Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — Will it Cure the Evil? [ARTICLE]

Will it Cure the Evil?

At the Tliornwell Orphanage a boy gets twenty-five demerits for kissing a girl. Here we “ apply the hair of the dog to cure the bite.” When a boy kisses a girl, twelve very ugly boys stand in a row on the rostrum in the chapel, and the offender is required to kiss them all, and kiss them well. The girl also, if she is willing to be kissed by the boy, is required to kiss a dozen ugly girls. The ceremony draws a full house, and has never failed to cure.— Orphan's Friend.