Show THE punishment OF CHILDREN IL A fromam call calbi careful consideration there are as many m ny theories upon this subject as 03 there are children upon who whom n to practice them nor ii this to lo be won jered at when v lian each little one differs from crom another so BO that each careful mother lias has to fall back upon her own judgment or experience and finds she cannot rely on that of 0 tho the wisest of her contemporaries por aries very few children never require to bo be punished at all the disposition ii 10 1 o has to bo altogether taken ill into to account in considering tho the method of that punishment there aro arc rare natures brutal from their infancy w which 1 ich demand stern 1 strict accounting many others aro arc so morbidly sensitive that a word of condemnation tion wi will M go all tho the necessary leril and most small people belong to a happy normal con condition cUtion inid between those these two which requires a firm light hand fiand upon the reins to all children custica app appeals als with v etli irresistible force and injustice is one of their blackest crimes this is probably the reason they are arc absolutely at tile tho mercy of their elders ciders and they have all tile the keen consciousness of that fact natural to a slave placed under tinder the unlimited power of his hia master it certainly behooves parents to remember that this is not in an agree agreeable ablo situation Tobe to ba ture sure the tiny fuves by nu means seldom om revolt in their turn and become tho the tyrants but that is so entirely the mastera master stilt tha titis not worth d considering 0 o heie the question just and righteous punishments may be meted out beyond peradventure not those barbarous onslaughts of sheer brute fo force aco of which I 1 have bare heard human beings wit presumable human souls inside their bodies say 1 I never should bavo given if I 1 been angry I 1 strike a 3 child in m cold blood there is no reasoning with such people or one might ask why do it then in hot blood for the childs good or for your own revengeful 0 gratification if the former how is that purpose served by an all act of flagrant injustice and aou 3 ou admit that it is unjust because you cant strike a f hild child when just and c calm alin A decently administered whipping with a moral to adore adom the sting is one ona thing cuffing and slap ing 1119 or angry beating is quite another matter there at are 0 o other punishments quito quite as hard to bear but more dignified and seemly which teach the worlds great lehson lebson of cause aud and c effect such is ia a sot t of if game in those these families which have a pound ahei wherein eill lill all articles artices are put pait which are found lying about out of place and must bo be afterward redeemed such is the method adopted IT by ono one young mother every monday morning she gives to each of her children it a row of puls pins every Satu saturday rilay right night she gives each one a cent for every pin pill left in ill the row sometimes tho the debt is upon the other side and has to bo be paid off in another week for every I 1 limo any one ona needs 1 a I correction during those seven days lie has to present ids mother with one of his pins there is strict justice and fine object teaching all sweetened lil like e a sug sugar ur coated coaled pill A middle aged I 1 woman onlan told wo mo once with tears teara in her eyes 1 I never shall forget ono loison leason that I 1 learned when I 1 was nothing but a baby it was tho irrevocable consequences of a broken law I 1 was in tho the habit or of straying off after school and to break me of it my mother forbade my going outside the gato gate for a week in that week came a i party and parties were so rare in days slie she told me afterward that she ehe never was so BO tempted to break her word I 1 blessner bless bles sher her memory now that sho did not breal break it yet you see sec I 1 cry over my lost ety to this da day RU HUTH 1711 HALL |