Thomas Edison: American Inventor by Michael W. Simmons

Author:Michael W. Simmons [Simmons, Michael W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Make Profits Easy LLC
Published: 2016-07-18T23:00:00+00:00

“Like many other great discoveries, the one in question was made by accident. It has long been a matter of tradition that the maternal slipper is the instrument with which nursery discipline is enforce. This was undoubtedly true many years ago when slippers were universally worn, and many of the holiest recollections of the childhood of men of the present generation are associated with the slippers of their mothers. But the old-fashioned slipper, which could be slipped from the foot and applied where it would do the most good at a moment’s notice, has, to a great extent, passed away. The buttoned boot has succeeded it, and not only is it impossible for an earnest mother with a large family to unbutton and button up again her boot a dozen times in a day, but the boot itself is too heavy and coarse an instrument to be used in inculcating oral lessons. Hence it is that the hair-brush has become a popular means of training children in the right way. It is always within easy reach; it has a convenient handle, and the back of it, being broad and nearly flat, will cover more surface at a blow than could be covered by any ordinary boot or slipper. Now and then a badly made hair-brush is broken when brought in contact with a particularly bad boy, but as a rule it is a remarkably effective remedial agent.

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