nobody pointed her out 70 I'd
theatrical syke'. foolish maternal parent.
3 think we al had more thsu hunch thA
4 had We done 30 the squsre-jawed woms
!, would not have hesita,sd, had II ebme
i. that. 70 spank the mother just " she hA
spanksd the youag ore"
o A new idea In Cough Syrup 10 advance
n In Kennedy's LAxstive Honey and is'
Besides containing Pine Tar, Honey 30
D other yalusble remedies, IL IL rendered Ls'
= alive. 40 that its use insures prompt ~
= t,,cieut evacuation OF The bowels. II r