Here is the fifth letter in the series. For the record I want to not that on March 16, 1898 the Evening Journal printed two spanking related letters. I've excluded the other letter because I did not think it appropriate.
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March 16, 1898
ADVOCATES SPANKING.
To the Editor: I noted in a recent letter in regard to the punishment of large children or grown up girls that in the opinion of the writer spanking is degrading to the morals and intellect of the one spanked. This might be the case if it was done in public as in the Jamaica spanking affair, but why should corporal punishment by spanking administered by a mother to her daughter be immodest. If it is proper to spank a girl ten years old, why is it improper to spank one sixteen years old, provided she behaves in such a manner as to require punishment? I do not believe a wife should be spanked by her husband:
but I believe a mother would often reproach herself less in after years if she were more firm with her girls when they were between sixteen and twenty. A good sound spanking administered in private will have more good effect than cross words and scoldings, be longer remembered and is not half as apt to cause a sour temper. It is said English young ladies are often spanked by their mothers; but I do not believe American girls suffer much from this sort of punishment. A MOTHER.