Happy Days Will Come Again.

No, incredulous reader, the father of the old school simply said: “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” or “This hurts me more than it does you, Theodore,” and reached for the buggy whip. Very heartrending and unscientific, no doubt, but look what it did for us.

But the wheel of progress goes round and round. Whiskers will return as sure as buggies won't and then it will be fathers’ day again. The present-day anti-complex child will, no doubt, grow to manhood and womanhood, and is it likely that, having had their own way since birth, they are going to let their children “get away with any monkey business?”

We are convinced that parents will never regain control of the home until fathers cultivate whiskers and mothers learn to say: “You just wait until your father comes home!”

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