The Danger Of Boxing The Ear

Scarcely a day passes, we believe, without Borne sehoolmaster for schoolfellow, in natural imitation of his master) giviug a lad a smart "box" upon tlie ear. Few persons would be bold enough to choose the eye as a part upon which itwas espedient toinflict a violent blow by way of moral educatien; but there is. npparenUy, no end to the numbers who select an orgau upon which violenne is Hable to be attended with niuch more daugerous results. For not only is deafness caused by "boxes," which raptara (as they contiuually do) the drum of the ear, but the iuflammation of the internal cavity, which is so frequent a resul t, may be followed years afterward, perhaps, by disease of the bone, giving rise to absoess of the brain, and having a fatal termiuation. Medical men alone eau be i'ully awarc how fruitful a souree of siifteiing and danger is represented by the box upon the ear. We are informed, for example, of two cases under observation at the present moment, in which sohoolbovs have been thevictimsof such an assauït. Surely schoolmasters ought to have learnèd, long ere this, the danger of a mode of personal chastisement that has apparently usurped the place of others, which, if more disgnsting, were not attended with an equal amount of peril. -