Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1915 — Don’t Spank Your Daughter If She is 19 Years Old. [ARTICLE]

Don’t Spank Your Daughter If She is 19 Years Old.

A dispatch from Hammond states that Melvin J. Angelin turned his 19-year-old daughter, Belva, across his knee and spanled her with a slipper because she insisted on keeping company he objected to. With her sensibilities smarting, Belva went to the prosecuting attorney, who caused the arrest of her father and Judge Dunn sentenced him to 90 days in jail. JHe suspended sentence, but gave Angelin i;o understand that spanking a 19-year-old girl is not to be tolerated.