tion>Helen Hunt Jackson
Bits about Home Matters
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664616951
Table of Contents
The Inhumanities of Parents--Corporal Punishment.
The Inhumanities of Parents--Needless Denials.
The Inhumanities of Parents--Rudeness.
A Day with a Courteous Mother.
Half an Hour in a Railway Station.
The Correlation of Moral Forces.
A Simple Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner.
Bill of Fare for a Christmas Dinner.
The Old-Clothes Monger in Journalism.
The Inhumanities of Parents--Corporal Punishment.
Not long ago a Presbyterian minister in Western New York whipped his three-year-old boy to death, for refusing to say his prayers. The little fingers were broken; the tender flesh was bruised and actually mangled; strong men wept when they looked on the body; and the reverend murderer, after having been set free on bail, was glad to return and take refuge within the walls of his prison, to escape summary punishment at the hands of an outraged community. At the bare mention of such cruelty, every heart grew sick and faint; men and women were dumb with horror: only tears and a hot demand for instant retaliation availed.
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