The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-01-12

Training children ChS-si by g,rs.. D.
Cowboy tirandnothrr and "a
work The rag man stealing r.~
hot stove--lienry Ross sparrow
Allen and Baltimore irother sseory,
and the ehickensJohnny Lang
horn gets a whipping.
Four methods were employed in train
m children: First, clastisement: ss~on.'
moral .-us-ipn; third, srarins them
fourth, Inducements ChaSti-rsn.nt wa
administered with a strap, paddle. s~itrl
preference being gwen IL "A hickory 80
Upper. Tins MAS varied by an occasiou
Al box on tlle ears la cases of n. gra,
violations. your clothes were removed
sometimes. mother placrd our hra.I- Ir
ween her knees whirh held them
Ightly if they had been in WISE A,
thsr times, she tied n- with the clatl,..-
inc, laid rs on the n l'or. sat down in .
hair, and after whipping us f"r I'm o.,
iiteen minutes, she would vary the ter
'ormance with a lecture, alter which tn
% me that the longer she talked. th
harder sine whipped.
Large numbers of boy and Young m-r
made their living "mihding cows" %
ahe summer season. These were milk
:ows owned by people all over the city
They would gather them IN tiIe plorninp
irive them out 10 the cou1hsois on tlt,
outskirts of the city where grass an,
water could be ot,tain..i, and rrtuiI
them IN their owners nm the Afternoon
limepieces were not as numerous in thor
lays they are now We told tim
generally 10y the position Of the -un ami
the coming and going of the COWS A.
child, II was very interesting for me to
" itch the boys drive the s-Dw-. whici
frequently numbered hundred and lit,
To two hundred m drove. aluay
ook good care tO remain AT a rs-Isc.-
ibe distance from them. becan-s tlle,
made All awful noISe - .rn they began
two clss-es ThD-. who attended tl,.
milk cows and thsr-e Who drove the -t.-,.r.
from the cattle pens where they were ur-
lOa'ied from the trans. To the slaughter
houses in different parts of the city
While the COWS were frightening enough,
o child, everybody wss afraid of thu
nrsged steers and yielded them a clear
al without any S'gument
loczted M our eity Vas the fam, % d,
RichmOnd Medical COll.g- student
from all part, of tho g. untry attrn,l,..
this institution. IL ua- commonly -er
hat when they c..ui'. not pro.nre cad
.yOr OtherwI-e. they ,nld rapture fa-
f'le at night. kill tli-.fn and then d,-...,
hem. 1h-y ~vuld cre~p upon tir -
slctiu-, -lap striking plaster over tlleii
mouths, and -andl,sg them. There ~.r
sl-O = lot oi mi-eiiirvor- young men. wh
prO~led the streets alter dark sIA,I..
-tuients Ju-t o. -csrr people DE
pe circusss ~hici come a. R'chnond vi
this TIM, hal -tel ar attrnrtipn cai o..
Flying lsula pr l.,rx time ait
this, u ~s- reIorfr'i that thi- my-teriou.
creature flew around tlie city At nigl,t
.aptnring and desnuring all ~ho wer, =.
1nlucky - o. fell into her clutch,--. The.
= ndit0D- made bigilt travel ~ ,,e,lingl,
dangerous and none iut tie uis.-t Boz
repid could - iniucs~i o. travel late =
night IN aaditlyn o. the "-tnd-f.t-
q ~ Plying Lula. there were the i~-iy
-pat'iTr-. ~ho ~i,sn they rouid MT hn,
Head trdy. bad No. -rrups- sgain-
taking live one hal an exteries o..
sDout thI- time which made me rhnl
my time bal come -.,ne one in ,tl
neighi,"rho,,i isi large ho~k II uint,
eee-e. ] ~s- retnrniny from tlle -tor,
one afternoon ~hen encountered tl,rrn
don't know ~hat srou-,-l their anger
ut fr -,fn~ nnkho~n rea-on. ti,e,
iieroe.y attacked no With wings -
tended, neck stretched anil making tia
s~ful, -creechIng, hi--ing sound f~~nlia
q tins sT~cie- ~ the brd family. th,
Whole fiOck violently stts~ked un, ha,
no means II defense and running ~a-
put Of the qne-tion. tie only thing
c'uld 10 va O. holler. and frlieve mo
] fol cred sone. Everybody aroun,
there soon knew that there ~a- some
thing wrong ~ith me. some kind mar
came q my rescne, and IL vas al n,
could DO n heat ihe-e vsrmInt- OF.
An incident occurred about this time
which - almost beyond belief. A mar