TOO INVENTIVE HUSBAND.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 41, 11 October 1912, Page 6

TOO INVENTIVE HUSBAND.

SPANKING MACHINE FOR WIFE. Professor Duff 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 the latest expression of her husband’s genius took the form of a spanking machine, with which ho punished their child, and when his wife remonstrated he punished her. She took him to court, where he pleaded guilty, and was fined £2 10s. Mr Andrew, a professor at the University of Illinois, specialised in theoretical mechanics. He 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 201 b, is constructed of aluminium and bamboo, and the “spankers” are padded so as to punish but .not injure the patient. The patient is bent over a rod, and a wfteel operated by cogs connects with a crank run by a belt device. The spanker makes about 35 spanks a minute ordinarily, but the speed varies accord-, ing to the taste of the practitioner. .“He is always making something, new,” was the wife’s lament, “aipj will not let me and thp,children alone,” | Incidentally the Supreme Court, at, Atlanta, Georgia, decidc<,l that parents have no power to delegate..their authority to spank.

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