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An Unthinking Mother

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
March
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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In a dry goods store a little boy yet in dresses disturbed the peace of hundreds of shoppers, mainly, thongh, because there seemed to be nothing they could do for him. His mother, a well meaning woman of small juclgment and experience. was buying a hat. Suddenly the lad by her side began to shriek as if in severe pain or fright. The wonian tried to soothe him, but he screamed more fiercely, upon which she spanked him. A crowd gathered ánd an attendant picked up the then thoroughly unnerved yóungster and carried him kicking and veiling into an anteroom. There he struggled and gasped until a woman put some pink candy in liis hands. For a moment it attracted him. Then he crumbled it fiercely and cried hysterically again. A peppel-mint froni a third woman impressed him slightly. but he did not gain self control until his mother asked him if he wanted to go out of door. Like a stifiing animal he shrieked. "Yes!" The woman told me that sho could not imderstand it at all. He never had such an attack before. Not by way of explanation, but ineidentally. she added that she and the boy had just landed from the Teutonic the day before. He had been sick in his berth for six days. Poor child! Poorer mother! Not to see any connection between six days of sickness in a closed cabin and a nervous fit in a close store on the seventh! She never knew, she

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat