TOO INVENTIVE HUSBAND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15110, 28 September 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

TOO INVENTIVE HUSBAND.

SPANKING MACHINE FOR WIFE. Professor Dot Andrew, of Champaign, Illinois, lias been arrested at the complaint of his wife, who told the police that her life had lately been rendered unendurable because of the multiplicity and complexity of her husband's labour-saving devices. She had remonstrated with him very warmly because tho latest expression of her husband's genius took the form of a Fpankir.g machine, with which he punished their child, and when his wife remonstrated he punished her. She took him to court, where ho pleaded guilty and was fined £2 10s. Mr. Andrew, a professor at the University of Illinois, specialised in theoretical mechanics. Ho" had invented the spanking machine to save time and labour, and also to apportion scientifically the proportion of chastisement to the severity of the offence. The device weighs about 201b. is constructed of aluminium and bamboo, and tho spankers" are padded so as to punish but not injure, the patient. The patient is bent over a rod, and a wheel operated bv cogs connects with a 'crank run by a belt device. The sp?nker makes about 35 spanks a minute ordinarily, but the speed varies according to the taste of the practitioner. " Ho is always making something new," was the wife's lament, "'and will not let mo and the children alone." Incidentally the Supreme Court at Atlanta, Georgia, decided that parents have no power to delegate their authority to spank. John Parrish, an Atlanta commission merchant, was arraigned in court at the instigation of the divorced husband of Mrs. Carolyn Duncan for having administered punishment to her two young children, who : are in Mr. Duncan's possession. She told 1 the court that she had given Parrish the | right to spank the children.