Norwich bulletin., 1914-06-19
THE SPIRIT OF THE AGE

At the first below of rage the other persons in the car Quivered. for the six-year- old responsible for the shattering of their peace had subtly injected a little entreaty in her first howl. With each succeeding blast from her childish CD lungs the sym parthy grew less, and one individual whose white hair indicated that he belonged in the antedfluvian days of the twentieth century had the temerity to remark in an antediluvian way that he thought a good spanking was about the proper tbing.
 The mother of the child, a young woman of about twenty-five, attired i'll the prevailing scantiness of neither covering, grew crimson with indigna . tion at the old-fashiohed person, and in an audible tone said:-
 Its pity that people wouldn't minu their, own business. If I require advice on the handling of my child shall ask for it from someone better qualified than one of those nasty old Individuals who lived under such un- sanitary conditions way back in the last, century"
 The meek looking man who held the . child seemed bit terrified at this outburst on the part of his lady and mistress, and tried to divert his spouse's attention to the child. After some effort on the part of both of the
 
 vigor and the car quieted down again.
 T perfectly agree with you," said the bespectacled woman sitting beside the mother. Such a brutal idea as to suggest whipping a child, stiff1ing the individuality and interfering with it's sacred freedom of development really don't see how human beings en- dured in the old days!'
 The mother, somewhat modified by the sympathy of her coadjutor, plung- -I s..k &I-- seven right methods of training chill dren. The eid-fashioned person who had suggestsd corporal punishment for the yoctfercus youngster suDsided in to his seat with a crushed air, mutter- ing to himself
 had succeeded in securing her fathers gold watch, wEich she dangied by the chain in the air.
 The father anxiously put his hand out for the watch. but the effort seem ing to produce auguries of further dis comfort, and noting that his better signed himself to the inevitable. Smashl Bits of glass crystal main spring, wheels and other portions of the timepiece filtered the car floor
 70 that's too bad, George. that our darling accidentally dropped your watch when you so valued it,'' re- marked the mother sympathizingly IT she had looked at her husband a little more closely she would have mo- ticed that Georges jaw had frightened and that his eyes had peculiar gleam. Of course since the women through their leagues and federations had yot- ed the men out of office. and year aft CT year by their class legislation made men more and more dependent. sthe masculine manner had become very like that which the women in the earl fer part of the twentieth century had assumed.
 Flop!
 With the remnant of the watch chain the infant terrible had managed to swat her father a vicious blow be- | tween the eye.
 With an atavistic but businesslike manner, preceded by an old-fa.shioned 1 vigorous oath, the father turned over his progeny and before the astonished mother could interfere had so minis tered to his child that the screams could be heard almost a block away. {, George! George! As provided for