They say that the "hand educates the mind," and I can here testify that father's hand set my mental processes straight.

From that day I never have been lawless in school or out.

The shame of my father's disapproval jolted me so that I decided ever after to try to merit his approval.
To-day there is a theory that the child ought never to be restrained.
Solomon said: "Spare the rod and spoil the child." We have no corporal punishment at Mooseheart, but we have discipline.

A child must be restrained.

Whenever a crop of unrestrained youngsters takes the reins I fear they will make this country one of their much talked of Utopias.