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Show The mania for reviving old things in England has just led to the proposed ?? of the pillory. Its use is to be limited, according to the Parliamentary measure, to cases in which women are unlawfully beaten or wounded by men, and, accordingly, above the head of the occupant of the pillory is to be printed his name and the epithet woman beater or wife beater as the case may be. The practical object is, of course, to shame men into refraining from cruelty toward women: but it is rather queer to find the revival also advocated on archaeological grounds. |